biography
pronunciation:
[bresõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–99)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Bromont-Lamothe, C France. At first a painter and photographer, he started serious work in the cinema with Les Anges du péché (1943, The Angels of Sin), but it was his next production La Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951, Diary of a Country Priest) which brought international acclaim, subsequently repeated with Un Condamné à mort s'est echappé (1956, trans A Man Escaped) and Le Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962, The Trial of Joan of Arc). Later productions are Lancelot du lac (1974), Le Diable, probablement (1977, The Devil, Probably), and L'Argent (1983, Money). |
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