Roger Leenhardt
Directing·July 23, 1903·† December 4, 1985 — 82 years old·Montpellier, Hérault, France
Roger Leenhardt (23 July 1903 – 4 December 1985) was a French writer and filmmaker.
Born in a bourgeois Protestant family, this brilliant student of philosophy was very soon fascinated by cinema. Through a cousin, he started working for the newsreel program Éclair Journal and in 1934 set up his own production company with René Zuber, "Les Films du Compas," later known as, "Roger Leenhardt Films.”
As a critic in the journal Esprit, he was considered one of the most perceptive observers of pre-war France and strongly influenced André Bazin and the entire "Nouvelle Vague.”
Known For
Filmography · 17
1977The Man Who Loved WomenM. Betany, le directeur des éditions1967Le rougeDirector1967Le Beatnik et le minetDirector · Writer1964The Married WomanSelf1963Trois portraits d'un oiseau qui n'existe pasProducer1962Midnight MeetingDirector · Writer1958DaumierDirector · Writer1957Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheurProducer1955The Norman Conquest of EnglandDirector1951BalzacProducer1950MetroDirector1948The Last VacationDirector · Writer1947Love Around the HouseWriter1946New Ways for Old MoroccoDirector1946The Magic FluteScreenplay1946The Birth of CinemaWriter · Director · Producer1946Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew UpProducer