Serge Corber
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
- 1962: The Miraculous Umbrella (Un jour à Paris) - short film (20 min) - with Jean-Louis Trintignant
- 1963: La rentrée - short film (15 min) - with Philippe Avron , Cécile Vassort , Gisèle Braunberger
- 1965: Le dix-septième ciel - with Jean-Louis Trintignant , Marie Dubois , Jean Lefebvre
- 1966: Lost Dreams (La Demoiselle de Saint-Florentin) - with Marie Dubois, Robert Party
- 1967: The whore and the fool (Un idiot à Paris) - with Dany Carrel , Jean Lefebvre , Bernard Blier
- 1968: The Little Brave (La Petite Vertu) - with Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin , Robert Hossein
- 1970: Everything dances to my tune (L'Homme-orchestre) - with Louis de Funès , Olivier de Funès , Noëlle Adam
- 1971: Baldwin, the Sunday driver (Sur un arbre perché) - with Louis de Funès, Geraldine Chaplin , Olivier de Funès
- 1972: Candlelight (Feux de la chandeleur) - with Annie Girardot , Claude Jade , Jean Rochefort , Bernard Le Coq
- 1973: When will we see each other again, Grelu? (Ursule et Grelu) - with Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Jean Carmet
- 1978: Et live la liberte! – with Les Charlots , Dani , Claude Piéplu , Georges Géret
- 1979: Je vous ferai aimer la vie - with Marie Dubois, Julien Guiomar , Patrick Prejean
- 1979: Un jour un tueur - with Mylène Demongeot , Jean Gaven, Patrick Préjean , Alain Doutey
- 1980: Ta gueule, je t'aime! – with Henri Czarniak, Michele Perello
- 1980: Cherchez l'erreur - with Roland Magdane, Roland Dubillard
- 1981: Le fils-père (TV) - with Alain Doutey, Nathalie Courval
- 1986: Maestro (TV) - with Alain Doutey, Sophie Barjac, Jacques Spiesser
- 1987: Castle for Rent (Florence ou La vie de château) TV series with Annie Girardot
- 1988: Two Widows for a Corpse (À notre regrettable époux) - with Jacqueline Maillan , Alida Valli
- 1992: Le réveillon, c'est à quel étage? (TV) – with Simone Valere, Pascale Petit , Alain Doutey
- 1993: Au beau rivage (TV) - with Jean Yanne , Genevieve Fontanel
- 1993: Le galopin (TV) - with Bernard Le Coq , Jacques Dufilho
- 1994: L'aigle et le cheval (TV) - with David Carradine , Cheyenne Kitchikake
- 1996: Les Bidochon - with Anémone , Jean-François Stévenin, Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Gélin
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
- 1960: Tire-au-flanc 62, directed by Claude de Givray and co-directed by François Truffaut , role: soldier with glasses
- 1962: Cleo - Wednesday between 5 and 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) , Director: Agnès Varda , Role: Maurice
as a screenwriter for films by other directors
- 1984: Dog Day - A Man Runs for His Life (Canicule) , directed by Yves Boisset
- 1992: The Voice of Blood (L'enfant en héritage) , directed by Josée Dayan
web links
- Serge Korber at the Internet Movie Database
itemizations
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Avec le réalisateur Serge Korber : "Jean-Louis Trintignant - Dialogue between friends" > Éditions de La Martinière , on francemusique.fr
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Korber, Serge |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film director |
BIRTH DATE | February 1, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 2022 |