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Robert Dorfmann is a Producer French born on 3 march 1912

Robert Dorfmann

Robert Dorfmann
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Nationality France
Birth 3 march 1912
Death 11 august 1999 (at 87 years)

Robert Dorfmann, né et mort à Paris (3 mars 1912-11 août 1999) est un producteur de cinéma français.

Biography

Le père de Robert Dorfmann est propriétaire d'un cinéma à Pau. Il aide à cacher des juifs pendant la seconde guerre mondiale.

Dès 1932, Robert Dorfmann fonde un cinéma ambulant. À la fin de la guerre, Dorfmann travaille occasionnellement en tant que producteur, mais surtout comme distributeur de films. En 1951, il est nommé directeur général de Corona.

Il a produit quelques-uns des grands classiques du cinéma français : Jeux interdits, Le Corniaud, La Grande Vadrouille, L'Aveu, Le Cercle rouge, etc. En 1973, après le film Papillon qui remporte un succès international, il se retire du milieu de la production.

En 1978, il reçoit un César d'honneur pour l'ensemble de sa carrière.

Il est le père de trois enfants : Élisabeth, Frédéric, et Jacques Dorfmann, lui-même producteur de cinéma.

Best films

Papillon (1973)
(Producer)
A Cop (1972)
(Producer)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
(Producer)
Forbidden Games (1952)
(Producer)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
(Producer)
Les Culottes rouges (1962)
(Producer)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Dorfmann (37 films)

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Producer

Papillon
Papillon (1973)
, 2h5
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Évasion
Actors Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris
Roles Producer
Rating79% 3.9985253.9985253.9985253.9985253.998525
1930's France. Henri Charrière (Steve McQueen), a safecracker nicknamed Papillon because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest, is wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp, he is being framed for the crime. He is sentenced to life imprisonment within the penal system in French Guiana. En route, he meets a fellow convict, Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), a forger and embezzler who is convinced that his wife will secure his release. Dega hires Papillon as his bodyguard, but the two eventually develop a friendship.
A Cop
A Cop (1972)
, 1h38
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna, Simone Valère, Riccardo Cucciolla, Paul Crauchet
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.495023.495023.495023.495023.49502
Four men rob a bank in Saint-Jean-de-Monts. A detective (Delon) tries to catch the team responsible for the lethal bank robbery, foil a drug smuggling operation and hold on to his girlfriend (Deneuve), whom he shares with a nightclub owner (Crenna), his friend and a prime suspect in the robbery. The notoriety and shared knowledge between the players intensifies into the film, similar to a Le Carre adaptation with the protagonists confronting each other at the climax of the story. The short stories and anecdotes that lead viewers to the conclusion, become a melange of real time actions scenes and non verbal interactions that hint at spy mystery, while remaining open to the viewer's interpretation. In one scene, all three protagonists can be seen at a bar, sharing a drink and glancing at each other as strangers, each one coy to reveal his or her real identity. Hence Melville's license to play with characters and plots to leave space for the film genre to shine through.
The Deadly Trap, 1h36
Directed by René Clément
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins, Karen Blanguernon, Raymond Gérôme, Patrick Dewaere
Roles Producer
Rating56% 2.802882.802882.802882.802882.80288
Un couple d'Américains et leurs deux enfants viennent vivre à Paris. Déjà fragile, le couple est meurtri lors de l'enlèvement de leurs enfants. Le père voit alors resurgir son passé trouble d'agent spécial et d'espion industriel...
Red Sun
Red Sun (1971)
, 1h49
Directed by Terence Young, Bernard Farrel
Origin France
Genres Action, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshiro Mifune, Capucine, Anthony Dawson
Roles Executive Producer
Rating68% 3.4008353.4008353.4008353.4008353.400835
Link Stuart (Bronson) is a ruthless outlaw, and co-leader along with Gauche (Delon) of a gang of bandits. Link and Gauche lead their gang on a successful train robbery, and discover that one of its cars carries a Japanese ambassador, who is bringing a ceremonial katana (sword) as a gift for President Ulysses S. Grant. Gauche takes the sword, and kills one of the two samurai guards, while members of his gang attempt to murder Link by throwing dynamite into the train car he occupies, then leaving him for dead.
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire, 1h32
Directed by Riccardo Freda
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander, Anton Diffring, Dominique Boschero, Werner Pochath, Valentina Cortese
Roles Co-Producer
Rating54% 2.703072.703072.703072.703072.70307
À Dublin, une jeune femme est retrouvée morte dans le coffre de la voiture de l'ambassadeur suisse Sobierski. Le cadavre est horriblement mutilé : le tueur a brûlé son visage avec de l'acide puis l'a égorgée. L'ancien inspecteur John Norton, viré de la police en raison de ses méthodes brutales, se charge lui-même de l'investigation. Il enquête dans l'entourage de Sobiesky, qui entretenait une relation sexuelle avec la victime, ce que ne facilite pas l'immunité diplomatique et le souci de discrétion du plénipotentiaire. Mais les meurtres s'enchaînent autour du notable et de ses proches. Alors que le tueur en série sévit, Norton rencontre la belle-fille de l'ambassadeur, Helen, avec qui il entame une liaison. Les deux amoureux se lient pour percer au grand jour les secrets de sa famille qui pourraient conduire à la découverte de l'identité du meurtrier.
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire, 1h34
Directed by Riccardo Freda
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander, Anton Diffring, Werner Pochath, Dominique Boschero, Valentina Cortese
Roles Co-Producer
Rating54% 2.7041752.7041752.7041752.7041752.704175
À Dublin, une jeune femme est retrouvée morte dans le coffre de la voiture de l'ambassadeur suisse Sobierski. Le cadavre est horriblement mutilé : le tueur a brûlé son visage avec de l'acide puis l'a égorgée.
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, 1h43
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Florinda Bolkan, Jean Sorel, Stanley Baker, Silvia Monti, Leo Genn, Alberto de Mendoza
Roles Co-Producer
Rating67% 3.395233.395233.395233.395233.39523
Carol Hammond (Bolkan) is the daughter of a wealthy lawyer and politician named Edmund Brighton (Leo Genn). Her husband Frank (Jean Sorel) is a lawyer working for Brighton's practice. They all live together in a large apartment with Joan (Edy Gall), Frank's teenage daughter from a previous marriage. Carol has been visiting a psychoanalyst (George Rigaud) because of a string of disturbing dreams she's been having featuring her decadent neighbor, Julia Durer (Anita Strindberg). Julia's frequent, late-night parties infuriate and yet excite Carol, evoking images of wild sex-and-drug orgies.
Trafic
Trafic (1971)
, 1h32
Directed by Jacques Tati
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Jacques Tati, Franco Ressel
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.4999553.4999553.4999553.4999553.499955
In Trafic, Hulot is a bumbling automobile designer who works for Altra, a Paris auto plant. He, along with a truck driver and a publicity agent, Maria, takes a new camper-car (designed by Hulot) to an auto show in Amsterdam. On the way there, they encounter various obstacles on the road. Some of the obstacles that Hulot and his companions encounter are getting impounded by Dutch customs guards, a car accident (meticulously choreographed by the filmmakers), and an inefficient mechanic. In the film, “Tati leaves no element of the auto scene unexplored, whether it is the after-battle recovery moments of a traffic-circle chain-reaction accident, whether it a study of drivers in repose or garage-attendants in slow-motion, the gas-station give-away (where the busts of historical figures seem to find their appropriate owners) or the police station bureaucracy.”
Le Cercle Rouge, 2h20
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about drugs, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alain Delon, André Bourvil, Jean Champion, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand, François Périer
Roles Producer
Rating78% 3.94623.94623.94623.94623.9462
Après cinq ans d'emprisonnement dans un établissement pénitentiaire de Marseille, Corey (Alain Delon) est sur le point d'être libéré. La veille de sa sortie, le gardien-chef de la prison lui propose une affaire. Sitôt libre, Corey rend visite à son ancien comparse, un nommé Rico, caïd enrichi, devenu amant de sa petite amie. Corey contraint le malfrat à lui remettre une somme d'argent liquide importante. Amer, ce dernier dépêche deux sbires aux trousses de Corey. Dans une salle de billard, Corey saisit une queue et, à l'aide d'une craie rouge, trace avec son procédé (l'embout de la queue qui sert à frapper les boules) un cercle qu'il remplit ensuite, avant de disperser les boules. Les hommes de Rico le rejoignent et l'entretien se termine dans le sang. Mais Corey en repart indemne. Il achète une voiture d'occasion remarquée dans la vitrine d'un revendeur automobile et entreprend de regagner son domicile du 16e arrondissement de Paris.
Cold Sweat
Cold Sweat (1970)
, 1h34
Directed by Terence Young
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Jean Topart, Michel Constantin
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.8510552.8510552.8510552.8510552.851055
During the Korean War, Joe Moran, a U. S. Army sergeant, was convicted for striking a colonel. He was imprisoned in Germany. In the military prison he encountered his former company commander Captain Ross, and a fellow soldier who served under Joe called Vermont. They had been imprisoned for black marketeering and hijacking army vehicles. Joe agrees to escape with them. The escape is organised by a former French Foreign Legionnaire named "Katanga". Things go according to plan until Katanga kills a curious German police officer. Frightened and disgusted by the murder, Joe escapes by himself, abandoning his friends and Katanga, who are recaptured.
Road to Salina, 1h36
Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Mimsy Farmer, Rita Hayworth, Marc Porel, Ed Begley, Ivano Staccioli
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.340493.340493.340493.340493.34049
Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina. He stops to drink some water at a desolate roadside service station when Mara, the owner, identifies him as her son Rocky, who disappeared four years ago. Jonas is overwhelmed by the awkward situation, but tired and hungry, accepts Mara’s offer of room and board. Feeling sorry for Mara, he pretends to be her beloved son and soon comfortably assume Rocky’s identity. Initially, he believes that Mara is simply delusional, but when Mara’s old friend and neighbor Warren arrives for a visit, surprisingly, he also acts as if Jonas were Rocky.
The Confession, 2h20
Directed by Costa-Gavras, Alain Corneau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Politique, Prison films, Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold, Jean Bouise, Sacha Briquet
Roles Producer
Rating77% 3.891243.891243.891243.891243.89124
The film is about Artur Ludvik, alias Gerard, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is being watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail by an organisation that declares itself "above the ruling party" and put in solitary confinement for months without being told the reason why. Through brainwashing techniques, including sleep deprivation and being forced to walk back and forth all the time, he is slowly pressured into confessing imaginary crimes, including treason, and to repeat this confession in a public court. Years later, he meets his now demoted tormentor, who tries to downplay his role at that time.
Tristana
Tristana (1970)
, 1h40
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Antonio Casas, José Calvo
Roles Producer
Rating73% 3.6972553.6972553.6972553.6972553.697255
Tristana is an orphan adopted by nobleman don Lope Garrido. Don Lope falls in love with her and thus treats her as daughter and wife from the age of 19. But, by age 21 Tristana starts finding her voice, to demand to study music, art and other subjects with which she wishes to become independent. She meets the young artist Horacio Díaz, falls in love, and eventually leaves Toledo to live with him. When she falls ill, she returns to don Lope. The illness results in her losing a leg, which changes her prospects; here, the film substantially varies from the novel.
The Christmas Tree, 1h48
Directed by Terence Young
Origin France
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Christmas films
Actors William Holden, André Bourvil, Virna Lisi, Yves Barsacq, Mario Feliciani, Madeleine Damien
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.149043.149043.149043.149043.14904
The story follows a Frenchman named Laurent and his son Pascal, who live somewhere in France. Along the way, the widower Laurent meets and falls for the beautiful Catherine, but also learns that his son is dying after witnessing the explosion of a plane with a nuclear device inside. Finding this out, Laurent and Pascal have a string of adventures with Catherine along.
The Great Silence, 1h45
Directed by Sergio Corbucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee, Marisa Merlini
Roles Producer
Rating76% 3.8461353.8461353.8461353.8461353.846135
Henry Pollicut, a corrupt Utahn banker, has Gordon, a man with evidence against him, and his wife murdered by two bounty killers. Fearing that Gordon's son will give them away, one of the killers slices his throat, rendering him permanently mute. Years later, the son, armed with a Mauser C96, extracts his revenge by assassinating the bounty killer and shooting Pollicut’s right-hand thumb.