Gerard Blain

Gerard Blain is a Acteur, Réalisateur and Scénariste French

He was born the October 23rd 1930 with Paris in France and deceased the December 17th 2000 in Paris.

Biography

Gerard Blain is resulting from a Parisian family since several generations. He is very young when his/her father, architect as a chief of the town of Paris leaves the family hearth and its relations with his/her mother and her sister become conflict then. He leaves the school at 13 years without very having the Certificat of primary studies and begins an animated life of child of the street, delivered to any kinds of difficulties in Paris of the occupation. He will even tell him “ Since my childhood, I am considered with the company in a state of self-defense ”. This unhappy childhood will be one of the recurring subjects of its films, in particular the very autobiographical a Child in crowd .

It will start with chance to make figuration in films, noticed for its beautiful small mouth . It is Julien Duvivier, which, while finally giving him a consistent role in Voici the time of the assassins whereas it is 26 years old, definitively launches it in the cinema world. It meets the realizers of the New wave and becomes an icon with the Beautiful Serge . He plays in a film in Hollywood, Hatari with John Wayne but not being able to adapt to the star system to American, he refuses to sign a contract to prolong and returns to France

Its ideas on the cinema encounter a certain conformism which it rejects, it is a rebellious actor who ends up carrying out itself to express itself. Gerard Blain is a purist of the cinema, preferring the amateurs with the professional actors, in favor of the diagram of the plans and a his control, hostile for any artificial purpose. Its cinema is extremely influenced by Robert Bresson, which he admired. It carries out ten films, of which two are selected for the Cannes festival, but never manages to obtain a popular real success. Some regard Gerard Blain as a “anarchist of right-hand side”, from its ethical nonconformism. Fellow traveller of the GREECE (“New Line”), it makes polemic by carrying out two films ( Pierre and Djemila and Ainsi is ) in collaboration with one of the principal organizers of this movement, the critic film Michel Marmin.

Catalog of films

Actor

Realizer

External bonds

  • Homage of Humanity: the death of Gerard Blain Adieu to the pelican rebels
  • Hommage of Michel Marmin (appeared in '' Éléments ''): Gerard Blain, our friend, our comrade…
  • Its card on IMDb

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