The films of
Richard Pottier

Picpus (1943)
Richard Pottier
  Les Caves du Majestic (1945)
Richard Pottier
  Casimir (1950)
Richard Pottier
 
     
Made by Continental Films at the time of the Nazi Occupation, Picpus was the first of three films to feature popular actor Albert Préjean in the role of Inspector Maigret...  [More...]   Albert Préjean stars as the famed Parisian detective created by Georges Simenon in this, the third and last of the Maigret films made by Continental Films during the Nazi Occupation of France...  [More...]   Whilst it now feels dated and painfully lacking in sophistication, this lightweight comedy was an appropriate vehicle for popular actor-comedian Fernandel...  [More...]  

Meurtres (1950)
Richard Pottier
     
     
Meurtres broaches the eternally controversial subject of euthanasia with the compassion and wisdom you would not have expected from the time at which it was made...  [More...]      





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