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Article: Philippe de Broca.(Obituaries)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Philippe de Broca, French director best-known for eccentric comedy "King of Hearts," died of cancer Friday in Paris. He was 71.
President Jacques Chirac said French cinema had lost "one of its most talented servants" and an "imaginative and demanding" director who gave France some of its most successful comedies.
De Broca worked as assistant to Claude Chabrol and Francois Truffaut before making his first film, "Les jeux de l'amour" (The Games of Love), with Jean-Pierre Cassel, in 1959. He made more than 30 ...