Philippe de Broca
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Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac (15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French film 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. He was the son of a cinema set designer and the grandson of a well-known painter, Alexis de Broca. He studied at the Paris Photography and Cinematography School (école Vaugirard), graduating in 1953. He carried out his military service with the French Army's 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 in Algeria, 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 [2] in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
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Behind the Camera
Los 400 golpes
Assistant Director
Les 1001 nuits
Director, Escritor
Le Magnifique
Director, Escritor
Psy
Director
Cartouche
Director, Escritor
Louisiane
Director
Le Bossu
Director, Guionista
Le Cavaleur
Director, Escritor
L'Homme de Rio
Director, Escritor
Chouans !
Director, Scenario Writer
Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Director
Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
Director
Tendre Poulet
Director, Adaptation
L'Incorrigible
Director, Escritor
Le Roi de cœur
Director, Productor
Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde
Director
Amazone
Director, Escritor
Le diable par la queue
Director
Les Veinards
Director, Escritor
Un monsieur de compagnie
Director, Escritor
Chère Louise
Director
Les Clés du Paradis
Director, Escritor
Le Beau Serge
Assistant Director
La Gitane
Director, Escritor
La Poudre d'escampette
Director, Escritor
L'africain
Director, Escritor
Le Farceur
Director, Scenario Writer
Les Caprices de Marie
Director, Guionista
Vipère au poing
Director, Escritor
La Gourmandise
Director
As Actor/Actress
Champs-Elysées
Self
Sacrée soirée
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Cinépanorama
Self
Los 400 golpes
Homme dans une fête foraine (non crédité)
Al Final de la Escapada
A Journalist (uncredited)
Le Magnifique
Second Plumber (uncredited)
Cartouche
L'homme qui crie 'les aristocrates à la lanterne'
Le Roi de cœur
Adolf Hitler
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo l'incorrigible
Le diable par la queue
Un passant suédois
Les Veinards
Le passant qui reçoit l'affiche (segment "Une nuit avec la vedette")
Olhar Estrangeiro
Self
Le Beau Serge
Jacques Rivette de la Chasuble
Elle s'appelait Françoise
Self
Droit de Réponse
Self
Les Pieds nickelés
le chauffeur de taxi
Le Cinéma de papa
Jean Timent
Les Jeux de l'amour
L'homme au cabaret Le Bateau Mouche
Les Filles de La Rochelle
Le Terminus des prétentieux
Self (archive footage)
Les Petites Demoiselles
Le timide
Trois rendez-vous
Alex, le peintre
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Self