Roland Tual (10 November 1902 – 29 August 1956) was a French director and producer. First married to Colette Jéramec, the daughter of a rich Parisian industrialist, Tual then married the producer and director Denise Piazza, also known under the name Denise Tual. Very close to surrealists, he was a friend of the painter

André Masson André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Biography Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but when he was eight his father's work took the family first briefly to Lille and then to Brusse ...

in the 1920s. He had financial interests in the daily ''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

''.Bernard Morlino, ''Emmanuel Berl. Les tribulations d'un pacifiste'', Paris, La Manufacture, 1990, (p. 125).

Filmography

;Unit production manager *1932: '' Fantômas'' by

Pál Fejös Pál Fejős (27 January 1897 – 23 April 1963), known professionally as Paul Fejos, was a Hungarian-American director of feature films and documentaries who worked in a number of countries including the United States. He also studied medicine i ...

*1938: ''

Mollenard ''Mollenard'' is a 1938 French drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Harry Baur, Gabrielle Dorziat and Pierre Renoir. It was also known by the alternative titles of ''Hatred'' and ''Capitaine Corsaire''. The film's sets were desi ...

'' by

Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak (; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as '' The Killers'' (19 ...

*1938: '' La bête humaine'' by Jean Renoir *1939: ''

La Loi du nord ''La Loi du nord'' (, "The Law of the North"; also called ''La Piste du Nord'', "The Northern Trail") is a 1939 French adventure drama film directed by Jacques Feyder who co-wrote screenplay with Alexandre Arnoux and Charles Spaak, based on novel " ...

'' by

Jacques Feyder Jacques Feyder (; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930 ...

*1941: '' Remorques'' by

Jean Grémillon Jean Grémillon (; 3 October 1901 – 25 November 1959)Note that, despite attempts at correction, thIMDb entry on the directorlists his date of birth erroneously as 4 March 1898. The correct date is given in his standard biography, by Geneviève S ...

*1945: ''

Espoir Espoir, a French word meaning "hope", may refer to: *'' Man's Hope'' (French: ''L'Espoir''), a 1937 novel by André Malraux *'' Espoir: Sierra de Teruel'', a 1938–1939 French film, released in 1945, based on Malraux's novel * ''L'Espoir'' (album ...

'' by

André Malraux Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' ( Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by P ...

and based on the work by Malraux ;Producer *1941: '' The Pavilion Burns'' by

Jacques de Baroncelli Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a buildin ...

*1942: ''Lettres d'amour'' by

Claude Autant-Lara Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Biography Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill ...

*1945: '' L'Espoir'' by André Malraux and Boris Peskine based on the work by Malraux *1950: ''Ce siècle a cinquante ans'' by Roland Tual, Denise Tual and ;Director *1942: '' Le Lit à colonnes'' *1944: ''Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs'' *1950: ''Ce siècle a cinquante ans'' by Roland Tual, Denise Tual and Werner Malbran ;Art director *1932: ''

Fanny Fanny may refer to: Given name * Fanny (name), a feminine given name or a nickname, often for Frances In slang * A term for the vulva, in Britain and many other parts of the English-speaking world * A term for the buttocks, in the United States ...

'' by Marc Allégret

References

External links

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lesgensducinema.com

Filmographie partielle sur Dvdtoile

Roland Tual (1904-1956)
on André Breton.fr

Portrait de Roand Tual
on

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

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