Olivier Marchal

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Olivier Marchal (2012)

Olivier Marchal (born November 14, 1958 in Talence ) is a French actor , director and screenwriter .

Life

The son of a pastry chef and hobby detective writer attended a Jesuit boarding school . Olivier Marchal credits the educators there with the fact that they curb his lack of self-discipline and that they aroused his interest in the theater and especially in the work of Louis-Ferdinand Céline . "Thanks to the Jesuits, I wasn't totally obnoxious."

As a teenager and young man, he was fascinated by the films of Sidney Lumet , Jean-Pierre Melville , Henri Verneuil and Georges Lautner . The idealistic ideas these films aroused in him led him, according to his own words, to compete in the national police competition at the age of 20 . He passed and became an inspector with the criminal police in Versailles. The open contempt that people showed him when he was doing his job, the insults he received when he was checking bars, for example, quickly disaffected him. Looking back at that time, he characterizes himself as being soft and respectful of crooks, except in cases of violence against children or the elderly.

From 1982 to 1985 he served in the anti-terrorist unit and was involved in the investigation against Action Directe . There he met the inspector Simon Michaël , who was writing the script for the film Die Briblichen ( Les ripoux ) by Claude Zidi at the time and who would later switch to the film business.

In his spare time he continued to love the theater. He took courses at the Conservatory in the 20th arrondissement . In order to be able to better combine his passion for the theater with his profession, he volunteered for night shift in 1985. In seven years of service in the 13th arrondissement of Paris , he was confronted with human catastrophes of all kinds: body finds, suicides of colleagues, family tragedies such as the one with the girl who helped murder her parents. In 1992 he finally quit the police force, encouraged by Simon Michaël.

Olivier Marchal's life theme is dealing with violence, the tension between fascination and disgust. “I owe the violence a debt,” he says of himself. “I hate filming them, but I have them inside me.” In 2002, the first major feature film he directed: Gangsters . He achieved national fame as a director in 2004 with the film 36 - Deadly Rivals (originally 36 quai des Orfèvres , based on the address of the Paris criminal police), a crime version of the Count of Monte Christo . The film has been nominated eight times for the César , France's most important film award. His films take the point of view of the unpopular Flic , narrating the events with a certain nostalgia, of past happiness and present pain. He took this approach to extremes in 2008 in the film MR 73 - Until death redeems you . This film, which tells the story of a vendetta by an alcoholic police officer, received mostly negative reception from the critics. It was complained that the film was reactionary, even lepenistic .

In 2009, the first two episodes of his series Braquo achieved a record audience of 1.3 million viewers each on the pay-TV channel Canal + . It focuses on several Parisian criminal police officers (played by Jean-Hugues Anglade and Nicolas Duvauchelle, among others ) who decide to avenge the unjust conviction and suicide of their superiors.

In terms of appearance, Marchal is a strong man with a melancholy charisma, a casual appearance, shaggy gray-black hair and a shaggy gray beard. His fellow actor Geoffroy Thiébaut describes him as coarse but basically good-natured: “A bear and a teddy bear.” Others, like the producer Claude Chelli, emphasize how his experiences with the police have shaped him: “That time has drawn him. ... Olivier is tortured. ”Marchal has been married to the actress Catherine Marchal since 1989 , whom he regularly entrusts with roles in his directorial work. The couple has four children together; the youngest was born in summer 2009.

Filmography

actor

Feature film

  • 1988: The Panther II - ice cold as fire (Ne réveillez pas un flic qui there)
  • 1993: double camouflage (profile bas)
  • 1998: La Puce
  • 2006: No mortal word (Ne le dis à personne)
  • 2007: The City Warriors (Truands)
  • 2007: Scorpion - The Fighter (Scorpion)
  • 2008: A police romance (Un roman policier)
  • 2008: Le Bruit des gens autour
  • 2008: Without Guilt (Pour elle)
  • 2009: Diamond 13 (Diamond 13)
  • 2009: Quelque chose à te dire
  • 2009: Les acteurs sont fatigués; also directing
  • 2011: Jo's son (Le fils à Jo)
  • 2013: Un p'tit gars de Ménilmontant
  • 2013: Paris Countdown - Your time is running out (Le jour attendra)
  • 2014: Belle comme la femme d'un autre
  • 2014: Fastlife
  • 2020: Tony Rodriguez. Aller en prison, c'est son rêve by John Sehil

watch TV

  • 1993: Troublante Voisine - Director: Raoul Chenille
  • 1996-2001: Quai n ° 1
  • 2000: Adopted only (La tresse d'Aminata)
  • 2002: Chut! - Directed by Philippe Setbon, with Sophie Guillemin
  • 2003: Les Robinsonnes - Director: Laurent Dussaux
  • 2005: Éliane - Director: Caroline Huppert, with Florence Pernel
  • 2006: Les Innocents - after Georges Simenon
  • 2006: Une fille de ferme - after Guy de Maupassant
  • 2006: She Must Be My Daughter - Mothers / Daughters (L'Enfant d'une autre) - Director: Virginie Wagon
  • 2007: Confidences sur canapé - Director: Laurent Dussaux
  • 2009: Braquo , crime series based on his own script, director: Frédéric Schoendorffer
  • 2016: Mon frère bien-aimé
  • 2018: Les Rivières pourpres (German: The purple rivers) - after Jean-Christophe Grangé
  • 2020: La promesse - Director: Laure de Butler

Director

As a screenwriter

Theater stage

  • 1990: Uncle Wania by Anton Chekhov (Théâtre Les Cinq Diamants)
  • 1994: Les Sincères by Pierre Carlet de Marivaux (Théâtre La Balle au Bond)
  • 1995: L'Auteur by Vincent Ravalec (Théâtre de Tourtour)
  • 1997–1998: Une nuit avec Sacha Guitry (Théâtre Rive Gauche and Théâtre Grévin)
  • 1997: Du riffoin dans les labor (Théâtre de Clermont Ferrand and Comédie Gallien à Bordeaux)
  • 2000: Ladies night by Antony Mc Carten, Stephen Sinclair and Jacques Collard, Théâtre Rive-Gauche
  • 2005–2006: Sur un air de tango by Isabelle de Toledo (Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse)

literature

  • Macha Séry: La vie en noir . Le Monde , November 10, 2009, p. 22

Individual evidence

  1. a b cf. Profile at allocine.fr (accessed November 16, 2009)
  2. Unless otherwise noted, this section follows the article by Macha Séry in Le Monde of November 10, 2009.
  3. Series profile ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at seriesvox.com, accessed on November 12, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seriesvox.com

Original French quotes

  1. ^ "Grâce à eux, j'ai été un peu moins con. »
  2. ^ Service régional de police judiciaire
  3. «un tendre poulet»
  4. "C'est une dette que je paie à la violence. Je déteste de la filmer mais je l'ai en moi. »
  5. "un ours et un nounours"
  6. ^ «Cette époque-là l'a profondément marqué. ... Olivier est quelqu'un de torturé. »

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