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Freddy Buache

Freddy Buache

Known for

Acting

Born

December 29, 1924

Birthplace

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Died

May 27, 2019 (aged 94)

Biography

Freddy Buache (29 December 1924 – 28 May 2019) was a Swiss journalist, cinema critic and film historian. He was the director of the Swiss Film Archive (a foundation for the conservation and study of films and cinematography) from 1951 to 1996. He was a privatdozent at the University of Lausanne.

He was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, spending his early childhood in Villars-Mendraz, Vaud, where his parents ran the Café de la Poste. The family moved to Lausanne in 1933, where Buache later attended the Collège Scientifique. A meeting with Henri Langlois in 1945 at an international cinema conference in Basle led to the start-up with other film enthusiasts of Lausanne's first film club in 1946....

Best known work

King Lear

King Lear

1988
CHoosing at Twenty

CHoosing at Twenty

2017
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

2009
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

2000
Spécial cinéma

Spécial cinéma

1974
The Other Eye

The Other Eye

1991
Les paradoxes de Buñuel

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

1998
Kulturplatz

Kulturplatz

2004
Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk

Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk

2013
Freddy Buache, le cinéma

Freddy Buache, le cinéma

2012

Filmography

  1. 2017

    CHoosing at Twenty

    as Self

  2. 2013

  3. 2012

  4. 2009

  5. 2004

    KulturplatzTV

    as Self (1 episode)

  6. 2000

  7. 1998

  8. 1991

  9. 1988

    King Lear

    as Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)

  10. 1974

    Spécial cinémaTV

    as Self (6 episodes)

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