Jean Grémillon
Jean Grémillon ( born October 3, 1901 in Bayeux, Basse -Normandie, † November 25, 1959 in Paris) was a French film director.
Life
Jean Grémillon began his career as a violinist, who worked in the silent film orchestras. Since 1923 he began to make films, documentaries and films initially with avant-garde character itself. They enjoyed among intellectuals because of their craftsmanship great popularity, but are not commercially very successful. After one first artistic peak with Gardiens de Phare (1929 ), his last silent film, he went to Germany and Spain, to get some of the local avant-garde new ideas, he reminds Grémillons film L' Etrange Monsieur Victor ( 1937) atmospherically works by Fritz Lang. But Grémillon succeeded only in the forties with his cinematic visions of opening ( particularly successful: Lumière d' été (1943 )), where he repeatedly worked with the actors Jean Gabin and Madeleine Renaud. Le ciel est à vous (1944 ) is a tribute to female aviation pioneers, Les Disasters of la guerre ( 1949), an indictment of the war, Pattes blanches (1949 ) the film based on a screenplay by Jean Anouilh about the decline of an aristocrat. His recent film credits include: L' amour d'une femme (1954 ), La maison aux images ( 1955) and André Masson et les quatre elements. In the years 1943-1958 he was chairman of the Cinémathèque Française.