The French filmmaker Yves Boisset has died on Monday at age 86, as French media point out, who remember that The filmmaker said he was “the most censored director in France.”
Yves Boisset has died at the Franco-British hospital in Levallois-Pert, in Hauts-de-Seine, where he received treatment for several days, according to ‘BFMTV’. The filmmaker marked the 1970s with political films such as’ Chronicle of a rape (‘Dupont Lajoie’), about daily racism, or ‘L’Attentat’, about the Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka.
Born on March 14, 1939 in Paris, Boisset did military service in Algeria. He then became a journalist of the monthly newspaper ‘Cinéma’ and assistant directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville and Vittorio de Sica.
His first film in 1968 was ‘Coplan saves his skin’ And later he made ten films in ten years: first ‘Un Condé’ (1970), with Michel Bouquet, a police portrait. “From there the problems (with censorship) began,” he said, as ‘BFMTV’ stands out. He also addressed the war of Algeria in ‘Ras’.
From the 1980s, Boisset dedicated himself to television, with productions such as ‘L’Afire Seznec’, ‘L’Affaire Dreyfus’, ‘Le Pants’ or ‘Jean Moulin’. In his career, the silver bear stands out, achieved in 1975, for ‘Chronicle of a rape’ at the Berlin International Film Festival.