Roger Planchon

Roger Planchon ( born September 12, 1931 in Saint- Chamond, Loire, † 12 May, 2009 Paris) was a French filmmaker, actor, playwright and theater director.

Life

Roger Planchon spent his youth in Dorna in the department of Ardèche. The poor conditions and the rural atmosphere of the barren landscape went as background in many of his later pieces one, including La Remise. In 1944, at age 13 he was already working for the Resistance and in 1945 it was awarded the War Cross. Then Planchon came to Lyon, where she learned the lives of ordinary workers know.

Planchon began his stage career at a community theater. After his troops had won a competition, the self-taught from 1949 could be active in the French stage as a professional actor.

Work

Roger Planchon in 1952 founded the Théâtre de la Comédie in Lyon. In 1957 he became director of the Théâtre de la Cité in Villeurbanne. 1972 this theater was renamed to the proposal of the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel in " National Folk Theatre " ( Théâtre National Populaire ). It played an important role in the decentralization of the French theater. By 2002, Planchon directed the theater. An appeal to the Comédie- Française, he refused. Roger Planchon directed classics such as Shakespeare and Molière, but also contemporary authors such as Arthur Adamov and Michel Vinaver. He opened the National People's Theatre but also for other directors such as Patrice Chéreau and Georges Lavaudant.

From 1950, he also staged his own plays, in which he starred mostly self.

In 1987 he filmed the drama George Dandin by Moliere. His film The Childhood of the Sun King ran at the Film Festival of Cannes 1993 in the competition for the Palme d'Or.

On the afternoon of May 12, 2009 Roger Planchon died of a heart attack. Previously, he was still the evening was for the evening at the Théâtre Silvia Monfort - seeing in Paris on the stage.

Filmography

As an actor:

As a director and screenwriter: