Jacques Natanson

Jacques Joseph Emmanuel Natanson (born May 15, 1901 in Asnières-sur-Seine , † May 19, 1975 in Le Bugue ) was a French playwright, dialog and screenwriter .

Life

Natanson had already got a taste of the theater at a young age when he served as personal secretary to the actor, director and innovator of French theatrical art Lugné-Poe . Barely 20 years old, Natanson tried his hand at writing a theater and has achieved success, especially with tabloids, since the early 1920s. His early works in the 1920s include L'âge heureux, L'enfant truqué, Les Amants saugrenus, Le greluchon délicat, L'infidèle éperdue, Knock Out and Je t'attendais .

With the dawn of the sound film age, Natanson switched to cinematography. Hailed as an excellent dialogue writer, Jacques Natanson was mainly hired for the dialogues, while he rarely wrote entire scripts (and mostly in collaboration with co-authors). In 1939 Natanson met the director Max Ophüls and wrote the dialogues for his last French work before the German invasion of France, From Mayerling to Sarajevo . The Jew Natanson had to go into hiding during the war years and remained cinematically inactive. In 1946 he continued his work in film.

In 1950 Natanson began working with Ophüls, who had returned to France, and took part in three of his productions, most recently in 1955 with Lola Montez . In 1952 he received an Oscar nomination for his involvement in the script of Ophüls' Der Reigen . With the death of Ophüls, Natanson turned his back on the film.

Natanson must not be confused with a director of the same name who directed four films between 1933 and 1935.

Filmography

as dialog or screenwriter, unless otherwise stated

• 1931: A raid in Paris (Un soir de rafle)
• 1932: Ne sois pas jalouse
• 1933: Hélène (L'ordonnance)
• 1933: Une femme au volant
• 1933: paprika
• 1934: The False Tsar of Kazan ( Volga en flammes )
• 1934: Incognito
• 1935: Black eyes (Les yeux noirs)
• 1935: Quadrille d'Amur
• 1936: Michel Strogoff
• 1936: Taras Bulba (Tarass Boulba)
• 1936: Valse éternelle
• 1937: La bataille silencieuse
• 1937: Branded (Forfaiture)
• 1938: Storm over Asia (Tempête sur l'Asie)
• 1938: It should be the tithe (Accord final)
• 1940: From Mayerling to Sarajevo (De Mayerling à Sarajevo)
• 1946: Sérénade aux nuages
• 1947: Look into the Dark (Vertiges)
• 1948: The White Night (La nuit blanche)
• 1949: The Night of Love (Ainsi finit la nuit)
• 1950: The round dance
• 1950: Agnès de rien
• 1951: Pläsier
• 1953: In the big girls' dormitory (Dortoir des grandes)
• 1953: The Lady of the Camellias (La dame aux camélias)
• 1954: Condemned to love (La rage au corps)
• 1955: Lola Montez

literature

• Dictionnaire du cinéma , sous la direction de Jean Loup Passek. Édition Larousse, Paris 1992, p. 471

Web links

• Jacques Natanson in the Internet Movie Database (English)