Nicolas Hayer
Lucien Nicolas Hayer (born May 1, 1898 in Paris , † October 29, 1978 in Saint-Laurent-du-Var ) was a French cameraman .
Life
Hayer, an experienced craftsman in French entertainment film for a third of a century, began working as a cameraman for his country's army. In 1923 he went to East Asia as a newsreel and documentary cameraman to take pictures in Siberia . The following year he traveled to Indochina , where he also worked as a photographer until 1928. Impressed by his work, he was hired by MGM in 1928 , for which he was supposed to produce newsreel reports and reports.
Back in France, Hayer began working in the cinema as a feature film cameraman in 1931. Until the outbreak of the Second World War , Hayer's tasks were mostly pure routine, only during the German occupation did he get the opportunity to demonstrate his skills. The artistic success of Henri-Georges Clouzot's crime film The Raven , a dark moral image from the occupation, can be attributed to a large extent to Hayer's camera work. Six years later, Jean Cocteau engaged him for his modern version of Orfeo ed Euridice : Orpheus became Hayer's second major work in 1949, in which he gave Cocteau's staged ideas with his idiosyncratic pictorial compositions an optical framework.
After ten years of artistically less ambitious entertainment clothing, Hayer was hired by Nouvelle Vague director Éric Rohmer in 1959 to create his debut Under the Sign of the Lion with suggestive images. Other top directors Hayer employed include Julien Duvivier , Jean-Pierre Melville , Louis Daquin and Christian-Jaque . Since Nicolas Hayer switched to the state television broadcaster ORTF in 1960 , he had rarely worked for the cinema.
Filmography
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Web links
- Nicolas Hayer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 593.
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| SURNAME | Hayer, Nicolas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hayer, Lucien Nicolas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1978 |
| Place of death | Saint-Laurent-du-Var , France |