Biography
Pierre Braunberger (29 July 1905, Paris – 16 November 1990, Aubervilliers) was a French producer, executive producer, and actor.
Born into a family of physicians, Braunberger at the age of seven was already determined not have the same life as his father, and not to take up medicine as a career. He saw a screening of Fantômas at the Gaumont Théâtre, the first cinema to open in Paris, and decided to work in the cinema.
After the First World War, at the age of 15, he produced and directed his first film: Frankfurt in Germany. He left for successive adventures in Berlin, London at Brocklis establishments, where he worked.
In 1923, he left for New York, where he worked for a few weeks at Fox Film Corporation, and became a director of production along with Ferdinand H. Adam where he also worked on films with Frank Merrill.
In the course of his films in Los Angeles, he came to know Irving Thalberg who employed him at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as one of his assistants. He stayed there for eighteen months, and established contacts with one of the greatest directors of the time.
Wanting to direct and produce in France, he returned to Paris and got to know Jean Renoir, with whom he worked on Avec qui il va tourner, The Whirlpool of Fate, Nana and Tire-au-flanc.
In 1929, Braunberger created Productions Pierre Braunberger and Néofilms for the production of his first French-speaking film (La route est belle by Robert Florey).
In 1930, Braunberger became head of the Pantheon Cinema and continued there for sixty years. He renovated the lobby, created 450 seats, and installed Western Electric projectors and sound equipment. Although subtitles were yet to be invented, he was the first to show foreign films in their original versions.
One year later, he met with Roger Richebé to produce under the name of Établissements Braunberger-Richebé. A few films were produced, such as le Blanc et le noir by Robert Florey, Isn't Life a Bitch? by Jean Renoir, and Chocolatière et Fanny by Marc Allégret. In 1933, still only 28, he decided to continue alone, and formed studios de Billancourt, which became Paris-Studio-Cinéma. During World War two he was not able to produce a film because he was Jewish.
At the end of the Second World War, Braunberger transformed a local Gestapo office into the Cinema Studio "Studio Lhmond", which he used to discover new talents of the "nouvelle vague", including Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
In 1966 he was the head of the jury at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival.
Braunberger had a close relationship with philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
In the late 1970s, Braunberger produced two films for Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk.
Braunberger died in 1990.
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Filmography
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Movies 124
Producer 117
self 3
TV Shows 1
Director 1
Writer 1
The Song of Styrene (2022)
Les chevaliers de la table ronde (1990)
Aller à Dieppe sans voir la mer (1989)
Madame de la Carlière ou Sur l'inconséquence du jugement public de nos actions particulières (1988)
Mémoires pour Simone (1986)
Dionysos (1984)
L'armoire (1979)
Private Collections (1979)
Immoral Women (1979)
The Risk of Living (1978)
Let's Make a Dirty Movie (1976)
Act of Aggression (1975)
Emilienne (1975)
Like a Pot of Strawberries (1974)
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
I. You. They. (1973)
The Suburbs Are Everywhere (1973)
On n'arrête pas le printemps (1972)
La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur (1972)
Êtes-vous fiancée à un marin grec ou à un pilote de ligne ? (1971)
On the Lam (1971)
Catch Me a Spy (1971)
Samedi soir (1971)
Rabbit's Moon (1971)
The Laboratory of Fear (1971)
Little by Little (1970)
La Fin des Pyrénées (1970)
Three Men on a Horse (1969)
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir (1969)
Erotissimo (1969)
Cinéma-Cinéma (1969)
La Fête des mères (1969)
L'art de la turlute (1969)
Jean Renoir le patron: La règle et l'exception (1969)
Ankle Bone (1968)
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1968)
Jaguar (1967)
Jean Renoir le patron: La recherche du relatif (1967)
The Lion Hunters (1966)
Les grands moments (1966)
Soldier Martin (1966)
Le drame du taureau (1966)
Linares (1966)
Chanson de gestes (1966)
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers (1966)
Bestiary of Love (1965)
To Be a Crook (1965)
The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora (1965)
All About Loving (1964)
Fantasmagorie (1964)
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows (1964)
That Tender Age (1964)
La difficulté d'être infidèle (1964)
Village Sweetness (1964)
In the Affirmative (1964)
Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)
L'Amérique lunaire (1963)
The Little Café (1963)
Night Women (1963)
À la mémoire du rock (1963)
Nadia (1963)
Virginie (1962)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
The Denunciation (1962)
The Punishment (1962)
Paris, A Winter's Day (1962)
Janine (1962)
Le Paris des mannequins (1962)
¡Cuba Sí! (1961)
The Witnesses (1961)
Le propre de l'homme (1961)
The Human Pyramid (1961)
The Winner (1961)
A Story of Water (1961)
La Frontière (1961)
La Machine à parler d'amour (1961)
Melancholia (1961)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960)
Love Exists (1960)
A Game for Six Lovers (1960)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)
Moi, un Noir (1959)
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
O Seasons, O Castles (1958)
Surprise Boogie (1957)
Impressions de New York (1956)
All the World's Memory (1956)
Fool's Mate (1956)
Houston, Texas (1956)
Croissance de Paris (1955)
Julietta (1953)
Le crime du Bouif (1952)
With André Gide (1952)
Jocelyn (1952)
Bullfight (1951)
Guernica (1951)
Bernard and the Lion (1951)
Le Tampon du capiston (1950)
Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés (1950)
Paul Gauguin (1949)
Van Gogh (1948)
Paris Nineteen Hundred (1948)
Les actualités burlesques (1948)
A Day in the Country (1946)
Forfaiture (1937)
Without a Family (1934)
Land Without Bread (1933)
The Sad Sack (1933)
Fantômas (1932)
The four legs (1931)
Night attack (1931)
La Chienne (1931)
Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931)
Baby's Laxative (1931)
The Necklace (1931)
The Lovers of Midnight (1931)
One night woman (1930)
I have something to tell you (1930)
The Road Is Fine (1929)
Montparnasse (1929)
The Sad Sack (1928)
Backbiters (1927)
Charleston Parade (1927)
Voyage au Congo (1927)
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GenderMale
Birthday1905-07-29
Deathday1990-11-16 (85 years old)
Birth NamePierre Raymond Maurice Braunberger
Birth PlaceParis, France
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsLes Etablissement Branuberger-Richebé, P. Braunberger
AwardsJean-Le-Duc award
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