Jean Dewever

Jean Dewever ( December 3, 1927 , † April 21, 2010 ) was a French director and screenwriter .

Life

For his documentary La crise du logement (The Real Estate Crisis ) , Jean Dewever received the Prix Louis Lumière in 1956. Another documentary was followed in 1961 by Jean Dewever's first feature film, the anti-war drama The Go to the Dogs . In his film, which is far from pathos against the ideology of war, Dewever shows the attempt by French resistance fighters and German soldiers to come to an agreement shortly before the American invasion, but this ends in a cruel bloodbath. Ten years later, with his co-author Jean-Charles Tacchella , he also wrote the screenplay for Les jambes en l'air with Sylva Koscina , Georges Géret and Maria Schneider, which Dewever is also directing.

In addition to these two feature films and other documentaries, Dewever mainly works for television. In addition to episodes for the crime series Allô Police and Espionage (Le monde parallèle) , he also directed the anarchic family series Les oiseaux rares in 1967 : Anna Gaylor and Guy Saint-Jean are the parents of five daughters (including Claude Jade , Dominique Labourier , Bernadette Robert ) who don't care about social norms. In 60 episodes the Massonneaus do their jokes until in the last episode a police unit storms the villa to put an end to the hustle and bustle.

In the 1970s, he adapted Molière's George Dandin (1973) with Robert Hirsch for television and, in 1978, shot the film experiment Ulysse est revenu , in which Claude Jade played a missing actor in four different roles (including the goddess Pallas Athene , a journalist and a shepherd) ( Maxence Mailfort ) who is also Odysseus .

His last directorial work is the television series La route inconnue in 1983

Web links

• Jean Dewever in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jean Dewever in the Internet Movie Database (English)