Jacques Becker

Jacques Becker

Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latter's peak period, including such works as Partie de campagne (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937). In the early part of World War II, Becker was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp for a year. During the Nazi occupation of France, he became a film director in his own right and he also joined the Comité de libération du cinéma français. He would go on to direct the period romance Casque d'or (1952), the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and the prison escape drama Le Trou (1959). While he remains lesser-known internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir, Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker, with Casque d'or held in high esteem among film critics. Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Becker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
    Known for
    Directing
    Place of birth
    Paris, France
    Birthday
    9/15/1906
A Day in the Country
A Day in the Country
7.3
Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
Boudu Saved from Drowning
7
Le Bled
Le Bled
5.3
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
6.4
Chotard and Co.
Chotard and Co.
4.5
Grand Illusion
Grand Illusion
7.8
Life Is Ours
Life Is Ours
6.2
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker
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