Anatole Dauman
Anatole Dauman (7 February 1925 in
Nagisa Oshima, Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, Volker Schlöndorff, Walerian Borowczyk, and Alain Resnais
.
He was a principal figure in
Nouvelle Vague
.
Early life and career
Anatole Dauman was born in
Russian Jewish
family and later emigrated to France.
In 1951, he formed Argos Films with Philippe Lifchitz. It was a niche production company with the aim of making films on art which were inspired by the work of the Italian documentary filmmaker
Night and Fog and two films by Chris Marker, Sunday in Peking and Letter from Siberia
.
In 1959, Argos initiated the production of Resnais' Masculin, féminin (1966) and Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967). Argos also produced two by Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) and Mouchette (1967).
References
- ^ Marie Michel. 2003. The French New Wave. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp 63-64.