Pierre Batcheff
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| Other nameTemplate:Pluralize from text | Benjamin Batcheff Piotr Bachev Пётр Бачев |
| Years active | 1923–1932 |
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Pierre Batcheff (Russian: Пьер Батчефф; 23 June 1901?[1] – 13 April 1932) was a French actor of Russian origin. He became a popular film actor from the mid-1920s until the early 1930s, and among his best-known work was the surrealist short film Script error: No such module "Lang". (1929), made by Luis Buñuel in collaboration with Salvador Dalí. After appearing in about twenty-five films, he died at an early age from a drug overdose.
Life
Pierre Batcheff was born in Harbin in China and he grew up in Saint Petersburg. (One source says that his birth name was Benjamin Batcheff and that he adopted the name Pierre later from his father.)Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. When war broke out in 1914, his family were on holiday in Switzerland and they decided to remain there, at first in Lausanne and then Geneva. Batcheff's father went bankrupt around 1917, leaving the family in financial difficulty, and Pierre started taking small parts in Georges Pitoëff's theatre company in Geneva. Between 1919 and 1921 he attended the Collège Calvin. In 1921, Batcheff moved with his family to Paris where he worked at first as a theatre actor.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Batcheff's earliest leading role in the cinema was in 1923 in Claudine et le poussin, in the first of several performances as a young aristocratic lover. In the next few years he made films with Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein, and Abel Gance. By 1927 he was established as a popular young leading man, with interviews and covers photos in film magazines. He was at the same time dissatisfied with the type of roles which he was offered and he cultivated links with avant-garde circles, especially the surrealists. In 1927 he met Luis Buñuel and their discussions led to their subsequent collaboration on Script error: No such module "Lang". in the following year.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
In 1926 Batcheff met Denise Piazza, the daughter of a publisher, and they married in 1930. As Denise Batcheff, and later Denise Tual, she became a film editor and producer.
In the ten years of his film career, Batcheff made around 25 films. At the time of his death, he was engaged in a project with Jacques Prévert to write and direct a film which proved to be sufficiently radical to alarm some financial backers. Batcheff's behaviour showed signs of stress and became increasingly erratic, and in April 1932 he died from an overdose of drugs, possibly by suicide.[2][3][4][5]
One of the Parisian newspapers reporting on his death summarised his contemporary appeal as an actor: "As an artist, he brought an extremely personal tone of refinement, of sensitivity and of melancholy, which was not devoid of strength, and this earned him a very wide popularity". It also noted that on the day after his death he had been due to sign a contract with a producer to direct his first film.[6]
Filmography
| Year | Original title | English title | Director | Notes |
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| 1923 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Maurice de Marsan and Charles Maudru | Lost film. |
| 1924 | Claudine et le poussin | Marcel Manchez | Role of Claude de Puygiron | |
| 1925 | Princesse Lulu | Princess Lulu | Émile-Bernard Donatien | Lost film. |
| 1925 | Autour d'un berceau | Georges Monca and Maurice Kéroul | Lost film. | |
| 1925 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Jean Epstein | ||
| 1926 | Feu Mathias Pascal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Marcel L'Herbier | Role of Scipion. |
| 1926 | Destinée | Henry Roussel | Lost film. | |
| 1926 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Georges Pallu | Lost film. | |
| 1927 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Raymond Bernard | Role of Prince Serge Oblonoff. |
| 1927 | Napoléon | Abel Gance | Role of General Hoche. | |
| 1927 | Éducation de prince | Education of a Prince | Henri Diamant-Berger | |
| 1927 | En rade | Alberto Cavalcanti | ||
| 1927 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Siren of the Tropics | Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant | With Josephine Baker. |
| 1928 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Gaston Ravel | Lost film. | |
| 1928 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Island of Love | Jean Durand and Berthe Dagmar | |
| 1928 | Vivre | Robert Boudrioz | Lost film. | |
| 1928 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Jean Milva | ||
| 1929 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Two Timid Souls | René Clair | |
| 1929 | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Luis Buñuel | Short film. |
| 1929 | Monte Cristo | Henri Fescourt | Role of Albert de Mortcerf. | |
| 1930 | Illusions | Lucien Mayrargue | ||
| 1930 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Leo Mittler | Lost film. |
| 1931 | Les Amours de minuit | The Lovers of Midnight | Augusto Genina and Marc Allégret | Also in German version Mitternachtsliebe. |
| 1931 | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Adelqui Migliar | Lost film. |
| 1932 | Baroud | Baroud | Rex Ingram and Alice Terry | Batcheff appeared in both French and English versions. |
| 1932 | Amour... Amour... | Robert Bibal | Batcheff wrote the script only; filmed and released after his death. |
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Powrie, Phil; Rebillard, Éric (2009). Pierre Batcheff and stardom in 1920s French cinema. Edinburgh University Press.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tual, Denise (1987). Au cœur du temps. Paris: Carrère.
References
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- ^ a b Various reference sources give his birth year as 1901: e.g. Bibliothèque nationale de France; Dictionnaire du cinéma français; sous la direction de Jean-Loup Passek. (Paris: Larousse, 1987); Ephraim Katz, The International Film Encyclopedia (London: Macmillan, 1980). On the other hand, the most detailed academic study of Batcheff's life and career, by Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found., says that Batcheff was born on 22 or 23 June 1907 [p.2] and cites as evidence his marriage and death certificates [p.24]; in this case he would have started his appearances in film at the age of 16, and he would have been only 24 when he died.
- ^ Dictionnaire du cinéma français; sous la direction de Jean-Loup Passek. Paris: Larousse, 1987. p.30.
- ^ Dudley Andrew, Mists of Regret. Princeton University Press, 1995. p.78.
- ^ Guy Jacob, "Les films de Jacques Prévert", in Premier plan, no.14, novembre 1960 (spéciale Jacques Prévert).
- ^ Some accounts identify the drug as Veronal. In 1929, Batcheff's co-star in L'Île d'amour, Claude France, committed suicide by gas inhalation. Simone Mareuil, the leading actress in Un chien andalou, would later (1954) kill herself by setting herself on fire.
- ^ La Liberté (Paris), 16 avril 1932, p. 5, col. 3: "En tant qu'artiste, il apportait une note extrêmement personelle de finesse, de sensibilité et de tristesse, d'où la force n'était pas exclue, ce qui lui valait une très grande popularité".
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