René Métain

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René Métain (born May 22, 1903 in Potsdam , Germany ; † November 23, 1984 in France ) was a Franco-German film editor .

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Métain was born in Potsdam to French parents. His brother Charles Métain , who was two and a half years older and who had worked as a cameraman and sound engineer in German film until 1933, was born in France (Bordeaux). In the 1920s René Métain conducted art studies a. a. at Wassily Kandinsky before, shortly before the transition from silent to sound films, he followed his brother Charles and tried to gain a foothold in the film industry. At the side of Charles, René Métain helped direct the French-language version of Harry Piel's sensational film “ Er oder Ich ” in 1930 .

In the same year René Métain, meanwhile trained as an editor, was also employed in the field of film editing . Throughout the entire decade, until shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, René was responsible for editing numerous German entertainment films of various stripes and serving various production companies. In the early 1930s, the perfectly bilingual Métain continued to occasionally take care of French-language versions of German productions.

France's declaration of war on Germany at the beginning of September 1939 abruptly ended René Métain's career, who, unlike his brother, had returned to France after the National Socialists came to power. He was sidelined. It is possible that René Métain then took on German citizenship in the early 1940s, at least he was occasionally allowed to work again as a film editor from 1943 onwards.

At the end of the war in 1945, Métain finally moved to France. Charles Métain, who made scientific short films such as "Oscar le Rotifère" (1947) and "Les Quatre Petits Tardigrades" (1953), brought him to his side and had him assist with the direction.

In the last decades of his life, René turned away from his film career and devoted himself entirely to his great love, sculpture. He made an abundance of abstract and figurative sculptures, mainly from iron, which also found numerous international buyers.

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SURNAME Métain, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French film editor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1984
Place of death France