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Philippe de Broca
Directing

Philippe de Broca
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1933-03-15,Paris, France
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

The Magnificent One

7.017

The Magnificent One
1973-11-23

6.9

Handsome Serge
1958-06-06

The Little Misses

0

The Little Misses
1964-07-14

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

6

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011-10-25

Droit de Réponse

10

Droit de Réponse
1981-12-12

The Devil by the Tail

6

The Devil by the Tail
1969-02-07

The Foreign Eye

6.071

The Foreign Eye
2006-10-26

Les pieds nickelés

5.8

Les pieds nickelés
1964-09-30

Elle s'appelait Françoise

0

Elle s'appelait Françoise
1996-12-12

6.4

The Love Game
1960-06-01

8.023

The 400 Blows
1959-06-03

The Girls of La Rochelle

0

The Girls of La Rochelle
1962-08-22

Le Cinema de Papa

6.3

Le Cinema de Papa
1971-02-10

7.5

Breathless
1960-03-16

6.9

King of Hearts
1966-12-21

6.385

Cartouche
1962-03-07

5.7

People in Luck
1963-04-26

Le Terminus des prétentieux

7

Le Terminus des prétentieux
2020-10-14

0

Three Dates
1953-12-31

0

Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25

Le Grand Échiquier

8

Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12

6.286

Champs-Elysées
1982-01-16

8

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04

6

Samedi soir
1971-01-09

6.5

Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02