Philippe de Broca
Philippe de Broca ( born March 15, 1933, Paris, † 26 November 2004 in Neuilly -sur -Seine near Paris) was a French film director.
Life
De Broca, born in Paris in 1933, came from the French gentry. In known directors such as Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut, he learned his craft as an assistant director. In Chabrol's first film, Le Beau Serge (1958 ), Philippe de Broca played a small role. Previously Georges Lacombe and Henri Decoin were his teachers.
He made films with stars such as Jean -Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac, Jean -Paul Belmondo, Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve and Philippe Noiret. In film circles de Broca was also called " the comedian New Wave". Especially in the 1960s turned De Broca numerous comedies, comedies and adventure films. Through his films Cartouche, the Bandit (1962) and Adventure in Rio (1964 ) with Belmondo in the lead roles was de Broca known. In 1959 he got for his film Love Games ( with Jean -Pierre Cassel ) in Berlin Silver Bear at the Berlinale 1960 and the Prize of the German Film Critics.
With the actress Marthe Keller, he had the son Alexandre ( b. 1971 ). Two other children come from his marriage to French actress Valérie Rojan.
De Broca died on 26 November 2004 at the age of 71 years at the American Hospital of Neuilly -sur- Seine on a cancer. Beginning of October 2004 arrived in France his last film Viper in the Fist in the cinemas. Meanwhile, start, he already could not follow due to his illness. Since the death of de Broca in France, the film was a box-office hit.