The director Jacques Rouffio died – The World

the director Jacques Rouffio, that has marked the years 1970-1980 with La Passante du Sans-Souci , Sugar or Sept Dead prescription , died Friday, July 8 to 87 years in Paris, announced his children in a statement. The Minister of Culture, Audrey Azoulay, on Saturday welcomed a filmmaker who “chooses difficult subjects” and “denounced through his time, (…) with a clear look and fun on our society. “

Born in August 1928 in Marseille, the director and screenwriter began as assistant director Jean Delannoy in 1953 on the film Napoleon Road . He had turned many films as an assistant, including “Gorilla” of Bernard Borderie, and attended Gilles Grangier or Jean-Pierre Mocky.

But it was 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 French society “, describe his children the medical world with Sept morts sur ordonnance (1976) and stock market speculation with Sugar (1978), which chronicles a case of fraud from the speculative bubble in the price of sugar. In 1982, he realized La Passante du Sans-Souci , the latest film by Romy Schneider.

“Report, subtly and without fear to type”

his favorite actors, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Carmet and especially Michel Piccoli. It will also lead Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Adjani and Serge Reggiani in Violette and Francois (1977). His latest film feature film has been The Red Orchestra , released in 1989.

Jacques Rouffio also worked a lot in television, his last TV movie adapted from a news Maupassant, Miss Harriet in 2007. “His films remain” , reacted Gilles Jacob, the former president of the Cannes film Festival, for which “there denounced, both subtly and without fear to type “.

” “ Sugar” was a denunciation of financial shenanigans and looks like today! “Seven Dead prescription” was denouncing the dishonest medicine, this desire to make money in a clinic as a trade. (…) One thinks of a film by Bertrand Tavernier, the French school, as did the American film denounces the wickedness and scheming. With a healthy jubilation. “

Mr. Jacobt ensures “[see] even some famous scenes from Sugar , with Hanin, Carmet, Depardieu … And then Charles Vanel in Sept Dead prescription ” . With Rouffio was “the dance of all the great French actors” .