Claude Sautet

Claude Sautet , born the February 23rd 1924 with Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine), dead the July 22nd 2000 with Paris, is a Scénariste and Réalisateur French.

He begins his career cinematography in the years 1950 as a realizer in 1951 with a short-measuring in 1951 and one feature film, Hello to smile later (with Henri Salvador, Louis de Funès and Jean Carmet) four years. But he will be a success in 1960 with Classe all risks with Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo as interpreters high-speed motorboats. But it decides to change style into carrying out in 1969 the Things of the life with Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider. The success of this film encourages it to persevere in the way of films of dramatic kind except max and the scrap merchants with the duet Piccoli/Schneider, which is a police film: it turned of large films such as César and Rosalie , Vincent, Francois, Paul… and others , a simple history , a bad son and his last film Nelly and Mr Arnaud , for whom Michel Serrault will recevera César of the Best Actor in 1996 for the role than Sautet gave him.

He was also scenario writer of films like the Eyes without face , the Life of castle and Borsalino .

He is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse. With its funerals were present in particular Jean Rochefort, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart, which all played in its films.

Catalog of films

Realizer and scenario writer

1951 : We will not go any more to wood (short-measuring IDHEC)
1955: Hello to smile (not credited as scenario writer)
1960: Class all risks
1965: the Weapon on the left
1969: Things of the life
1971: max and the scrap merchants
1972: César and Rosalie
1974: Vincent, Francois, Paul… and others
1976: Mado
1978 : a simple history
1980: a bad son
1983: Boy!
1988 : A few days with me
1991: a heart in winter
1995: Nelly and Mr Arnaud

Scenario, dialogs or adaptation

the deer is released Maurice Labro
the Eyes without face (1959), of Georges Franju (+ first assistant realizer)
Symphonie for a massacre (1963), of Jacques Deray
Peau of banana (1963), of Marcel Ophuls
the Awkward age (1964), of Gilles Grangier
Maigret sees red (1964) of Gilles Grangier
Exhaust free (1964), of Jean Becker
Mister of Jean-Paul Chanois
Life of castle (1965), of Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Put at bag (1967), of Alain Cavalier
the Chamade (1968), of Alain Cavalier
Devil by the tail (1969), of Philippe de Broca
Borsalino (1970), of Jacques Deray
Grooms of year II (1971), of Jean-Paul Rappeneau
My friend the traitor (1988), of Jose Giovanni
Intersection (1993), of Mark Rydell

written Scenario but not turned: Thomas the sucking lamb (in collaboration with Jean-Loup Dabadie for Philippe de Broca, according to a novel of Claude Farrère)

Others

1992 : Patrick Dewaere , documentary of Marc Esposito (Claude Sautet seems " there; témoin")
2003 : Claude Sautet or invisible magic of Nguyen Trung Binh. Assembly of a long interview of Claude Sautet in voice-over, carried out little time before its death, illustrated by extracts of its films and the interventions of those which worked with him. Official selection Cannes 2003.

See too

Claude Sautet on ecrannoir.fr
Card IMDb
Interview, catalog of films of Claude Sautet, on KINOK.

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