Henri Deutschmeister
Henri Deutschmeister , rare Henry Deutschmeister (born May 21, 1902 as Heinrich Fritz Deutschmeister in Brăila , Romania , † February 20, 1969 in Paris ) was a French film producer and film exporter.
Life
Deutschmeister came to France at a young age and initially worked in film export. In the mid-1930s he began making films for the first time with his own small production company, Franco-London. The outbreak of the Second World War prevented this activity from continuing, and the Jew Deutschmeister had to go into hiding.
Henri Deutschmeister was only able to resume his work as a producer after the war ended in 1945. With the re-founded Franco-London, he became one of the most commercially successful producers of his time, "who had an unmistakable nose for trends and box office hits". Deutschmeister signed almost all the stars of French entertainment films of the 50s and early 60s, including Jean Gabin , Brigitte Bardot , Gérard Philipe , Louis de Funès and Bourvil . In most of his productions, he only focused on the pure entertainment aspect and showed little interest in artistically ambitious productions. Exceptions are René Clair 's version of Faust, The Pact with the Devil and André Cayatte's advertising film for Franco-German international understanding, Beyond the Rhine .
In 1962, Henri Deutschmeister sat on the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival . In the last years of his life he regularly cooperated with the German Walter Ulbrich in the production of the popular ZDF Christmas four-part series , including most recently Die Schatzinsel , Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer and Die Lederstockferzählungen . Deutschmeister died a little later.
Filmography
- 1936: Le disque 413
- 1936: La garçonne
- 1936: Guilty Melody
- 1937: A Romance in Flanders
- 1938: L'inconnue de Monte-Carlo
- 1939: La brigade sauvage
- 1946: Here the judiciary was wrong (Contre-enquête)
- 1947: Carrefour des Passions
- 1949: The pact with the devil
- 1950: Rendezvous in Paris (Le château de verre)
- 1951: The seven sins (Les sept péchés capitaux)
- 1952: The beauties of the night
- 1952: One night's confession (La minute de vérité)
- 1953: Awakening Hearts (Le blé en herbe)
- 1953: Madame de ...
- 1954: love, women and soldiers (Destinées)
- 1954: The Maurizius case (L'affaire Maurizius)
- 1954: red and black
- 1954: People on the trapeze (obsession)
- 1954: French Cancan
- 1955: Like lost dogs (Chiens perdus sans collier)
- 1955: Women who serve Satan (L'affaire des poisons)
- 1955: A Queen's Romance Novel (Marie-Antoinette)
- 1956: White daisies
- 1956: Rogue Cavaliers (Les Truands)
- 1956: Two men, a pig and the night of Paris
- 1957: Montparnasse 17 (Montparnasse 17)
- 1957: Le septième ciel
- 1958: The day and the night (Le miroir à deux faces)
- 1958: The Bar of Temptation (Guinguette)
- 1958: The game was his bane (Le joueur)
- 1958: Holidays for the model boy (Le grand chef)
- 1959: The students (Le chemin des écoliers)
- 1959: The murderer came at midnight (Un témoin dans la ville)
- 1960: Beyond the Rhine (Le passage du Rhin)
- 1960: At the heart of life (Au cœur de la vie)
- 1960: Taxi to Tobruk
- 1961: A warning is given about salon lions (Les lions sont lachés)
- 1961: The seven main sins (Les sept péchés capitaux)
- 1961: Horace 62 (Horace 62)
- 1962: Rat trap America (Le rat d'Amérique)
- 1964: The Immoral (Le grain de sable)
- 1964: Robinson Crusoe (TV four-part)
- 1964: The death rays of Dr. Mabuse
- 1965: Caroline and the men over forty (Moi et les hommes de 40 ans)
- 1965: Julia and the ghosts
- 1965: Don Quixote von der Mancha (TV four-part)
- 1965: spies among themselves
- 1965: Comrade Don Camillo
- 1966: Treasure Island (TV four-part)
- 1966: seven men and a babe (Sept hommes et une garce)
- 1966: An almost perfect murderer (Un delitto quasi perfetto)
- 1967: Clash of the Titans against Rome (Dacii)
- 1968: Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finns Adventures (TV series)
- 1969: The Leather Stocking Tales (TV series)
- 1969: Katmandu (Les chemins de Katmandou)
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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 374.
Web links
- Henri Deutschmeister in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 374.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | German master, Henri |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Deutschmeister, Henry; Deutschmeister, Heinrich Fritz (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film producer and film exporter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brăila , Romania |
DATE OF DEATH | 20th February 1969 |
Place of death | Paris |