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Julien Duvivier (8 October 1896, in Lille – 29 October 1967, in Paris) was a French film director. He rose to prominence in French cinema in the silent era, and directed some of the most notable films of the poetic realism in the 1930s, such as La belle équipe and Pépé le Moko.
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He was 71; he left behind a filmography comprising nearly 70 films. He is buried in the cemetery of Rueil-Malmaison in the Hauts-de-Seine . Rue Julien Duvivier in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon
Mar 17, 2017 · He made nearly seventy films, but resolutely refused to be labelled an auteur. Duvivier’s world is frequently cruel and pessimistic, harrowing and misanthropic.
Nov 5, 2015 · In the decade following his 1919 feature debut, the revenge melodrama Haceldama, Duvivier made twenty films. But it wasn’t until the sound era that he—and the financially troubled French industry as a whole—found success, at home and internationally.
Duvivier had just completed production on his final project, "Diaboliquement vôtre" (1967), when he was killed in an auto accident at the age of 71. Though his life and career ended with this tragic accident, his legacy lives on through his films and in the minds and hearts of many.
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In many Duvivier works, exile results in a tragedy, as with those set in the North African desert, or tropical forests, starring Jean Gabin (with whom he made ten films in total): La Bandera (1935) centred on the pursuit of an escaped murderer in France who joins the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco; Pépé le Moko (1937) set in Algeria where ...
Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He rose to prominence in French cinema in the silent era, and directed some of the most notable films of the poetic realism in the 1930s, such as La belle équipe and Pépé le Moko. During World War II he worked in the United States.
