Andre Cayatte

André Cayatte is a realizer and French scenario writer, born the February 3rd 1909 with Carcassonne and deceased of an heart attack, the February 6th 1989 with Paris (France).

Biography

After studies of letters and right, it becomes lawyer with the Bar of Toulouse (where it returned to play regularly balls in its old age) then of Paris. But it quickly decides to be reconverted into the journalism and the writing. It publishes six novels and collaborates in two scenarios, Entrée of the artists (1938) of Marc Allégret and Remorques (1940) of Jean Grémillon.

Its cinematographic career begins in 1942 with the False mistress , adapted of a novel of Balzac. It will continue with French adaptations traditional, then popular films. In 1950, with Justice is made , showing a jury of bases captive of his prejudices, it launches out in the analysis of justice, its wheels and its stakes. We all are of the assassins (1952), Before the flood (1954) or the black file (1955) are same vein. It will continue then, to its last work with the cinema in 1978, to film societies' problems, even burning subjects, like the connection of a teaching woman with one of her young pupils ( Mourir to like , 1971), or the insulation of a marked teacher of pedophilia ( risks of the trade , 1967).

André Cayatte pled against the capital punishment since 1922. This request against " the imbecile pains mort" , Cayatte carried it in him since his/her cousin, new chaplain of prison with Carcassonne, was to attend dead of one condemned. The young priest who had in vain begged that one discharged it from this mission, did not sleep of the night and crumbled when the head fell into the basket. The young priest died, it had not supported this odious spectacle. The whole of its work will be a long plea for a more human justice, less blindly subjected to the rules and the rites which make it pitiless.

Catalog of films

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