Pierre Braunberger

Pierre Braunberger 29 July 1905 Paris 16 November 1990 Aubervilliers was a French producer executive producer and actor Born into a family of physicians Braunberger at the age of seven was already determined not have the same life as his father and not to take up medicine as a career He saw a screening of Fantômas at the Gaumont Théâtre the first cinema to open in Paris and decided to work in the cinema After the First World War at the age of 15 he produced and directed his first film Frankfurt in Germany He left for successive adventures in Berlin London at Brocklis establishments where he worked In 1923 he left for New York where he worked for a few weeks at Fox Film Corporation and became a director of production along with Ferdinand H Adam where he also worked on films with Frank Merrill In the course of his films in Los Angeles he came to know Irving Thalberg who employed him at MetroGoldwynMayer as one of his assistants He stayed there for eighteen months and established contacts with one of the greatest directors of the time Wanting to direct and produce in France he returned to Paris and got to know Jean Renoir with whom he worked on Avec qui il va tourner The Whirlpool of Fate Nana and Tireauflanc In 1929 Braunberger created Productions Pierre Braunberger and Néofilms for the production of his first Frenchspeaking film La route est belle by Robert Florey In 1930 Braunberger became head of the Pantheon Cinema and continued there for sixty years He renovated the lobby created 450 seats and installed Western Electric projectors and sound equipment Although subtitles were yet to be invented he was the first to show foreign films in their original versions One year later he met with Roger Richebé to produce under the name of Établissements BraunbergerRichebé A few films were produced such as le Blanc et le noir by Robert Florey Isnt Life a Bitch by Jean Renoir and Chocolatière et Fanny by Marc Allégret In 1933 still only 28 he decided to continue alone and formed studios de Billancourt which became ParisStudioCinéma During World War two he was not able to produce a film because he was Jewish At the end of the Second World War Braunberger transformed a local Gestapo office into the Cinema Studio Studio Lhmond which he used to discover new talents of the nouvelle vague including JeanPierre Melville JeanLuc Godard and Alain Resnais In 1966 he was the head of the jury at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival Braunberger had a close relationship with philosopher Gilles Deleuze In the late 1970s Braunberger produced two films for Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk Braunberger died in 1990 Source Article Pierre Braunberger from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30