Maud Linder
Maud Lydie Linder (born June 27, 1924 - † October 25, 2017 ) was a French journalist , film historian and documentary filmmaker .
Life
Maud Linder was born in 1924 as the only daughter of the silent film star Max Linder and his wife Hélène Peters. Her parents jointly committed suicide in October 1925 . She grew up with her grandparents, who told her little about their parents.
It was not until she was 20 that she saw a film by her father for the first time and decided to make his works accessible to the public again. In years of detailed work, she tracked down around 100 of her father's films and restored some of them. Some of the films were previously thought to be lost .
In addition, she worked as a journalist since the 1950s and later also worked in film, among other things as an assistant director , mainly for Jean-Paul Le Chanois . In 1963 she shot and produced the documentary In Gesellschaft Max Linder , which was awarded the Étoile de Cristal for Best Film in 1963 . On the occasion of the 100th birthday of her father, the documentary film The Man with the Silk Hat was made in 1983 .
In 1990 she organized a Max Linder Festival at the Musée d'Orsay . In 2013 Jean-Michel Meurice portrayed Linder in his documentary Max Linder - My Father, the Movie Star .
Filmography (selection)
- 1954: Papa, Mama, Katrin and I ( Papa, maman, la bonne et moi , assistant director)
- 1954: Faites-moi confiance (assistant director)
- 1955: Papa, Mama, my wife and I ( Papa, maman, ma femme et moi ... assistant director)
- 1961: Par-dessus le mur (assistant director)
- 1963: In the company of Max Linder ( En compagnie de Max Linder , documentary film, director and producer)
- 1983: The man in the silk hat ( L'homme au chapeau de soie , documentary, director, screenwriter and producer)
- 2014: The Mystery of the King of Kinema (Documentary, Actress)
Works
- Les dieux du cinéma muet: Max Linder. Editions Atlas, Paris 1992, ISBN 978-2-7312-1255-6 .
- Max Linder était mon père. Flammarion, Paris 1992, ISBN 978-2-08-066576-8 .
Web links
- Maud Linder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography of Maud Linder (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Disparition de Maud Linder, qui fit redécouvrir l'œuvre de Max Linder, son père
- ↑ This Day in Cinema: This Day in 1925: Silent star Max Linder commits suicide ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at moviemail.com, accessed January 23, 2015
- ↑ a b Max Linder - My father, the film star ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at arte.tv, accessed on January 23, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linder, Maud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Linder, Maud Lydie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist, film historian and documentary filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1924 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 2017 |