Jean-Pierre Mocky

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni. After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting. As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians. In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm. In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure). In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him. He died on 8 August 2019. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For: Directing
Birthday: 1929-07-06
Place of Birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Also Known As: Jean-Paul Mokiejewski

Movies List of Jean-Pierre Mocky

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The Vanquished

1953 Movie
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Senso

1954 Movie
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The Unsewing Machine

1986 Movie
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Love Hate

1971 Movie
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Litan

1982 Movie
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Droit de Réponse

1981 Movie
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The Big Flag

1954 Movie
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Kill the Referee

1984 Movie
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Long Live Liberty

1946 Movie
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The Eternal Husband

1946 Movie
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Ville à vendre

1992 Movie
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Vidange

1998 Movie
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Queen's Necklace

1946 Movie
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Dreams of Love

1947 Movie
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Orpheus

1950 Movie
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The Spice of Life

1948 Movie
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Head Against the Wall

1959 Movie
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Keep an Eye on Amelia

1949 Movie
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At the Grand Balcony

1949 Movie
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Speaking of Murder

1957 Movie
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L'éternel espoir

1952 Movie
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Le Mentor

2013 Movie
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Abandoned

1955 Movie
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Snobs!

1962 Movie
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Solo

1970 Movie
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Il gèle en enfer

1990 Movie
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Un risque à courir

2009 Movie
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Looping

2014 Movie
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Looping

2014 Movie
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Graziella

1954 Movie
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Le glandeur

2000 Movie
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Rendez-vous

Movie
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Divine enfant

1989 Movie
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Le Bridge

1986 Movie
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Shadow of a Chance

1974 Movie
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Leon's Husband

1993 Movie
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Americano

2011 Movie
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Tout est calme

2000 Movie
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Dossier Toroto

2011 Movie
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Les Insomniaques

2011 Movie
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The Spice of Life

1948 Movie
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God Needs Men

1950 Movie
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Godard Mon Amour

2017 Movie
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Bibi Fricotin

1951 Movie
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La parallèle Mocky

2018 Movie
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The Vertical Smile

1973 Movie
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Stain on the Snow

1954 Movie
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La loi de l'albatros

2017 Movie
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Tous flics !

2023 Movie
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Aznavour by Charles

2019 Movie
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Mocky sans Mocky

2019 Movie
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Vénéneuses

2017 Movie
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Cocktail Morlock

1981 Movie
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Votez pour moi !

2017 Movie
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Monsieur Cauchemar

2015 Movie
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Calomnies

2014 Movie
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Robin des mers

1998 Movie
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Le piège à cons

1979 Movie
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Illicit Motherhood

1953 Movie