Robert Enrico
Robert Enrico ( born April 13, 1931 in Liévin, † February 23, 2001 in Paris) was a French film director of Italian descent.
Life
Robert Enrico completed training at the IDHEC ( Institut de Hautes Etudes Cinematographique ), the French film school; afterwards, he worked for a film unit of the French army. After military service he directed documentaries for television. He received the Palme d'Or in 1962 and the Oscar for the short film An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. His first full-length feature film was La Belle Vie by 1963.
From the mid- 1960s he made a series of successful films with well-known French stars, which were designed commercially, but made engaging and solid. They were often provided with a romantic lyrical tone, a hallmark of his films. Theater entertainment at the highest level was his concern and he has always been more than fulfilled these expectations.
Highlights of his career include: In The Adventurers Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus and Serge Reggiani be for cinema legend, a romantic treasure hunt with a dramatic end. In Ho, the gangster! 1968 is Jean-Paul Belmondo a chance loose underdog with ambitions to gangsters. Lino Ventura and Brigitte Bardot were traces in the Rumstraße in Bogart. Romy Schneider gave a realistic depiction of a Nazi victim in the old gun, Philippe Noiret played her husband, who retaliates terrible.
Enrico's figures are often located in extreme situations or at a crossroads that demands everything to them. You do not always get to their destination; death is usually faster. So in the film La derniere mission where Antoine de Saint- Exupéry elegiac can happen the loss of his aviation pioneer comrades over the years revue before he takes his last flight in the P -38 Lightning.
His films have vast and rich treasure of legendary French gangster film and myths. He often worked with José Giovanni together on the script, the later self- directed. His professional style was well suited to the preferred stories around the topics Friendship, adventurism, aviation, small freedoms in everyday life, gangster stories, but also to classical themes, such as the French Revolution.
Robert Enrico's lovingly drawn characters are often social outsiders and in certain respects, there is a spiritual relationship with other directors such as Jean -Pierre Melville, Claude Sautet, Jacques Becker and Philippe de Broca.
His son, Jérôme Enrico is also a director.