Michel Deville, director of “Peril in the home” and “Sachs disease”, died at the age of 91

Filmmaker Michel Deville, who filmed Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli, died on February 16 at the age of 91 and was buried on Monday February 20, said his wife and collaborator, Rosalinde Deville, at the AFP. “We are only announcing it today because we wanted to gather in family intimacy and Michel hated ceremonies…”she told AFP.

The director of Peril in the housedeceased “of old age”according to his wife, was “buried in the cemetery of Boulogne-Billancourt, his city”. Author of around thirty feature films, he received two Césars for File 51 (1979, best screenplay) and for Peril in the house (1986, best director).

Many adaptations in his filmography

Almost all of his films are based on literary works, such as The readerwith Miou-Miou, adapted from the novel by Raymond Jean, File 51according to Gilles Perrault’s book or Sachs diseasewith Albert Dupontel, adapted from the novel by Martin Winckler.

Michel Deville had learned the profession of filmmaker for ten years, with his mentor Henri Decoin. He had success with Benjamin or the memoirs of a virgin (1967), interpreted by Michèle Morgan, Michel Piccoli and Pierre Clémenti. In 1970 he directed Brigitte Bardot in the comedy The bear and the dollone of the last films of the star.