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Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.
Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latter's peak period, including such works as Partie de campagne (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937). In the early part of World War II, Becker was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp for a year. During the Nazi occupation of France, he became a film director in his own right and he also joined the Comité de libération du cinéma français. He would go on to direct the period romance Casque d'or (1952), the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and the prison escape drama Le Trou (1959). While he remains lesser-known internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir, Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker, with Casque d'or held in high esteem among film critics.
Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 7.498 |
Birthday | 1906-09-15 |
Place of Birth | Paris, France |
Also Known As | ジャック・ベッケル, |
![A Day in the Country](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/r490HjrQJrYXJp1zkzbflwEIegT.jpg)
1946
![A Day in the Country](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/r490HjrQJrYXJp1zkzbflwEIegT.jpg)
A Day in the Country
7.315/186
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
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![Le Bled](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6ySNbe0Je1eDWriOxxTY1Uyc3xj.jpg)
1929
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Le Bled
5.3/5
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![Chotard and Co.](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lW6rTZUXrsjEfrjtfLYVSr9WCar.jpg)
1933
![Chotard and Co.](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lW6rTZUXrsjEfrjtfLYVSr9WCar.jpg)
Chotard and Co.
4.5/2
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![Grand Illusion](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lWg41zE0FVixkNsFgxnlRyvDYv9.jpg)
1937
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Grand Illusion
7.86/662
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differ...
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![Life Is Ours](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7iOZfvaqq8oDUJVP8lRhiWIvlqo.jpg)
1936
![Life Is Ours](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7iOZfvaqq8oDUJVP8lRhiWIvlqo.jpg)
Life Is Ours
6.2/12
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
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![Cinéastes de notre temps: Jacques Becker](https://movieunlimited.net/assets/no-poster.png)
1967
![Cinéastes de notre temps: Jacques Becker](https://movieunlimited.net/assets/no-poster.png)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Jacques Becker
0/0
Episode of the French television series about the work of film director Jacques Becker. (A 27-minute excerpt from this show appears on the Criterion C...
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![Boudu Saved from Drowning](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/hCRUtli9TCrekxSysHJ15QhMk44.jpg)
1932
![Boudu Saved from Drowning](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/hCRUtli9TCrekxSysHJ15QhMk44.jpg)
Boudu Saved from Drowning
6.984/126
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and...
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![Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié](https://movieunlimited.net/assets/no-poster.png)
1935
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Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié
0/0
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![The Adventures of Arsène Lupin](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/dV43fKAhcuQqhGh8lcQfg9Pz2gF.jpg)
1957
![The Adventures of Arsène Lupin](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/dV43fKAhcuQqhGh8lcQfg9Pz2gF.jpg)
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
6.5/24
Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of th...
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