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Alias:
de Broca de Ferrussac
Филипп де Брока
Birthplace:
Paris, France
Born:
March 15, 1933
Died:
November 26, 2004
Philippe de Broca (15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director. He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio), The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) and On Guard (Le Bossu). His works include historical, romantic epics such as Chouans! and King of Hearts (Le Roi de cœur), as well as comedies with a charismatic, breezy hero ready to embark upon any adventure which comes his way, so long as it means escaping everyday modern life: Practice Makes Perfect (Le Cavaleur), The Devil by the Tail (Le Diable par la queue), The African (L'Africain). He had links with the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom he made six films, as well as with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort. Philippe de Broca was born on 15 March 1933 in Paris, France. He was the son of a cinema set designer and the grandson of a well-known painter, Philippe de Broca. He studied at the Paris Photography and Cinematography School (école Vaugirard), graduating in 1953. He carried out his military service with the service cinématographique des armées (army film service) in Germany and then in Algeria, directing or acting as head cameraman on short films. Greatly affected by the war he witnessed, he vowed to show life in its best light in his future films “because laughter is the best defence against upsets in life”. After his discharge from the military, he set off on a journey taking in the length of Africa in Berliet trucks before returning to Paris. He began working as an intern with Henri Decoin, before finding assistant positions with Claude Chabrol: Bitter Reunion (Le Beau Serge), The Cousins (Les Cousins), Web of Passion (À Double Tour), François Truffaut: The 400 Blows (Les 400 Coups) and Pierre Schoendoerffer: Ramuntcho. In 1959, Claude Chabrol produced de Broca's first film for him, The Love Game (Les jeux de l’amour) with Jean-Pierre Cassel. De Broca went on to work with Cassel again in The Joker (Le Farceur, 1960), Five Day Lover (L’Amant de cinq jours, 1961), and Male Companion (Un Monsieur de Compagnie, 1964). De Broca's first commercial success came with Swords of Blood (Cartouche), filmed in 1962. This film also saw two more names become associated with de Broca: the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and the producer Alexandre Mnouchkine. International acclaim came with That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio) in 1964, Up to His Ears (Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine) in 1965, The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) in 1973 and Incorrigible (L'Incorrigible) in 1975. In 1966, he co-wrote, directed and produced King of Hearts (Le Roi de Cœur). This parody of the Great War, which some cinema-lovers consider his masterpiece, was a commercial and personal failure, to de Broca's dismay. Yet it eventually achieved genuine cult-film status during the mid 1970s when it was presented in repertory movie theaters as well as non-theatrical college and university film series across the United States, eventually running for five years at the now defunct film house, the Central Square Cinemas in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Source: Article "Philippe de Broca" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Adaptation:
1978 Dear Inspector
Assistant Director:
1959 The 400 Blows
1978 Dear Inspector
Co-Producer:
1959 The 400 Blows
1968 Don't Play with Martians
1978 Dear Inspector
Director:
1959 The 400 Blows
1960 The Love Game
1961 Five Day Lover
1961 The Joker
1962 Cartouche
1962 La Gourmandise
1962 The Seven Deadly Sins
1963 People in Luck
1964 Male Companion
1964 That Man from Rio
1965 Up to His Ears
1966 King of Hearts
1967 The Oldest Profession
1968 Don't Play with Martians
1969 The Devil by the Tail
1970 Give Her the Moon
1971 Touch and Go
1972 Dear Louise
1973 The Magnificent One
1975 Incorrigible
1977 Julie pot-de-colle
1978 Dear Inspector
1979 The Skirt Chaser
1980 Jupiter's Thigh
1981 Psy
1983 The African
1984 Louisiana
1986 The Gypsy
1988 Chouans!
1990 1001 Nights
1991 Les clés du paradis
1994 Tales from the Zoo
1995 Les hommes et les femmes sont faits pour vivre heureux… mais pas ensemble
1996 Le Veilleur de nuit
1997 On Guard
2000 Amazon
2002 Madame Sans-Gêne
2003 Un amour en kit
2003 Y aura pas école demain
2004 Viper in the Fist
Producer:
1959 The 400 Blows
1960 The Love Game
1961 Five Day Lover
1961 The Joker
1962 Cartouche
1962 La Gourmandise
1962 The Seven Deadly Sins
1963 People in Luck
1964 Male Companion
1964 That Man from Rio
1965 Up to His Ears
1966 King of Hearts
1967 The Oldest Profession
1968 Don't Play with Martians
1969 The Devil by the Tail
1970 Give Her the Moon
1971 Touch and Go
1972 Dear Louise
1973 The Magnificent One
1975 Incorrigible
1977 Julie pot-de-colle
1978 Dear Inspector
1979 The Skirt Chaser
1980 Jupiter's Thigh
1981 Psy
1983 The African
1984 Louisiana
1986 The Gypsy
1988 Chouans!
1990 1001 Nights
1991 Les clés du paradis
1994 Tales from the Zoo
1995 Les hommes et les femmes sont faits pour vivre heureux… mais pas ensemble
1996 Le Veilleur de nuit
1997 On Guard
2000 Amazon
2002 Madame Sans-Gêne
2003 Un amour en kit
2003 Y aura pas école demain
2004 Viper in the Fist
Scenario Writer:
1959 The 400 Blows
1960 The Love Game
1961 Five Day Lover
1961 The Joker
1962 Cartouche
1962 La Gourmandise
1962 The Seven Deadly Sins
1963 People in Luck
1964 Male Companion
1964 That Man from Rio
1965 Up to His Ears
1966 King of Hearts
1967 The Oldest Profession
1968 Don't Play with Martians
1969 The Devil by the Tail
1970 Give Her the Moon
1971 Touch and Go
1972 Dear Louise
1973 The Magnificent One
1975 Incorrigible
1977 Julie pot-de-colle
1978 Dear Inspector
1979 The Skirt Chaser
1980 Jupiter's Thigh
1981 Psy
1983 The African
1984 Louisiana
1986 The Gypsy
1988 Chouans!
1990 1001 Nights
1991 Les clés du paradis
1994 Tales from the Zoo
1995 Les hommes et les femmes sont faits pour vivre heureux… mais pas ensemble
1996 Le Veilleur de nuit
1997 On Guard
2000 Amazon
2002 Madame Sans-Gêne
2003 Un amour en kit
2003 Y aura pas école demain
2004 Viper in the Fist
Screenplay:
1959 The 400 Blows
1960 The Love Game
1961 Five Day Lover
1961 The Joker
1962 Cartouche
1962 La Gourmandise
1962 The Seven Deadly Sins
1963 People in Luck
1964 Male Companion
1964 That Man from Rio
1965 Up to His Ears
1966 King of Hearts
1967 The Oldest Profession
1968 Don't Play with Martians
1969 The Devil by the Tail
1970 Give Her the Moon
1971 Touch and Go
1972 Dear Louise
1973 The Magnificent One
1975 Incorrigible
1977 Julie pot-de-colle
1978 Dear Inspector
1979 The Skirt Chaser
1980 Jupiter's Thigh
1981 Psy
1983 The African
1984 Louisiana
1986 The Gypsy
1988 Chouans!
1990 1001 Nights
1991 Les clés du paradis
1994 Tales from the Zoo
1995 Les hommes et les femmes sont faits pour vivre heureux… mais pas ensemble
1996 Le Veilleur de nuit
1997 On Guard
2000 Amazon
2002 Madame Sans-Gêne
2003 Un amour en kit
2003 Y aura pas école demain
2004 Viper in the Fist
Writer:
1959 The 400 Blows
1960 The Love Game
1961 Five Day Lover
1961 The Joker
1962 Cartouche
1962 La Gourmandise
1962 The Seven Deadly Sins
1963 People in Luck
1964 Male Companion
1964 That Man from Rio
1965 Up to His Ears
1966 King of Hearts
1967 The Oldest Profession
1968 Don't Play with Martians
1969 The Devil by the Tail
1970 Give Her the Moon
1971 Touch and Go
1972 Dear Louise
1973 The Magnificent One
1975 Incorrigible
1977 Julie pot-de-colle
1978 Dear Inspector
1979 The Skirt Chaser
1980 Jupiter's Thigh
1981 Psy
1983 The African
1984 Louisiana
1986 The Gypsy
1988 Chouans!
1990 1001 Nights
1991 Les clés du paradis
1994 Tales from the Zoo
1995 Les hommes et les femmes sont faits pour vivre heureux… mais pas ensemble
1996 Le Veilleur de nuit
1997 On Guard
2000 Amazon
2002 Madame Sans-Gêne
2003 Un amour en kit
2003 Y aura pas école demain
2004 Viper in the Fist
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