Jacques Rouffio

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Jacques Camille Jean Rouffio (born August 14, 1928 in Marseille - † July 8, 2016 in Paris ) was a French film director , screenwriter and producer . He has written over 15 scripts and has directed well-known cinema and television films, including the French film The Walker of Sans-Souci , the last film with Romy Schneider.

life and work

Jacques Rouffio was first assistant director under Jean Delannoy in 1953 for the film La route Napoléon . He later worked as an assistant to great French directors such as Henri Decoin , Henri Verneuil and Georges Franju . From 1953 to 1963 he learned the directing trade from scratch for over ten years before realizing his first own feature film for the cinema in 1967 with The Horizon . Jacques Perrin and Macha Méril took on the leading roles in the drama .

His commercial success began in the mid-1970s with dramatic films such as Quartet Bestial with stars such as Gérard Depardieu and Jane Birkin (1975), Violette and François (1977) with Isabelle Adjani , Jacques Dutronc , Serge Reggiani or the film satire Zucker, Zucker! (1978), in which Jean Carmet and Gérard Depardieu played the leading roles.

In 1976, Rouffio and his film quartet Bestial were nominated for both the César in the Best Picture category and for the César in the Best Screenplay category together with Georges Conchon . In 1979 the duo of Georges Conchon and Jacques Rouffio was nominated again for the César in the category Best Screenplay, this time for the film Sugar, Sugar! .

In 1982 Rouffio shot another drama with The Walker from Sans-Souci , with Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli taking the lead roles. In 1986 he directed the comedic thriller My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister , again with Michel Piccoli in the lead role. Michel Serrault and Juliette Binoche could be seen by his side as co-stars . The film ran in the same year as a competition entry at the International Film Festival in Berlin . In the same year, the romantic drama The Love of Florence Vannier with Nicole Garcia and Sami Frey was created . In 1989 he shot his last movie with L'orchestre rouge .

The music for his eight films was provided by the French composers Serge Gainsbourg , five times Philippe Sarde , Georges Delerue and the Italian composer Carlo Savina for L'orchestre rouge .

In the 1990s and 2000s, Rouffio could no longer build on the great successes of the 1970s and 1980s and therefore switched to directing television films.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1976: César nomination in the category Best Film for Quartet Bestial
  • 1976: César nomination in the Best Screenplay category together with Georges Conchon for Quartet Bestial
  • 1979: César nomination in the Best Screenplay category together with Georges Conchon for Zucker, Zucker!

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Décès du réalisateur Jacques Rouffio
  2. ↑ Jacques Rouffio in: La Revue du cinéma , editions 451-455, Ligue française de l'enseignement et de l'éducation permanente, Union française des œuvres laïques d'éducation par l'image et le son, 1989, page 19
  3. ^ Jacques Rouffio in: Henri Verneuil: les plus grands succès du cinéma , by Roger Vignaud, Autres temps, 2008, p. 92
personal data
SURNAME Rouffio, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rouffio, Jacques Camille Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille , France
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2016
Place of death Paris , France