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François Reichenbach

François Reichenbach

Director · Born 1921-07-03 · Paris, France

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Biography

François Arnold Reichenbach (3 July 1921 – 2 February 1993) was a French film director, cinematographer producer and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 aEarly life François Reichenbach was born in 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His father Bernard Reichenbach was a successful businessman and his mother Germaine Angèle Sarah Monteux had a passion for music, which she passed on to young François. His maternal grandfather Gaston Monteux was a wealthy industrialist: he was one of the first to buy paintings by Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Soutine, Utrillo and Modigliani. In his memoirs François Reichenbach says: "At the age of five I was terrified by all the faces in the paintings. And I became a forger. I added mustaches and hairs to the nudes of Modigliani. This hoax takes on another dimension when you know that I made a film with Orson Welles about the forger Elmyr de Hory in 1973. He is the nephew of the industrialist and manuscript and book collector Jacques Guérin and the cousin of the film producer Pierre Braunberger, who encouraged him to make films. During the Second World War, François Reichenbach went to Geneva. Although he was born in France, he also has Swiss natio…

Directed

  1. F for Fake (1973) — Director
  2. The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968) — Director
  3. America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960) — Director
  4. Do You Hear the Dogs Barking? (1974) — Director
  5. 13 Days in France (1968) — Director
  6. The Marines (1957) — Director
  7. The Right of the Maddest (1973) — Director
  8. Arthur Rubinstein: The Love of Life (1969) — Director
  9. Portrait d'Orson Welles (1968) — Director
  10. Last Spring (1954) — Director
  11. The Winner (1961) — Director
  12. Sex O’Clock USA (1976) — Director
  13. Nus Masculins (1954) — Director
  14. Decameron '69 (1969) — Director
  15. Houston Texas (1956) — Director
  16. Medicine Ball Caravan (1971) — Director
  17. J'ai tout donné (1972) — Director
  18. L’Indiscret (1974) — Director
  19. Houston, Texas (1981) — Director
  20. Yehudi Menuhin, chemin de lumière (1970) — Director
  21. Village Sweetness (1964) — Director
  22. Spécial Bardot (1968) — Director
  23. L'américain se détend (1958) — Director
  24. Tant qu'il y aura des enfants il y aura des clowns (1980) — Director
  25. The Lovers of the France (1964) — Director
  26. Voyage de Brigitte Bardot aux USA (1966) — Director
  27. Mexico Mexico (1968) — Director
  28. In Memory of Rock (1963) — Director
  29. Illuminations (1963) — Director
  30. Michel Legrand (1992) — Director
  31. Dunoyer de Ségonzac (1964) — Director
  32. Lomelin (1964) — Director
  33. Le Paris des mannequins (1963) — Director
  34. The Little Café (1963) — Director
  35. Impressions de New York (1956) — Director
  36. Le Japon insolite (1983) — Director
  37. Le Carnaval de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1965) — Director
  38. Violence et Beaute (1981) — Director
  39. Visages de Paris (1955) — Director
  40. Images, rythmes et percussions (1969) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. F for Fake (1973) — Self
  2. Life Love Death (1969) — Self
  3. Sacrée soirée (1987) — Self
  4. Apostrophes (1975) — Self
  5. L’Indiscret (1974) — François Reichenbach
  6. J'ai tout donné (1972) — Self
  7. Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018) — Self (archive footage)
  8. Houston, Texas (1981) — Self
  9. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
  10. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
  11. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
  12. Samedi soir (1971) — Self
  13. Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson (1966) — Self
  14. Pour le plaisir (1964) — Self