Victor Vicas (25 March 1918 – 9 December 1985) was a Russian-born 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 ...

and

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. His film ''

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'' was entered into the

7th Berlin International Film Festival The 7th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1957. The International Federation of Film Critics awarded FIPRESCI Award for the first time this year. The Golden Bear was awarded to the American film '' 12 Angr ...

. Between 1974 and 1983 he directed all thirty six episodes of the French TV series ''

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''.

Selected filmography

* '' Dreams That Money Can Buy'' (1947, director: Hans Richter) - cinematographer * '' No Way Back'' (1953) - director * '' A Double Life'' (1954) - director * ''

Master of Life and Death ''Master of Life and Death'' (German: ''Herr über Leben und Tod'') is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Maria Schell, Ivan Desny and Wilhelm Borchert. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin and locatio ...

'' (1955) - director * ''

I'll Get Back to Kandara ''I'll Get Back to Kandara'' (French: ''Je reviendrai à Kandara'') is a 1956 French drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring François Périer, Daniel Gélin and Bella Darvi.Rège p.240 The film's art direction was by Raymond Gabu ...

'' (1956) - director * ''

'' (1957) - director * '' Count Five and Die'' (1957) - director * ''

Amour de poche ''Amour de poche'' (''Girl in His Pocket'') is a French comedy fantasy film from 1957, directed by Pierre Kast, written by France Roche, starring Jean Marais. The scenario was based on a novel ''Diminishing Draft'' of Waldemar Kaempffert.< ...

'' (1957, director:

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) - actor * ' (1959) - director * '' Jons und Erdme'' (1959) - director * '' Two Among Millions'' (1961) - director; co-director: Wieland Liebske * '' Stop Train 349'' (1963, director:

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) - translation to English * ''

Jack and Jenny ''Jack and Jenny'' (german: Jack und Jenny) is a 1963 West German comedy film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Brett Halsey, Senta Berger and Michael Hinz.Bock & Bergfelder p.38 The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst H. Al ...

'' (1963)

References

External links

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Victor Vicas Collection
at Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt (German website) 1918 births 1985 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters French cinematographers 20th-century French male writers Soviet emigrants to France {{France-film-director-stub