Serge Corber

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Serge Korber ( Paris , February 1, 1936 – January 23, 2022 ) was a French film director .

life and career

The son of parents of Jewish origin spent part of the war in hiding with a Protestant family in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon .

After an apprenticeship as an upholsterer, he devoted himself to poetry and music and founded the cabaret Le Cheval d'Or with a friend in Paris , which featured artists such as Boby Lapointe and Henri Serre . When François Truffaut discovered Henri Serre for Jules and Jim and Boby Lapointe for Shoot the Pianist there, Serge Korber caught up with the directors of the Nouvelle Vague . In 1962 he took on a supporting role in Agnes Varda's Cleo - Wednesday between 5 and 7 , a classic of the Nouvelle Vague.

Korber himself began directing short films in 1959. His feature film debut was Le dix-septième ciel in 1965, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marie Dubois . After La Demoiselle de Saint-Florentin (again with Marie Dubois), Korber established himself as a comedy specialist with the comedies The Whore and the Fool and La petite vertu (both with Dany Carrel ). This was followed by the two Louis de Funès comedies Everything dances to my tune and Baldwin, the Sunday driver (with co-star Geraldine Chaplin ). In 1972 he made his most important film with the drama Candlelight , starring Annie Girardot and Claude Jade . The family drama about a desperate woman (Girardot) who wants to win back her ex-husband (Jean Rochefort) with the help of her daughter (Jade) was France's official entry in Cannes. Also with Girardot, he directed the lesser-regarded drama When Will We Meet Again, Grélu? .

Having worked with some of the greats of French film— Louis de Funès , Robert Hossein , Jacques Perrin , Annie Girardot , Claude Jade , Jean Rochefort , and Bernard Fresson —Korber adopted the pseudonym John Thomas in the mid-1970s and made a few porn films. In three of these films (“L'Essayeuse”, “Hurlements de plaisir”, “Pornotissimo”) Alain Saury played leading roles. Other of its stars were the porn actors Gabriel Pontello and Richard Allan .

He returned to the cinema with unsuccessful comedies. Working mainly for television from the 1980s, he made some works for the cinema until the 1990s, such as Les Bidochon (1996) with Anémone and Jean-Pierre Cassel . Between 2004 and 2012 he made six documentaries, including portraits of the actors Louis de Funès, Jean Gabin and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Filmography (selection)

as director

as a porn director under the pseudonym John Thomas

  • 1975: Trio Erotique, with Richard Darbois, Charlie Schreiner, Martine Grimaud
  • 1975: Hard Love / Cailles sur canapée, with Richard Darbois, Gabriel Pontello
  • 1976: Hurlements de plaisir / Les Fiandises musclées, with Alain Saury , Richard Allan
  • 1976: L'Essayeuse / Love play, with Alain Saury, Isabelle Bourjac, Gabriel Pontello
  • 1977: L'odyssée de l'extase, with Charlie Schreiner, Bob Asklöf
  • 1977: Pornotissimo, with Alain Saury, Karine Gambier, Charlie Schreiner

as an actor

as a screenwriter for films by other directors

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ Mort de Serge Korber, réalisateur d'Un idiot à Paris et de L'Homme orchestra avec Louis de Funès. In: Le Figaro . January 24, 2022, retrieved January 24, 2022 (French).
  2. ↑ Avec le réalisateur Serge Korber : "Jean-Louis Trintignant - Dialogue between friends" > Éditions de La Martinière , on francemusique.fr
personal data
SURNAME Korber, Serge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director
BIRTH DATE February 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2022