Death of Jacques Dorfmann.
August 27, 2025
His name appears in countless credits, and his success illuminated the cinemas for more than thirty years. Baron of the 7the art, renowned producer and director, Jacques Dorfmann has left us.
He was born in Toulouse on December 2, 1945. He did not experience war, but in the footsteps of his father, Robert Dorfmann, producer among many others of La Grande Vadrouille, he learned to tell it. This is how, in 1969, he produced Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows, and entered the legend, weaving that of the Resistance. In this epic where all the contradictions of an era are mixed in chiaroscuro, he knew how to magnify the courage of those who refused to bow to Nazism, and who, from the maquis of the Alps to the offices of London, were able to give back to France its threatened freedom. Behind the character of the Gaullist Philippe Gerbier, interned in a French camp, escaped, struggling with the Gestapo, it is to an entire generation of resistance fighters that this film-monument paid a magnificent tribute.
Dorfmann worked again with Melville on the thriller The Red Circle (1970), collaborated with Jean-Pierre Mocky and Jean-Luc Godard. He who knew how to become an actor sometimes, as in The Great Silence, mixed his destiny with that of Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, André Bourvil, Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Romy Schneider, Mireille Darc.
Jacques Dorfmann told stories from the dawn of time, from the depths of time and from the distant parts of the earth. Antediluvian land in the resounding War of Fire (1981), which he produced for Jean-Jacques Annaud. Chinese land of Palanquin of Tears (1988), land of ice in Agaguk (1992), for which he was the screenwriter and director. Finally, a Gallic land scarred by war, as he showed in 2001 in his Vercingetorix.
Deploying his productions from Canada to Italy, playing comedy as well as detective stories, Jacques Dorfmann had a taste for genius and depth. He knew the smallest workings of making a film and knew how to project humanity, all of humanity, onto the big screen: vices and splendours, crimes and joys, whether in We Won't Grow Old Together or The Witness. In front of or behind the camera, he knew how to give intimate stories the vibrato of the unforgettable.
The President of the Republic and his wife pay tribute to the work of a man who allowed several generations of spectators to dream and shudder and send their heartfelt condolences to his loved ones and collaborators.
DORFMANN, Jacques
Born: 12/2/1945, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
Died: 8/27/2025, France
Jacques Dorfmann’s western – actor:
The Great Silence – 1967 (Miguel)
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