Luc Besson

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Luc Besson (born March 18, 1959 in Paris ) is a French film director , film producer and author .

Life

In the first years of his life, Luc Besson traveled around the world with his parents, who worked as diving instructors , and during his childhood lived temporarily in Italy , Yugoslavia and Greece . As a teenager he wrote the first drafts of the script for Im Rausch der Tief and, at the age of 16, the first novel for The Fifth Element , which he successfully filmed years later.

As a teenager, however, Besson still wanted to become a marine biologist . A diving accident at 17 made this professional goal unattainable. He moved to Paris and began to be interested in the medium of film . He soon found that it was a way of expressing all of his interests. Besson moved to the United States for three years to familiarize himself with filmmaking there. He then returned to France and founded his own production company Les Films de Loups (today: Les Films de Dauphins ).

Besson often works with the actors Jean Reno and Gary Oldman ; the music for his films is usually written by Eric Serra . The screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen is involved in many of his productions . Thierry Arbogast is his regular cameraman. Julien Rey has been responsible for editing his films since 2009 .

Luc Besson is married for the fourth time and has five daughters. His first marriage was to actress Anne Parillaud , who also starred in his film Nikita . He has a daughter with her. Daughter Shana (* 1993), who made her film debut in 2004 as a child actress , comes from her second marriage to Maïwenn Le Besco (1992–1997) . In his third marriage (1997-1999) he was married to model and actress Milla Jovovich . In their fourth marriage, Besson has been married to Virginie Silla since 2004 , with whom he has three daughters.

In 2000 he founded the film production company EuropaCorp together with Pierre-Ange Le Pogam .

On September 11, 2006, Besson announced that, following Arthur and the Minimoys , he would retire from the film business and would in future take care of young people in the banlieues . Already at the beginning of his career, he had resolved not to realize more than ten films as a director. Soon after, however, he refrained from making this decision.

In 2009 he presented his new film Home , which he produced together with the French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand , on the international environment day on June 5th . Public film screenings were held free for the public in many different locations that day and the film was made available for free on YouTube . With Lucy , Besson was able to celebrate another international box office success in 2014.

Besson was convicted of plagiarism in 2016 for the creators of the film Lockout used in John Carpenter's film The Rattlesnake .

In 2018, Besson was charged with rape by actress Sand Van Roy and others who chose to remain anonymous. Five women have made similar allegations against him, including a former assistant, two students at the Cité du Cinéma studio and a former employee of Besson's company EuropaCorp. The investigation was closed in February 2019.

Filmography (selection)

Director

production

Commercials

Music videos

Awards

The last fight

César

Cinema for Peace

  • 2012: Award of the International Film Prize for Human Rights in cooperation with Amnesty International and the Human Rights Film Network for The Lady

literature

  • Andrea Bieler: Diving with Luc Besson: Traces of implicit religion in the work of the French filmmaker. In: Thomas Bohrmann, Werner Veith, Stephan Zöller (Eds.): Handbuch Theologie und Popular Film. Volume 2. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76733-2 , pp. 137-147.

Web links

Wikiquote: Luc Besson  - Quotes
Commons : Luc Besson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shana Besson. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ www.youtube.com/homeproject
  3. ↑ Klapperkasse , FAZ , August 3, 2016, p. 12
  4. ↑ Guilcher, Lénaïg Bredoux, Marine Turchi et Geoffrey Le. "Violences sexuales: plusieurs femmes accusent Luc Besson". Mediapart (in French). Retrieved June 6, 2018.
  5. ^ "Five more women make sex-open allegations against Luc Besson". The Guardian . November 28, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ Luc Besson: After Sand Van Roy, more and more women are raising accusations In: Brigitte.de on November 29, 2018, accessed on July 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ WORLD: Investigations against star director Besson stopped . February 25, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed September 3, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Besson, Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France