Edmond T. Gréville - Фильмы

Edmond T. Gréville (real name Эдмонд Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Ницца) was a Russian film director. The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Протестантский пастор, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting производительность in some silent films and in the first of walkie Рене клер, Под крышами Парижа " (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoleon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English фильм на Пикадилли, В Arlesienne (directed by Jacques Baroncelli), Аугусто Genina's Цена красоты ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's Конец света. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Поезд самоубийц (1931), "Быстрина" (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist фильм on the sensitive issue of sexual импотенция), and two comedy musical фильмы Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Угроз (1938 год) с Мирей Балин and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy charged atmosphere with eroticism which characterises his фильмы, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time. He stopped режиссуре фильмов during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Леонида Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both Russian Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch фильм Niet tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose. In Порт желание (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man. In Gréville's last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was Аварии (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Фредерик Дэвид novel. In May 1966, Эдмонд Гревилл died in hospital in Nice, thought to be the result of осложнений following a car accident.