Charles Spaak
Charles Spaak ( born May 25, 1903 in Brussels, † March 4, 1975 in Nice ) was a Belgian screenwriter and film director.
Life
His father was the poet Paul Spaak, his mother Marie Janson was a daughter of Paul Janson and sister of the former Belgian prime minister Paul -Emile Janson. Charles Spaak was a brother of Paul -Henri Spaak and a brother of Suzanne Spaak.
Spaak grew up in a wealthy educated middle-class family in Brussels in 1928 and moved to France. There he was engaged as private secretary to his compatriot Jacques Feyder. The offered him a stake in the film adaptation of the play by Robert Flers, Les nouveaux messieurs, to. Spaak was next to Jacques Prévert the most influential writer of poetic realism in French cinema of the 1930s.
He was married to Claude Marcy, their common children are the actresses Catherine Spaak and Agnès. In November 1943 he was arrested in Paris by the Gestapo command " Red Orchestra".