Raymond Bernard

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Raymond Bernard (born October 10, 1891 in Paris , France , † December 11 or 12, 1977 there ) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor .

Life

Raymond Bernard grew up as the son of the writer Tristan Bernard in well-to-do circumstances. In 1915 he starred alongside Sarah Bernhardt in Jeanne Doré by René Hervil and Louis Mercanton ; a film adaptation of a play by his father. Two years later he began directing at Gaumont as a co-director with Jacques Feyder . Bernard made comedies based on his father's plays until the mid-1920s, including Le Petit Café (1919) with Max Linder and Le Costaud des Épinettes (1923) with Henri Debain .

With The Miracle of the Wolves (Le Miracle des loups) (1924) Bernard turned to the large-scale historical film for the first time . The main role of King Louis XI. in the film adaptation after Henry Dupuy-Mazuel took over Charles Dullin . The film was extremely successful and was released in sound in 1930. Raymond Bernard stayed with costume films and immediately turned the chess player (Le Joueur d'échecs) (1926) with Dullin and Pierre Blanchar as well as Tarakanova (1930) with Rudolf Klein-Rogge - two further lavish large-scale productions.

In 1931 Bernard went to Pathé-Nathan and made his sound film debut. His most important films there were Wooden Crosses (Les Croix de Bois) (1932) - a film set against the backdrop of the First World War - and the Hugo film adaptation The Damned (Les Misérables) (1934), both with Charles Vanel in the leading roles. In 1934 Pathé-Natan went bankrupt.

After Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Anne-Marie was created in 1936 under Bernard's direction with Annabella in the title role. At the end of the 1930s he shot with "Marthe Richard au Service de la France" (with Edwige Feuillère and Erich von Stroheim ), Les Otages (with Annie Vernay ) and The Castle of Love ( Cavalcade d'amour ; with Claude Dauphin and Michel Simon ) several films that were under the sign of the aggressive war mood in Europe. During the Second World War, Raymond Bernard, who was of Jewish origin, was banned from filming. He fled from the Germans in the Vercors , while his father was briefly admitted to the Drancy assembly camp and his nephew François was murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp .

Immediately after the liberation of France, he resumed his work and made Adieu Cherie (Adieu chérie) with Danielle Darrieux in 1946 . In the 1950s he made a film almost every year. In 1958 he retired.

Films (Director Only)

  • 1917: Le Ravin sans fond
  • 1918: Le Traitement du hoquet
  • 1918: Le Gentilhomme commerçant
  • 1919: Le Petit Café
  • 1920: Le Secret de Rosette Lambert
  • 1921: Maison vide
  • 1922: Triplepatte
  • 1923: L'Homme inusable
  • 1923: Grandeur et décadence
  • 1923: Le Costaud des Épinettes
  • 1924: The miracle of the wolves (Le Miracle des loups)
  • 1926: The Chess Player (Le Joueur d'échecs)
  • 1930: Tarakanova
  • 1931: Wooden Crosses (Les Croix de Bois)
  • 1931: Faubourg Montmartre
  • 1934: The Damned (Les Misérables)
  • 1934: Tartarin de Tarascon
  • 1935: Amants et voleurs
  • 1936: Anne-Marie
  • 1937: I am the culprit (Le coupable)
  • 1937: Marthe Richard au Service de la France
  • 1938: Les Otages
  • 1938: J'étais une aventurière
  • 1940: The Castle of Love (Cavalcade d'amour)
  • 1945: Un ami viendra ce soir
  • 1946: Adieu Cherie (Adieu chérie)
  • 1949: This is how a prostitute ended (Maya)
  • 1951: Le Cap de l'Espérance
  • 1952: Agnes Bernauer (Le Jugement de Dieu)
  • 1953: The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux camélias)
  • 1953: La Belle de Cadix
  • 1955: Your Night of Love (Les fruits de l'été)
  • 1957: Le Septième commandement
  • 1958: The seventh heaven (Le Septième ciel)

literature

  • Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (France), Tristan Bernard et ses fils: Jean-Jacques Bernard, auteur dramatique, Raymond Bernard, auteur réalisateur de films, Etienne Bernard, médecin des hôpitaux. , Paris: Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, 1981.

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personal data
SURNAME Bernard, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1977
Place of death Paris , France