Fred Surville

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Fred Surville (Fritz Rüegg) (born September 8, 1910 in Lausanne , † October 23, 1990 in Casablanca ) was a Swiss film director , film editor and interior designer .

life and work

Surville completed his training at the Lausanne Conservatory and then worked at the Theâtre de la Madeleine in Paris . From 1929 to 1930 he worked in the Barrandov film studios in Prague .

In 1931 he was assistant director to Nikita Balieff and made his debut in 1934 as assistant director in the film by Jean Choux , when he was making the film Maternity (Maternité) . In 1933, Surville founded the avant-garde group “Le Studio” in Geneva .

Surville did an internship at Tobis-Film in Berlin . Since he rejected National Socialism , he returned to Switzerland in 1937 and directed the short film Richesse de la terre in 1939 . He then worked in Geneva as a film editor for the “Cinégram”. His film Santorin received the film award at the Venice International Film Festival in 1939 .

In 1941 Surville directed the film Manouche . Adrien Porchet was the chief surgeon ; Gerald Chamberlain from London was responsible for the sound recordings. The production company "Sarco AG" shot the film in Lausanne and in the Valais Alps . The script was written by Francis Bernier and Camille Freytag. Yva Bella , and Pierre Dudan starred .

He made several films with Carl Junghans in Prague. Surville directed the French version of And Life Goes On . He later became an assistant to Jean Lemur . Surville traveled to Greece where he made five documentaries.

In Switzerland, Surville shot Güter der Erde and was most recently assistant director to Jacques Feyder in A Woman Disappears (Une femme disparait) . After the Second World War, Surville moved to Morocco where he worked as an interior designer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1941. Manouche. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Yva Bella. Internet Movie Database, accessed June 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Pierrer Dudan. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Pierre Dudan in Internet Movie Database (English). Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Information on Manouche. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Surville, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüegg, Fritz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director, film editor and interior designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1990
Place of death Casablanca