Guy de Gastyne

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Guy de Gastyne , actually Guy Georges Benoist (born May 10, 1888 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † February 3, 1972 in Créteil ) was a French film architect .

Life

The son of the writer Jules Benoist , who published under the name Jules de Gastyne , received his education at the École des Beaux-Arts . In the 1920s he came to the film through his brother Marco de Gastyne, who was a year younger than him .

With the dawn of the sound film age, de Gastyne began to independently design film structures or to work as an outfitter. Until the outbreak of war in 1939, he designed the backdrops for lavish and in some cases splendid historical productions by Marcel L'Herbier , but he also designed the sets for several works by GW Pabst , Maurice Tourneur and Julien Duvivier . At the time of the German occupation of France, Guy de Gastyne became the most important film architect for the German-financed film company Continental Alfred Grevens . Despite this collaboration with the occupiers, de Gastyne was able to continue working in France after 1945 without any problems.

He remained active as a film architect until 1952, but his post-war drafts, apart from René Clair's “ Silence is Gold ” and Jean Cocteau's “ The Terrible Parents ”, are of little significance. Several of the films he designed were made by the producer Max Glass , who fled Hitler's Germany .

Filmography

  • 1930: Monsieur le duc
  • 1930: Little Lise (La petite Lise)
  • 1931: Une belle garce
  • 1931: La bête errante
  • 1932: Enlevez-moi
  • 1932: La fleur d'oranger
  • 1932: Rothschild
  • 1933: Charlemagne
  • 1933: Miquette et sa mère
  • 1933: Trois pour cent
  • 1934: Arlette et ses papas
  • 1934: Happiness (Le bonheur)
  • 1935: La rosière des halles
  • 1936: Les amants terribles
  • 1936: Samson
  • 1936: Fight for Madeleine (La porte du large)
  • 1937: Jealousy (Nuits de feu)
  • 1937: La citadelle du silence
  • 1937: The Lie of Nina Petrovna (Le mensonge de Nina Petrovna)
  • 1938: Rasputin (La tragédie impériale)
  • 1938: Entente Cordiale
  • 1938: Katja, the uncrowned Empress (Katia)
  • 1939: The white slave (L'esclave blanche)
  • 1939: The Man from Niger (L'homme du Niger)
  • 1940: Untel père et fils (premiere: 1943)
  • 1940: L'acrobate
  • 1941: Murder on Christmas Eve (L'assassinat du père Noël)
  • 1941: Annette and the blonde lady (Annette et la dame blonde)
  • 1941: Children before marriage (Péchés de jeunesse)
  • 1941: The Eerie House (Les inconnus de la maison)
  • 1941: Mademoiselle Bonaparte (Mam'zelle Bonaparte)
  • 1942: Mariage d'amour
  • 1942: Défense d'aimer
  • 1943: La vie de plaisir
  • 1943: Le val d'enfer
  • 1943: Adrien
  • 1944: His most difficult case (Cécile est morte)
  • 1945: As long as I live (Tant que je vivrai)
  • 1946: L'éventail
  • 1947: Silence is gold ( Le Silence est d'or )
  • 1947: Secret love (Après l'amour)
  • 1948: Young man with seven women (Une femme par jour)
  • 1948: Les parents terribles
  • 1949: Majesty is having fun (Le roi)
  • 1949: Tête blonde
  • 1950: Longing for Andalusia (Andalousie)
  • 1950: Coq en pâte
  • 1952: The road to Damascus (Le chemin de Damas)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 202.

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personal data
SURNAME Gastyne, Guy de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benoist, Guy Georges (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1972
Place of death Créteil , France