Claude Sautet
Highest Rated: 100% The Big Risk (1960)
Lowest Rated: 85% A Heart in Winter (1992)
Birthday: Feb 23, 1924
Birthplace: Montrouge, France
Sautet is one of France's leading chroniclers of middle-class, and especially middle-aged, life. He began his career as an assistant (e.g., to Jacques Becker on the classic gangster yarn, "Touchez pas au Grisbi" 1954), served as a TV producer and earned a reputation as a superior scenarist before directing his first feature, "Bonjour sourire," in 1955. His first significant achievement, the craftily handled underworld melodrama "The Big Risk" (1959), was overshadowed by the activities of the younger, New Wave directors. Sautet came into his own, however, with "The Things of Life" (1970), a keenly observed study of a mid-life crisis triggered by an automobile accident, which won the Prix Delluc at Cannes. Like many of the director's subsequent films, it starred Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli.
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Claude Sautet
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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96% |
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Nelly & Monsieur Arnold | Director | $1.2M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud |
Director, Writer |
- | 1995 |
85% |
|
A Heart in Winter |
Director, Screenwriter |
$22.3K | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Few Days With Me | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quelques jours avec moi | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
|
Waiter! |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
|
Un Mauvais Fils |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Bad Son | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
|
Une histoire simple | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Simple Story | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
|
Mado |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Old Gun | Writer | - | 1975 |
88% |
|
Vincent, Francois, Paul... and the Others | Director | - | 1974 |
100% |
|
Cesar and Rosalie | Director | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | César et Rosalie |
Director, Writer |
- | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swashbuckler | Screenwriter | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
|
Max and the Junkmen |
Director, Writer |
$25.1K | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Things of Life | Director | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pillaged | Screenwriter | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La vie de château | Writer | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dictator's Guns | Director | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Symphony for a Massacre | Screenwriter | - | 1963 |
100% |
|
The Big Risk | Director | $37.0K | 1960 |
97% |
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Eyes Without a Face | Writer | $52.7K | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lock Up Your Spoons | Assistant Director | - | 1956 |