Bertrand Blier

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Nationality: French
Birthdate: 03/14/1939
Birthplace: Paris, France

biography

Undeniably gifted director whose blackly humorous, often surrealistic and sometimes misogynistic films have divided critics.

Blier began his career as an assistant to John Berry, Jean Delannoy and Christian-Jacque before making a series of cinema verite-style documentaries which culminated with "Hitler?...Connais Pas!" (1962), a feature-length study of disaffected teenagers. His first fiction feature was "Breakdown/If I Were a Spy" in 1967, but he hit the international spotlight with 1974's "Going Places/Getting It Up/Making It". A kind of French "Clockwork Orange", the film depicted the Continued

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milestones

Year
Milestone
1960 
Worked as 2nd assistant director for Georges Lautner
1962 
Feature-length directing debut with the documentary "Hitler... Connais pas!/Hitler... Never Heard of Him!"
1966 
Short fiction film directing debut, "La grimace"
1967 
Fiction feature directing debut, "Si j'etais un espion/ /Breakdown/If I Were a Spy"
1972 
Published novel "Les Valseuses"

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