Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic.
Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni.
After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting.
As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians.
In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm.
In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives.
Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure).
In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him.
He died on 8 August 2019.
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Movies (133)
Tous flics !
2023 · Alex, Screenplay, Director
Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!
2023 · Vieux 2
Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental
2023 · Various Roles (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Mocky sans Mocky
2019
Aznavour by Charles
2019 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
2019 · Self (archive footage)
La parallèle Mocky
2018 · himself
Votez pour moi !
2017 · Pascal, l'ermite, Director, Production Director, Scenario Writer
Godard Mon Amour
2017 · Customer in the Restaurant
Vénéneuses
2017 · Dick Grant, Director, Writer, Producer
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
2017 · Self
La loi de l'albatros
2017
Bourvil, un homme vrai
2016 · Self
Rouges étaient les lilas
2016 · Director, Production Manager, Scenario Writer
Le Cabanon rose
2016 · Director, Scenario Writer, Production Manager
Le Rustre et le Juge
2015 · Adaptation, Director
Agafia
2015 · Director, Adaptation
Le Magicien et les Siamois
2015 · Director
Monsieur Cauchemar
2015 · Valentin Esbirol, Director, Production Manager, Scenario Writer
Tu es si jolie ce soir
2015 · Agent Willy, Director, Scenario Writer
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
2015 · L'ange Léonard, Director, Scenario Writer
Looping
2014 · archival material
Calomnies
2014 · Armand, Director, Scenario Writer
Le mystère des jonquilles
2014 · Tarling, Director
Dors mon lapin
2014 · Director, Writer
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013 · Christophe, Director
Le Renard jaune
2013 · Director, Writer
Le Mentor
2013 · Ludovic, Director, Writer, Editor
Au-delà des grilles
2013 · Director
Putain de lune
2013
Americano
2011 · Le père
Dossier Toroto
2011 · Professor Lapine, Director, Screenplay
Les Insomniaques
2011 · Boris, Scenario Writer, Director
Crédit pour tous
2011 · Director, Producer, Writer
Colère
2010 · Director, Writer
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
2010 · Self
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Un risque à courir
2009 · Self - Host (uncredited), Writer, Director, Editor
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
2009 · Self
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
2008 · Self
13 French Street
2007 · Editor, Director, Writer
Le Bénévole
2007 · Director, Editor
Les Ballets écarlates
2007 · Mathieu, the gunsmith, Director, Writer
Touristes? Oh Yes!
2007 · Director, Editor, Writer
Le deal
2007 · Director
Grabuge!
2005 · Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Le Furet
2003 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
Les araignées de la nuit
2002 · Inspecteur Richard Gordone, Director, Writer, Producer
La bête de miséricorde
2001 · Jean Mardet, Director, Writer
Le glandeur
2000 · Bruno Bombec, Director, Writer
La Candide Madame Duff
2000 · Jacob Duff, Director, Producer, Writer
Tout est calme
2000 · Lucas, Editor, Screenplay, Producer, Director
Vis-à-vis d'elle
2000 · Director
Vidange
1998 · Castellin, Editor, Producer, Director, Screenplay
Robin des mers
1998 · Le père de Mathieu, Director, Writer
Alliance cherche doigt
1997 · Director, Writer
Black for Remembrance
1995 · Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Bonsoir
1994 · Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Director
Leon's Husband
1993 · Boris Lossef, Director, Writer
Ville à vendre
1992 · Shade, Director, Writer, Editor
The King of Ads
1991 · Director
La Méthode Barnol
1991 · Director, Writer, Editor
Il gèle en enfer
1990 · Tim, Director, Writer, Editor
Divine enfant
1989 · Aurélien Brada, Director, Writer
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
1988 · Director, Writer
The Seasons of Pleasure
1988 · Director, Editor, Writer
Nice is nice
1988 · Director
Agent trouble
1987 · L'agent de la DST (non crédité), Editor, Screenplay, Director
Miracle Healing
1987 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
1986 · Jean Almereyda
The Unsewing Machine
1986 · Ralph Enger, Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
Le Bridge
1986
Le Pactole
1985 · Director
Kill the Referee
1984 · Inspector Granowski, Director, Writer, Editor
First Name: Carmen
1983 · The Screaming Patient (uncredited)
The Making of Litan
1982 · Himself
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
1982 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
Litan
1982 · Jock, Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
Droit de Réponse
1981 · Self
Cocktail Morlock
1981 · Self
Le piège à cons
1979 · Michel Rayan, Director, Writer
The Witness
1978 · Writer, Director
The Discord
1978 · Story
Le Roi des bricoleurs
1977 · Director
The Red Ibis
1975 · Director, Producer, Scenario Writer
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974 · Michel Dolannes, Director, Producer, Writer
Shadow of a Chance
1974 · Mathias Caral, Director, Writer
The Vertical Smile
1973 · Franco, le prêtre borgne
Chut !
1972 · Screenplay, Director
The Albatross
1971 · Stef Tassel, Director, Producer, Writer
Solo
1970 · Vincent Cabral, Writer, Director, Producer
The Stud
1970 · Director, Writer, Producer, Story
The Big Wash
1968 · Director, Producer, Writer, Story
Order of the Daisy
1967 · Director, Producer, Story
Your Money or Your Life
1966 · Director, Idea, Producer
The Big Scare
1964 · Director, Screenplay
Light-Fingered George
1963 · Tramp with pram (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
The Virgins
1963 · Director, Producer, Writer
Snobs!
1962 · Horse dealer (uncredited), Director, Writer, Adaptation, Producer
A Couple
1960 · Director, Producer, Writer, Adaptation
The Chasers
1959 · Director, Writer, Adaptation
Head Against the Wall
1959 · François Gérane, Adaptation
The Mask of the Gorilla
1958 · Sébut
Speaking of Murder
1957 · Pierre
Abandoned
1955 · Andrea
Graziella
1954 · Alphonse de Lamartine
The Barefoot Contessa
1954 · Assistant Director Trainee
La Strada
1954 · Assistant Director Trainee
The Big Flag
1954 · Luc Dutoit, midshipman
Senso
1954 · Un Soldato (uncredited), Second Assistant Director
The Count of Monte Cristo
1954 · Albert de Morcerf
The Vanquished
1953 · Pierre
Illicit Motherhood
1953 · La Fouine, un gars de la bande
Stain on the Snow
1953 · Violinist
Éternel espoir
1952 · Violinist
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951 · Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
Bibi Fricotin
1951 · (non crédité)
God Needs Men
1950 · Pierre
Orpheus
1950 · Band Leader (uncredited)
A Night at a Honeymoon
1950 · Groomsman
Keep an Eye on Amelia
1949 · Joseph Strauss (uncredited)
At the Grand Balcony
1949 · (uncredited)
Portrait of a Murderer
1949 · (uncredited)
The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949 · Denis
The Spice of Life
1948 · Le postilloneur
La Cabane aux souvenirs
1947
Dreams of Love
1947 · Extra
Queen's Necklace
1946 · Page of the Queen (uncredited)
The Eternal Husband
1946 · Groomsman (uncredited)
Long Live Liberty
1946 · Militiaman
Rendez-vous
· Victor
Foutraque (!)
· himself
TV shows (17)
Open Bar
2014 · Self
Quarks
2013 · Self
C à vous
2009 · Self
On n'est pas couché
2006 · Self - Guest
Village départ
2005 · Self
L'Invité
2002 · Self
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Zone interdite
1993 · Self
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987 · Self
Matin Bonheur
1987 · Self
Strip-Tease
1985
Série noire
1984 · Jean Almereyda
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Samedi soir
1971 · Self