Maurice Colasson

Maurice Colasson actually Maurice Alfred Hervou (born May 7, 1911 in Paris , † October 31, 1992 in Puget-Ville ) was a French film architect , set designer and television set designer .

Life

Colasson received his artistic training at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts and served in the early years of sound film as an assistant to his experienced colleague Georges Wakhévitch . From 1937 he was the second chief architect to carry out the designs of his master Wakhévitch. Doomed to cinematic inactivity during the Second World War, Colasson was allowed to work alone from 1945 and now also design film sets. Maurice Colasson was responsible for the scenography of the films by entertainment routinists such as Robert Siodmak , Yves and Marc Allégret , Mario Soldati , Marcel L'Herbier , Denys de La Patellière , Marguerite Duras and Jacqueline Audry . "In 1959 he worked on the impressive religious and revolutionary drama Sacrifice of a Nun, which is unusual in its ascetic form ." Colasson has also worked as a set designer and set designer for television plays. As early as 1947 he received the Silver Ribbon of the Association of Italian Film Journalists for his performance to Eugenie Grandet based on the submission of the same name by Honoré de Balzac .

Filmography (selection)

• 1937: Prison sans barreaux
• 1938: Conflit
• 1938: Life is not a novel ( La maison du maltais )
• 1939: Le dernier tournant
• 1939: Girl trafficker ( Pièges )
• 1939: Serenade ( Sérénade )
• 1945: Madame et son flirt
• 1946: Coïncidences
• 1946: Eugenie Grandet ( Eugenia Grandet )
• 1947: Bar for the full moon ( Dédée d'Anvers )
• 1948: A pretty little beach ( Une si jolie petite plage )
• 1949: Do not leave me ( L'homme que revient de loin )
• 1950: La rose rouge
• 1951: La maison rouge
• 1951: smugglers at work ( La maison dans la dune )
• 1952: The honorable whore ( La p… respectueuse )
• 1953: Le père de mademoiselle
• 1954: hard fists, hot blood ( Ça va barder )
• 1954: I became a traitor ( Interdit de séjour )
• 1954: Closed society ( Huis clos )
• 1954: Bartholomew's Night ( La rein Margot )
• 1955: Greed for love ( La lumière d'en face )
• 1955: kisses, balls and channels ( Je suis un sentimental )
• 1956: Les suspects
• 1957: Le septième ciel
• 1958: Live and let love ( Drôle de dimanche )
• 1959: The Tsarina's Favorite ( Le secret du chevalier d'Éon )
• 1959: Sacrifice of a nun ( La dialogue des Carmélites )
• 1960: Still after year and day ( Une aussi longue absence )
• 1961: The Young General ( La Fayette )
• 1961: Madeleine and the sailor ( Le bateau d'Émile )
• 1962: The Citadel of San Marco ( Mathias Sandorf )
• 1962: Pourquoi Paris?
• 1963: Lots of corpses in Las Vegas ( Blague dans le coin )
• 1963: Where are you from, Johnny? ( D'ou viens-tu, Johnny? )
• 1966: La Musica ( La Musica )
• 1966: The Poppy Is Also a Flower ( The Poppy Is Also a Flower )
• 1966: One man too many ( Un homme de trop )
• 1968: Mayerling ( Mayerling )
• 1972: Beau masque

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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 115.

Web links

• Maurice Colasson in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 115.