Armand Gatti

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Armand Gatti
Born	(1924-01-26)26 January 1924 Monte Carlo, Monaco
Died	6 April 2017(2017-04-06) (aged 93) Saint-Mandé, France
Occupations	Playwright poet journalist screenwriter filmmaker
Years active	1960–2012

Armand Gatti (French: [gati]; 26 January 1924 – 6 April 2017) was a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter.^[1] His debut film Enclosure was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver Prize for Best Director.^[2] Two years later, his film El Otro Cristóbal was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

In 2013 he was awarded the Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française.

Gatti, like his father, was an anarchist. His works included themes of prisons and escape.^[4]

Biography

One of the most acclaimed theater writer/directors of the 20th century, Gatti was originally a member of the informal Left Bank group of filmmakers that included Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Henri Colpi and Jean Cayrol, but because none of his films have been released on video in the US, he remains an elusive figure for many cinephiles. He appears in Resnais' Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and in Marker's Immemory CD-Rom; he wrote China (1956) for Marker's Petite Planète collection and traveled with Marker in the making of Letter from Siberia (1957), which inspired his book Siberia — Zero + Infinity the following year.

According to his 1989 biographer,

L'Enclos was screened out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival but it was hailed by Truffaut, Resnais, Cocteau and others.

He was awarded the French

He died on 6 April 2017.^[6]

Theatrical works

• 1957 Le Poisson noir (awarded
  Fénéon Prize
  )
• 1966 Chant public devant deux chaises électriques
• 1975 Die Hälfte des Himmels und wir (La Moitié du ciel et nous) - Forum Theater Berlin^[7]

Filmography

• 1960 Moranbong, une aventure coréenne (writer only)
• 1961 Enclosure
• 1963 El Otro Cristóbal
• 1968 Das imaginäre Leben des Straßenkehrers Auguste G. (writer only)
• 1970 Der Übergang über den Ebro
• 1983 Nous étions tous des noms d'arbres

References