Maurice Dugowson

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Maurice Dugowson (born September 23, 1938 in Saint-Quentin , Aisne , † November 11, 1999 in Paris ) was a French film director , documentary filmmaker and screenwriter .

life and career

Maurice Dugowson, born in Saint-Quentin in the Départment Aisne in 1938 , first worked in 1964 as assistant director on several episodes for the French crime series The Cases of Monsieur Cabrol with Jacques Debary in the title role. He then directed an episode himself for the TV series Les cent livres des hommes in 1973.

In the mid-1970s, Dugowson began writing his own scripts and working as a director for the cinema. Films were made like the comedy Lily, I love me in the cast: Zouzou, Jean-Michel Folon , Patrick Dewaere , Jean-Pierre Bisson and Rufus , which was shown as a contribution to the 1975 Berlin International Film Festival , or the film drama F for Fairbanks , in the leading roles Miou-Miou , Patrick Dewaere, Michel Piccoli and John Berry , who entered the race a year later as a festival contribution to the 1976 International Film Festival in Berlin . 1979 then the drama Auf Wiedersehen, cast by the actors Miou-Miou, Carole Laure , David Birney and Claude Brasseur until Monday or the crime film We sing in a choir with Pascale Rocard, Hippolyte Girardot , Marie Wiart and Michel Aumont in 1987 .

For television, Dugowson had worked very successfully since the 1970s both in the creation of live broadcasts and in the realization of documentaries, television films and series. Maurice Dugowson wrote various screenplays in different film genres during his career and directed several times himself.

Dugowson died on November 11, 1999 in Paris at the age of 61 .

Awards

  • 1985: Honored with the Sept d'or as best director for a live broadcast
  • 1996: Honored with the Sept d'or for the best documentary for Histoires secrètes de la télévision

Filmography (selection)

Film director

  • 1975: Lily, love me (Lily, aime-moi)
  • 1976: F for Fairbanks (F comme Fairbanks)
  • 1979: Goodbye until Monday (Au revoir à lundi)
  • 1983: Sarah
  • 1987: We sing in a choir (Chantons en Choeur)
  • 1996: Histoires secrètes de la télévision (documentary)
  • 1997: El Che (documentary)

Screenwriter (selection)

  • 1975: Lily, love me (Lily, aime-moi)
  • 1976: F for Fairbanks (F comme Fairbanks)
  • 1979: Goodbye until Monday (Au revoir à lundi)
  • 1983: Sarah
  • 1995: La poudre aux yeux

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biographical data of Maurice Dugowson in: Filmographie universelle , volumes 31-35, by Jean Mitry, Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, 1987, page 57