19 Facts About Maurice Failevic

Maurice Failevic directed films for cinema and television as well as documentaries.

Maurice Failevic was the recipient of several awards for his work, including the Prix de la critique from the International Critics' Week twice, the Fipa d'or and the Fipa d'argent, and the Grand Prix from the Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques.

Maurice Failevic was born on 14 August 1933 in Paris, France.

Maurice Failevic's father was an immigrant from Lithuania who worked as a miner and later a storekeeper.

Maurice Failevic became a communist activist in 1953, and he attended the 4th World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest, Romania.

Maurice Failevic directed films for cinema and television as well as documentaries.

Maurice Failevic chose to spend most of his career working in television as opposed to cinema to have a regular income and support his family.

Maurice Failevic served as the director of the Directing Department at La Femis from 1985 to 1996.

Maurice Failevic first directed Les Femmes aussi, a television series, in 1967.

Maurice Failevic directed his first film, Naissance d'un spectacle, un evenement ordinaire, in 1968.

In 1977, Maurice Failevic released 1788, a film about the struggle of villagers before the French Revolution, their awakening with the advent of the Cahiers de doleances, and their disillusionment in the wake of the abolition of privileges on 4 August 1789.

In 1997, Maurice Failevic directed Le premier qui dit non, a film about a football player who returns to the lower-class neighborhood of his childhood to meet the drug dealers who murdered his brother.

In 2001, with Marcel Trillat, Maurice Failevic co-directed Les Prolos, a documentary about the French working class in the 21st century.

Maurice Failevic hired the workers as extras, thus increasing its verisimilitude.

Maurice Failevic was honored with the Prix de la critique by the International Critics' Week for De la belle ouvrage in 1971 and for Gouverneurs de la rosee in 1975.

Maurice Failevic won the Prix de television Albert Ollivier from the Academie francaise for La Belle ouvrage in 1972.

Maurice Failevic won the Fipa d'or from the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels for C'etait la guerre in 1983 and the Fipa d'argent for Jusqu'au bout in 2005.

Maurice Failevic was an active member of the Syndicat francais des realisateurs de Television, a subgroup of the General Confederation of Labour, the second largest labor union in France.

Maurice Failevic died on 27 December 2016 in Paris, at the age of 83.