The director and director Marcel Bluwal, an emblematic figure of the conservatory of dramatic art in Paris, died on Saturday at the age of 96, AFP learned from his agent on Sunday.
The man of the theater died "
peacefully on Saturday morning
" in Paris, said his entourage.
"
My sorrow is immense, I wish him a nice trip, he was an essential man
", wrote on Facebook the actress Ariane Ascaride, who was his student.
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Born in Paris on May 26, 1925 to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, he entered television in the 1950s where he began by directing children's programs (
Thursday afternoon
) before embarking on the television adaptation of chefs-d'etat. work of theater and literature. He who has a high idea of the cultural mission of television dust off the greatest authors:
The barber of Seville
,
The marriage of Figaro
,
The game of love and chance
,
The Karamazov brothers
...
From the years 1980-1990, he abandoned the small screen for the theater. Several remarkable productions, including
Le Misanthrope
(1968),
Dom Juan comes back from war
(1975),
Les false confidences
(1982). His forays into the cinema - such as
Carambolages
with Louis de Funès (1963) or
The Most Beautiful Country in the World
(1998) with Claude Brasseur - were more modest and received a mixed reception. Engaged on the left, he was a member of the PCF, which he left in 1981.
In 2008, after 13 years of absence from television, he directed the mini-series
To Right entirely
devoted to the rise of the extreme right in France during the years 1935-1937 through the formation of the Cagoule, an underground organization. who fomented the overthrow of the Republic.
