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Claude Sautet
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Director, Screenwriter Born: February 23, 1924 in Montrouge, France Death: July 22, 2000 in Paris, France Biography:One of France's most respected directors, "Claude Sautet" was without equal in his ability to chronicle the banal complexities of French bourgeois life. In such works as "Les Choses de la Vie" (1969), Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres (1974), and "Un Coeur en Hiver" (1992), Sautet explored the personal relationships and emotional frailties of everyday men and women with warmth and assurance, providing audiences with rare insight into the lives and loves of the French middle classes.
Born in the working class Parisian suburb of Montrouge on February 24, 1924, Sautet worked as a social worker and music critic before attending the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques in the late '40s. He toiled for a number of years as a writer, assistant director, and TV producer, penning, among other works, "Georges Franju"'s horror classic "Les Yeux Sans Visage" (1959). Although Sautet made his... Full Biography
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