Pierre Billon

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Pierre Abel Billon (born February 7, 1901 in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort , France , † August 31, 1981 in Paris ) was a French film director and screenwriter .

Life

Billon, who was considered a solid craftsman without artistic ambitions throughout his life, began his career in the silent film era at the end of the 1920s as assistant director to the cinema veteran Gaston Ravel . With the dawn of the sound film age , Billon went to Berlin to shoot the French versions of some German films. He made his debut in the autumn of 1930 at Robert Wiene's side as co-director of the French-language version (“ Nuits de Vénise ”) of his production “ Der Liebesexpreß ”. Billon then directed the French versions of Carl Lamac's original German versions , primarily as co-director .

As a result of the seizure of power by Hitler back in Paris, Pierre trillion continued his career as solely responsible director and made his name with a series of literary adaptations (eg by Émile Zola , Balzac and Colette ). Especially his adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's ' The Eternal Husband' with France's character star Raimu in his last film role caused quite a stir in 1946. Thereupon Jean Cocteau got Billon to implement his script for the film adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel ' Ruy Blas' . However, the cinematic result found only very limited recognition, and Billon had to be content in his remaining working years with staging purely commercial films without ups and downs.

In 1952, Perre Billon was a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival .

Movies

  • 1930: Nuits de Vénise (co-director)
  • 1931: La chauve souris (co-director)
  • 1932: Une nuit au paradis (co-director)
  • 1932: Faut-il les marnier? (Co-director)
  • 1932: Baby (co-director)
  • 1932: Kiki (co-director)
  • 1933: La fille du régiment (co-director)
  • 1934: La maison dans la dune
  • 1935: Deuxième bureau
  • 1935: Bourrasque
  • 1936: Courrier-Sud (also co-screenplay)
  • 1936: L'argent
  • 1936: Au service du tsar
  • 1937: La bataille su silence
  • 1938: La piste du sud
  • 1941: Jealousy ( Le soleil a toujours raison ) (also co-script)
  • 1942: Blank check on love ( L'inévitable Monsieur Dubois ) (also co-script)
  • 1943: Vautrin (also co-script)
  • 1944: Mademoiselle X (also co-script)
  • 1946: The Eternal Husband ( L'homme au chapeau rond )
  • 1947: Ruy Blas, the Queen's lover ( Ruy Blas )
  • 1948: Knight of his King ( Du Guesclin ) (only artistic direction)
  • 1949: Agnès de rien
  • 1950: Open the ring (Au revoir, Monsieur Grock)
  • 1950: Chéri
  • 1950: His Majesty the Seal ( Mon phoques et elles ) (also co-script)
  • 1952: Le marchand de Vénise (also co-script)
  • 1953: You Must Forget Me ( Orage ) (co-director only)
  • 1955: Soupçons (also co-script)
  • 1957: Hyenas among themselves ( Jusqu'au dernier ) (also co-script)

literature

  • Jean Loup Passek: Dictionnaire du Cinéma, 2nd edition, Paris 1992, p. 66

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personal data
SURNAME Billon, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billon, Pierre Abel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1981
Place of death Paris