Dreamer sailor in “The bridesmaids of Rochefort”, prince charming in “donkey skin”, the producer of “Microcosmos” mostly affirmed like a committed cinema man. He turned out Thursday to Paris at the age of 80.
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A childhood without the penny, but without a complaint or sadness, was probably not foreign to the discretion of which he was always adorned. Actor, director, producer, bulimic work, occupied all his life for projects that have turned around the human, humanism and humanitarian, Jacques Perrin, born 13 July 1941 in Paris, has Never sold to noise and agitation, even less at the Veidariat. He preferred, by nature, the calm and the sweetness that had registered in his voice, his face and his gestures. The young sailor dreamers of Rochefort (1967), the director of documentaries and the white knight of independent production died on Thursday, April 21 in Paris, at the age of 80, announced his family to the France– Press.
His talent, he confided without false modesty, was to know how to bring together people who owned them. Jacques Perrin liked to take and learn from others, found in them the knowledge and energy needed to carry out his adventures. Pragmatic idealistic, of a quiet toughness, conscious of the time that goes down and the blue look resolutely turned towards the future, he held the bar without discouraging storms. From Z (1969) to the migratory people (2001) via the victory by singing (1976) and Himalayas, the childhood of a chief (1999), Jacques Perrin has not known easy filming. Each time he had to go to coal, seduce, convince.
Against the opinion of all
The obstinacy poses the first stone of its production house Reggane Films (later galated films), which he created in 1968 to resume, against the opinion of all, the project of Z, from Costa Gavras . The Greek filmmaker, who had made him play in killing compartment (1965) and a man of too much (1967), has just been released by the Americans. He is about to give up. “We then mounted a co-production with Algeria. Nobody wanted to follow us. (…) Let’s admit that we have made some accounting acrobatics, anticipated on success. Montand and Trintignant touched derisory stamps,” said Jacques Perrin. World in 1996. The day of its exit to the room, the operators expect a disaster. Z will be an international triumph. Four million entries in France. Rewards at the shovel, including the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, which will go to Algeria.
The experience gives wings to Jacques Perrin. It produces the following films of Costa-Gavras, headquarters (1973), special section (1974). And strives to another project: the cinema adaptation of the novel of Dino Buzzati (1940), the desert of tartars, which he has acquired the rights but on which several writers and filmmakers break the teeth. For ten years, Jacques Perrin clings. The film ends up finding his director in the person of Valerini Zurlini, and was born in 1976, with, in the role of the Ardent Lieutenant Drogo, Jacques Perrin. Which, the same year, gives the means to Jean-Jacques Annaud to realize a dream that he has been feeding for seven years: the victory singing – the story, in 1915 in the African bush, some French soldiers who, to deceive Their boredom more than by patriotism, decide to attack a German post. At the French box office, the film is a failure. Disleasure ten minutes, renamed in English Black and White in Color (“black and white”), he crosses the Atlantic and gets the Oscar of the best foreign film.
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