Marcel Blistène, born Marcel Blitstein (3 June 1911 in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
– 2 August 1991), was a French
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
.
Marcel Blistène joined
Paramount
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in 1930 as an assistant, after studying literature. He then began a career as a film journalist, for ''
Pour vous'' and ''
Cinémonde
''Cinémonde'' was a weekly popular film magazine which existed between 1928 and 1971 with six-year interruption due to its ban during the Nazi occupation of France. It was one of the best-selling magazines in its category particularly in the 195 ...
''.
He made his first movie ''
Étoile sans lumière'' in 1945, and in the thirteen years that followed, he only directed ten more motion pictures.
Filmography
;Director
* ''Les Amants de demain'' (1959)
* ''Sylviane de mes nuits'' (1957)
* ''Gueule d'ange'' (1955)
* ''Fire Under Her Skin'' (1954)
* ''
This Age Without Pity
''This Age Without Pity'' (French: ''Cet âge est sans pitié'') is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Marcel Blistène and starring Colette Darfeuil, André Alerme and Jean Tissier. Bazin p.259 It was shot using the Gevacolor process. It was f ...
'' (1952)
* ''
Bibi Fricotin
''Bibi Fricotin'' is a 1924 French comic strip series, drawn by , who also made ''Les Pieds Nickelés''. The first panels appeared on 5 October 1924 in ''Le Petit Illustré'', published by ''La Société parisienne d' édition''.
Character
Bibi Fr ...
'' (1951)
* ''Le Sorcier du ciel'' (1949)
* ''
Night Express'' (1948)
* ''
Back Streets of Paris'' (1946)
* ''
Star Without Light'' (1946)
;Writer
* ''Sylviane de mes nuits'' (1957)
* ''Gueule d'ange'' (1955)
* ''Fire Under Her Skin'' (1954)
* ''
Star Without Light'' (1946)
;Producer
* ''Sylviane de mes nuits'' (1957)
External links
*
1911 births
1991 deaths
Film directors from Paris
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