Jean-Pierre Mocky
Directing
🎂 1929-07-06
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni. After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting. As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians. In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm. In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure). In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him. He died on 8 August 2019. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Self
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Self - Guest
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Self
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Jean Almereyda
1984
Self
1987
Albert de Morcerf
1954
Un Soldato (uncredited)
1954
Customer in the Restaurant
2017
The Screaming Patient (uncredited)
1983
Band Leader (uncredited)
1950
SĂ©but
1958
Le père
2011
Pierre
1953
Denis
1949
Pierre
1957
Shade
1992
Ralph Enger
1986
(uncredited)
1949
Jean Almereyda
1986
Jock
1982
Tramp with pram (uncredited)
1963
Ludovic
2013
Joseph Strauss (uncredited)
1949
1952
Page of the Queen (uncredited)
1946
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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(uncredited)
1951
Self
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Michel Dolannes
1974
Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Professor Lapine
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Self
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Andrea
1955
La Fouine, un gars de la bande
1953
Self (archive footage)
2010
Mathieu, the gunsmith
2007
Pierre
1950
Aurélien Brada
1989
Groomsman (uncredited)
1946
François Gérane
1959
Pascal, l'ermite
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Inspector Granowski
1984
Vincent Cabral
1970
Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
1951
Alex
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Extra
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Jacob Duff
2000
Groomsman
1950
Armand
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Alphonse de Lamartine
1954
Castellin
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Boris Lossef
1993
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Tarling
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Bruno Bombec
2000
Christophe
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Valentin Esbirol
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1954
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1954
2013
Lucas
2000
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1962
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Stef Tassel
1971
Tim
1990
Jean Mardet
2001
Self - Host (uncredited)
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Agent Willy
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Self
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Boris
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L'ange LĂ©onard
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le père de Mathieu
1998
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Inspecteur Richard Gordone
2002
Franco, le prĂŞtre borgne
1973
Dick Grant
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Mathias Caral
1974
Militiaman
1946
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