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Jean-Claude Brialy
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30 March 1933 - 30 May 2007
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Actor and director Jean-Claude Briali was born on March 30, 1933 in Algiers, Omal (now Sur El Gozlan), the son of a French officer. He received his acting education at the Strasbourg Conservatory, where he studied comedy. During military service, he voiced the narrator's text to army film magazines. At the same time, at the provincial production of Julius Caesar by Jean Renoir, Briali met future figures of the “new wave”. After demobilization, he immediately made his debut on the theater stage.
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Actor and director Jean-Claude Briali was born on March 30, 1933 in Algiers, Omal (now Sur El Gozlan), the son of a French officer. He received his acting education at the Strasbourg Conservatory, where he studied comedy. During military service, he voiced the narrator's text to army film magazines. At the same time, at the provincial production of Julius Caesar by Jean Renoir, Briali met future figures of the “new wave”. After demobilization, he immediately made his debut on the theater stage. For the first time on the screen, Jean-Claude Briali appeared in the short films “Shepherd’s tricks” (1956) by Jacques Rivette and “All the boys are called Patrick” (1957) by Jean-Luc Godard. The first role in the full-length film is in Pocket Love by Pierre Casta. The actor brought fame in the films of Claude Chabrol “Beautiful Serge” (1957), “Cousins” (1958), “Guards” (1960). In the early 1960s, Jean-Claude Brialy played his best roles in the films of the directors of the “new wave”, becoming one of its symbols: “400 strokes” by F. Truffaut, “Woman is a woman” by J.-L. Godard, “Education of feelings” by A. Astryuk, “Vanina Vanini” by R. Rossellini. In the 1970s-1980s, the actor starred a lot, although not always in the lead roles; among the films with his participation are The Ghost of Freedom by L. Buñuel, Baroque by Andre Teshiné, Claire's Knee by E. Romer, Robert and Robert, One and Others, Edith and Marcel by Claude Lelouch, Queen Margot by Patrice Sherault. In 1971, Jean-Claude Brialy made his debut as a director, directing the film “The Rosehip”, which received a prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Among his other author’s paintings are “Closed Shutters”, “Rare Bird”, “Love in the Rain”. Currently, Brialy is the head of the Paris theater-varieta “Buff-Parisin”.