Roger Planchon
Roger Planchon (born September 12, 1931 in Saint-Chamond , Loire department , † May 12, 2009 in Paris ) was a French filmmaker, actor, playwright and theater director.
Life
Roger Planchon spent his youth in Dornas in the Ardèche department . The poor conditions and the rural atmosphere in the barren landscape were used as backgrounds in many of his later pieces, including La Remise . In 1944, at the age of 13, he was already working for the Resistance and was awarded the War Cross in 1945. Then Planchon came to Lyon and got to know the life of simple workers there.
Planchon began his stage career in an amateur theater. After his troupe had won a competition, the autodidact was able to work as a professional actor on French stages from 1949. In 1952 Roger Planchon founded the Théâtre de la Comédie in Lyon and in 1957 became director of the Théâtre de la Cité in Villeurbanne . In 1972 this theater was renamed "Nationales Volkstheater" ( Théâtre National Populaire ) at the suggestion of the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel . It played an important role in the decentralization of French theater. Planchon directed the theater until 2002. He declined an appointment to the Comédie-Française . Roger Planchon staged classics such as Shakespeare and Molière , but also contemporary authors such as Arthur Adamov and Michel Vinaver . He also opened the National People's Theater to other directors such as Patrice Chéreau and Georges Lavaudant . From 1950 he also staged his own plays, in which he mostly played himself.
In 1987 he filmed the drama George Dandin by Molière . His film The Childhood of the Sun King ran at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993 in the competition for the Golden Palm.
On the afternoon of May 12, 2009, Roger Planchon died of a heart attack. Before that, he could be seen on stage evening after evening at the Théâtre Silvia-Monfort in Paris.
Filmography
As an actor:
- 1956: A man condemned to death escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé)
- 1973: George qui?
- 1974: Les autres
- 1978: Roads to the south (Les routes du sud)
- 1978: Without data protection (Le dossier 51)
- 1978: Molière
- 1979: I like Ikarus (I ... comme Icare)
- 1981: The return of Martin Guerre (Le retour de Martin Guerre)
- 1982: Handlanger (Légitime violence)
- 1982: The Bull and the Whore (Le grand frère)
- 1983: Danton
- 1984: Forbidden Love (Un amour interdit)
- 1984: Deadly Fear (La 7ème cible)
- 1988: Camille Claudel
- 1989: Dandin
- 1989: The raven unpacks (Radio Corbeau)
- 1991: The Year of Awakening (L'année de l'éveil)
- 1993: The Childhood of the Sun King (Louis, enfant roi)
- 1993: Pétain
- 1998: Toulouse-Lautrec (Lautrec)
- 2003: Leclerc, un rêve d'Indochine (TV)
As a director and screenwriter:
- 1987: Dandin
- 1992: Childhood of the Sun King (Louis, enfant roi)
- 1998: Toulouse-Lautrec (Lautrec)
Web links
- Literature by and about Roger Planchon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Roger Planchon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armelle Héliot: Roger Planchon, un grand maître est mort . Obituary in Le Figaro on May 13, 2009 ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Planchon, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French director, actor and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Chamond |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2009 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |