Pierre Charbonnier


Production Designer

Biography

Former painter who became Robert Bresson's favored art director after WWII.

Life Events

1948

Art director

Videos

Movie Clip

Man Escaped, A (1956) -- (Movei Clip) Courage Fontaine (Francois Leterrier) in early episodes in his downstairs cell, in Nazi custody in 1943 France, working through Terry (Roger Treherne), his not-yet-trusted friend in the prison yard, in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped, 1956.
Man Escaped, A (1956) -- (Movei Clip) Lyon, 1943 Following the director's pledge to present only the truth, and opening credits, the first scene, set in Lyon, as French resistance fighter Fontaine (Francois Leterrier) is in Nazi custody, from Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped, 1956.
Pickpocket (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Have Done Them Writer and director Robert Bresson from his first original screenplay, novice actor Martin La Salle as "Michel" narrating, at the race track and later meeting a police inspector (Jean Pelegri), opening Pickpocket, 1959.
Man Escaped, A (1956) -- (Movei Clip) I Had No Plans Fontaine (Francois Leterrier), imprisoned in Nazi occupied France, begins to consider a way to break through his cell door, presented in detail by director Robert Bresson, in A Man Escaped, 1956.
Man Escaped, A (1956) -- (Movei Clip) What Kind Of Men Imprisoned French resistance fighter Fontaine (Francois Leterrier) is moved upstairs by his Nazi captors, surveying his new surroundings, then dumping his slop pail, in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped, 1956, from a memoir by Andre Devigny.
Diary Of A Country Priest -- (Movie Clip) Especially Seraphita The lonely priest (Claude Laydu) narrating, hoping catechism class will revive his spirits, young Seraphita (Martine Lemaire) his favored pupil, early in Robert Bresson's Diary Of A Country Priest, 1951.

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