Henri-Georges Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot (November 20, 1904 - January 12, 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer.

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November 20 - 1904 - January 12 - 1977 - French - Film director - Screenwriter - Producer

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Henri-Georges Clouzot was born in Niort, Deux-Sèvres. After classical studies, he first attempted to make his living a journalist. He started in the cinema with L'assassin habite au 21 (1942), with Pierre Fresnay and Suzy Delair.

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Niort - Deux-Sèvres - L'assassin habite au 21 - Pierre Fresnay - Suzy Delair

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During the German Occupation he made a movie about the endless denunciations which took place under the regime, Le Corbeau (1943). After the Libération in 1944, the film was the subject of strong controversy as to whether it was a resistance or a collaboration act. Because of the scandal, Clouzot was temporarily suspended from his professional activities in 1945. Returning to film direction, he won several awards at the festivals of Venice and Cannes with Quai des orfèvres (1947), Manon (1949), and Le Salaire de la Peur (1952), all of which were also very popular with audiences.

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Le Corbeau - Venice - Cannes - Quai des orfèvres - Manon - Le Salaire de la Peur

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A moviemaker in a classical style, Clouzot was moved by a kind of perfectionism that sometimes tyrannized his actors. A moralist with a pessimistic view of society, he is also the director of other renowned films such as Les Diaboliques (1954), a macabre thriller which presents an ambivalent and ambiguous pair of women, played by Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot, who plot the murder of a sadistic headmaster(Paul Meurisse), the husband of one and the lover of the other; Le Mystère Picasso (1956), a great documentary on the method of the painter and the birth of few of his paintings. ; and La Vérité (1960), where Brigitte Bardot find her best dramatical role.

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Les Diaboliques - Simone Signoret - Véra Clouzot - Paul Meurisse - Le Mystère Picasso - La Vérité - Brigitte Bardot

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Henri-Georges Clouzot died in Paris on January 12, 1977.

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January 12 - 1977

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In 1994, with L'Enfer, Claude Chabrol adapted and filmed the screenplay of a movie that Clouzot had been unable to finish 30 years before.

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L'Enfer - Claude Chabrol

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