Claude Berri

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This paper explores the film career of Claude Berri. It explains that the one things that stands out in Berri's films is how the sadness of human suffering and prejudice is captured, not only with sadness, but with a sense of reality. Berri shows characters dealing with situations in an honest way and does not focus only on the suffering. It explains that the characters react to their situations in humorous ways. This is one key aspect of Berri's films; the ability to combine drama with comedy, and to add the comedy in a way that does not lessen the very real drama.

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"Claude Berri was born in Paris, France in 1934. He was born to Jewish parents and experienced the years of war during his childhood in Europe. It is this experience that is said to have influenced his movie career, with Berri becoming known as a director that captured the real anxieties of people (Buss). His own experiences in his childhood appear to have given him an understanding of human suffering that allowed him to capture it profoundly. Another theme of Berri's was prejudice, with many of his films dealing with the subject. This interest is also likely to come from his childhood and his experience as a Jew during the war years and after."

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