Georges Franju ( fr. Georges Franju ; April 12, 1912 , Fougeres , department of Ile and Villene - November 5, 1987 , Paris ) - French film director , film archivist, one of the founders of the French Cinematheque .
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| Date of Birth | April 12, 1912 |
| Place of Birth | Fougeres (Department of Ильle and Villein , France ) |
| Date of death | November 5, 1987 (aged 75) |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Profession | director , film archivist |
| Career | 1934 - 1979 |
| Direction | horrors , fiction , film adaptation . |
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Biography
In 1936, together with Henri Langlois (in 1934 they co-authored the documentary film "Underground") founded the largest film archive - French Cinematheque [1] . In 1938–1945 he was executive secretary of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), in 1945–1953 - general secretary of the Institute of Scientific Cinema.
He became famous for the documentaries “Animal Blood” ( 1949 ) and “House of Disabled People” ( 1951 ), where scenes of extreme cruelty and ugliness were shown with icy impassivity. He transferred the same intonation to his first feature film “ Head against the Wall ” ( 1958 , according to Herve Bazin ), the action of which was unfolding in a psychiatric hospital. The film caused a wide public discussion about the need to humanize psychiatry. Jean-Luc Godard said of this picture: "The film is crazy about the crazy, but a film of insane beauty" [1] .
He also shot "black" films close to horror films , and science-fiction films. Created several movie screens. Since the 1970s, he worked mainly in the theater and on television [1] , and in 1975 he directed a series based on his most famous film, Eyes Without a Face.
According to Jacques Lursel, the transition of Francois from his excellent documentaries to the full-length format was a big loss for French cinema: “The director’s causticity, his fruitful aggressiveness and rigidity, ingenious irony and mastery of subtexts have disappeared without a trace in the heavy film adaptations of classics and alterations of silent adventure TV series, filmed by him from 1958 to 1973 " [2]
Filmography
- Underground / Le Metro ( 1935 )
- Animal Blood / Le sang des bêtes ( 1948 )
- Via Lorraine / En passant par la Lorraine ( 1950 )
- House of Invalides / Hôtel des Invalides ( 1951 )
- The Great Méliès ( 1952 )
- Monsieur and Madame Curie (1952)
- Dust / Les Poussières ( 1954 )
- On the River / A propos d'une rivière ( 1955 )
- My dog / Mon chien (1955)
- National People's Theater / Le Théâtre national populaire ( 1956 )
- On the bridge in Avignon / Sur le pont d'Avignon ( 1956 )
- Notre-Dame de Paris / Notre-dame, cathédrale de Paris ( 1957 )
- First night / La première nuit ( 1958 )
- Head on the wall / La tête contre les murs (1958)
- Eyes Without a Face ( 1959 )
- The Killer Comes Out of the Shadow ( 1961 )
- Judex ( 1963 , tribute to Louis Feyadou )
- Theresa Desqueiro ( 1962 , based on the novel by Francois Moriac , nomination for the Golden Lion )
- The imposter of Thomas / Thomas l'imposteur ( 1965 , based on the novel by Jean Cocteau , nomination for the Golden Bear )
- White curtains / Les rideaux blancs (1965)
- Allen Marcel / Marcel Allain (1965)
- The Act of Abbot Mouret ( 1970 , based on the novel by Emil Zola )
- Red Nights ( 1974 , tribute to Fantômas novels)
- The Last Romance / Le dernier mélodrame ( 1974 )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Chernenko M.M. Franju Georges // Director's Encyclopedia. Cinema of Europe. Comp. M.M. Chernenko; Repl. ed. G. N. Kompanichenko. - M .: Mainland, 2002 .-- S. 167-168. - ISBN 5-85646-077-4 .
- ↑ Lursell, Jacques. Les yeux sans visage / Eyes without a face // Author's encyclopedia of films. In 2 volumes. - St. Petersburg: Rosebud Publishing, 2009 .-- T. 2. - S. 1000.
Literature
- Chernenko M.M. Franjou Georges // Director's Encyclopedia. Cinema of Europe. Comp. M.M. Chernenko; Repl. ed. G. N. Kompanichenko. - M.: Mainland, 2002 .-- S. 167-168. - ISBN 5-85646-077-4 .
- Comm D. Formulas of fear. An introduction to the history and theory of a horror movie . - St. Petersburg: BHV-Petersburg, 2012 .-- 224 p. - ISBN 978-5-9775-0656-4 .
- Fomenko A. Blood, cinema and surrealism (“Blood of animals” (Le sang des bêtes), dir. Georges Franjou, 1949) // Cinematography of desire and violence. Digest of articles. Edited by L. D. Bugaeva. - St. Petersburg: Petropolis, 2015 .-- 348 p. - ISBN 978-5-9676-0683-0
- Vialle G. Georges Franju. - P .: Seghers, 1968.
- Buache F. Georges Franju: poésie et vérité. - P .: Cinemathèque française, 1996.
- Hawkins J. Cutting edge: art-horror and the horrific avant-garde. - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
- Ince K. Georges Franju. - Manchester; N. Y .: Manchester UP, 2005.
Links
- Franju, Georges on the Internet Movie Database