About François Reichenbach
François Arnold Reichenbach (3 July 1921 – 2 February 1993) was a French film director, cinematographer, producer, and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 1993. == Early life == François Reichenbach was born in 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His father, Bernard Reichenbach, was a successful businessman and his mother, Germaine Angèle Sarah Monteux, had a passion for music, which she passed on to young François. His maternal grandfather, Gaston Monteux, was a wealthy industrialist: he was one of the first to buy paintings by Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Soutine, Utrillo and Modigliani. In his memoirs, Reichenbach says: "At the age of five I was terrified by all the faces in the paintings. And I became a forger. I added mustaches and hair to the nudes of Modigliani. This hoax takes on another dimension when you know that I made a film with Orson Welles about the forger Elmyr de Hory in 1973." He is the nephew of the industrialist and book collector Jacques Guérin, and the cousin of movie producer Pierre Braunberger, who encouraged him to make films. == Emigration == During the Second World War, François Reichenbach went to Geneva.
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