Claude Sautet

Claude Sautet ( born February 23, 1924 in Montrouge, † July 22, 2000 in Paris) was a French screenwriter and film director.

Claude Sautet was one of the most important chroniclers of French society in the postwar period. First, he began studying painting and sculpture, he moved to Paris film school. His film career began as a film assistant, and later he was also a television producer and screenwriter.

So he acquired first attention until it in 1955 with The Great Residence directed his first feature film. As seen significant is his second film, The Panther is rushed (1960 ), who was, however, in the mass of many Nouvelle Vague films of that time. With the things of life from 1970 Sautet first found his subject and his style, with exactly the observed study of a triggered by a car accident Mid-Life Crisis. As in many of his later films were Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli the main characters.

Sautets self-confession: " Since my middle-class childhood in Montrouge, a suburb of Paris, I love the places where it is to find the diverse blend of people from my youth: the bistros and cafes. " This network of relationships, social conflicts and interdependencies between people of the upper middle class can be found in almost all the films Sautets from the 1970s and 1980s again. The trigger of the movie plot usually represents a crisis which Sautet exposes the vulnerability and thus humanity of his characters. He estimated the novelist Henry James, who is known for the epic depiction of inner processes in his characters and the fine drawing female characters and ties in with the tradition of French moralists.

Outstanding success is Sautets drama, only to immediately get the wayward son (1980 ), which tells the story of a young man who returns to prison after five years in the United States with his father again in new conflicts. His last film, A Heart in Winter of 1993 and Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud 1995, were honored with several awards.

In addition to his work as a director, he not only co-authored the screenplays for all his films since 1960, wrote ( co-wrote ), but also for other directors, so to The Thief of Paris by Louis Malle (1967 ) or by Borsalino by Jacques Deray (1970 ).

Sautet died in 2000 at the age of 76 years in Paris of cancer. His final resting place was the Cimetière du Montparnasse.

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