Véra Clouzot

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Véra Clouzot with her husband Henri-Georges (1953)

Véra Clouzot (born December 30, 1913 as Véra Gibson-Amado in Rio de Janeiro , † December 15, 1960 in Paris ) was a French - Brazilian actress and screenwriter .

biography

Véra Gibson-Amado emigrated to France after the Second World War and in 1950 married the French film director and screenwriter Henri-Georges Clouzot , who she met on a trip to Brazil. Clouzot used the dark-haired Brazilian as an actress in three of his feature films in the following years and named his film production company Vera Films after her. Véra Clouzot made her film debut in 1953 with a supporting role in Wages of Fear . She was seen as Yves Montand's object of desire in the thriller about four wrecked vagabonds and adventurers transporting two truckloads of explosives to put out a fire in a South American oil refinery ; the film is now considered a classic of high-quality suspense cinema. In 1955, Véra Clouzot drew attention to herself in the second female lead alongside Simone Signoret in Die Teuflischen . For the film rights of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejacs novel Dead mention should also had to Alfred Hitchcock interested. The focus of the ambiguous crime film, which uses a shabby private school in the French provinces as the setting, is the heart-sick Christina (played by Véra Clouzot), who kills her husband ( Paul Meurisse ) together with his sensual lover, Nicole (Simone Signoret) . So it seems at first; but the alleged murder of the tyrannical school principal, from which the two women also suffered, turns out to be a diabolical staging. The film was awarded the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize in France in 1954 and was a worldwide success. The New York Times praised Véra Clouzot for her part as a "trembling bundle of nerves" as well as the rest of the cast, the script and the visual style of the film, which was remade in 1996 under the title Diabolique with Isabelle Adjani and Sharon Stone .

Clouzot then cast his wife in a minor supporting role in the less successful drama Spione am Werk (1957), in which Curd Juergens and Peter Ustinov played the leading roles. In 1960 the couple worked on the film script for the court drama The Truth , in which Brigitte Bardot appears as a mysterious murder suspect. The shooting of Clouzot's film, which won a Golden Globe in 1961 and was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film , was shrouded in scandal. While Brigitte Bardot's attempt at suicide failed, Véra Clouzot suffered a nervous breakdown. Only a few months later she died of a heart attack in Paris . The press commented on this fact as a parallel to her most famous film role in Die Teuflischen - the character of Christina also fell victim to a heart attack there. Véra Clouzot was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre , where her husband also found his final resting place in 1977.

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Véra Clouzot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Profile at findagrave.com
  2. ↑ cf. Profile Henri-Georges Clouzot at tvmovie.de ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ cf. Online edition of the Lexicon of International Films (filmevonabisz.de)
  4. ↑ cf. Film review by Bosley Crowther in the New York Times, November 22, 1955
  5. ↑ cf. Film review by USE in film-dienst 03/1961
personal data
SURNAME Clouzot, Véra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gibson-Amado, Véra (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Brazilian actress and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1960
Place of death Paris , France