“You don’t do it. I will have another one: 70 years ago, Jean Gabin’s promise broke the whole career

Described by his friend, Gill Grangier “Often bad faith” But also as “Lighting” even “Jean Gabin made his promises, and one of them was respected by his career.

The promise is a promise

In 1953, Gabin worked for the first time with director Jill Grangier. The latter has been working since the 1930s, as an assistant for staging, and he has signed his films since 1943.

They choose to shoot Rhine with the Virgin, the story of a man who has disappeared in 1940, who returns to his city on behalf of the loan and discovers that his wife mentioned. Shortly afterwards, the new husband was found dead and novice is seen as an ideal culprit …

When he was released, this drama is poorly accepted on the false offender, though it is a success (1.79 million access to all the same. Grangier describes Rhine’s Virgin as a movie as a movie “Not unusual”As he instructs French culture In 1978. The revision ended incorrectly and then Jean Gabin promised him: “Don’t worry, I’ll be another.”

Filming this film, along with Grangier, holds Gabin’s promise, and again with the director, a feature film called gas oil in 1955. It ignores that this film will change its life.

Capital meeting

This shoot is really a grangier meets a Gabin man who will quickly become his friend: Michelle Audiar. The latter will make a surprisingly dialogue with Gabin’s films that will help the actor revive the screen. Grizby (1954), Pepe Le Moko’s translator will find vocabulary and audit factors with public favor.

Gabin and Grangier will again turn 10 artistic films from 1956 to 1969, including seven dialogues by Audiard. The latter writes 20 times between Gabin and the black flag, which also produces Audiard in 1971.