- Anatole Dauman
Anatole Dauman (1925 in
Warsaw -April 8 ,1998 inParis ) was a French film producer. He produced films byJean-Luc Godard ,Robert Bresson ,Wim Wenders ,Nagisa Oshima ,Andrei Tarkovsky ,Chris Marker ,Volker Schlöndorff ,Walerian Borowczyk , andAlain Resnais .He was a principal figure in
Argos Films , a company that was a very important vehicle in creating opportunities for the "Left bank" filmmakers to emerge from the overallNouvelle Vague .Early Life and Career
Anatole Dauman was born in
Warsaw in 1925 and later emigrated to France.In 1951, he formed Argos Films with Philippe Lifchitz. It was a niche production company with the aim of making films on art which were inspired by the work of the Italian documentary filmmaker
Luciano Emmer . Dauman produced the first films ofPierre Kast ,Jean Aurel andChris Marker . In 1953, they gained an advance from a distributor that enabled them to produceAlexander Astruc 's "Crimson Curtain", which received a "prime a la qualite". After that they producedAlain Resnais ' "Night and Fog " and two films by Chris Marker, "Sunday in Peking " and "Letter from Siberia ".In 1959, Argos initiated the production of Resnais' "
Hiroshima mon amour ". They also produced Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad ". They also produced the ethnographic film the cinema verite a manifesto byJean Rouch and the sociologistEdgar Morin . Morin wrote an article in the January 1960 France-Observateur. The sense of the film was not one of documentary or sociology for it wasn't intended to describe rather it is an experience lived by its authors and actors'. [Marie Michel. 2003. The French New Wave. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp 63-64. ] Dauman went on to produce two films forJean-Luc Godard - "Masculin, féminin " (1966) and "Two or Three Things I Know About Her " (1967). Argos also produced two byRobert Bresson , "Au Hasard Balthazar " (1966) and "Mouchette " (1967).References
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