Robert Fraisse

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Robert Fraisse (* 1940 in Paris , France ) is a French cameraman .

Life

After graduating from the École Louis-Lumière in 1960, Fraisse managed to work as a camera assistant on films such as La vendetta , The Corporal in the Sling and the Kafka film adaptation of Orson Welles' The Trial in 1962 . In the following years he worked for the Louis de Funès films Balduin, der Ferienschreck and Balduin, the grumpy camera assistant to Marcel Grignon , before he was allowed to independently direct the camera for Un homme libre for the first time in 1973 .

In the 1970s and early 1980s Fraisse was mainly active as a cameraman for erotic films such as The Story of O , Emmanuelle and Emmanuelle 2 - Garden of Love .

For Jean-Jacques Annaud's film adaptation of the Marguerite Duras novel The Lover , Fraisse received both a César and an Oscar nomination for best camera. Subsequently, Annaud selected him again as a cameraman for seven years in Tibet .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Robert Fraisse on cinematographers.nl (English), accessed on October 1, 2011