Humbert Jean René Balsan (21 August 1954 – 10 February 2005) was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy . He was known for securing financing and distribution for diverse and often challenging films.
22-722: [REDACTED] Look up balsan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Balsan may refer to: People [ edit ] Étienne Balsan (1878–1953), French socialite Humbert Balsan (1954–2005), French film producer Jacques Balsan (1868–1956), French aviator and industrialist Louis Balsan (1911–1982), French bobsledder Václav Balšán , Czech racewalker Other uses [ edit ] Balsan (company) , French textile manufacturer Balsan-dong , neighbourhood of Gangseo-gu in Seoul, South Korea Balsan Station , station on
44-514: A Life ( Les plus belles annees d'une vie ), a follow-up to A Man and a Woman and its sequel A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later . Trintignant came from a wealthy family. He was the nephew of racecar driver Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practising on the Péronne racetrack in Picardy . Another uncle, Maurice Trintignant (1917–2005), was a Formula One driver who twice won
66-922: A critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras 's Z . Trintignant's other notable films include The Great Silence (1968), My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994), and The City of Lost Children (1995). He won
88-521: A documentary portrait of French music teacher Nadia Boulanger the following year. In 2004 he was a member of the jury at the 26th Moscow International Film Festival . Balsan became a producer in 1978 with the filming of Pierre Kast 's Le Soleil en Face ( Face to the Sun ) (1980). The same year, he acted in and co-produced Jean-Louis Trintignant 's Le Maître-nageur (1979). During the 1980s, Balsan lent not only his screen presence to Samuel Fuller for
110-429: A group that included Claire Denis , Sabine Franel , Brigitte Roüan , and Sandrine Veysset . He financed Roüan's Post Coitum, Animal Triste (1997) on the stipulation that the director, who like Balsan began her film career in front of the camera, play the film's lead role. Balsan also came to be known as a champion of Arab cinema . He produced Elia Suleiman 's Divine Intervention (2003), which in 2002 became
132-460: A successful actress. She was killed at age 41 by her boyfriend, rock musician Bertrand Cantat , in a hotel room in Vilnius , Lithuania. In 2018, Trintignant announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and would not be seeking treatment. In November 2021, it was reported that he was gradually losing his sight and was in declining health. Trintignant died at his home on 17 June 2022, at
154-682: Is a 2009 French film by Mia Hansen-Løve inspired by the life of Balsan. Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi tʁɛ̃tiɲɑ̃] ; 11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post- war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim , Costa-Gavras , Claude Lelouch , Claude Chabrol , Bernardo Bertolucci , Éric Rohmer , François Truffaut , Krzysztof Kieślowski , and Michael Haneke . He made
176-511: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Humbert Balsan In February 2005, Balsan was found dead in the offices of his production company, Ognon Pictures, in Paris. He was known to have suffered from depression , and killed himself by hanging . Born in Arcachon in 1954, Balsan was part of France's upper class as a member of
198-587: The 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke 's Amour . Trintignant was born on 11 December 1930 in Piolenc , Vaucluse. He had a brother four years older. During World War II, his father joined the resistance against the Nazi regime by aiding Jews, and his mother began an affair with Nazi officer. This horizontal collaboration affected Jean Louis his entire life. He grew up with
220-674: The Elias Khoury novel. The 4 1 / 2 -hour epic screened in the Official Selection and depicted the history of Palestine from 1943 to the present. Later that year, Balsan's production Le Grand Voyage (2004) won its director, Moroccan émigré Ismaël Ferroukhi , a best first feature prize at the 2004 Venice Film Festival . However, the results of Balsan's efforts did not always please everyone. Balsan, who would typically enlist European television and business entities to co-finance Arab region-produced works,
242-576: The Monaco Grand Prix as well as the 24 hours of Le Mans . Jean-Louis himself was an enthusiastic amateur rally driver and competed in a number of high-level rallies in the 1970s and 1980s, including several rounds of the World Rally Championship ; he finished first in his class in the 1981 Monte Carlo Rally . Raised in and around automobile racing, Trintignant was the natural choice of film director Claude Lelouch for
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#1732791693837264-771: The Wendel family , an industrial dynasty . He received a Jesuit education in Amiens and later studied economics in Paris. In 1973, Balsan's film career began when he was cast as Gawain in Robert Bresson 's Lancelot of the Lake (1974). While Balsan continued to act in small roles in friends' films (he played a pirate in Jacques Rivette 's Noroit (1976)), his interest turned to production. He assisted Bresson on The Devil, Probably (1977) in 1976 and lensed
286-641: The Seoul Subway Line 5 See also [ edit ] Balzan (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Balsan . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Balsan&oldid=1141370315 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
308-768: The Tartars , Ettore Scola in La terrazza , Bernardo Bertolucci in The Conformist , and Dino Risi in The Easy Life . Throughout the 1970s, Trintignant starred in many films, including the English-language films The Outside Man in 1971 and Under Fire in 1983. Following this, he starred in François Truffaut 's final film, Confidentially Yours , and reprised his best-known role in
330-589: The basis of the director and said of Haneke that "he has the most complete mastery of the cinematic discipline, from technical aspects like sound and photography to the way he handles actors". He worked with Haneke again in 2017 when he starred in Happy End . On 20 July 2018, Trintignant announced his retirement from cinema, but, in March 2019, he accepted a role in Claude Lelouch's film The Best Years of
352-674: The first Palestinian film to play at the Cannes Film Festival . It was nominated for the Palme d'Or and eventually won the Grand Jury Prize. The producer returned to Cannes in 2004 with Youssef Chahine 's Alexandria... New York (2004), his ninth film with the Egyptian director since 1985's Adieu, Bonaparte . Balsan also presented The Gate of Sun (2004), his second film with Yousry Nasrallah , who adapted
374-499: The intention of studying law, but he soon discovered an interest in acting and moved to Paris at the age of 20 to study drama, making his theatrical debut in 1951. After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955, and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim 's And God Created Woman . Trintignant's acting
396-560: The sequel A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later ( Un homme et une femme, 20 ans dejà , 1986). In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowski 's final film, Three Colors: Red . For the remainder of his career, he took an occasional film role but focused on stage work. After a 14-year gap, Trintignant came back to the screen for Michael Haneke 's film Amour . Haneke sent Trintignant the screenplay, which had been written specifically for him. Trintignant said he chose film projects on
418-587: The starring role of a racecar driver in the 1966 film A Man and a Woman . He suffered a leg injury from a motorbike accident in June 2007. His first wife was actress Stéphane Audran . His second wife, Nadine Marquand , was an actress, screenwriter, and director. They had three children: Vincent, Pauline (who died of crib death in 1969), and Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003). At age 17 Marie performed in La terrazza alongside her father and later became
440-505: The then- expatriated director's French-language film Les Voleurs de la nuit ( Thieves After Dark ) (1984) but his Paris apartment as well. Fuller, who lived in France with his wife and daughter for 13 years beginning in 1982, would recount this period in his memoir (with Christa Lang Fuller) A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking ( ISBN 0-375-40165-2 ). As a patron of France's women filmmakers, Balsan facilitated
462-593: Was cited by Al-Ahram Weekly ' s Hani Mustafa for being vulnerable to an investor-friendly system that tends to compromise the stories told in Middle-Eastern films. Over the course of his career, Balsan played a role in the production of over 60 films, including several for filmmaking pair Merchant-Ivory . Among the last of his films to see a release are Denis's The Intruder (2004) and Lars von Trier 's Manderlay (2006), which he co-produced. Father of My Children ( French : Le père de mes enfants )
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#1732791693837484-786: Was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers , he returned to Paris and resumed his work in film. He had the leading male role in Claude Lelouch 's film A Man and a Woman ( Un homme et une femme , 1966), which was the most commercially successful French film internationally for some years. In Italy, he was always dubbed into Italian, and he worked with Italian directors including Sergio Corbucci in The Great Silence , Valerio Zurlini in Violent Summer and The Desert of
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