Christian Fechner

Christian Lucien Alfred Max Fechner ( born July 26, 1944 in Agen, France, † November 25, 2008 in Paris) was a prolific, French film producer who produced major box office success especially in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life and work

Fechner was the son of a result of the annexation of Austria fled to France in 1938, Austrian baron. Christian Fechner, who was trying to be a ventriloquist at a young age, became interested in the mid-1960s much of contemporary Anglo -American pop music ( Sonny and Cher, Donovan, etc. ) and then started with the production of records by local artists. So Christian Fechner produced in 1965 plates of the band Les Charlot, a French response to the successful British formations The Beatles and The Monkees, but also the singer Antoine. In 1972, Fechner with Les Films Christian Fechner his own film production company. In his early works is tumultuous comedies with the Charlot ( Charlot is the common name in France Charlie Chaplin ), including Fechner's younger brother Jean- Guy ( * 1947 ) counted. According to Charlot movies (1972 /73) produced Fechner also some successful comedies with the famous French comedians Pierre Richard and especially Louis de Funès, which he claimed two in 1975 suffered heart attacks in 1976 largely own risk for the turbulent comedy chest or leg before the camera back fetched. The film proved to be a major box office success.

Over the 80 years Fechner also created productions of other genres, including action and crime films such as The specialists. Among the most ambitious artistic Fechner productions include Bruno Nuyttens Artist Biography Camille Claudel and Leos Carax ' critically acclaimed Paris - drama The Lovers on the Bridge. In his cinema filmless time in the late 1980s Christian Fechner has produced four television series. In 1992, Fechner the only time directed and participated in this film also on the script. In 1997, he succeeded the two former superstars of the French action cinema of the 60s and 70s, Jean -Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon to unite on camera after a long time. The result, all my fathers, however, disappointed and also flopped at the box office. By the third part of the trilogy Les Bronzés, Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie, Fechner succeeded in early 2006 once again a major box office success.

Fechner, since a young age an enthusiastic amateur magician and later buyers and carers of the estate of Adolphe Blind, died at the age of 64 from cancer.

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