Émile Couzinet

Emile Cousinet, said Couzinet, born November 12, 1896 in Bourg (Gironde), and died October 24, 1964, in Bordeaux, is a film producer and French director. Son of a carpenter, Couzinet became a projectionist travelling and then director of the Casino de Royan. In the 1920s, he decided to invest in the operation of movie theaters, including art and test. In 1930, because of the fierce competition of the gates of Bordeaux, it acquires its own studios, the Studios of the Coast of Beauty, a cinema complex located in the seaside resort of Royan. After the destruction of the city at the end of the second world war, he recreates his studios in Bordeaux, which then take the name of the studio of the Silver Coast. It produces some vaudevilles, of which he is also the screenwriter (at the time under the name of Robert Eyquem) sometimes in the first degree, or a little bawdy, often adapted for the theatre. Thus, the Three Days of bit of partying in Paris is an adaptation of The Prize Eugène Labiche so that The Gift to Adele, was inspired by a piece by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy. Pillar is representative of popular cinema – its slogan is " We laugh, we will go ", he produces films of them into jubilant that The Club des fadas, Three Old Girls into madness, The Family Cucuroux, The Congress of mothers-in-law, or My parish priest, champion of the regiment. If comedy is his chosen field, Couzinet also dabbles in other genres, such as the film of cape and sword (Buridan, hero of the Tower of Nesle), the literary adaptation (Colomba based on Prosper Mérimée), or the family melodrama (Quai des illusions, a film for which he employs as an assistant a certain Sergio Leone). It makes big names of the cinema of the era, such as Pierre Larquey, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, or Gaby Morlay. But it also raises the debut of actors earthy such as Jean Carmet, who appears in My curé champion du régiment, and Robert Lamoureux, who holds her own role in The Gift of Adele. The empire Couzinet started to recede gradually from the end of the 1950s in the context of concentration of the film industry.