Dauman, Anatole 1925-1998

Overview

Works:	107 works in 247 publications in 9 languages and 7,371 library holdings
Roles:	Producer, Costume designer, Interviewee
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

1920 |

|2010

Key

Publications about Anatole Dauman

Publications by Anatole Dauman

Publications by Anatole Dauman, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Anatole Dauman

Anatole Dauman : pictures of a producer ( Book )
Anatole Dauman : Argos films : souvenir-écran by Anatole Dauman ( Book )
Anatole Dauman : Argos Films : souvenir-écran ( Book )
Hommage à Anatole Dauman, producteur et distributeur, français indépendant by Rencontre internationale de cinéma ( Book )

Most widely held works by Anatole Dauman

Wings of desire ( Visual )
11 editions published between 1987 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,236 libraries worldwide
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.

Nuit et brouillard Night and fog ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in French and held by 1,188 libraries worldwide
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.

La jetée ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in French and held by 588 libraries worldwide
La jetée: While at the Orly Airport observation deck, a boy sees a man shot. Shortly afterwards World War III breaks out and Paris is destroyed by nuclear weapons. As one of the survivors, the now grown man is chosen as part of an experiment in time travel because he has a strong grasp on a moment in the past--the image of the man being shot at the airport. He is successfully sent back in time. But once in the past, he falls in love with a girl, and defies orders to return and be with her.

Mouchette ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in French and held by 490 libraries worldwide
One of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film, as Mouchette a teenage girl must deal with tragic events and a broken family.

Masculin féminin 15 faits précis ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in French and held by 377 libraries worldwide
Paul, a young idealistic would-be intellectual, struggles to forge a relationship with incipient pop star Madeleine in 1960s Paris.

2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in French and English and held by 364 libraries worldwide
Juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl.

Dans l'empire des sens In the realm of the senses ( Visual )
16 editions published between 1990 and 2009 in Japanese and English and held by 363 libraries worldwide
The story is based on the tabloid sensation of 1936, the fatal love affair of Sada Abe, a former geisha turned maid, and Kichizo Yoshida, the owner of the Tokyo ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) at which she worked. Abandoning his wife and his business, Kichizo gives himself up to two weeks of dissipation with Sada at a nearby inn, which climaxes in sadomasochistic love games--and his strangulation and mutilation. Kichizo is tired of life, of the militarism that has everywhere suppressed Eros in favor of Thanatos, and he and Sada are escaping, protesting, testing physical and psychological limits, while resisting a social order that condemns their actions and their very being.

Wings of desire ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1986 and 2005 in German and held by 275 libraries worldwide
Romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal, set in East Berlin before the wall came down.

La planète sauvage [videorecording] = Fantastic planet ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in French and held by 271 libraries worldwide
On a distant planet, tiny humanoid creatures called Oms live in fear of the Draags. Draags are blue-skinned, red-eyed creatures standing over 40 feet tall. When a Draag child casually kills a human mother with a flick of her finger, she makes amends by adopting the dead woman's child as a pet. However, the new pet quickly figures out the secret of Draag brainpower and escapes to share his knowledge with a band of humans. Together, the humans make plans to bring down the reign of the Draags.

Muriel, ou, Le temps d'un retour ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2004 and 2009 in French and held by 224 libraries worldwide
A lonely woman is trying to sort her memories and present desires for the resumption of a long past love.

L'empire de la passion Empire of passion ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1999 and 2009 in Japanese and held by 207 libraries worldwide
1895, a small Japanese village. Part-time barmaid Seki is married to Gisaburo, a hardworking rickshaw man. Toyoji is a younger man at loose ends since leaving the army. Toyoji seduces Seki, and they embark on a desultory affair. Later, an impetuous action of Toyoji's prompts the lovers to murder Gisaburo. Three years later, Gisaburo's ghost appears, a sad and confused lost soul whose vague desperation drives his murderers to anguished guilt. This film was director Oshima's venture into the kaidan (Japanese ghost story), and was highly acclaimed on its release in 1978.

Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960) = Chronicle of a summer ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in French and held by 137 libraries worldwide
In the summer of 1960 a documentary film crew asks the people on the streets of Paris if they are happy.

La jetée ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1996 in French and held by 123 libraries worldwide
In La jetée a survivor of World War III travels back in time seeking help in finding a way out of a radioactive impasse. Once in the past he falls in love and attempts to remain in that time, forsaking his mission. Buck Rogers in the 25th century, the first Buck Rogers film, was created for exhibition at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair. Bambi meets Godzilla is a silent animated satire on lengthy film credits featuring the characters, Bambi and Godzilla.

Masculin féminin ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in French and held by 115 libraries worldwide
Dramatizes the ferment of the 1960's, exploring the reactions of youth to violence, political protest, suicide, birth control and other issues prevalent during the Vietnam era.

Muriel, ou, Le temps d'un retour ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in French and English and held by 98 libraries worldwide
A lonely woman is trying to sort her memories and present desires for the resumption of a long past love.

Anatole Dauman : pictures of a producer by Anatole Dauman ( Book )
4 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 80 libraries worldwide

Wings of desire ( Visual )
13 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in German and English and held by 52 libraries worldwide
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.

La belle captive ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in French and held by 51 libraries worldwide
"Alain Robbe-Grillet's erotically-charged film portrays a man's obsession with a mysterious woman who steps out of his fantasies. Walter becomes fascinated with Marie-Ange after seeing her in a nightclub. One evening, he finds her bound in the middle of the road. After a surreal night of passion, he awakens the next morning to wonder if it all was just a dream."--Container.

Until the end of the world ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in English and Spanish and held by 41 libraries worldwide
In this futuristic 21st century adventure, an uneasy traveler is pursued by a killer, and a government that would do anything to acquire his invention. He and the woman who will do anything for his love, share an adventure that takes them around the world.

Sunless Sans soleil ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1982 and 1998 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide
A complex compilation of images drawn from various points of the globe - Japan, Africa (Guinea Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands), Iceland, San Francisco and other places - overlaid, juxtaposed and intertwined with thoughts on memory, time, survival and other subjects written in letters despatched from 'another world' by roving cameraman Sandor Krasna. The art of linking, of structuring, becomes not only the film's subject but also the task of the spectator.