Henri-georges clouzot biography of mahatma gandhi

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Henri-Georges Clouzot (November 20, 1907 - January 12, 1977) was a Frenchfilm director, screenwriter and producer.

Henri-georges clouzot biography of mahatma gandhi

His best known work is Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1952) and his final work, the 1968 film La Prisonnière has attracted quite a cult following.

Biography

Clouzot was born in Niort, Deux-Sèvres.

After studying classics at university, he first attempted to make his living as a journalist. However, in the 1930s, he worked as supervisor for a dubbing film company in Berlin, where he was exposed to the groundbreaking camerawork of the German cinema of the time.

On his return to France, he began to work on film scripts, and then made his directorial debut with L'assassin habite au 21 (1942), which starred Pierre Fresnay and Suzy Delair. The film was made for the Continental Film Company, which had been set up in the occupied part of