

Michel Deville
Directing
April 13, 1931
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
February 16, 2023
Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.
The Filmography


Almost Peaceful

Sachs' Disease

The Gods Must Be Daring

Life's Little Treasures

Sweetheart

Summer Night in Town

La Lectrice

The Nonentity

Death in a French Garden

The Little Bunch

Deep Water

Dossier 51

The Apprentice Heel

Love at the Top

The Woman in Blue

Raphael or the Debauched One

The Bear and the Doll

Bye Bye Barbara
