Marcel Achard

Marcel Achard , actually Marcel-Auguste Ferréol (born July 5, 1899 in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon , † September 4, 1974 in Paris ) was a French playwright and screenwriter and a member of the Académie française .

Life

He studied at the University of Lyon . He mainly wrote scripts for the director Marc Allégret . Achard was a member of the international jury at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1955 and 1966 . He was the jury chairman at this festival from 1958 to 1960, and at the Venice International Film Festival during the same period . Achard died of diabetes on September 4, 1974.

Stage plays

1923: Voulez-vous jouer avec moi? 1924: Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre (title after the folk song of the same name ) 1925: La femme silencieuse 1926: Je ne vous aime pas 1928: Je vous aime 1929: Jean de la Lune (German Jean the Dreamer ) 1930: La belle marinière. La vie est belle. 1932: Domino 1934: Pétrus 1936: Noix de coco 1938: Le corsaire

1939: Adam 1946: Auprès de ma blonde 1947: Nous irons à Valparaiso 1951: Le Moulin de la Galette 1953: Les Compagnons de la marjolaine 1954: Patate (German: my bosom friend ) 1960: L'Idiote 1962: Turlututu 1964: Machin-Chouette 1968: Gugusse 1973: La Débauche

Filmography (selection)

script

• 1929: The Alibi
• 1931: Mistigri
• 1931: Jean de la Lune
• 1936: Mayerling
• 1937: The fifth juror ( Gribouille ) (together with Jan Lustig)
• 1938: Alibi
• 1942: Félicie Nanteuil (together with Curt Alexander and Charles de Peyret-Chappuis)
• 1946: Buccaneers of Love ( Pétrus )
• 1949: The Parisian Waltz ( La Valse de Paris ) (also director)
• 1953: Madame de ... (together with Max Ophüls )
• 1953: Mamsell Nitouche ( Mam'zelle Nitouche ) (together with Jean Aurenche)
• 1957: With Sylvia men become weak ( Que les hommes sont bêtes ) (together with Roger Richebé and François Boyer)
• 1958: A woman like Satan (La Femme et le pantin) (together with Albert Valentin and Jean Aurenche)

Literary template

• 1931: Jean de la Lune - Hans head in the moon ( Jean de la Lune )
• 1940: The Lady in Question
• 1964: A Shot in the Dark ( A Shot in the Dark )
• 1964: Monsieur cheats ( Patate )

literature

• Jacques Lorcey: Marcel Achard ou 50 ans de vie Parisienne. Éditions France Empire, Paris 1977.
• Paul Ranson Morand: Marcel Achard and the Modern Stage. In: The Romanic Review. Vol. 17, No. 4, 1926, ISSN  0035-8118 , pp. 349-354 .
• 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. 23.

Web links

• Marcel Achard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Marcel Achard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Marcel Achard in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In German 1958 TV-filmed by Marcel Wall as May I play along? A circus game. for ARD / SWF .- Dt. Stage version 1925
2. ^ In German 1961 TV-filmed by Rudolf Jugert as a time of happiness for ARD / BR
3. ↑ The sincere liar . Filmed in 1968 by Trude Kolman under this title for ARD / BR