Georges Dancigers
Georges Dancigers ( born February 17, 1908 in Tukkum; † November 1, 1993 in Neuilly -sur -Seine, Hauts -de -Seine ) was a Russian- French film producer.
Biography
Georges Dancigers in 1908, born in Tukkum (now Tukums, Latvia), then part of the Russian Empire. After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, he fled to France, where he began in 1934 to work as a film producer while his brother Oscar Dancigers emigrated to Mexico and there produced the films of surrealist film director Luis Buñuel. In 1945, Georges Dancigers together with the also immigrated from Russia Alexandre Mnouchkine ( 1908-1993 ) and Francis Cosne ( 1916-1984 ), the production company Les Films Ariane, who was named after Mnouchkine born in 1939, daughter Ariane Mnouchkine. Produced with Les Films Ariane and co-produced with Dancigers The double-headed eagle and Parents Terribles (both 1948), two works by Jean Cocteau in which the life companion of the film director, Jean Marais, the male roles held. In the early 1950s Dancigers turned to the commercial cinema and acted as producer and co-producer of, among other things, Christian - Jaques cloak and dagger movies Fanfan, the hussar with Gérard Philipe in the title role and Lucrezia Borgia (both 1952), Julien Duvivier's Don Camillo's return (1953 ) or Denys de La Patellières Drama Wiesenstraße No. 10 with Jean Gabin and the young Marie -José Nat in the lead roles. The great success for Dancigers and Mnouchkine turned into the 1960s, as a long -standing collaboration with Philippe de Broca followed which, inter alia, the comedies Cartouche, the Bandit (1961 ), Adventure in Rio (1964 ), The great adventures of Monsieur L. (1965) and Le Magnifique (1973 ) emerged. In all the films of Jean-Paul Belmondo played the lead role. The influential performer of the Nouvelle Vague was the most popular actor in France at this time.
Les Films Ariane established himself in the episode in France as a major film production companies and Dancigers succeeded together with Mnouchkine a bridge between commerce and the prestigious auteur cinema to beat. Both also funded projects by renowned filmmakers such as Live the Life (1967 ) The man who I like and the life, love, death (both 1969) by Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais ' Drama Stavisky, Bertrand Blier Oscar-winning tragicomedy to give women (1978 ) or the César -winning La Balance - the Betrayal ( 1982) by Bob Swaim. Was even awarded the most important French film award Dancigers 1981, when he received the honor for his services in the French cinema, together with Alexandre Mnouchkine. In the same year co-produced thriller was The Trial of Claude Miller won four César Awards, the increasingly more films followed this genre.
In addition to working as a producer George Dancigers also worked occasionally as a production manager on such films as Alexandre Arcadys The Boss (1985 ) with. The mid-1980s he withdrew more and more back from the film business. Often criticized for his penchant for action and adventure movies like the crab louse (1973 ) with Lino Ventura in the main role, died Dancigers 1993 at the age of 85 years at his home near Paris, just a few months after Alexandre Mnouchkine. The officer of the French Legion of Honour left a wife and three daughters.