Paul Grimault

Directing

March 23, 1905 — March 29, 1994

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

14 movies

Biography

Paul Grimault (23 March 1905 – 29 March 1994) was one of the most important French animators. He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical in nature. His most important work is Le Roi et l'oiseau, which ultimately took over 30 years to produce. He began it as La Bergère et le Ramoneur (The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep) in 1948 and it was highly anticipated, but Grimault's partner André Sarrut showed the film unfinished in 1952, against Grima...

🎬 Paul Grimault's Filmography

14 movies sorted by popularity

7.0

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Coup de Torchon

1981

7.2

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.

The Lower Depths

1936

7.5

Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.

L'Atalante

1934

7.0

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among others: an expert who has come to the hotel for professional reasons had better not meet his wife, who is there to cheat on him with his best friend.

The Free Trade Hotel

1934

7.1

Mild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss disappears, only for the superior to return and try to reclaim the profits from their successful cooperative.

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

1936

7.0

No description available.

Paul Grimault, image par image

2003

7.0

No description available.

Le Colisée

1933

6.5

This short documents the important role played by bread in the daily life of the city of Paris.

Paris mange son pain

1958

7.0

No description available.

Drôle d'oiseau

2003

S'il n'en reste qu'un, nous serons ces deux-là

7.0

No description available.

S'il n'en reste qu'un, nous serons ces deux-là

2013

7.0

No description available.

Levitan: That Night

1932

7.2

No description available.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

2012

7.4

On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts

Turning Table

1988

5.8

Advertisment for Levitan about a small, moving table.

The Séance Is Over

1931