Maurice Cloche

Maurice Cloche ( born June 17, 1907 in COMMERCY; † 20 March 1990 in Bordeaux) was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer.

After studying art debuted Cloche at cinema as an actor in the movies Le grillon du foyer of Robert Boudrioz (1933 ) and Cessez le feu by Jacques de Baroncelli (1934 ). Then he turned the short films Versailles and Le Mont Saint -Michel

1937 founded Cloche a production company and produced his first feature film comedy Ces dames aux chapeaux verts and Le petit chose based on the novel by Alphonse Daudet. In 1940 he founded in Castellaras the Centre des jeunes du cinéma, emerged from the later, the Institute des hautes études cinématographiques ( IDHEC ).

After the Second World War Cloche emerged especially with films on religious subjects like Monsieur Vincent ( 1947), a biography of the founder of Caritas, St Vincent de Paul, Pierre Fresnay in the lead role, Le docteur Laënnec ( with Pierre Blanchard) and Moineaux de Paris with the Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois.

In 1962, the second version of the socially critical film La porteuse de pain with Suzanne Flon, Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort. After various B-movies he returned with corn toi, tu es Pierre about the life of Simon Peter said to a religious theme back.