Paul Misraki

Paul Misraki (born January 28, 1908 as Paul-Marie Misrachi in Constantinople , Ottoman Empire , † October 30, 1998 in Paris , France ) was a French composer , film composer , writer and songwriter .

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Born as a descendant of Sephardic Jews in what is now Turkey (Istanbul), Paul-Marie Misrachi was an extremely creative and successful composer of French post-war films. His father worked as an employee at an insurance company. After a stay in Bucharest, the family moved to France during the First World War (1915). Paul Misraki studied music with Charles Koechlin in Paris before joining Ray Ventura's orchestra at the age of 21 . He belonged to this band as a pianist, composer and arranger Misraki until the outbreak of World War II . During this time Misraki was already composing his own pieces for Ventura as well as for a number of sound films. His first work for the cinema in 1931 was the composition of Jean Renoir's On purge bébé ; however, his work was not mentioned here. Misraki appeared several times as a copywriter in those years. As a result of the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht , the now highly endangered Jew Misraki fled first to the unoccupied zone and finally to South America , where he only occasionally found work in film - mostly in Argentina in 1943 and 1944 . His song compositions outside the cinema, created in Argentina ( Una mujer ) and Brazil, show Latin American influences.

In 1945 Paul Misraki returned to Paris. In the following three decades Misraki rose to become one of the most sought-after and hard-working film composers in his country. He composed primarily for the artistically less ambitious, but commercially extremely successful entertainment film. In addition to some great canvases with Brigitte Bardot ( And always lures the woman , The daisy is defoliated ), Misraki has also supplied productions for prominent representatives of the Nouvelle Vague generation, such as Claude Chabrol's Scream, if you can, and steps without a trace and Jean, since the late 1950s -Luc Godard's Lemmy Caution against Alpha 60 . Misraki often used sounds in his compositions that could not deny his oriental origins.

Paul Misraki was also very active outside of film. He created several operettas (" Fantastique "), countless chansons (since 1935) and stage compositions. As a writer and editor, he appeared with novels, essays and correspondence. Another area of ​​interest Misrakis was ufology ; on this subject he published the book Les Extraterrestres in 1962 .

Filmography (selection)

• 1931: L'amour à l'américaine
• 1934: Minuit, Place Pigalle
• 1937: Claudine à l'école
• 1937: Chéri Bibi
• 1938: Retour à l'aube
• 1938: Feux de joie
• 1939: Tourbillon de Paris (also actor)
• 1939: Thieves and Love (Battements de cœur)
• 1943: Stella
• 1943: Eclipse de sol
• 1944: Delirio
• 1944: Siete mujeres
• 1944: The chaste Susanne (La casta Susana)
• 1946: Heartbeat
• 1946: College Swing
• 1946: The blind angel (La foire aux chimères)
• 1947: The great Miss (Mademoiselle s'amuse)
• 1948: Manon
• 1948: return à la vie
• 1949: Venus in the car (Tous les chemins mènent à Rome)
• 1949: Yes, in Mexico (Nous irons à Paris)
• 1950: Curare (Identité judiciaire)
• 1950: no sympathy for women? (Pas de pitié pour les femmes)
• 1950: Dr. Knock lets ask (Knock)
• 1950: Monsieur Tugendsam (Le rosier de Monsieur Husson)
• 1951: Atoll K
• 1951: Music in Monte Carlo (Nous irons à Monte Carlo)
• 1951: The dirty hands (Les mains sales)
• 1951: Hafengasse 5 (Le garçon sauvage)
• 1952: The young madman (La jeune folle)
• 1952: The ladies' hairdresser (Le coiffeur pour dames)
• 1952: The man of my life (L'homme de ma vie)
• 1952: he and she (Elle et moi)
• 1952: One night's confession (La minute de vérité)
• 1953: The haughty ones (Les orgueuilleux)
• 1953: Femmes de Paris
• 1953: La route Napoléon
• 1953: Serenade for two pistols (Les femmes s'en balancent)
• 1954: King of the Desert (Fortune Carrée)
• 1954: Bartholomew's Night (La rein Margot)
• 1954: People on the trapeze (obsession)
• 1954: Ali Baba (Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs)
• 1954: Stopover in Paris (Escale à Orly)
• 1955: oasis
• 1955: Mr. Satan personally (Mr. Arkadin)
• 1955: Like lost dogs (Chiens perdus sans collier)
• 1955: The dam (La meilleure part)
• 1955: The Storm of Passion (Thunderstorm)
• 1956: Breath of the jungle (Le mort en ce jardin)
• 1956: The ruler of Lebanon (Le châtelaine du Liban)
• 1956: And women always beckons (Et Dieu… créa la femme)
• 1956: The fashion king (Le couturier de ces dames)
• 1956: The daisy is defoliated (En effeuillant la marguerite)
• 1956: Father against his will (Sous le ciel de Provence)
• 1957: The Merciless (Les fanatiques)
• 1957: killers ask for it (La femme s'en mêle)
• 1957: Behind blind windows (Méfiez-vous, fillettes)
• 1957: The adventures of little Remi (Sans famille)
• 1957: Inspector Maigret sets a trap (Maigret tend un piège)
• 1958: The involuntary rocket flier (A pied, à cheval et en spoutnik)
• 1958: The rats of Paris (Jeux dangereux)
• 1958: Live and let love (Drôle de dimanche)
• 1958: Scream If You Can (Les Cousins)
• 1958: Sometimes this - sometimes that (Faibles femmes)
• 1958: Montparnasse 19 (Les Amants de Montparnasse)
• 1959: The students (Le chemin des écoliers)
• 1959: Steps without a trace (À double tour)
• 1959: Under the spell of ecstasy (L'extase)
• 1959: I sell myself for him (La Fièvre monte à El Pao)
• 1960: The unsatisfied (Les bonnes femmes)
• 1960: Eddie goes all out (Comment qu'elle est?)
• 1960: The boss and his angel (Le caïd)
• 1961: Behind Strangers' Windows (Le rendez-vous)
• 1961: The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires)
• 1961: This is not for little girls (Lemmy pour les dames)
• 1962: We're going to Deauville (Nous irons à Deauville)
• 1962: The devil in the white vest (Le Doulos )
• 1962: The Scarlet Musketeer (Le Chevalier de Pardaillan)
• 1963: Jack and Jenny
• 1963: Blue beans for dessert (À toi de faire… mignonne)
• 1964: The Triumph of the Musketeer (Hardi Pardaillan)
• 1964: Lemmy Caution against Alpha 60 (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)
• 1964: you become a nuisance, sir (Le majordome)
• 1965: Cards on the table (Les cartes sur table)
• 1965: Les baisers
• 1966: Seven men and a babe (Sept hommes et une garce)
• 1968: Le ruble à deux faces
• 1969: Le dernier homme
• 1972: Murder remains murder (Un meurtre est un meurtre)
• 1973: The tall blonde with the blue eye (Juliette et Juliette)
• 1973: Four days in hell (La main à couper)
• 1975: Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur
• 1976: The porter of Maxim (Le chasseur de chez Maxim's)
• 1976: La bulle
• 1977: Le maestro
• 1977: The dangerous game of ambition and love (La part du feu)
• 1978: Murder in a pretty village (Un si joli village)
• 1984: stress
• 1985: Hôtel du siècle (TV series)
• 1986: Grand hôtel (TV series)
• 1991: Benjamin (Aujourd'hui, peut-être)
• 1993: La vérité en face (TV movie)

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 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 476.

Web links

• Paul Misraki in the Internet Movie Database (English)