Lucien Aguettand

Lucien Aguettand , actually Lucien Aguettand-Blanc (born January 28, 1901 in Paris , † December 14, 1989 in Nogent-sur-Marne ) was a French film architect .

Live and act

Lucien Aguettand-Blanc studied stage design at the Paris Academy. In 1921 he met Louis Jouvet , who brought him to the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier . There Aguettand underwent practical training under Jacques Copeau . The famous architect Robert Mallet-Stevens brought Aguettand to film in 1926. At his side he made his debut in a production by Marcel L'Herbier .

From 1927 Aguettand worked for the production company Pathé -Nathan, for which he also headed the film construction department from 1941 to 1948. In 1943/44, Aguettand was responsible for the technically smooth running of the shooting of Marcel Carné's masterpiece Children of Olympus . At the height of his career, Lucien Aguettand designed the structures for several important films by Marcel L'Herbier, Julien Duvivier , René Clair , Robert Siodmak and Maurice Tourneur .

During the early 1960s, he gradually withdrew from active production design and began teaching courses at the Paris art schools INSAS , École des Arts décoratifs and École des Beaux-Arts .

Filmography

• 1926: Sonja (Le vertige)
• 1927: Le diable au cœur
• 1928: La jalousie du Barbouillé
• 1928: Latin Quarter
• 1929: La Bodega
• 1929: Parce que je t'aime
• 1930: L'enfant de l'amour
• 1931: Echec et mat
• 1931: La chauvesouris
• 1932: Les deux orphelines
• 1932: City night
• 1932: The Cry for Love (Poil de carotte)
• 1933: The lady of the castle from Lebanon (La châtelaine du Liban)
• 1933: Knock
• 1933: The Little King (Le petit roi)
• 1934: The last billionaire (Le dernier milliardaire)
• 1935: Blood Brothers 1918 (L'équipage)
• 1935: Tovaritch
• 1935: Koenigsmark
• 1936: Taras Bulba (Tarass Boulba)
• 1936: Club de femmes
• 1936: White cargo for Rio (Le chemin de Rio)
• 1937: Titin des martigues
• 1937: Les secrets de la mer morte
• 1938: Le joueur d'échecs
• 1938: Secret in the Secret Annex (Derrière la façade)
• 1939: Le chemin de l'honneur
• 1939: Narcissus, the involuntary aviator (Narcisse)
• 1940: Volpone (Volpone)
• 1941: Rascals (Nous les gosses)
• 1942: Monsieur des Lourdines
• 1942: Boléro
• 1942: Angel of the Night (L'ange de la nuit)
• 1943: Tornavara
• 1943: Call of the Mountains (Premier de cordée)
• 1945: La femme fatale
• 1946: L'amour autour de la maison
• 1948: The Night of Love (Ainsi finit la nuit)
• 1948: Waltz of love (Valse brillante)
• 1949: Agnes Bernauer (Le jugement de Dieu)
• 1950: Your path is determined for you (Quai de Grenelle)
• 1951: Women in danger (Le vrai coupable)
• 1952: Among gangsters (Je suis un mouchard)
• 1953: Doomed to Love (La rage au corps)
• 1953: Companions of the Night (Les compagnes de la nuit)
• 1954: girls disappear (Le port du désir)
• 1955: The Count of Orly (Milord l'Arsouille)
• 1955: Women in Blackmail (Chantage)
• 1956: The blonde witch (La sorcière)
• 1956: La roue
• 1956: Réproduction interdite
• 1957: Love is mine (La garçonne)
• 1957: Night over Paris (Rafles sur la ville)
• 1958: The Cat (La chatte)
• 1958: Woman in Purgatory (Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?)
• 1959: The cat shows its claws (La chatte sort ses griffes)
• 1960: French women and love (La Française et l'amour)
• 1961: Behind Strangers' Windows (Le rendez-vous)
• 1961: The Great American (La Belle Américaine)
• 1963: Germinal
• 1964: Nick Carter beats it all together (Nick Carter va tout casser)
• 1967: The Adventures of the Chevalier de Ricci (Le chevalier Tempête) (TV series)
• 1968: Come on love me (L'amour)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 41.

Web links

• Lucien Aguettand in the Internet Movie Database (English)