Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko

Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko , also Jean-Pierre Kohut , (* 1946 in Paris ) is a French production designer .

Life

Kohut-Svelko attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Clermont-Ferrand . He came to film by chance in the mid-1960s and initially worked with Serge Roullet in Le mur in 1966 . At the end of the 1960s he began working with François Truffaut , for whom he initially worked as assistant to the production designer in The Secret of the False Bride (1969) and Two Girls from Wales and the Love of the Continent . A beautiful girl like me (1972) was his first job as a production designer for Truffaut; between 1975 and 1981 Kohut-Svelko always created the set in Truffaut's films. He was nominated several times for a César in the category Best Production Design and received the award in 1981 for his work in Truffaut's The Last Metro . Kohut-Svelko worked in several films with the directors Alain Corneau , Yves Robert , André Téchiné and Claude Miller .

Filmography

• 1972: A beautiful girl like me (Une belle fille comme moi)
• 1973: Pleure pas la bouche pleine!
• 1975: Zig Zig
• 1975: Night visor (L'important c'est d'aimer)
• 1975: The story of Adèle H. (L'histoire d'Adèle H.)
• 1976: Pocket money (L'argent de poche)
• 1976: Police Python 357
• 1976: An elephant is very wrong (Un éléphant ça trompe énormément)
• 1977: The man who loved women (L'homme qui aimait les femmes)
• 1977: The Menace (La menace)
• 1977: We All Go To Heaven (Nous irons tous au paradis)
• 1977: La nuit, tous les chats sont gris
• 1978: The green room (La chambre verte)
• 1978: Perceval le Gallois
• 1979: Love on the run (L'amour en fuite)
• 1979: The Brontë sisters (Les sœurs Brontë)
• 1979: Now or never (Courage Fuyons)
• 1980: The last metro (Le dernier métro)
• 1981: La fille prodigue
• 1981: The woman next door (La femme d'à côté)
• 1981: Meeting in Biarritz (Hôtel des Amériques)
• 1982: Guy de Maupassant
• 1983: The Eye (Mortelle randonnée)
• 1984: The Flight of the Sphinx (Le vol du Sphinx)
• 1985: The Assassination (Urgence)
• 1985: Rendez-vous
• 1985: A woman to fall in love with (Une femme ou deux)
• 1985: The Naughty Girl (L'effrontée)
• 1986: Taxi Boy
• 1986: I Love You
• 1986: The scene of the crime (Le lieu du crime)
• 1987: Ennemis intimate
• 1988: Les pyramides bleues
• 1988: Ada dans la jungle
• 1988: The Little Thief (La petite voleuse)
• 1992: L'accompagnatrice
• 1993: La nage indienne
• 1994: The smile (Le sourire)
• 1998: La classe de neige
• 2000: Le pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz
• 2001: L'art (délicat) de la séduction
• 2001: Betty Fisher et autres histoires
• 2003: Little Lili (La petite Lili)
• 2006: Je m'appelle Elisabeth
• 2007: Un secret
• 2008: Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante

Awards

• 1976: César nomination, best production design , for night screen
• 1976: César nomination, Best Production Design, for The Story of Adèle H.
• 1978: César nomination, Best Production Design, for We All Go To Heaven
• 1981: César, Best Production Design, for The Last Metro
• 1984: César nomination, Best Production Design, for Das Auge
• 1988: César nomination, Best Production Design, for Ennemis intimate
• 2008: César nomination, Best Production Design, for A Secret

Web links

• Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jean Pierre Kohut-Svelko on larousse.fr

Individual evidence

1. ^ Antoine de Baecque, Serge Toubiana: François Truffaut . University of California Press, 2000, p. 291.