Raymond Borderie

Raymond Jean Charles Borderie (born March 30, 1897 in Paris , France , † July 12, 1982 there ) was a French film producer .

Live and act

Borderie began his film career in 1923 in the advertising department of the Paris branch of Paramount Pictures . In 1932 he founded his first film production company, the Compagnie des Grands Artistes Internationaux, which specialized in the production of short films. In this position he met Max Ophüls in Paris in the mid-1930s , who was directing two short films for Borderie's society. Raymond Borderie made his debut as a feature film producer back in 1933 when he made an early sound film version of the Victor Hugo classic Die Elenden on behalf of Pathé-Nathan . In 1937 he founded another film company, the Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique. At this point - Borderie was already 40 years old - he began to produce feature films on a regular basis. The occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht initially interrupted his cinematic activities.

In 1942, Borderie resumed its work with the colonial epic Pontcarral , evoking national values ​​and greatness, in line with Marshal Pétain's conception of the state . He then achieved a great personal triumph with Marcel Carné's staging masterpiece Children of Olympus , which he produced in his capacity as head of production at the newly founded Société nouvelle Pathé Cinéma. However, Borderie's most commercially successful films were not made until after 1945. He produced cautious love stories (The Lovers of Verona, Edouard and Caroline) and gripping dramas ( Wages of Fear ) as well as films with the 50s audience favorites and box office star Gérard Philipe ( A handsome, smaller Beach; The haughty; I sell myself for him), Yves Montand (Reward of Fear, The Witches of Salem ), Jean Gabin (The Angel Who Was a Devil) as well as Jean Marais ( Typhoon over Nagasaki ) and Eddie Constantine . Particularly in the 1960s, Raymond Borderie, who had been a sponsor of his son, the director Bernard Borderie (Constantines Im Banne des Blond Satans) from the start, achieved enormous box-office successes with the Angélique films directed by Bernard (1964–1968). In 1970 Raymond Borderie withdrew into private life.

Filmography

• 1933: The Damned (Les Misérables)
• 1936: Valse brillante de Chopin (short film)
• 1936: Ave Maria de Schubert (short film)
• 1937: Ces dames aux chapeaux verts
• 1938: La petite chose
• 1938: Le révolté
• 1938: Education de prince
• 1939: Le duel
• 1939: Sixième étage
• 1942: Pontcarral, colonel d'Empire
• 1943: Port d'attache
• 1943: Je suis avec toi
• 1943/44: Children of Olympus (Les enfants du paradis)
• 1945: Battalion du ciel
• 1946: In Devil's Claws (Copie conforme)
• 1947: The Foreign Legion fortress (Bethsabée)
• 1948: A pretty little beach (Un si jolie petite plage)
• 1948: The lovers of Verona (Les amants de Vérone)
• 1949: Au grand balcon
• 1950: Deburau
• 1950: Miquette et sa mère
• 1951: Edouard and Caroline (Edouard et Caroline)
• 1951: Monsieur Fabre
• 1952: The reward of fear (Le salaire de la peur)
• 1953: Under the spell of blond Satan (La môme vert-de-gris)
• 1953: The haughty ones (Les orgueilleux)
• 1954: Serenade for two pistols (Les femmes s'en balancent)
• 1954: King of the Desert (Fortune Carrée)
• 1954: Orient Express (Orient Express)
• 1955: Gervaise
• 1956: The angel who was a devil (Voici le temps des assassins)
• 1956: The Witches of Salem (Les sorcières de Salem)
• 1956: Typhon over Nagasaki (Typhon sur Nagasaki)
• 1957: Morphine, murder and saucy moths (Ces dames préfèrent le mambo)
• 1958: Trapped (Délit de fuite)
• 1959: Wolves in the deep (I lupi nell'abbisso)
• 1959: I sell myself for him (La fièvre monte à El Pao)
• 1960: Eddie goes all out (Comment qu'elle est!)
• 1961: The three musketeers (Les trois musquetaires)
• 1961: This is not for little girls (Lemmy pour les dames)
• 1962: Party with 12 pistols (L'œil du monocle)
• 1963: Like father, like son (Bébert et l'omnibus)
• 1963: My days with Pierre - my nights with Jacqueline (La vie conjugale)
• 1964: A great bobby this Flic (Allez France)
• 1964: The temptation is called Jenny (Los pianos mecánicos)
• 1964: Angélique (Angélique, marquise des Anges)
• 1965: Angélique, Part 2 (Merveilleuse Angélique)
• 1965: Rendezvous of the killers (Pleins feux sur Stanislas)
• 1966: Angélique and the King (Angélique et le roy)
• 1966: Special Department C III Montmartre (anti-gangs brigade)
• 1967: The time of cherries is over (Le grand dadais)
• 1967: The Ice Cold Angel (Le samouraï)
• 1967: Indomitable Angélique (Indomptable Angélique)
• 1968: Angélique and the Sultan (Angélique et le sultan)
• 1968: private lessons (La leçon particulière)
• 1969: La maison de campagne
• 1970: Des vacances en or

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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 473.

Web links

• Raymond Borderie in the Internet Movie Database (English)