Pierre Kast
{{short description|French film director and screenwriter}}
Pierre Kast ({{IPA|fr|kast|lang}}; 22 September 1920{{spaced ndash}}20 October 1984){{Cite web |title=Pierre Kast {{!}} Director, Writer, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440924/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}} was a French screenwriter, film and television director, and freedom fighter.
Biography
Prior to his work in film, Kast was a resistance activist in World War II, opposing the Vichy regime as a member of the Communist Students of Paris.{{Cite journal |last=Maublanc |first=René |date=1947 |title=French Teachers in the Resistance Movement |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40399811 |journal=Science & Society |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=38–52 |issn=0036-8237}}
As a member of the magazine Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s, Kast created many short films and documentaries. He also served as a critic for the magazine.{{Cite web |title=PIERRE KAST - Films & Bio - French New Wave Director |url=https://www.newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/pierre-kast.shtml |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=www.newwavefilm.com}}
Kast died from a heart attack on board an aircraft on 20 October 1984, aged 64.{{Cite web |title=Welcome on notreCinema |url=https://en.notrecinema.com/communaute/stars/stars.php3?staridx=22365&aftref=1 |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=en.notrecinema.com}}
Filmography
= Director =
- 1949: Les Charmes de l'existence, codirected with Jean Grémillon (short film)
- 1951: Les Femmes du Louvre (documentary)
- 1951: Arithmétique (documentary)
- 1952: Je sème à tout vent
- 1954: L'Architecte maudit: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (short film)
- 1957: Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur (short film)
- 1957: Amour de poche
- 1959: Images pour Baudelaire
- 1959: Des ruines et des hommes, codirected with Marcelle Lioret (short film)
- 1960: {{Interlanguage link multi|Le Bel Âge|fr|3=Le Bel Âge (film, 1960)|lt=Le Bel Âge}}
- 1960: Une question d'assurance
- 1960: La Morte saison des amours
- 1960: Thank You, Natercia
- 1962: P.X.O. (documentary)
- 1963: Portuguese Vacation
- 1964: {{Interlanguage link multi|Le Grain de sable|fr|3=Le Grain de sable (film, 1964)|lt=Le Grain de sable}}
- 1965: La Brûlure de mille soleils (short film)
- 1966: Les Carnets Brésiliens (TV documentary)
- 1968: Bandeira Branca de Oxalá (documentary)
- 1968: Drôle de jeu, codirected with Jean-Daniel Pollet
- 1972: Les Soleils de l'Ile de Pâques
- 1976: Un animal doué de déraison (A Nudez de Alexandra)
- 1980: Le Soleil en face
- 1982: La Guérilléra
- 1985: L'Herbe rouge (TV)
= Assistant director =
- 1949: Pattes blanches by Jean Grémillon
- 1951: L'Étrange Madame X by Jean Grémillon
- 1952: Jeux interdits, de René Clément (non credited)
- 1955: French Cancan by Jean Renoir
- 1955: Les Carnets du Major Thompson by Preston Sturges
= Writer =
- 1951: Arithmétique with Raymond Queneau
- 1952: Je sème à tout vent with François Chalais
- 1955: The Red Cloak
- 1959: Des ruines et des hommes with Marcelle Lioret
- 1960: {{Interlanguage link multi|Le Bel Âge|fr|3=Le Bel Âge (film, 1960)|lt=Le Bel Âge}} with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
- 1960: Une question d'assurance
- 1960: La Morte saison des amours
- 1960: Merci Natercia! with Peter Oser
- 1963: Vacances portugaises with Alain Aptekman, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Robert Scipion
- 1964: Le Grain de sable with Alain Aptekman
- 1965: Une balle au cœur with Didier Goulard and Jean-Daniel Pollet
- 1965: La Brûlure de mille soleils with Eduard Luis
- 1966: Les Carnets Brésiliens (TV)
- 1968: Bandeira Branca de Oxalá with Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
- 1970: Le Maître du temps with Jean-Daniel Pollet
- 1971: Le Petit matin with Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
- 1972: Les Soleils de l'Ile de Pâques
- 1974: L'Ironie du sort with Paul Guimard and Édouard Molinaro
- 1976: Un animal doué de déraison (A Nudez de Alexandra)
- 1980: Le Soleil en face with Alain Aptekman
- 1982: La Guérilléra with Antonio Tarruella
- 1985: L'Herbe rouge (TV)
References
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External links
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Category:French film directors
Category:French male screenwriters
Category:20th-century French screenwriters