Georges Dancigers

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Georges Dancigers (born February 17, 1908 in Tukkum , † November 1, 1993 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine ) was a Russian - French film producer .

biography

Georges Dancigers was born in 1908 in Tukkum (now Tukums , Latvia ), which was then part of the Russian Empire . After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution , he fled to France , where he began to work as a film producer in 1934, while his brother Oscar Dancigers (1902–1976) emigrated to Mexico , where he produced the films of the surrealist film director Luis Buñuel . In 1945, Georges Dancigers founded together with Alexandre Mnouchkine (1908–1993) and Francis Cosne (1916–1984), who also immigrated from Russia, the production company Les Films Ariane , which was named after Mnouchkine's daughter Ariane Mnouchkine, who was born in 1939 . With Les Films Ariane, Dancigers produced and co-produced with Der Doppeladler and Die terrible parents (both 1948) two works by Jean Cocteau in which the film director's partner, Jean Marais , played the leading male roles. In the early 1950s, Dancigers turned to commercial cinema and acted as a producer and co-producer on, among others, Christian-Jacques Mantel-und-Degen-Films Fanfan, the Husar with Gérard Philipe in the title role and Lucrezia Borgia (both 1952), Julien Duvivier's Don Camillo's return (1953) or Denys de La Patellière's drama Wiesenstrasse No. 10 with Jean Gabin and the young Marie-José Nat in the leading roles. The great success for Dancigers and Mnouchkine came in the 1960s, when a long-term collaboration with Philippe de Broca followed, from which the comedies Cartouche, the Bandit (1961), Adventure in Rio (1964), The great adventures of Monsieur, among others L. (1965) and Le Magnifique (1973) emerged. Jean-Paul Belmondo played the lead role in all of the films . The influential performer of the Nouvelle Vague was France's most popular actor at the time.

Les Films Ariane subsequently established itself in France as one of the major film production companies and Dancigers, together with Mnouchkine, managed to build a bridge between commerce and the prestigious auteur cinema . Both also funded projects by renowned filmmakers, such as Live Life (1967), The Man I Like and Life, Love, Death (both 1969) by Claude Lelouch , Alain Resnais ' drama Stavisky , Bertrand Blier's Oscar- winning tragicomedy Wife to give away (1978) or the César winner La Balance - The Treason (1982) by Bob Swaim . Dancigers was even awarded the most important French film prize in 1981, when he and Alexandre Mnouchkine received the honorary prize for his services in French cinema . In the same year, the jointly produced thriller The Interrogation by Claude Miller was awarded four Césars, which more and more films of this genre followed.

Besides working as a producer George Dancigers also worked occasionally as a manager on films such as Alexandre Arcadys The Boss (1985) with. In the mid-1980s he withdrew more and more from the film business. Often criticized for his penchant for action and adventure films such as Die Filzlaus (1973) with Lino Ventura in the lead role, Dancigers died in 1993 at the age of 85 at his house near Paris , just a few months after Alexandre Mnouchkine. The officer of the French Legion of Honor left a wife and three daughters.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Passek, Jean Loup (Ed.): Dictionnaire du cinéma . Paris: Larousse, 1987 (French edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Mort du producteur de cinéma Georges Dancigers . In: Le Monde , November 3, 1993, Culture
  2. ↑ a b cf. Baube, Olivier: Deces du producteur Georges Dancigers . Agence France Presse , November 1, 1993, Informations Generales
  3. ↑ cf. Shipman, David: Obituary: Alexandre Mnouchkine . In: The Independent (London), April 7, 1993, Gazette Page, p. 22
  4. ↑ a b cf. Frodon, Jean Michel: Cinema la mort d'Alexandre Mnouchkine . In: Le Monde, April 7, 1993, Culture
  5. ↑ cf. Georges Dancigers . In: Daily Variety, November 15-21, 1993, Obituaries
personal data
SURNAME Dancigers, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-French film producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Tukkum , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1993
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine department , France