Robert Enrico

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Robert Enrico (born April 13, 1931 in Liévin , † February 23, 2001 in Paris ) was a French film director of Italian descent.

Life

Robert Enrico trained at IDHEC (Institut de Hautes Etudes Cinematographique), the French film school; He then worked for a film unit in the French army. After serving in the army, he made documentaries for television. In 1962 he received the Palme d'Or ( best short film ), a BAFTA ( best short film ) and the Oscar ( best short film ) for the short film La rivière du hibou . His first full-length feature film was La belle vie from 1963.

From the mid-1960s, he made a number of successful films with well-known French stars that were commercially conceived but committed and solidly made. They were often given a romantic, lyrical tone, a hallmark of his films. Cinema entertainment at the highest level was his concern and he has always more than fulfilled these expectations.

The highlights of his career were: In Die Adventurer , Alain Delon , Lino Ventura , Joanna Shimkus and Serge Reggiani become cinema legends, a wildly romantic treasure hunt with a dramatic end. In Ho, the gangster! from 1968 Jean-Paul Belmondo is a hopeless underdog with ambitions to become a gangster. Lino Ventura and Brigitte Bardot came in the Rumstraße in Bogart tracks. Romy Schneider gave a realistic portrayal of a Nazi victim in The Old Rifle , Philippe Noiret played her husband, who took terrible revenge.

Enrico's characters are often in extreme situations or at the crossroads that demand everything from them. They don't always reach their goal; death is usually quicker. For example in the film La derniere Mission , where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry elegiacally recalls the loss of his aviation pioneer comrades over the years before taking his last flight in the P-38 Lightning .

His films hold a rich treasure trove of French adventure and gangster film myths. He often worked on the script with José Giovanni , who later directed it himself. His professional style went well with the preferred stories about friendship, adventurism, aviation, small freedoms in everyday life, gangster stories, but also classic topics such as the French Revolution.

Robert Enrico's lovingly drawn characters are not infrequently social outsiders and in certain points there is an intellectual relationship to other directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville , Claude Sautet , Jacques Becker or Philippe de Broca .

His son Jérôme Enrico is also a director.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1962: La rivière du hibou
  • 1962: At the heart of life (Au cœur de la vie)
  • 1963: The beautiful life (La belle vie)
  • 1965: The big snouts (Les grandes gueules)
  • 1966: The Adventurers (Les aventuriers)
  • 1968: Ho!
  • 1971: The Rumstraße (Boulevard du rhum)
  • 1972: The Little Bosses (Les caids)
  • 1974: The network of a thousand eyes (Le sécret)
  • 1975: The old rifle (Le vieux fusil)
  • 1979: Road giants (L'empreinte des géants)
  • 1980: Even murderers have nice dreams (Pile ou face)
  • 1983: The Cry for Life (Au nom de tous les miens)
  • 1986: Death Town (Zone rouge)
  • 1987: Burning Summer (De guerre lasse)
  • 1989: First part of The French Revolution ( La Révolution française: les Années lumière )
  • 1993: Vent d'est
  • 1996: Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission
  • 1999: Fait d'hiver

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Visions: Paulette Press Booklet , 2013, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Enrico, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Liévin , France
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2001
Place of death Paris , France