Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorise, although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
Gainsbourg wrote over 550 songs, which have been covered more than 1,000 times by diverse artists. His lyrical works incorporated wordplay, with humorous, bizarre, provocative, sexual, satirical or subversive overtones. Since his death from a second heart attack in 1991, Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France. While controversial in his lifetime, he has become one of France's best-loved public figures. He has also gained a cult following across the world with chart success in the United Kingdom and Belgium with "Je t'aime... moi non plus" and "Bonnie and Clyde", respectively.
Serge Gainsbourg was born in Paris on 2 April 1928, in the maternity ward of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris on the Île de la Cité. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from modern Ukraine, Joseph and Olga Ginsburg.
Born Brucha Goda Besman (nicknamed Olia/Olga) in Feodosiya in 1894, Serge's mother was a mezzo-soprano singer. Serge's father Joseph was born in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire of Ukrainian Jewish heritage in 1896. Originally interested in painting, he entered the Petrograd Conservatory and then the Moscow Conservatory to study music, becoming a classically trained pianist. He came to Crimea, where he met and married Olga in 1918. The couple fled Odesa for Paris via Georgia and then Istanbul in the years following the Russian Revolution. The couple arrived in Marseille in 1921, settling in Paris near Olga's brother, who worked for the Louis Dreyfus Bank. Joseph became a piano performer at bars, casinos, and cabarets, while Olga sang at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff.
Serge and his twin sister Liliane had an elder brother Marcel, born in 1922, who died at sixteen months of pneumonia. They also had an older sister Jacqueline, born in 1926.
The family lived in the working-class districts of Paris, first at 35 Rue de la Chine in the 20th arrondissement, and then at 11 Rue Chaptal in the 9th arrondissement. They obtained French nationality in 1932. Joseph taught Serge and Liliane to play the piano. At age 12, Serge enrolled at the École Normale de Musique de Paris.
Gainsbourg's childhood was profoundly affected by the occupation of France by Germany during World War II. The identifying yellow star that Jews were required to wear haunted Gainsbourg; in later years he was able to transmute this memory into creative inspiration. Early in the summer of 1941, the family temporarily sought refuge in the commune of Courgenard in the Sarthe department, at a place called "La Bassetière," with Baptiste and Irma Dumur. ...
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Películas (111)
Choral Music, from Dutilleux to Poulenc Featuring Birds on a Wire and the Théâtre de Chaillot
2026 · Music
Bardot
2025 · archive footage
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Brigitte Bardot confidentiel
2022
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Jane por Charlotte
2022 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Serge Gainsbourg, les meilleures chansons
2021 · Self (archive footage)
La Story de Serge Gainsbourg : Le Punchliner
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Gainsbourg, toute une vie
2021
Anna Karina, Remember
2020 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
L'affaire Matzneff
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Jane Birkin, simplemente un icono
2019 · Self - Singer (archive footage)
Oh Les Filles!
2019
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Les années Bouvard : le rire et l’impertinence
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Serge Gainsbourg, entre les murs
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Gainsbourg, art(s) et essai(s)
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Jane Birkin - Alcaline le Concert
2017 · Self
Birkin, Hardy, Sanson, une vie à aimer
2017 · Self
Whitney: Can I Be Me
2017 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bardot Amoureuse
2017
The Discreet Françoise Hardy
2016 · Self (archive footage), Songs
The truth about Brigitte Bardot
2014
Bardot, The Misunderstanding
2013
Les Enfants de la Pop 80's
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An Intimate Self Portrait
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Souvenirs of Serge
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Public Speaking
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Gainsbourg (Vida de un héroe)
2010 · Songs
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2009
The World of Gaston Rébuffat
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Las playas de Agnès
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Eletrodoméstica
2005 · Thanks
Serge Gainsbourg – D'autres nouvelles des étoiles
2005 · Self (archive footage), Songs, Compositor
Brigitte Bardot : Divine B.B.
2004 · self
Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes
2003 · Self (archive footage)
De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre 1958-1991
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Belle & Sebastian: The Black Sessions
1998 · Music, Lyricist
Élisa
1995 · Original Music Composer
Tous les garçons...
1992 · Music
Stan the Flasher
1990 · Un ami de David (uncredited), Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
Le Zenith de Gainsbourg
1989 · Self, Director, Music
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988 · Self
Charlotte for Ever
1986 · Stan, Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
Gainsbourg... Casino de Paris 1986
1986 · Self, Music
Ménage
1986 · Original Music Composer
Mode in France
1985 · Original Music Composer
Equator
1983 · Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
The Big Pardon
1982 · Self (uncredited)
Droit de Réponse
1981 · Self
Reporters
1981 · Self
I Love You All
1980 · Simon, Original Music Composer
Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment
1980 · Self
Nocturnal Uproar
1979 · Original Music Composer
Melancoly Baby
1979 · Original Music Composer
French Fried Vacation
1978 · Original Music Composer
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977 · Original Music Composer
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
1977 · Songs
Emmanuelle 3
1977 · Original Music Composer
Madame Claude
1977 · Original Music Composer
I Love You, I Don't
1976 · Director, Author, Original Music Composer, Writer
Serious as Pleasure
1975 · L'inconnu du lac
Private Screening
1973 · Original Music Composer
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
1973 · Police Inspector
Seduction Squad
1972 · Albert, Original Music Composer
Sex Shop
1972 · Original Music Composer
Melody
1971 · L'homme, Writer, Original Music Composer
Romance of a Horsethief
1971 · Sigmund
The Rage of War
1971 · Mornar, Original Music Composer
Cannabis
1970 · Serge Morgan, Original Music Composer
The Horse
1970 · Original Music Composer
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
1969 · Songs
Paris Does Not Exist
1969 · Laurent, Original Music Composer
Katmandu
1969 · Ted, Original Music Composer
Slogan
1969 · Serge Fabergé, Original Music Composer
Erotissimo
1969 · l'individu dragueur au cinéma
Mr. Freedom
1969 · Mr. Drugstore, Original Music Composer
Love in the Night
1968 · Mathieu
Spécial Bardot
1968 · Self
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
1968 · Rémy, Original Music Composer
Anna
1968 · L'ami de Serge, Writer, Original Music Composer
Pasha
1968 · Serge Gainsbourg (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Songs
Manon 70
1968 · Original Music Composer
Anatomie d'un mouvement
1967 · Music
The Other One
1967 · Original Music Composer
If I Were a Spy
1967 · Original Music Composer
The Looters
1967 · Clyde
All Mad About Him
1967 · Self, Original Music Composer
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967 · le chef des Chauves, Music Editor, Songs, Music
Horizon
1967 · Original Music Composer
Christmas at Vaugirard
1966 · Joseph, Songs
Naked Hearts
1966 · Original Music Composer
The Defector
1966 · Original Music Composer
The Gardener of Argenteuil
1966 · Patrick Gérard, Original Music Composer
Four Queens for an Ace
1966 · Man Asking for a Lighter (uncredited), Original Music Composer
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964 · Main Title Theme Composer, Theme Song Performance, Original Music Composer
The River of Diamonds
1964 · Music
How Do You Like My Sister?
1964 · Original Music Composer
Dans le vent
1963 · Original Music Composer
Teuf-teuf
1963 · Self
L'inconnue de Hong Kong
1963 · Jean le pianiste
Strip-Tease
1963 · Le pianiste (uncredited), Original Music Composer, Songs
The Fury of Hercules
1962 · Menistus
Samson
1961 · Warkalla
The Revolt of the Slaves
1960 · Corvino
The Wolves in the Sheepfold
1960 · Original Music Composer
A Game for Six Lovers
1960 · Original Music Composer
Come Dance with Me!
1959 · Léon
Series (33)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Archives secrètes
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Samedi Sébastien
2021 · Self - Guest
Supongamos que Nueva York es una ciudad
2021 · Songs
La semaine des 4 Julie
2020 · Self - Guest (archive footage)
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self (archive footage)
Fréquenstar
1988 · Self
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self, Self (archive footage)
Nulle part ailleurs
1987 · Self
40° à l'ombre
1987 · Self
Victoires de la musique
1985 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Please Turn the Page
1977 · Self
30 millions d'amis
1976 · Self
Numéro un
1975 · Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Apostrophes
1975 · Self
Midi Première
1975 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Midi trente
1972 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
Cadet Rousselle
1971 · Self
Samedi soir
1971 · Self
À bout portant
1968 · Self
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
1968 · Dassonville
Vidocq
1967 · Un fou, Original Music Composer
Dim Dam Dom
1965 · Joseph, Self
Seize millions de jeunes
1964 · Self
Die Drehscheibe
1964 · Self
Le Trésor des treize maisons
1961 · Le chanteur
Discorama
1959 · Self