Jean Bourgoin

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Jean-Serge Yves Bourgoin (born March 4, 1913 in Paris , † September 3, 1991 there ) was a French cameraman .

Life

Bourgoin attended the École de photographie in Paris and then became an assistant to Jean Isnard , Jules Kruger , Jean Bachelet and Christian Matras . In the 1930s he worked in various films by Jean Renoir . For example in Eine Landpartie as assistant to Claude Renoir or in Die große Illusion as assistant to Matras.

During the Second World War he hardly worked as a cameraman and organized the resistance of the French cameramen. After the war, he worked with Yves Allégret on several films and then with André Cayatte on his judicial trilogy consisting of jury court , We Are All Murderers and The Black Files . A collaboration with Orson Welles followed . For Jacques Tati's first color film, Mein Unkel , he developed his own color dramaturgy together with the director. The modern district was shown in flashy colors and the district of the protagonist Monsieur Hulot in earthy and warm tones.

He and Walter Wottitz were engaged for the lavishly staged war film The Longest Day by directors Ken Annakin , Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki from 1962 . Both received the film award in the category Best Camera (black and white) for their work at the 1963 Academy Awards . After further American film productions, he still worked on a Germinal film adaptation and withdrew from the film business in 1972 after the following films.

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  1. ↑ Michel Chion: The Films of Jacques Tati. Toronto 2003, ISBN 1-55071-175-X .
personal data
SURNAME Bourgoin, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourgoin, Jean-Serge Yves (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1991
Place of death Paris , France