Suzanne Schiffman

Suzanne Schiffman ( born September 27, 1929 in Paris, † June 6, 2001 ibid; actually Suzanne Klochendler ) was a French screenwriter and film director.

Life

Schiffman was born in 1929 when Suzanne Klochendler in Paris. After her degree in art history at the Sorbonne, where she had befriended young filmmakers, she managed entry into the film business as a script girl the Nouvelle Vague directors Jean -Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut.

"We all learned in the first few rows of movie theaters know. We talked, walked for hours through Paris and sat in cafes. There were other girls, more or less in love, who passed sometimes. But I was the only girl that looks like she was in love with the cinema. "

Especially with Truffaut they worked together often from now on, mostly as a screenwriter, but also as an assistant director and casting director. Together with him and Jean -Louis Richard, she received a 1975 Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for The American Night (La Nuit américaine ). The figure of Sciptgirls Joelle, played by Nathalie Baye, was created autobiographical of Schiffman. In 1981, she won Truffaut the César for Best Screenplay for The Last Metro (Le Dernier Métro ). The screenplay for the film about a French theater under German occupation, was inspired by ship Mans own war experiences. During the German occupation of France her Jewish mother was arrested by French auxiliary agents of the Gestapo and deported first to a camp near Beaune. Schiffman and her siblings were hiding in an order of nuns. Her father, meanwhile, got to know another woman and had with her ​​a relationship. The kids liked the new woman in her father's side, but at the same time hoping that her mother would return to them. This eventually died in a German concentration camp. In The Last Metro device, similar to Schiffman, the female protagonist, played by Catherine Deneuve, in a crisis of conscience when she falls in love with her ​​castmates, while her Jewish husband from the Nazis in the basement of the theater has to hide.

After Truffaut died of cancer in 1984, it fell Schiffman difficult to work with other directors. They therefore decided to turn their own films. In 1987, she returned with the monk and the Witch (Le Moine et la Sorcière ) her directorial debut. For the medieval drama about the role of the Church regarding the oppression of women Schiffman received a nomination for the César for Best debut. She also explores also encouraged young filmmakers who supported them financially and with their professional contacts.

With the U.S. artist Philippe Schiffman she was married from 1949 until his death in 2000. Their joint sons Matthieu and Guillaume are active as an actor or cameraman also in the movie business. Suzanne Schiffman died in 2001 at the age of 71 years to cancer. She was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Filmography (selection)

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