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
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