Pierre Braunberger
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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Movies (93)
L'armoire
1979 · Producer
Private Collections
1979 · Executive Producer
Immoral Women
1979 · Executive Producer
Let's Make a Dirty Movie
1976 · Producer, Production Manager
Act of Aggression
1975 · Executive Producer
Emilienne
1975 · Producer
Like a Pot of Strawberries
1974 · Producer
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974 · Executive Producer
I. You. They.
1973 · Producer
On n'arrête pas le printemps
1972 · Producer
On the Lam
1971 · Producer
Catch Me a Spy
1971 · Producer
Fantasia Among the Squares
1971 · Producer
Rabbit's Moon
1971 · Production Coordinator, Production Office Coordinator
The Laboratory of Fear
1971 · Producer
Little by Little
1970 · Producer
La Fin des Pyrénées
1970 · Producer
Directing Actors by Jean Renoir
1969 · Producer
Erotissimo
1969 · Producer
Cinéma-Cinéma
1969 · Producer
L'art de la turlute
1969 · Executive Producer
Ankle Bone
1968 · Producer
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
1968 · Producer
Jaguar
1967 · Executive Producer
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
1967 · Self
Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
1967 · Self
The Lion Hunters
1966 · Producer
Soldier Martin
1966 · Producer
Chanson de gestes
1966 · Producer
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966 · Executive Producer
Bestiary of Love
1965 · Producer
To Be a Crook
1965 · Producer
The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora
1965 · Producer
Paris, A Winter's Day
1965 · Producer
All About Loving
1964 · Producer
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
1964 · Producer
Village Sweetness
1964 · Producer
In the Affirmative
1964 · Producer
Le Paris des mannequins
1963 · Producer
Muriel, or the Time of Return
1963 · Co-Producer
Lunar America
1963 · Associate Producer
The Little Café
1963 · Executive Producer
In Memory of Rock
1963 · Producer
Nadia
1963 · Producer
Vivre Sa Vie
1962 · Producer
The Immoral Moment
1962 · Producer
The Punishment
1962 · Producer
¡Cuba Sí!
1961 · Producer
The Witnesses
1961 · Producer
A Story of Water
1961 · Producer
La Machine à parler d'amour
1961 · Producer
Janine
1961 · Executive Producer
Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · Producer
America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960 · Producer
Love Exists
1960 · Producer
A Game for Six Lovers
1960 · Production Manager
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
1959 · Producer
I, a Negro
1959 · Executive Producer
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
1958 · Producer
The Song of Styrene
1958 · Producer
O Seasons, O Castles
1958 · Producer
Impressions de New York
1956 · Executive Producer
All the World's Memory
1956 · Producer
Fool’s Mate
1956 · Producer
Houston Texas
1956 · Producer
Soir de fête
1956 · Producer
Croissance de Paris
1955 · Producer
Julietta
1953 · Producer
Le Crime du Bouif
1952 · Producer
Jocelyn
1952 · Producer
Bullfight
1951 · Director, Writer
Guernica
1951 · Producer
Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés
1950 · Producer
Van Gogh
1948 · Producer
Paris 1900
1948 · Scenario Writer, Executive Producer
A Day in the Country
1946 · Producer
Forfaiture
1937 · Presenter, Producer
Land Without Bread
1933 · Sound Designer
Fantômas
1932 · Producer
La Chienne
1931 · Producer
Baby's Laxative
1931 · Producer
Black and White
1931 · Producer
The Lovers of Midnight
1931 · Producer
Le tampon du capiston
1930 · Producer
La Femme d'une nuit
1930 · Producer
The Road Is Fine
1929 · Producer
Montparnasse
1929 · Producer
The Sad Sack
1928 · Producer
Sea Fever
1927 · Producer
Backbiters
1927 · Producer
La P’tite Lili
1927 · Producer
Charleston Parade
1927 · Angel, Producer
Nothing But Time
1926 · Producer