Pierre Schildknecht

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Pierre Schildknecht , also known as Pierre Schild and Pedro Schild (* 1892 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † 1968 in Madrid , Spain ) was a Russian-born film architect for French , Spanish and Portuguese films.

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Schildknecht, about whose life only fragmentary information exists, was "a leading set designer of the French avant-garde and art cinema". Born in St. Petersburg, he received his artistic training in his hometown and began working as an outfitter at the Imperial Theater of St. Petersburg / Petrograd. As a result of the October Revolution , Schildknecht fled to Western Europe in the early 1920s.

In Paris, Schildknecht made contacts with leading filmmakers such as Marcel L'Herbier , Claude Autant-Lara , Abel Gance , Christian-Jaque and Luis Buñuel . The exile Russian producer Jacques Ermolieff brought him into his company and put his more established colleague Ivan Lochakoff , also a Russian exile, at his side. Schildknecht's first more significant work was a production by the Tsarist canvas star Iwan Mosjukin ( Marriage Stories ). 1925 brought Gance Schildknecht as one of several scene formers for the scenes to his monumental Napoleon - biopic. During the same period, Pierre Schildknecht also designed the film structures for three Spanish productions by Benito Perojo that were created in Parisian studios . In 1928 Schildknecht was jointly responsible for the visual design of Buñuel's surrealist short film An Andalusian Dog and two years later he also designed the sets for his The Golden Age . Until the outbreak of World War II , Schildknecht also worked with the directors Georges Lacombe , Edmond Gréville , Hans Behrendt , Augusto Genina , A. W. Sandberg and the Russians in exile Nicolas Rimsky , Nicolas Evreinoff , Wladimir Strijewski , Alexis Granowsky , Mark Sorkin and Léonide Moguy . However, the scenic results rarely went beyond mere routine.

With the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht, the Jew Schildknecht fled to Spain, where he continued his work on conventional films - mostly romances, melodramas and adventure stories. Immediately after the end of the war, Pierre Schildknecht worked in Portuguese film for two years. Schildknecht also designed the special effects for several later films . Schildknecht called himself Pierre Schild several times in France and Pedro Schild in Spain .

Filmography

  • 1923: Marriage stories (Le brasier ardent)
  • 1924: Más allá de la muerte
  • 1925: Boy
  • 1926: The Tsar's Courier (Michel Strogoff)
  • 1926: Napoleon
  • 1926: El negro que tenía el alma blanca
  • 1927: Papitou (La sirène des tropiques)
  • 1928: La vierge folle
  • 1928: an Andalusian dog
  • 1929: Fécondité
  • 1929: Mon béguin / Miss Lohengrin
  • 1929: Nuits de princes
  • 1930: the golden age
  • 1930: La femme d'une nuit (also German verse: The Queen of One Night )
  • 1930: Le capitaine jaune
  • 1931: Un coup de téléphone
  • 1931: Pas sur la bouche
  • 1932: The King of Virtue (Le rosier de Madame Husson)
  • 1932: King Pausole
  • 1933: Cette nuit-la
  • 1933: Le simoun
  • 1934: Jeunesse
  • 1934: love (Remous)
  • 1934: Le scandale
  • 1935: Princesse Tam-Tam
  • 1935: Le mascotte
  • 1935: Retour au paradis
  • 1936: Volga boatmen (Les bateliers de la Volga)
  • 1936: Josette
  • 1936: Unrest in the girls' boarding school (Le mioche)
  • 1936: Monsieur Personne
  • 1937: François I.
  • 1937: Hercule
  • 1937: Nothing new in the east (Les pirates du rail)
  • 1938: Raphaël le tatoué
  • 1938: The Secret of St. Agil (Les disparus de Saint-Agil)
  • 1938: Ernest le rebelle
  • 1938: He and his sister (Ma sœur de lait)
  • 1939: Dernière jeunesse
  • 1939: The Night of Retribution (Angelica)
  • 1940: Marianela
  • 1940: La florista de la reina
  • 1941: Héroe a la fuerza
  • 1941: Los millones de Polichinela
  • 1941: Pepe conde
  • 1942: Fiebre
  • 1942: Succedio en Damasco
  • 1943: Dora la espia
  • 1944: El rey de las finanzas
  • 1944: Tarjeta de visita
  • 1944: El testamento del Virrey
  • 1945: Su ultima noche
  • 1945: Tierra sedienta
  • 1945: Inês de Castro
  • 1946: Camões
  • 1946: A mantilha de Beatriz
  • 1947: O leaõ da estrela
  • 1947: Extraño amanecer
  • 1948: Una noche en blanco
  • 1949: La duquesa de Benameji
  • 1949: De mujer a mujer
  • 1950: Balarrasa
  • 1951: Una cubana en España
  • 1954: La cruz de mayo
  • 1954: La danza de los deseos
  • 1955: La herida luminosa
  • 1957: Castles in the air (Il conte Max)
  • 1958: Amore a prima vista
  • 1958: Carlota
  • 1959: La quiniela

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 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 106.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ other sources give the year 1897
  2. ↑ other sources mention the year 1966
  3. ↑ 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 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME Schildknecht, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shield, Pierre; Shield, pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-born film architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1968
Place of death Madrid , Spain