Julien Duvivier

66 films · 1919 to 1967
Born 3 October 1896, Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France · Died 30 October 1967

Julien Duvivier was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are La Bandera, Pépé le Moko, Little World of Don Camillo, Panic (Panique), Deadlier Than the Male and Marianne de ma jeunesse. Jean Renoir called him, a "great technician, [a] rigorist, a poet".

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Julien Duvivier

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Defining films

Critical context

“If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the cinema, I would place a statue of Julien Duvivier at the entrance” (Jean Renoir, 1967)

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