Robert Dorfmann

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Robert Dorfmann (born March 3, 1912 in Paris ; † August 11, 1999 there ) was a French film producer who was responsible for some of the most historically significant and box office productions in his country.

Life

Dorfmann first made contact with film when he founded a traveling cinema in 1932. Until the end of the war, Dorfmann worked occasionally as a producer, but mostly as a film distributor . In 1935 he founded Silver Films for the first time, eleven years later the same company again. In 1945 Dorfmann was one of the founders and from 1951 managing director of Corona Films.

Robert Dorfmann produced mostly pure entertainment with great success: comedies as well as solid crime films, dramas and action films, for which he was able to win experienced directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville , René Clément and Terence Young . But he was also involved in the creation of some notable productions of French cinema art. Dorfmann produced André Cayatte's judicial film classic Jury Court (1950), René Cléments war drama from the perspective of two children Forbidden Games (1952), Costa-Gavras ' settlement with Stalinism The Confession (1970), Luis Buñuel's attack on society Tristana (1970), Melville's semi-documentary The narrative style of the Resistance piece Army in the Shadow (1969) and Jacques Tati's late work Trafic (1971), a satirical, mild parody of the fetish of today's mobile people, the car.

In fact, all French post-war stars were on Dorfmann's payroll: Alain Delon as well as Bourvil , Jean Gabin as well as Lino Ventura , Louis de Funès as well as Gérard Philipe . At the beginning of the 70s, Dorfmann brought Charles Bronson to France for two productions. After his most ambitious work, the US production Papillon , which featured prominently and expensively with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman , Robert Dorfmann largely withdrew from film production in 1973.

In 1978 he received an honorary César for his life's work. His son Jacques Dorfmann (* 1945) also worked as a film producer.

Filmography (selection)

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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 432.

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personal data
SURNAME Dorfmann, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1999
Place of death Paris