Death of the director Jacques Rouffio – francetv info

The director Jacques Rouffio marked the years 1970-80 with several renomés films. Among them: “The passing of Sanssouci” or “Sugar” and “Sept morts sur ordonnance”. He died Friday at age 87 in Paris

In 1975, the filmmaker chose Auvergne to turn one of his major films. “Sept morts sur ordonnance” where he addresses the medical world. The script was signed by the Auvergne Georges Conchon and brought together actors like Gerard Depardieu and Jane Birkin. Part of the film takes place at the Hotel Dieu, where the team had stayed two weeks between the months of June and July. The director and the actors were then returned turn in Auvergne, this time on the side of Durtol.

The film, nominated four times for an Oscar in 1976 (Best Film, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Editing) had finally won a single trophy, the Best Editing.

Movies denouncing

Born in August 1928 in Marseille, the director and screenwriter began as assistant director Jean Delannoy, in 1953 on the movie ” route Napoleon “. It runs many films as an assistant, including “Gorillas” by Bernard Borderie, and assists Gilles Grangier or Jean-Pierre Mocky.

In 1967 he directed his first feature film, “The Horizon” which deals with the revolt of the soldiers in 1917. He then attack, “with a sense of cruelty and buffoonery, two other taboos of French society,” describe his children the medical world with “Seven morts sur ordonnance “(1976), and market speculation with” sugar “(1978), which recounts a case of fraud from the speculative bubble in the price of sugar.

in 1982, he directed “La Passante du Sans-Souci,” the latest film Romy Schneider. Among his favorite actors, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Carmet and especially Michel Piccoli. It will also lead Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Adjani and Serge Reggiani in “Violette et François” (1977). His latest film feature film will be “The Red Orchestra” released in 1989.

Jacques Rouffio has also worked for television, his last TV movie adapted from a story by Maupassant, “Miss Harriet “in 2007.

” the dance of all the great French actors “

” His films will, “responded Gilles Jacob, the former President of the Cannes Festival, for which “he complained, both subtly and fearless type”.
“Sugar” was a denunciation of financial shenanigans, it’s like today! “Sept morts sur ordonnance” was denouncing the dishonest medicine, this desire to make money in a clinic as a trade. “

” We think a film by Bertrand Tavernier, the French school which, as did the American film denounces the wickedness and scheming. With a healthy jubilation, “adds Jacob. This” still reviewing some famous scenes of “Sugar” with Hanin, Carmet, Depardieu … And then Charles Vanel in “Sept morts sur ordonnance”. With Rouffio was “the dance of all the great French actors.”