Maurice Pialat
Maurice Pialat (born August 21, 1925 in Cunlhat , Puy-de-Dôme , France , † January 11, 2003 in Paris ) was a French film director , screenwriter and actor .
Life
Born in Auvergne , Pialat came to Paris at a young age, where he first tried his hand at painting before starting to work as a director and actor. From 1958 he first made short and documentary films, in 1970 with amateur actors the first of a total of ten feature films, L'enfance nue (English title: Naked Childhood) , for which he also wrote the screenplay. In 1987 he received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Sous le soleil de Satan (The Sun of Satan) .
Maurice Pialat died in Paris at the age of 77. He was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery.
Filmography
Director
- 1961: L'amour existe
- 1961: Pigalle
- 1961: La corne d'or
- 1962: Janine
- 1966: Les Champs-Élysées
- 1967: De la mer jaillera la lumière
- 1967: Paris étudiant
- 1968: Tauromachie en France
- 1968: Lugdunum
- 1968: Naked Childhood (L'enfance nue)
- 1970: The house in the forest ( La maison des bois , TV series, also actor)
- 1972: We don't grow old together (Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble) - also script and dialogues
- 1974: The agony before the end (La gueule ouverte) - also script
- 1978: First do my Abitur (Passe ton bac d'abord ...) - also script
- 1980: The Loulou (Loulou) - also screenplay
- 1983: To what we love (À nos amours) - also screenplay, actor
- 1985: The Bull of Paris (Police) - also screenplay
- 1987: The Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan) - also screenplay, actor
- 1991: Van Gogh - also screenplay
- 1995: My father, the child (Le garçu) - also screenplay
actor
- 1957: Le jeu de la nuit - Director: Daniel Costelle
- 1969: The Beast Must Die (Que la bête meure) - Director: Claude Chabrol
literature
- Le dictionnaire Pialat (paperback), ed. by Antoine de Baecque, Editions Léo Scheer, 2008, ISBN 2756101206
- Pascal Mérigeau: Maurice Pialat. L'imprécateur , Grasset & Fasquelle, 2003, ISBN 2246615313 ; also as TB: Editions Ramsay, 2007
- Marja Warehime: Maurice Pialat (French Film Directors), Manchester University Press, 2006, ISBN 0719068223
Web links
- Maurice Pialat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Contents of several films (German)
- "The Lion's Paw" , NZZ , January 13, 2003, by Peter W. Jansen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pialat, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film director and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cunlhat |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 2003 |
| Place of death | Paris |