Serge Leroy

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Serge Leroy (born May 14, 1937 in Paris , France , † May 27, 1993 ibid) was a French film director .

Live and act

Leroy, who had been making a name for himself as a specialist in hard “man's stuff” since the early 1970s, originally came from documentary, journalistic reporting. At the beginning of the 1960s, the Parisian joined the team on the “Cinq colonnes à la une” television series after he had drawn attention to himself with an Alaska report for Belgian television. He then went to the state television company ORTF and shot over 200 reports there, but also for other broadcasters such as RTB, Radio Canada and SSR. His best-known works from these early years include the account of the investigation into the murder of John F. Kennedy and another report on Vietnam . In 1967 Serge Leroy received a press award for the fairy tale film "Pierre et le loup" (Peter and the Wolf) with the Belgian chanson singer Jacques Brel as the narrator.

From 1970 Serge Leroy directed movies. “There he convinced with realistic descriptions of social conditions, especially in the gangster milieu. His attempt to bring realism and tension into a compact form, however, often brought him the accusation of mystifying or even glorifying violence. ”Already his second production“ Dangerous Partners ”brought Leroy the breakthrough and set standards in gangster film with its uncompromising attitude -Genre. As a stylistic element of Leroy's productions, there was already in this story a "climate of oppression and tension, of constant danger and threat." to create a field of tension between the antipodes, his protagonists, in order to trace an image of contemporary French society.

Filmography

As a movie director, unless otherwise stated

  • 1970: Ciel bleu (also co-script)
  • 1972: Dangerous Partners ( Le mataf ) (also co-script)
  • 1973: Un jeune paysan (short film)
  • 1975: A wild weekend ( La traqué )
  • 1976: The shadow that followed us ( Les passagers ) (also co-script)
  • 1977: The Eerie Stranger ( Attention les enfants regardent )
  • 1981, 1989: Pause-Café (TV series)
  • 1982: The Henchmen ( Légitime violence )
  • 1982: The Spy ( L'indic )
  • 1985: Double Face (TV movie)
  • 1985: Doubtful career ( Le quatrième pouvoir )
  • 1987: Physical coercion ( Contrainte par Corps ) (also co-script)
  • 1989: Une Saison de feuilles (TV movie)
  • 1991: Les Cahiers bleus (TV movie)
  • 1992: Maigret chez les Flamands (TV movie)
  • 1992: Maigret et le corps sans tête (TV movie)
  • 1993: Taxi de nuit (also screenplay)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 4, p. 694

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Leroy, Serge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1993
Place of death Paris , France