FILM DIRECTOR

Robert Bresson

1901 - 1999

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Robert Bresson (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ bʁɛsɔ̃]; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson made a notable contribution to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Bresson has received more than 1,288,519 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Robert Bresson is the 94th most popular film director (down from 76th in 2019), the 720th most popular biography from France (down from 584th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Film Director.

Robert Bresson is most famous for his minimalist style of filmmaking, which is often described as "austere." He was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Robert Bresson ranks 94 out of 2,041. Before him are Satyajit Ray, Jim Jarmusch, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Richard Attenborough, William Friedkin, and Andrzej Żuławski. After him are René Clair, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Michael Mann, Zhang Yimou, and Sam Peckinpah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Robert Bresson ranks 40. Before him are Henning von Tresckow, Witold Pilecki, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Jaroslav Seifert, Milton H. Erickson, and Margaret Mead. After him are Jascha Heifetz, Nikolai Vatutin, Henri Lefebvre, Vincent du Vigneaud, Alfred Tarski, and José Nasazzi. Among people deceased in 1999, Robert Bresson ranks 17. Before him are Wilt Chamberlain, Yehudi Menuhin, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Wassily Leontief, Georgios Papadopoulos, and Willi Stoph. After him are Raisa Gorbacheva, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe DiMaggio, Julius Nyerere, and Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani.

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In France

Among people born in France, Robert Bresson ranks 720 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert Hossein (1927), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), Pierre Boulez (1925), Nadia Boulanger (1887), Samuel de Champlain (1567), and Michel Legrand (1932). After him are Jean Meslier (1664), Michèle Mercier (1939), Charlotte of Savoy (1441), René Clair (1898), Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754), and Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Robert Bresson ranks 13. Before him are Jacques Tati (1907), Claude Chabrol (1930), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Alain Resnais (1922), and William Wyler (1902). After him are René Clair (1898), Marcel Carné (1906), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Claude Lelouch (1937), René Clément (1913), and Jacques Demy (1931).

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Filmography

A Man Escaped
Director
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
Nov 11o 19567.951 / 10
Pickpocket
Director
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
Dec 16o 19597.296 / 10
Au Hasard Balthazar
Director
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
May 25o 19667.597 / 10