Serge Silberman
Serge Silberman ( born May 13, 1917 in Łódź, † 22 July 2003 in Paris, France) was a French film producer.
Life
Serge Silberman was born in Łódź, which was then still part of the Russian Empire, but was occupied by the German anti-war since 1914, and grew up in Poland. During the Second World War, he was arrested after the invasion of Poland as a Jew in several concentration camps, but he survived. Finally, he settled in Paris. His first work as a producer was Jean -Pierre Melville's film Three clock at night (1955), a forerunner of the Nouvelle Vague.
Best known Silberman was his collaboration with the surrealist director Luis Buñuel, whom he met on the screenwriter Jean -Claude Carrière. Silberman produced in 1964 almost all of the late work of Buñuel, starting with Diary of a Chambermaid and ending with That Obscure Object of Desire, published in 1977. The resulting 1972 work The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie was awarded the following year with an Oscar for best foreign language film.
1966 Silberman had his own production company, Greenwich Film Productions, founded which was responsible for about 20 films. In 1981, Silver Mans commercially successful film, Jean -Jacques Beineix 'Diva. The film was not well received in his country of production France, but abroad it was a blockbuster. The experienced money enabled the financing of Akira Kurosawa's Ran project, this was the most expensive Japanese film in its time. In 1987 he was awarded with the director a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film
In 1988 he received an honorary César for his life's work. Silberman died on 22 July 2003 at the age of 86 years. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.