Yves Boisset

French film director (1939–2025)

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Born: March 14, 1939
Died: March 31, 2025
Zodiac sign: Pisces
Birth year: 1939

About Yves Boisset

Yves Félix Claude Boisset (14 March 1939 – 31 March 2025) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed fiction films like The Assassination, Le prix du danger, as well as investigative documentaries. Boisset was known for his left wing political views and the controversial releases of his films. He was labeled "the most censored man in France", and declared himself the most censored filmmaker of the Fifth Republic. == Early life == Yves Boisset was born 14 March 1939, in Paris, France. His parents were teachers, with his mother teaching the German language and his father teaching literature. Boisset was raised on a farm. When Boisset was 8, his younger brother died after overdosing on medication left out by his grandmother, leading to strife within his family. Boisset was educated at Lycée Louis-le-Grand and studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). He disliked the strict atmosphere of the school and left, not graduating.

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Career and life highlights

His 1972 film The Assassination entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.
Boisset's first job was as a crime reporter for Paris-Jour in the late 1950s.
Boisset directed his first film in 1968, Coplan Saves His Skin.

Yves Boisset timeline

1968Boisset directed his first film in 1968, Coplan Saves His Skin.
1972His 1972 film The Assassination entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.

The world when Yves Boisset was born

Yves Boisset was born in 1939. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1939

#1 song"Over the Rainbow" – Judy Garland
Top movieGone with the Wind
Best-selling bookThe Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentLou Gehrig delivers his "Luckiest Man" farewell speech
Top headlineGermany invades Poland — World War II begins
Technology milestoneFirst regular television broadcasts in the US (NBC)
Defining fadThe Wizard of Oz mania
Notable inventionNylon stockings
World population2.30 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderFranklin D. Roosevelt
Sports championNew York Yankees (World Series)
U.S. population130.9M

1939 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Yves Boisset's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1939	2026
Gas	$0.19	$3.45/gal
Average home	$5,200	$435,000
Average income	$2,900	$67,500
Minimum wage	$0.30	$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket	$0.25	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.03	$0.73
Population	130.9M	341 million

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