Claude Goretta
Director, Screenwriter, Editor
1929-2019. Born in Geneva, Switzerland. Claude Goretta was studying for his law degree and founded the university film club, of which Alain Tanner was to be one of the animators. He joined the latter in London in 1955, where they both worked at the British Film Institute archives. After directing the short film NICE TIME (1957) with Tanner, shot at night in Piccadilly Circus, Goretta returned to Switzerland where he became a television director. He also shots short fiction films written with Michel Soutter. From 1958 onwards he directed documentaries and reportages for the french-speaking Swiss television RTS. In 1968 he founded Group 5 with four other young Swiss filmmakers: Alain Tanner, Michel Soutter, Jean-Louis Roy and Jean-Jacques Lagrange. After 1970, he directed many films for cinema and television.
Filmography
(a selection)
Director
- 2006
- Sartre, l'âge des passions by Claude Goretta
- 2004
- La fuite de Monsieur Monde by Claude Goretta
- 2001
- Thérèse et Léon by Claude Goretta
- 1997
- Vivre avec toi by Claude Goretta
- 1997
- Le dernier été by Claude Goretta
- 1996
- Le dernier chant by Claude Goretta
- 1996
- Maigret a peur by Claude Goretta
- 1994
- Le Chagrin des Belges by Claude Goretta
- 1992
- L'ombre by Claude Goretta
- 1991
- Maigret et la grande perche by Claude Goretta
- 1991
- La fouine by Claude Goretta
- 1988
- Les ennemies de la Mafia by Claude Goretta
- 1987
- Si le soleil ne revenait pas by Claude Goretta
- 1986
- Le rapport du gendarme by Claude Goretta
- 1983
- La mort de Mario Ricci by Claude Goretta
- 1982
- Les vêpres de la Vierge by Claude Goretta
- 1980
- La provinciale by Claude Goretta
- 1976
- La dentellière by Claude Goretta
- 1975
- Pas si méchant que ça by Claude Goretta
- 1974
- Le fils prodigue by Claude Goretta
- 1973
- L'invitation by Claude Goretta
- 1971
- Le jour des noces by Claude Goretta
- 1970
- Le fou by Claude Goretta
- 1966
- Jean-Luc persécuté by Claude Goretta
- 1957
- Nice Time by Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta
Screenwriter
- 2004
- La fuite de Monsieur Monde by Claude Goretta
- 1997
- Vivre avec toi by Claude Goretta
- 1987
- Si le soleil ne revenait pas by Claude Goretta
- 1983
- La mort de Mario Ricci by Claude Goretta
- 1980
- La provinciale by Claude Goretta
- 1976
- La dentellière by Claude Goretta
- 1973
- L'invitation by Claude Goretta
- 1971
- Le jour des noces by Claude Goretta
- 1970
- Le fou by Claude Goretta
- 1957
- Nice Time by Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta
Editor
- 1957
- Nice Time by Alain Tanner, Claude Goretta