Julien Duvivier (8 October 1896, Lille – 29 October 1967, Paris) was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960. He created a world of dark images born of a strange imagination. After the Second World War, he gave a pessimistic representation of French society, showing it as being dominated by hypocrisy, narrow clericalism, meanness and women's slyness. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are Pép...
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Julien Duvivier (8 October 1896, Lille – 29 October 1967, Paris) was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960. He created a world of dark images born of a strange imagination. After the Second World War, he gave a pessimistic representation of French society, showing it as being dominated by hypocrisy, narrow clericalism, meanness and women's slyness. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are Pépé le Moko, Panique and Voici le temps des assassins. Notwithstanding his being celebrated for his darkness, he enjoyed great success with his Don Camillo films, starring Fernandel.
It was as an actor, in 1916 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon under the direction of Andre Antoine, that Duvivier's career began. In 1918 he moved on to Gaumont, as a writer and assistant of, amongst others, André Antoine, Louis Feuillade and Marcel L'Herbier. In 1919 he directed his first film. In the 1920s several of his films had a religious concern; - Credo ou la...
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