Pierre Braunberger

Began his film career as an actor but had moved behind the camera by the age of 20, producing Rene Clair's avant-garde short "Entr'acte" in 1924. Braunberger's first feature as a producer was "La fille de l'eau" (1925), the first of several collaborations with Jean Renoir. Braunberger is remarkable not simply for the length and productivity of his career, but for the imagination and daring he showed in backing projects such as Luis Bunuel's banned surrealist classic "L' Age d'Or" (1930) and early New Wave films by Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard. He was awarded an honorary Cesar (the French Oscar) in 1980.