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Pierre Chenal

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Pierre Chenal

Nascimento
Falecimento
(com 86 anos)
Local de nascimento
Bruxelles, Belgique
Créditos
30 títulos

Biografia

Philippe Cohen, known as Pierre Chenal, is a French director, born December 5, 1904 in Brussels and died December 23, 1990 in La Garenne-Colombes.

Chenal occupies an uncomfortable place in the history of French cinema: relatively unknown, he is cataloged as a filmmaker who left only a light body of work. His detailed filmography, however, tends to show the opposite. Made in the 1930s, his first short films were documentaries where the filmmaker used social realism. The Little Trades of Paris (1932) or A French City of Cinema had a didactic ambition which ranked him among the innovators at the time.

Throughout his work, Pierre Chenal will maintain this taste for atmospheres tinged with truth where the social is shown. Hence his very marked penchant for adaptations of literary works by his contemporaries: he borrowed from Marcel Aymé the title of one of his first feature films, La rue sans nom (1933); summons Pirandello and The Man from Nowhere (1937); depicts The Mutineers of Elsinore by Jack London; and transforms James Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice to give The Last Turn.

Pierre Chenal loves actors and casts the biggest ones. Louis Jouvet, Robert Le Vigan, Michel Simon, Pierre Blanchar, Viviane Romance and Albert Préjean praise his talent. In 1940, the filmmaker's career took a new turn when he retreated, during the war, to Argentina and Chile. He made a few minor films there, then returned to France with comic intentions expressed in Clochemerle (1947). In 1948, Chenal returned to Argentina and adapted Sangre Negra by the American noir novelist Richard Wright. Then, he developed a passion for thrillers and experimented with the genre on several occasions. But Raid on the City (1958), The Beast on the Prowl (1959) and The Assassin Knows the Music (1963) are not considered to be his best films.

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Créditos de atuação 1

AnoTítuloPapel
1929 Paris Cinéma Filme Self

Créditos da equipe técnica 30

AnoTítuloFunção
1985 Le hasard mène le Jeu Filme Director, Writer
1970 Les belles au bois dormantes Filme Director
1963 L'assassin connaît la musique Filme Director, Writer
1960 L’ultimo zar Filme Writer, Director
1959 La Bête à l'affût Filme Director
1958 Les Jeux dangereux Filme Director, Screenplay
1958 Rafles sur la ville Filme Director, Screenplay
1956 Section des disparus Filme Director, Screenplay
1952 El ídolo Filme Screenplay, Director
1951 Native Son Filme Director, Screenplay
1948 Clochemerle Filme Director
1946 La Foire aux chimères Filme Director
1946 El viaje sin regreso Filme Director
1945 Se abre el abismo Filme Director
1944 El muerto falta a la cita Filme Director, Writer
1943 Todo un hombre Filme Director
1939 Le Dernier Tournant Filme Director
1938 La Maison du Maltais Filme Director
1938 L'Affaire Lafarge Filme Director
1937 L'Alibi Filme Director
1937 L'Homme de nulle part Filme Director, Screenplay
1936 Les mutinés de l'Elseneur Filme Director, Screenplay
1935 Crime et Châtiment Filme Director, Writer
1935 Les suites d'un premier lit Filme Director
1934 La Rue sans nom Filme Director, Writer
1933 Le martyre de l'obèse Filme Director
1932 Petits métiers de Paris Filme Director, Cinematography, Editor
1931 Bâtir Filme Director, Writer, Producer
1930 L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui Filme Writer, Cinematography, Director
1929 Paris Cinéma Filme Director, Editor
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