Bernard Paul

Bernard Paul is a realizer and French scenario writer born with Paris in 1930 and deceased in Paris the December 6th 1980. He was the companion of the actress Francoise Arnoul.

Biography

Bernard Paul carries out studies in higher mathematics, then, after its formation with IDHEC, it makes its weapons as an adviser technical or assisting near realizers emblematic like Jean Giono ( Crésus , 1960), Rene Clément ( Cat-like the , 1964) and especially Costa-Gavras with which it ties a deep friendship. It second in particular in Compartment killers (1965) and a man of too (1967). In 1964, on the turning of Compartments killers , Bernard Paul meets the actress Francoise Arnoul who takes part in it in a friendly way and it is the love at first sight.

Time to live

In Communist truth , it thinks of carrying out documentary on the situation with the Vietnam. An ambitious project for a first film which will remain without continuation. It then will work firm during three years with another project which will be born in 1968 thanks to the advance on receipt and with a production in co-operative. It is Time to live with which Paul projects on the white screens the life of those that the cinema forgets, workmen. It carries a realistic glance, neither condescending, nor obliging, on a world which it knows well, itself having gained its function of scenario writer hard, sacrifice of his parents to the support. Francoise Arnoul will devote herself to the man whom she admires, by putting even its career out of silencing device to assist it. If the film makes a discrete exit in 1969, it remains with the poster for six months and, after a tower of social France, it starts a turn of Europe of the East and makes an incursion in Russia where he is preceded.

De Vailland in Sarcelles

Bernard Paul carries out then Beau masks in 1972 according to the novel of Roger Vailland, always his glance of ethnologist and humanistic on the working condition, his fights but also his loves. It is besides the latter aspect which the public will retain of this film which will not meet much success. Paul does not disarm for that and, for his following film, in 1977, it poses his camera between HLM of Sarcelles to film, before the letter, it Malayan of the suburbs and the following days without much hope of their modest inhabitants. It is Dernière exit before Roissy which will not have either a great audience in spite of a beautiful distribution.

Always further

Bernard Paul thinks of making a film on the oil scandals. Meanwhile, it joins the realizer Jerome Kanapa, to turn Histoire of going further (1978), documentary on the metallurgy which dies in the east of France.
Unfortunately, time to live of Bernard Paul is completed at the end of the year 1980 after 16 years of common life with Francoise Arnoul. It leaves with the posterity its invaluable social triptych, authenticates it testimony of humanistic which was in perfect adequacy with its political commitment.

Catalog of films

Realization and scenario

Coréalisation

  • 1978 - History of going further, documentary corealized with Jerome Kanapa.

Attending the realization

Adviser technical

Actor

  • 1965 : Psycho has Go-Go Al Adamson with Roy Morton and Tacey Robbins.
  • 1965 : Compartment killers of Costa-Gavras with Simone Signoret and Yves Montand.
  • 1967 : a man of too of Costa-Gavras with Charles Vanel and Bruno Cremer.
  • 1978 : In the other edge of Jerome Kanapa with Louse Bissainthe and Chewed Méril.

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