André Beucler Explained

André Beucler
Birth Date:	24 February 1898
Birth Place:	Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Death Date:	26 February 1985 (aged 87)
Death Place:	Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Occupation:	Director, writer, journalist
Yearsactive:	1933–1948 (film)

André Beucler (1898–1985) was a Russian-born French journalist, novelist, screenwriter and film director.^{[1] [2] [3]} He was born in Saint Petersburg to a French father and grew up speaking Russian.^[4] During the 1930s he worked on a number of films produced by L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne, the French subsidiary of the German company UFA. He was awarded the SGDL Grand Prix for Literature in 1957.

Selected filmography

• I.F.1 ne répond plus (1933)
• Goodbye, Beautiful Days (1933)
• Princesse Czardas (1934)
• Tambour battant (1934)
• The Secret of Woronzeff (1935)
• Nitchevo (1936)
• Lady Killer (1937)
• Bagarres (1948)

Bibliography

• Cate, Curtis. André Malraux: A Biography. Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1997.
• Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939. Indiana University Press, 2015.
• Pitts, Michael R. Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928–1936. McFarland, 2018.
• Tilburg, Patricia. Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880–1919. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Notes and References

1. Tilburg p.240
2. Pitts p.83
3. Crisp p.196
4. Cate p.272