Robert-Jules Garnier

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Robert-Jules Garnier (born April 29, 1883 in Sèvres , † April 15, 1958 in Condeau ) was a French film architect , a pioneer of domestic cinematography.

Live and act

Garnier, the leading set designer of early French silent film series cinema, began his creative career in 1905 as a theater set designer. In the following year he joined the film production company Gaumont , for which he worked until 1938 as its chief architect. His first demonstrable film was the 1909 short film production "Molière". Up until the end of the First World War, he celebrated numerous successes in close collaboration with the director Louis Feuillade . Garnier designed the decorative appearances of numerous sensational series, especially Fantômas , The Vampires and Judex .

Further collaborations brought Garnier together with some leading directors from the early days of French cinema, including Louis Delluc , Marcel L'Herbier , Jacques Feyder and Jean Renoir , for whom he designed the buildings for his adaptation of Nana in 1925/26 based on the novel of the same name by Emile Zola implemented. Garnier's sound film decorations, designed as a freelancer from 1939, were, apart from Jacques Becker's everyday stories from the early post-war period, “Two in Paris” and “Today's Youth”, of little interest.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1909: Molière
  • 1910–13: Calino (series)
  • 1911: Capture gênante
  • 1911: Carmen
  • 1911: Faust and Marguerite
  • 1911: Le tromphe du lutteur
  • 1911: Mignonne
  • 1911: La conquête de Don Juan
  • 1911: Arizona Bill (series)
  • 1912: Zigoto (series)
  • 1912: Cœur ardent
  • 1912: Oxford contre Martigues
  • 1912: Sous la griffe
  • 1912–14: Onésime (series)
  • 1913: Fantômas (series)
  • 1913: Lequel?
  • 1913: La mort du milliardaire
  • 1913: Les papiers du mort
  • 1913: The Last Days of Byzantium (L'agonie de Bycance)
  • 1913: Le placier de demain
  • 1914: Ceux de la terre
  • 1914: L'enfant et le chien
  • 1914: Le mariage du frotteur
  • 1914: Drames diverse (series)
  • 1914: La torpille aérienne
  • 1915-16: The Vampires ( Les vampires ) (series)
  • 1916: Judex (series)
  • 1917: La nouvelle mission de Judex
  • 1918: Vendémiaire
  • 1919: Barrabas
  • 1919: L'engrenage
  • 1919: L'énigme
  • 1919: L'homme sans visage
  • 1919: Le nocturne
  • 1920: Les deux gamines
  • 1920: L'orpheline
  • 1920: Parisette
  • 1920: Eldorado
  • 1920: L'Homme du large - A man of the sea ( L'homme du large )
  • 1921: Fièvre
  • 1921: Villa destin
  • 1922: Le fils du filibustier
  • 1922: La revenante
  • 1923: La gosseline
  • 1923: Vindicta
  • 1923: L'orphelin de Paris
  • 1924: Lucette
  • 1924: Pierrot-Pierrette
  • 1924: Le stigmate
  • 1925: Don Juan et Faust
  • 1926: Nana
  • 1927: Marquitta
  • 1928: Hara-Kiri
  • 1930: Mon ami Victor
  • 1931: Un chien qui rapporte
  • 1931: Le monsieur de minuit
  • 1932: Clochard
  • 1932: La folle nuit
  • 1932: Amour ... amour
  • 1933: L'assommoir
  • 1933: Chourinette
  • 1934: Famille nombreuse
  • 1935: gangster malgré lui
  • 1935: Jérôme Perreau
  • 1936: Le faiseur
  • 1936: Maria de la nuit
  • 1937: Les deux combinards
  • 1937: Le tour de Nesle
  • 1939: Le café du port
  • 1939: L'Emigrante - novel by an adventurer ( L'émigrante )
  • 1942: L'homme qui joue avec le feu
  • 1942: Une étoile au soleil
  • 1943: Graine au vent
  • 1944: La grande meute
  • 1945: Le père Serge
  • 1945: King of the Nassau ( Le roi des resquilleurs )
  • 1946: The Unknown Singer ( Le chanteur inconnu )
  • 1946: Two in Paris ( Antoine et Antoinette )
  • 1947: L'idole
  • 1948: Docteur Laennec
  • 1948: The guillotine is gone ( La veuve et l'innocent )
  • 1949: Today's Youth ( Rendez-vous de juillet )
  • 1950: Né de père inconnu

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 191.

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