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  1. André Cayatte (born Feb. 3, 1909, Carcassonne, France—died Feb. 6, 1989, Paris) was a motion-picture director best known for films on crime and justice. Cayatte abandoned a law practice to become a writer and in 1938 entered the motion-picture industry by selling a film script. Four years later he directed La Fausse Maîtresse (1942; “The ...

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  2. André Cayatte (3 February 1909, in Carcassonne – 6 February 1989, in Paris) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility. Cayatte began his directoral career at the German-controlled Continental Films during the French occupation. Some of Cayatte's earlier films that addressed his characteristic ...

  3. André Cayatte (b.1909 in Carcassonne, Aude, France) was a lawyer turned novelist and journalist, then screenwriter in 1938, after which he became a film director in 1942. He was known in France from the 1940s to the 1970s for uncompromising films examining the complex ethical and political dimensions of crime and justice in the French judicial system.

  4. Andre Cayatte, French Film Director Early Life and Education. Andre Cayatte, born in 1909, displayed a keen interest in literature from an early age, publishing short stories at just seventeen. He pursued higher education in Pedagogy and Law, earning a law degree with the intention of becoming a lawyer.

  5. Another message film from André Cayatte, Le Miroir à deux faces nevertheless raises the two concerns already starting to haunt the New Wave: double perception (by self and by other), and the perception of the double (the mask and the face). In many films of the sixties, the female face is itself a screen that becomes a mirror with two faces: that of frozen beauty and that of its critique.

  6. André Cayatte (3 February 1909, in Carcassonne – 6 February 1989, in Paris) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility. Cayatte began his directoral career at the German-controlled Continental Films during the French occupation.

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  8. Mar 1, 2015 · However, this term has since become synonymous with a much more diverse period in French film history. Although the Cahiers crowd of Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol and Co. was at the front and center of this movement, which began with cheaply made human interest stories, the term eventually encapsulated many of the greatest French directors from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

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