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Christian Christian-Jaque Edit Profile

director screenwriter

Christian-Jaque was a French filmmaker.

Career

Christian-Jaque"s 1946 film A Lover"s Return was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Christian-Jaque began his motion picture career in the 1920s as an art director and production designer. By the early 1930s, he had moved into screenwriting and directing.

He continued working into the mid-1980s, though from 1970 on, most of his work was done for television

Christian-Jaque was born in Paris. He died at Boulogne-Billancourt in 1994.

Achievements

  • He won the Best Director award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for his popular swashbuckler Fanfan la Tulipe. At the 2nd Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Silver Bear award for the same film.

Membership

In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. In 1979, he was a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.