Anatole Dauman
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Anatole Dauman (1925 in Warsaw - April 8, 1998 in Paris) was a French film producer. He produced films by Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Wim Wenders, Nagisa Oshima, Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, Volker Schlöndorff, Walerian Borowczyk, and Alain Resnais.
He was a principal figure in Argos Films, a company that was a very important vehicle in creating opportunities for the "Left bank" filmmakers to emerge from the overall Nouvelle Vague.
Early Life and Career
Anatole Dauman was born in Warsaw in 1925 and later emigrated to France.
In 1951, he formed Argos Films with Philippe Lifchitz. It was a niche production company with the aim of making films on art which were inspired by the work of the Italian documentary filmmaker Luciano Emmer. Dauman produced the first films of Pierre Kast, Jean Aurel and Chris Marker. In 1953, they gained an advance from a distributor that enabled them to produce Alexander Astruc's The Crimson Curtain, which received a prime a la qualite. After that they produced Alain Resnais' Night and Fog and two films by Chris Marker, Sunday in Peking and Letter from Siberia.
In 1959, Argos initiated the production of Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour. They also produced Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad. They also produced the ethnographic film the cinema verite a manifesto by Jean Rouch and the sociologist Edgar Morin. Morin wrote an article in the January 1960 France-Observateur. The sense of the film was not one of documentary or sociology for it wasn't intended to describe rather it is an experience lived by its authors and actors'. Dauman went on to produce two films for Jean-Luc Godard - Masculin, féminin (1966) and Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967). Argos also produced two by Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) and Mouchette (1967).
Éphémérides
- Moved to France as a child.
- Fought in the French Resistance during WWII.
- 1949 Co-founded (with Philippe Lifchitz) Argos Films.
- 1955 Garnered international attention with Alain Resnais' "Night and Fog".
- 1959 Through Argos, released "Hiroshima, Mon Amour", directed by Resnais.
- 1962 Produced Chris Marker's "La Jetee/The Pier".
- 1976 Engendered controvery with the release of Nagisa Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses".
- 1979 Argos was one of the production companies involved with Volker Schlondorff's award-winning "The Tin Drum".
- 1984 Produced Wim Wenders' English-language film "Paris, Texas".
- 1986 Served as producer of Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, "The Sacrifice".
- 1987 Reteamed with Wenders for "Wings of Desire".
- 1991 Third teaming with Wenders, "Until the End of the World".
- 1996 Last film, Chris Marker's "Level Five".
Filmographie
- 1951 : L'Affaire Manet de Jean Aurel
- 1953 : Mina de Vanghel de Maurice Barry et Maurice Clavel
- 1955 : Nuit et brouillard de Alain Resnais
- 1956 : Les Hommes de la baleine de Mario Ruspoli
- 1957 : Lettre de Sibérie de Chris Marker
- 1958 : Broadway by Light de William Klein
- 1959 : Les Astronautes de Walerian Borowczyk et Chris Marker
- 1959 : Hiroshima mon amour de Alain Resnais
- 1960 : Paris la belle de Pierre Prévert
- 1961 : Le Rendez-vous de minuit de Roger Leenhardt
- 1961 : Madame se meurt de Jean Cayrol et Claude Durand
- 1961 : Chronique d'un été de Edgar Morin et Jean Rouch
- 1962 : La Jetée de Chris Marker
- 1962 : À Valparaíso de Joris Ivens
- 1963 : Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour de Alain Resnais
- 1964 : Eves futures de Jacques Baratier
- 1965 : Les Oiseaux sont des cons de Chaval
- 1965 : Mona, l'étoile sans nom de Henri Colpi
- 1966 : Masculin, féminin de Jean-Luc Godard
- 1966 : La Guerre est finie de Alain Resnais
- 1967 : 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle de Jean-Luc Godard
- 1967 : Mouchette de Robert Bresson
- 1969 : Jeanne et la moto de Diourka Medveczky
- 1971 : L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste de Jean-Daniel Pollet
- 1972 : La Chavalanthrope de Mario Ruspoli
- 1973 : La Planète sauvage de René Laloux
- 1974 : Ô Gaule de Pierre-Marie Goulet
- 1974 : Le Beau samedi de Renaud Walter
- 1974 : Contes immoraux de Walerian Borowczyk
- 1975 : La Bête de Walerian Borowczyk
- 1976 : L'Empire des sens (Ai no corrida) de Nagisa Ōshima
- 1976 : Le Coup de grâce (Template:Lang) de Volker Schlöndorff
- 1977 : L'Amour monstre de tous les temps de Walerian Borowczyk
- 1978 : L'Empire de la passion (Ai no borei) de Nagisa Ōshima
- 1979 : Demain la petite fille sera en retard à l'école de Michel Boschet
- 1979 : Le Tambour (Template:Lang) de Volker Schlöndorff
- 1981 : Les Fruits de la passion de Shuji Terayama
- 1981 : Le Faussaire (Template:Lang) de Volker Schlöndorff
- 1983 : La Belle captive de Alain Robbe-Grillet
- 1984 : Scherzo infernal de Walerian Borowczyk
- 1984 : Paris, Texas de Wim Wenders
- 1987 : Les Ailes du désir (Template:Lang) de Wim Wenders
- 1997 : Level Five de Chris Marker