Christian-Jaque
Former film critic (for CINEGRAF magazine), poster artist and art director turned successful director. His feature output, beginning in 1931 with the medium-length feature, "Bidon d'or," has been generally light and much of it fairly routine, but Christian-Jaque was a skilled and supple craftsman with a piquant visual eye who at his best could tell a story with an adult grace and considerable panache. Among Christian-Jaque's most notable films are "Les Pirates du rail" (1937), an exciting railroad melodrama which compares well with Hollywood action standards; the offbeat and poetic "Les Disparus de Saint Agil/Boys' School" (1938) with surrealist touches and a sense of childhood fantasy peppering an unusual mix of satire and murder mystery set at a boys school; "L'Assassinat de Pere Noel/Who Killed Santa Claus?" (1941), another strangely dreamlike film, with dark undertones, about the disappearance of an elderly storytelling mapmaker; and "Boule de suif" (1945), a handsomely wrought and intelligent retelling of Guy de Maupassant's story of the disparate effects a prostitute has on a motley group of people traveling by coach updated to WWII.
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doctor Justice |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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The Legend of Frenchie King | Director | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady Hamilton | Director | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dead Run | Director | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Making of a Lady | Director | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Other Truth | Director | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man From Cocody | Director | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Tempt the Devil | Director | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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The Black Tulip |
Director, Writer |
- | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Madame | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Babette Goes to War | Director | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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The Law Is the Law |
Director, Writer |
- | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adorable Creatures | Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nana |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucrecia Borgia | Director | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucrezia Borgia | Director | - | 1953 |
70% |
|
Fan-Fan the Tulip | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gypsy Fury |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soldier in Love | Director | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Singoalla | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Charterhouse of Parma |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Carmen | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Killed Santa Claus? | Director | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Raphaël le tatoué | Director | - | 1938 |
100% |
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The Pearls of the Crown | Director | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Un de la légion | Director | - | 1936 |