Gilbert de Goldschmidt

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Gilbert de Goldschmidt (born as "Victor Emanuel Gilbert Fritz von Goldschmidt-Rothschild", born April 26, 1925 in Berlin , † January 1, 2010 in Paris ) was a French book author and film producer .

Life

Gilbert de Goldschmidt was born in Berlin and spent his childhood in Paris . In 1940 he left Europe on one of the last ships to the USA, the “Quanza”. Goldschmidt volunteered in the US Army and landed in France in 1944 . After the Second World War , he began producing movies with funds from the Marshall Plan . After becoming a production director, he founded “Madeleine Films” in 1951 together with American partners, one of the oldest independent film production houses in France.

Gilbert de Goldschmidt has produced or co-produced more than 40 films for which he won the “ Palme d' Or ” in Cannes , the “ Silver Bear ” in Berlin and an Oscar nomination. Estimated by experts and respected, he was in 1983 a member of the jury of the International Film Festival of Cannes , 1988, the Venice Film Festival and was twice elected president of Unifrance selected, the organization that is responsible for the promotion of French cinema abroad. First from 1971 to 1973 and later from 1986 to 1988. He initiated the first projects of directors such as Jean-Gabriel Albicocco with “La Fille aux yeux d'or” and “ Le Grand Meaulnes ” and Raoul Coutard with “Hoa Binh”.

His co-productions with his friend, the producer and director Yves Robert (“ Alexandre le Bienheureux ”, “ Le Distrait ”, “ Les Malheurs d'Alfred ”, “Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire”) made it possible for Pierre Richard and Francis Veber to make known.

Faithful to his directors, he has produced several comedies by Michel Lang (“ Le Cadeau ”) and Patrick Schulmann (“PROFS”), which have received a lot of approval both in theater and on television.

Gilbert de Goldschmidt also worked on the “Commission de contrôle cinématographique” (1961–73) and was a member of the “Chambre syndicale des producteurs de films” (1961–2000). He was also administrator (1953–88), vice-president (1964) and president (1964–66) of the “Société des Hôtels Réunis” and director of the “Leicom Fund” in Luxembourg (1985–99).

Books

  • Le rêve du papillon, novel, 1989;
  • Un panier de cerises, novel, 1992.

Honors

Filmography

Gilbert de Goldschmidt was a producer or co-producer of the following films:

family

Gilbert de Goldschmidt came from the old German-Jewish Goldschmidt family from Frankfurt am Main . He was born as Victor Emanuel Gilbert Fritz von Goldschmidt-Rothschild and was the son of the painter and art collector Rudolph Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1881–1962) and his wife Marie-Anne von Friedländer-Fuld (1892–1973).

His paternal grandparents were the banker Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843–1940) and Minna Karoline Freiin von Rothschild (1857–1903), who in turn was the daughter of the Frankfurt banker Wilhelm Carl Freiherr von Rothschild (1828–1901) and his wife Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild (1832-1924) was. On the maternal side, the grandparents were the Silesian coal and steel industrialist Fritz von Friedlaender-Fuld (1858–1917) and Milly Antonie Fuld (1868–1943).

Gilbert de Goldschmidt married Jeanine Renée Petit (* 1927) in 1951. His second marriage was in 1958 with France Roche (1921–2013). With her he had a son, Frédéric Rodolphe Emmanuel de Goldschmidt (* 1959). Gilbert de Goldschmidt married France-Anne Motte in 1974. With her he had a daughter, Sarah Benedicte Emmanuellede Goldschmidt (* 1975). She in turn married Jerome Stern (* 1969), founder of the London asset management company “J. Stern & Co ”.

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personal data
SURNAME Goldschmidt, Gilbert de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Victor Emanuel Gilbert Fritz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French book author and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2010
Place of death Paris