Pierre Blaise

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Pierre Blaise (1975)

Pierre Blaise (born June 11, 1952 in Moissac , Tarn-et-Garonne , † August 31, 1975 in Montauban , Tarn-et-Garonne) was a French actor .

Life

Pierre Blaise came from a poor farming family. The 22-year-old lumberjack had no acting experience when French director Louis Malle discovered him for the film. In 1974, Malle entrusted him with the title role in his feature film Lacombe, Lucien because of his “childlike innocence and instinctive violence” . In the drama, which takes place in a French provincial town during the Second World War , Blaise plays a young farm boy who is recruited as an assistant to the Gestapo and who settles in the family of a Jewish and formerly wealthy Parisian tailor (played by Holger Löwenadler ). Lacombe, Lucien , datedfilm-dienst referred to as an individual portrait and a deliberate time picture of the conditions and attitudes in Vichy France, caused some irritation when it was first shown in 1974. Still, the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975 and made Blaise known worldwide.

He received critical acclaim for his feature film debut. Louis Malle saw Blaise as “a star in a world he is not beginning to understand” . The director felt responsible for the amateur actor. A year after the release of Lacombe, Lucien , Blaise was seen in another lead role in Dennis Berry's 1975 sex film The Great Ecstasy . Here, alongside Jean Seberg and Isabelle Huppert, he played the role of a neurotic doctor's son who, with the help of a nymphomaniac, turned his parents' house into a brothel. Further supporting roles in Roger Coggio's tragicomedy Les Noces de porcelaine and Mauro Bolognini's drama Per le antiche scale (both 1975) followed, in which he acted alongside actors such as Mylène Demongeot , Françoise Fabian and Marcello Mastroianni .

Despite working as an actor, Blaise stuck to his homeland ( "I need my family, and Moissac" ). His film career ended in 1975 in a traffic accident in which Pierre Blaise died at the age of 23 with two other young farmers from his home region. In rainy weather, he had lost control of his Renault 15 in a curve near Moissac and hit a tree. The actor found his final resting place in the Dufort-Lacapelette cemetery in Tarn-et-Garonne.

Filmography

  • 1974: Lacombe, Lucien ( Lacombe Lucien )
  • 1975: The great ecstasy ( Le Grand Délire )
  • 1975: Les Noces de porcelaine
  • 1975: Per le antiche scale

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Barry Norman: Les fleurs du Malle. In: The Times , June 5, 1974, issue 59107, p. 7
  2. ↑ cf. Barbara Amiel: Every year it's more difficult for me to forgive. In: Maclean's. September 24, 2007, Columns, Opinion, p. 16
  3. ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
  4. ↑ cf. Lacombe Lucien. In: the daily newspaper , June 25, 1998, p. 29
  5. ↑ cf. Film review  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , In: Variety , January 1, 1974 (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
  6. ↑ a b cf. Obituaries . In: The Times, September 3, 1975, issue 59491, p. 15
  7. ↑ cf. Brief profile of Pierre Blaise at findagrave.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Blaise, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Moissac , Tarn-et-Garonne
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1975
Place of death Montauban , Tarn-et-Garonne