Robert Bresson
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PERSONAL DATA OF ROBERT BRESSON
Born in: BROMONT-LAMOTHE (France)
Born on: 09/25/1907
Dies at: PARIS (France)
He dies on: 18/12/1999
BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BRESSON
Film director. Born in a small village in central France, he graduated in Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. Painter, he approaches the cinema almost by chance, witnessing the making of some films and on the wave of his friendship with the exponents of surrealism who persuade him to resume the exploits of the clown Beby in the short film ‘Les affairs publiques’ (1932-34) . After more than a year spent as a prisoner of war in a German concentration camp, Bresson returned to the cinema in 1943 and made his first feature film, ‘La conversa di Belfort’, followed the following year by ‘Perfìdia’ (‘Les dames du bois de Boulogne ‘), based on a story by Diderot with the dialogues of Jean Cocteau. ‘Diary of a country curate’ (Awarded at the Venice Film Festival in 1950) based on Bernanos and ‘Un condemned to death has escaped’ (1956, director’s award in Cannes for which he is considered by the ‘Cahiers du Cinema’ a founder of the nouvelle vague), give the right measure of his style: he chooses his actors among the people of the street (‘Pickpocket’, 1959), transforms the story into a moral assumption (‘The trial of Joan of Arc’, 1960). In the mid-sixties the director knows his greatest fortune thanks to ‘Au hasard Balthasar’ and ‘Manchette’, also awarded at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. He then confronts Dostoevskij in ‘So beautiful so sweet’ (1969) and ‘Four nights of a dreamer’ (1971, taken from ‘The white nights’, the same text brought to the screen by Luchino Visconti). This is followed by ‘Lancillotto and Ginevra’, completed in 1974 but designed in over 20 years of studies, in which the legend of the Paladins is filtered by the visual repertoire of Piero della Francesca. His last films were, in 1978 ‘The devil, probably …’ and in 1983 ‘L’argent’. He permanently retired to private life in the 1980s, after failing to find a producer for his project to make a film from the Book of Genesis. He died of natural causes at the age of 92 in Paris.
ROBERT BRESSON’S MOST RECENT FILMS
The silver
Role: Film director
Year: 1982
THE DEVIL PROBABLY … (LE DIABLE PROBABLEMENT)
Role: Film director
Year: 1977
Lancelot and Guinevere (Lancelot du Lac)
Role: Film director
Year: 1974
FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (QUATRE NUITSD’UN REVEUR)
Role: Film director
Year: 1971 Go to Complete Filmography
ROBERT BRESSON’S MOST RECURRING GENRES
Drama: 66% Historical: 6% Police: 6% Adventure: 6%
AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR ROBERT BRESSON
Venice Festival
Here are all the awards and nominations Venice Festival
- 1989 – Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Cannes Film Festival
Here are all the awards and nominations Cannes Film Festival
- 1983 – Best Director Award for L’argent
- 1957 – Best Director Award for A Death Sentenced Escape
David by Donatello
Here are all the awards and nominations David by Donatello
- 1977 – David Luchino Visconti Award
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