Michel Drach

Michel Drach

Known for

Directing

Born

October 18, 1930

Birthplace

Paris, France

Died

February 15, 1990 (aged 59)

Biography

Michel Drach begins at the time of the New Wave, but belongs to no current. He realizes romantic movies, very political films that scandal movies on very personal melancholy.

After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, it is oriented towards the cinema by his cousin Jean-Pierre Melville, where he became the assistant. It begins with short films in a very personal invoice, which Soliloques the poor (1951) and Auditorium (1957) and then passes feature film is not buried on Sunday (1959) study on the existential loneliness of a "Black" in Paris, which earned him the Louis Delluc price announcement by the style of filming and production method, the New Wave.

The delicacy and warmth...

Best known work

The Silence of the Sea
The Silence of the Sea
1949
The Red Sweater
The Red Sweater
1979
Violins at the Ball
Violins at the Ball
1974
Elise, or Real Life
Elise, or Real Life
1970
One Does Not Bury Sunday
One Does Not Bury Sunday
1960
Gramps Is a Great Guy!
Gramps Is a Great Guy!
1987
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
1982
Replay
Replay
1977
Amelie or The Time to Love
Amelie or The Time to Love
1961
Spécial cinéma
Spécial cinéma
1974

Filmography

  1. 1987

    Gramps Is a Great Guy!

    Writer, Director

  2. 1986

    Sauve-toi, Lola

    Writer, Director

  3. 1982

    Guy de Maupassant

    Director, Writer

  4. 1979

    The Red Sweater

    Director, Scenario Writer

  5. 1977

    Replay

    Director, Scenario Writer, Production Director

  6. 1975

  7. 1975

    Les Rendez-vous du dimancheTV

    as Self (2 episodes)

  8. 1974

    Spécial cinémaTV

    as Self (1 episode)

  9. 1974

    Violins at the Ball

    as Michel, Director

  10. 1970

    Elise, or Real Life

    Director, Writer

  11. 1966

  12. 1966

    Diamond Safari

    Director, Writer

  13. 1965

  14. 1961

    Amelie or The Time to Love

    Screenplay, Director

  15. 1960

    One Does Not Bury Sunday

    Director, Producer, Writer

  16. 1949

    The Silence of the Sea

    Second Assistant Director

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