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Richard Pottier
Graz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, in Graz – 2 November 1994, in Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director.He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deut…
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Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, in Graz – 2 November 1994, in Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director.He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch. Pottier, born in 1906 in Budapest, began his career as Sternberg's assistant. His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies. He broached many genres along his long career: plenty of comedies ("Si J'Etais Le Patron" ), adventures ("Les Secrets De La Mer rouge"), sci -fi ("Le Monde Tremblera", with its machine which could predict the date of your death), detective films ("Picpus" ) musicals ("Violettes Imperiales"), melodramas ("Defense D'Aimer" ), you name it. He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics' contempt. Without him, "Some like it hot" would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of "fanfare D'Amour" as a model. He was the first to talk about euthanasia in "Meurtres" (1950) at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo; his buoyant "Caroline Chérie" predated the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga by ten years. His rural thriller "La Ferme Aux Loups" renewed the story of twins. His career neatly declined after 1950,and his last works were cheap sword and sandals flicks such as "David Et Goliath" (starring Orson Welles) and "L'Enlèvement Des Sabines" (starring Roger Moore). He retired in the mid-sixties. He was to live thirty more years.(d.1994)
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1965
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1961
Romulus and the Sabines
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1960
David and Goliath
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1958
Serenade of Texas
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1958
Tabarin
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1957
The Singer from Mexico
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1956
The Lebanese Mission
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1954
The Beautiful Otero
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1954
Il prigioniero del re
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1954
The Rebels of Lomanach
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1952
Imperial Violets
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1952
The Case Against X
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1951
Rendezvous in Grenada
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1951
Dear Caroline
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1950
Three Sinners
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1950
Three Feet in a Bed
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1949
Barry
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1949
Two Loves
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1948
La Nuit blanche
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1948
Adventure Starts Tomorrow
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1947
Vertiges
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1946
Destiny
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1946
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
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1945
Majestic Hotel Cellars
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1943
The Wolf Farm
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1943
My Love is Near You
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1943
Picpus
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1942
Eight Men in a Castle
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1942
Forbidden to Love
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1942
Mademoiselle Swing
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1939
The World Will Shake
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1938
Lights of Paris
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1937
The Secrets of the Red Sea
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1936
27, rue de la Paix
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1936
Disk 413
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1936
Guilty Melody
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1935
Fanfare of Love
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1935
A Rare Bird
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1934
Si j'étais le patron
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