Georges Lautner

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Georges Lautner (1966)

Georges Lautner (born January 24, 1926 in Nice , † November 22, 2013 in Paris ) was a French film and television director, a specialist in action-packed gangster and crime films as well as turbulent comedies.

Live and act

Georges Lautner at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival

Lautner attended the Parisian Lycée Janson de Sailly and studied political science at the university and later also law. As the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr , Lautner came into contact with film from an early age. At the side of his mother, he took on his first film role in 1950 in the melodramatic espionage and revenge material The Emperor's Courier ( Fusillé à l'aube ). His main occupation during these years (until 1953) was assistant director. Lautner was then responsible for directing three short films. Georges Lautner has directed full-length feature films since 1958, and in the 1960s and 1970s in particular, the director was one of the most commercially successful filmmakers in his country. He never received artistic recognition, however, as he always subordinated his often flavourful films to his stars.

His career began with films with Bernard Blier as the protagonist ( Arrêtez les tambours , 1960; Also Heroes Want To Die , 1960, with Juliette Mayniel ; The Black Monocle , 1961, with Marie Dubois , The Seventh Juror , with Danièle Delorme ). In 1964 he staged radishes from below with Louis de Funès . He continued the monocle series with Paul Meurisse with two more films. The film drama The Road to Salina with Mimsy Farmer and Rita Hayworth was a success . Numerous comedies and thrillers since the 1970s, mostly with Alain Delon ( Ice Cold as Silence , The Serrano Case ) and Jean-Paul Belmondo ( The Greyhound , The Professional ). In the 1980s, his earlier work was followed by flat and critically- slated films such as Happy Easter (with Belmondo), A Cage Full of Fools III and A Man Knows Too Much (with Michael Brandon and Robert Mitchum ). With The Eerie House based on the novel by Georges Simenon, Lautner helped Belmondo to play a major role in old age in 1992. In 2000 he directed the episode Das Bistro in drug scenes .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1959: Heroes want to live too (Marche ou creve)
  • 1961: Inspector Kent hits the drum (En plein cirage)
  • 1961: The black monocle (Le Monocle noir)
  • 1962: Party with twelve pistols (L'Oeil du Monocle)
  • 1962: The seventh jury member (Le Septième Juré)
  • 1963: My uncle, the gangster (Les Tontons flingueurs)
  • 1964: "Monocle" looks right through (Le Monocle rit jaune)
  • 1964: Barbouzes' recipes for murder (Les Barbouzes)
  • 1964: Radishes from below (Des pissenlits par la racine)
  • 1965: The ladies ask (Les bons vivants)
  • 1965: love for three (Galia)
  • 1966: Take it easy, take dynamite (Ne nous fâchons pas)
  • 1967: A girl like the sea (La grande Sauterelle / Femmina)
  • 1967: The Millionaire Duel (Fleur d'Oseille)
  • 1968: The Bull (Le Pacha)
  • 1970: The road to Salina (La Route de Salina)
  • 1970: The commissioner's great coup (Laisse aller ... c'est une valse)
  • 1972: A great bluff (Il était une fois un flic)
  • 1973: The suitcase in the sun (La Valise)
  • 1974: As cold as the silence (Les seins de glace)
  • 1975: Where, please, are you going to the nearest cemetery? (Pas de problems!)
  • 1976: A clumsy head astray (On aura tout vu!)
  • 1977: The Serrano Case (Mort d'un pourri)
  • 1979: The Greyhound (Flic ou voyou)
  • 1980: The Puppeteer (Le guignolo)
  • 1981: The professional (Le professionnel)
  • 1981: Is that really love, darling? (Est-ce bien raisonnable?)
  • 1984: Happy Easter (Joyeuses Pâques)
  • 1985: The Cowboy - A great cop (Le Cowboy)
  • 1985: A cage full of fools - Now they get married (La cage aux folles III - "Elles" se marient)
  • 1988: The Murdered House (La maison assassinée)
  • 1989: The Gorilla and the Viennese Waltz (Le Gorille enrage)
  • 1990: A man knows too much (Présumé dangereux)
  • 1992: The Eerie House (L'inconnu dans la maison)

Autobiography

On aura tout vu. Paperback, Flammarion, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-08-068690-9 .

Web links

Commons : Georges Lautner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary lefigaro.fr, November 22, 2013; Retrieved November 22, 2013
  2. ^ Obituary in Le Monde
personal data
SURNAME Lautner, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice
DATE OF DEATH 22nd of November 2013
Place of death Paris