Michel Deville

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Michel Deville (born April 13, 1931 in Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine ) is a French film director and screenwriter .

life and work

At the beginning of his career, Deville, who had started his career as assistant to Henri Decaë , was considered “one of the great hopes of French entertainment film. With increasing financial resources, however, his films lost their esprit. "

In 1986, Michel Deville received a César award as best director for his film Danger in Delay . In 1998 he received the Silver Shell of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián for the feature film drama Diary of a Country Doctor .

His best-known films also include The Reader and The Wild Sheep .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: A ball in the barrel (Une balle dans le canon)
  • 1961: The Game of Lies (Adorable menteuse)
  • 1963: Everything because of these women (A cause, à cause d'une femme)
  • 1963: gangsters, gold and brisk girls (L'appartement des filles)
  • 1964: Lucky Jo
  • 1966: The Thief of the Mona Lisa (Il ladro della Gioconda)
  • 1966: General Fiaskone (Martin Soldat)
  • 1967: Tender Sharks (Tendres requins)
  • 1968: Benjamin - From the diary of a male virgin (Benjamin ou Les Mémoires d'un puceau)
  • 1969: The Bear and the Doll (L'ours et la poupée)
  • 1971: Raphael the libertine (Raphael ou le debauche)
  • 1972: The Unknown Beauty (La femme en bleu)
  • 1974: The wild sheep (Le mouton enragé)
  • 1977: Cheating also needs to be learned (L'apprenti salaud)
  • 1978: Without data protection (Le dossier 51)
  • 1980: Journey to tenderness (Le voyage en douce)
  • 1981: Still Waters (Eaux profondes) - based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith
  • 1983: The Little Gang (La petite gange)
  • 1985: Imminent danger (Péril en la demeure)
  • 1986: The booby (Le paltoquet)
  • 1988: The Reader (La lectrice)
  • 1990: A summer night in the city (Nuit d'été en ville)
  • 1992: Sweetheart (Toutes peines confondues)
  • 1994: The little joys in life (Aux petits bonheurs)
  • 1997: The hunt for the dancing god (La divine poursuite)
  • 1999: Diary of a country doctor (La maladie de Sachs)
  • 2002: Un monde presque paisible
  • 2005: Un Fil à la Patte

Web links

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  1. ↑ rororo film dictionary. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978, Volume 4, Personen AG, p. 922, ISBN 3-499-16231-8
personal data
SURNAME Deville, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine department , Île-de-France, France