Jacques Bral

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Jacques Bral (born September 21, 1948 in Tehran ; † January 17, 2021 ) was a French film director and screenwriter who most recently worked as a visual artist.

life and work

Bral moved from Tehran to Paris in 1966, where he first studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts . From 1968 he switched to film studies at the "Institut de Formation Cinématographique". Short films such as “Quant tout le monde est parti”, “Frisou” and “M-88” were made. In 1978 he founded the production company "Les Films Noirs" with Jean-Paul Leca and Julien Lévi. In 1980 he shot his atmospherically dense hit film The Taxi Driver , which earned him the “Prix Perspectives du Cinéma Français” at the Cannes Film Festival . Another film followed in 1983, which was successful with both critics and audiences, the crime thriller Polar - Under the Shadow Linea Parisian private investigator who is ready to leave. Bral then took a break again (during which he produced the film Street Without Return by Samuel Fuller , who lives in Paris, in 1989 and also worked on the script) and in 1993 returned with Mauvais Garcon , a film about the love affairs of someone just out of prison dismissed burglar. He wrote screenplays in the 1990s - his next film as director Tödliche Diamanten (Un printemps à Paris) (a crime thriller with Eddy Mitchell ) wasn't released until 2006. His film Le noir (te) vous va si bien was made in 2012 .

Filmography (selection)

As a director

  • 1974: Une baleine qui avait mal aux dents
  • 1980: The taxi driver (Extérieur, nuit)
  • 1984: Polar - A detective sees black (Polar)
  • 1993: Mauvais garçon
  • 2006: Deadly Diamonds (Un printemps à Paris)
  • 2012: Le noir (te) vous va si bien

As a screenwriter

  • 1974: Une baleine qui avait mal aux dents
  • 1980: The taxi driver (Extérieur, nuit)
  • 1984: Polar - A detective sees black (Polar)
  • 1989: Street of No Return
  • 1993: Mauvais garçon
  • 2006: Deadly Diamonds (Un printemps à Paris)
  • 2012: Le noir (te) vous va si bien

As a film editor

As a film producer

  • 1989: Street of No Return
  • 1993: Mauvais garçon
  • 2006: Deadly Diamonds (Un printemps à Paris)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le cinéaste Jacques Bral, réalisateur d '"Extérieur nuit", est décédé. In: leprogres.fr. Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Bral, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2021