Jacques Feyder
Jacques Feyder ( born July 21, 1885 in Ixelles / Elsene, Belgium, † May 24 1948 in Prangins, Switzerland ) was a Franco- Belgian film director.
Life
Jacques Feyder began in 1912 as an actor in Georges Méliès and Louis Feuillade. Since 1915 he worked as a director in the film company Gaumont. With L' Atlantide ( 1921) based on a novel by Pierre Benoît he had his artistic breakthrough. The film was well received by the audience and was commercially successful.
Another masterpiece is created in Switzerland 1923-1925 film Visages d'enfants ( children's faces ), which deals with the emotional situation of stepchildren. In 1928 Émile Zola Germany Feyder novel Thérèse Raquin filmed. The following year, he was the director of the last silent film with Greta Garbo The Kiss ( The kiss ), and in 1930 he turned in the U.S., the German version of her first talkie Anna Christie.
Starting in 1933, back in France was Feyder one of the leading representatives of French poetic realism in film in the 1930s. Feyder turned on but also in German and English.
He was married to actress Françoise Rosay since 1917.