Death of Marcel Bluwal, man of theater and conviction

The French director Marcel Bluwal addresses the public after having obtained the Fipa argent, on January 28, 2008 in Biarritz.

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The director and theater director Marcel Bluwal, an emblematic figure of the conservatory of dramatic art in Paris, died on October 23 at the age of 96.

Mr. Bluwal died "peacefully Saturday morning" in Paris, said his entourage.

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The director and theater director Marcel Bluwal, who died this Saturday at the age of 96, was born in Paris on May 26, 1925 to Polish Jewish immigrant parents.He entered television in the 1950s where he began by directing children's programs ("Thursday afternoon") before embarking on the television adaptation of masterpieces of theater and literature.

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From the years 1980-1990, he abandoned the small screen for the theater.

Several productions were noticed, including

 (1968),

 (1975),

 (1982).

His forays into the cinema - such as

 with Louis de Funès (1963) or

(1998) with Claude Brasseur - were more modest and received a mixed reception.

Left engagement

Engaged on the left, he was a member of the PCF, which he left in 1981. In 2008, after thirteen years of absence from television, he directed the mini-series

 devoted to the rise of the extreme. right in France during the years 1935-1937 through the formation of La Cagoule, an underground organization which fomented the overthrow of the Republic.

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 ", wrote on Facebook the actress Ariane Ascaride, who was his student.

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