Max Pécas

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Max Edouard Louis Pécas (born April 25, 1925 in Lyon , † February 20, 2003 in Paris ) was a French theater director , film director , screenwriter and film producer , an all-round filmmaker of B-film and domestic erotic cinema, little known outside France .

Live and act

Pécas began his artistic career right after the end of the Second World War and gathered his first directorial spurs at the theater. However, he quickly decided to switch to the film business, where he initially gained experience from 1947 to 1959 as an assistant to less important directors such as Jacques Daroy and Alfred Rode .

At the end of 1959 he made his film directing debut and from the beginning of his career concentrated on police and crime films as well as on erotic and sometimes slippery subjects. These had initially dramatic, later more and more comedic orientations. His productions, which Pécas produced with his own production company Les Films du Griffon since 1962, initially had lurid titles such as Desire drives the man, Tender skin in black silk , Dogs in the night, Flotsam of love, Scourges of eroticism, The sex slaves of Schloss Porno, Greta - The stranger came naked, Sex drinks champagne, Daughters of sin, In the garden of lust - pourquoi? and The House of Fancy Wishes , and were aimed at a rather simple suburban audience.

Accordingly, the (German) critics liked to call Pécas works “stupid”, “voyeuristic”, “pompous”, “primitive”, “speculative”, “lying”, “bumbling”, “craftsmanship” and “dirty cinema” "" Poorly crafted ". The majority of these "poor sex films of inferior quality", produced between 1965 and 1974, were put into the picture in a flavourful way by veteran cameraman Robert Lefebvre and later became popular with interested fan circles, similar to the films by Pécas' American colleague Russ Meyer ( especially in France itself) quite cult character.

Since the late 1970s, Max Pécas' little soft sex films had more and more comedic elements and were now increasingly aimed at a teenage audience ( The little English girls, hot dogs in Ibiza , Who's spraying there on the Mediterranean ?, Bring the little French women ) and created with his work in their style counterparts to corresponding German productions of those years from the house of Karl Spiehs with Olivia Pascal in the lead role (e.g. Summer Night Fever , popcorn and raspberry ice cream , Cola, Candy, Chocolate , Sunshine Reggae in Ibiza ).

In 1996 Pécas withdrew completely from film production. Subsequently, in some cases even after his death, filmmakers rediscovered his colleague, who had long been underestimated for a long time, and produced documentaries about him with the titles I Am a Nymphomaniac: The Films of Max Pecas (1999), Mon curé chez les bidasses (2007) and Max Pécas, le roi du navet (2011). Max Pécas had a son named Michel and a daughter named Corinne. He died in 2003 of complications from bronchial carcinoma .

Filmography

as a director, from 1962 also as (co-producer) and most films also as a screenwriter

  • 1960: Desire drives man (Le Cercle vicieux)
  • 1961: Soft skin in black silk (De quoi tu te mêles Daniela?)
  • 1961: They Call It Love (Douce violence)
  • 1962: La belle et le Champion (short film)
  • 1962: Une femme aux abois
  • 1963: Cinq filles en furie
  • 1964: Flotsam of love (La Baie du désir)
  • 1965: Dogs in the Night ( Espions à l'affut )
  • 1966: Scourges of eroticism ( La peur et l'amour )
  • 1966: Daughters of Sin ( Une femme aux abois )
  • 1967: Love 2: 1 ( La nuit la plus chaude )
  • 1968: Birds, birds on the wall ( Le grand cérémonial )
  • 1968: The sex slaves of Schloß Porno ( La main noir )
  • 1969: Greta, the stranger came naked ( Claude et Gréta )
  • 1970: Sex drinks champagne ( Je suis une nymphomane )
  • 1972: Comment le désir vient aux filles
  • 1973: The house of unusual wishes ( Club privé pour couples avertis )
  • 1973: The Sex Clinic ( Serre-moi dans tes brasses )
  • 1974: Sexual element votre
  • 1975: Les Mille et une perversions de Felicia
  • 1976: Luxure
  • 1977: Marche pas sur mes lacets
  • 1978: Embraye bidasse, ça fume
  • 1979: Hot Dogs in Ibiza (On est venu là pour s'éclater)
  • 1980: Who is injecting a Mediterranean? (Mieux vaut être riche et bien portant que fauché et mal foutu)
  • 1981: Twelve Swedes in Africa (Belles, blondes et bronzées)
  • 1982: When delicacies beckon (On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge)
  • 1983: Bring on the little French women (Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez)
  • 1985: Death Brigade (Brigade des mœurs)
  • 1986: Deux enfoirés à Saint-Tropez
  • 1987: On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez
  • 1992: L'urlo della veritá (only production management)
  • 1996: Départ immédiat (short film, production only)

literature

  • Pascal Manuel Heu: Max Pécas metteur en scène, un author méconnu. In Jeune Cinéma , no. 308–309, spring 2007.
  • Dictionnaire des films français pornographiques et érotiques . Serious Publishing 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the film reviews of Scourges of the Erotic , The House of Fancy Desires , In the Garden of Lust - Pourquoi? and love 2: 1
  2. ↑ 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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 656.

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personal data
SURNAME Pécas, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pécas, Max Edouard Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theater and film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2003
Place of death Paris