Born in Paris on May 26, 1925 to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Marcel Bluwal entered television in the 1950s where he began by producing children’s programs (Thursday afternoon) before embarking on the television adaptation of masterpieces of theater and literature.
He who has a high idea of the cultural mission of television dust off the greatest authors: The barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Game of Love and Chance, The Karamazov brothers…
From the years 1980-1990, he abandoned the small screen for the theater. Several staging noticed, including in particular The Misanthrope (1968), Dom Juan returns from war (1975), False confidences (1982). His forays into the cinema – like Pile-ups with Louis de Funès (1963) or The most beautiful country in the world (1998) with Claude Brasseur – were more modest and received a mixed reception.
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, Marcel Bluwal directed the miniseries To the right any devoted to the rise of the extreme right in France during the years 1935-1937 through the formation of the Cagoule, an underground organization which fomented the overthrow of the Republic.
Marcel Bluwal was the father of three children: Catherine and Laurent born of a first union and Emmanuelle, the fruit of his love with the actress Danièle Lebrun.