Jean Aurel

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Jean Aurel (born November 6, 1925 in Rastolita , Mureș as Jean-Claude Aurel ; † August 24, 1996 in Paris ) was a French screenwriter and film director who wrote over 25 screenplays between 1950 and 1994 and directed around a dozen feature films . Including trained in freedom , the Oscar- nominated documentary Night Over Europe: 14-18 , Unrestrained Manon or Oh, these women .

life and work

Jean Aurel, born on November 6, 1925 in a sleeping car heading for Rastolita, Romania, began his own film career with Mitte after he had come into contact with the film genre in Eight on Your Left as a child actor in a short film production by the French director René Clément in 1936 twenty as a director with the short film Les fêtes galantes (Watteau) (1950). Several other small short film productions followed before he completed the first screenplay for a feature film for Zur Liebe verdammt , a drama by director Ralph Habib in 1953 .

In around 40 years he wrote numerous scripts for French cinema, in the 1950s mainly for adventure films and comedies by directors Ralph Habib , Michel Boisrond , Jack Pinoteau , André Hunebelle , Pierre Gaspard-Huit and René Clair . Since the 1960s he has also increasingly written screenplays for film dramas, such as The Hole with Michel Constantin and Philippe Leroy in 1960 for director Jacques Becker . As a result, he mainly worked on scripts for his own films, such as the documentary Night over Europe: 14-18 , which was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary in 1965, as well as for the film Unrestrained Manon 1968 with Catherine Deneuve , Jean-Claude Brialy , Sami Frey and Elsa Martinelli in the lead roles.

In 1969 he directed the film Oh, these women with Brigitte Bardot and Maurice Ronet . In the late 1970s, three scripts for the director François Truffaut were made with Liebe auf der Flucht , Die Frau nextan and Auf Liebe und Tod . He wrote the screenplay for Rosine in 1994 as an adaptation two years before his death for the director Christine Carrière . This work remained his last for French cinema.

Aurel died on August 24, 1996 at the age of 70 in Paris.

Awards

Filmography

Film director (selection)

Screenwriter (selection)

  • 1953: Doomed to Love (La rage au corps)
  • 1954: The daughter of Mata Hari (La figlia di Mata Hari)
  • 1955: Oh, la-la, Cherie (Paris canaille)
  • 1956: Forbidden for men (Club de femmes)
  • 1957: The Mousetrap (Porte des Lilas)
  • 1957: Anton, the ricochet (Le triporteur)
  • 1957: The Parisian Woman (Une parisienne)
  • 1958: crazy vacation (taxi, roulotte et corrida)
  • 1959: Trapped (Délit de fuite)
  • 1960: The Hole (Le trou)
  • 1961: trained in freedom (La bride sur le cou)
  • 1964: About love (De l'amour)
  • 1967: Lamiel - I love love (Lamiel)
  • 1968: Unrestrained Manon (Manon 70)
  • 1969: Oh, these women (Les femmes)
  • 1971: What would you do if you were me? (Êtes-vous fiancée à un marin grec ou à un pilote de ligne?)
  • 1979: Love on the run (L'amour en fuite)
  • 1981: The woman next door (La femme d'à côté)
  • 1983: To love and death (Vivement dimanche!)
  • 1985: Staline
  • 1994: Raisin

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean Aurel in: Cinéma , editions 261-264, Fédération française des ciné-clubs, 1980, p. 107
  2. ^ Biographical data of Jean Aurel in: Fiches du cinéma: Tous les films , L'Office catholique français du Cinema, 1996, page 496
personal data
SURNAME Aurel, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aurel, Jean-Claude (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastolita , Mureș , Romania
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1996
Place of death Paris , France