Die Kunst der Stille - Marcel Marceaus Geheimnis

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In 1982, Le Troisième Œil, ( The Third Eye), his collection of ten original lithographs, was published in Paris with an accompanying text by Marceau. citation needed] In April 2001, Marceau was awarded the Wallenberg Medal by the University of Michigan in recognition of his humanitarianism and acts of courage aiding Jewish people and other refugees during World War II. Marceau's performance won him such acclaim that he was encouraged to present his first "mimodrama", Praxitele and the Golden Fish, at the Bernhardt Theatre that same year. Marceau was made a commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an Officer of the Légion d'honneur, and in 1978 he received the Médaille Vermeil de la Ville de Paris.

The film features interviews with Marcel’s surviving family members, which includes his teenage grandson Louis Chevalier, who is trained as a dancer. In 1995, pop megastar Michael Jackson, who had been friends with Marceau for nearly 20 years, planned a concert together with him for HBO, but the concert was canceled after Jackson was hospitalized for exhaustion during rehearsals. With his facial expressions and few gestures, he expressed more hope, joy or pain than so many Greek drama. The ensemble played the leading Paris theatres, such as Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Le Théâtre de la Renaissance, and the Bernhardt Theatre, as well as other playhouses throughout the world.

As an author, Marceau published two books for children, the Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book and the Marcel Marceau Counting Book, and poetry and illustrations, including La ballade de Paris et du Monde ( The Ballad of Paris and the World), an art book which he wrote in 1966, and The Story of Bip, written and illustrated by Marceau and published by Harper and Row. Silent Movie (1976), in which, with intentional irony, his character has the only audible speaking part, uttering the single word "Non!

The City of Paris awarded him a grant which enabled him to reopen his International School which offered a three-year curriculum. Marceau's new total company production Les Contes Fantastiques ( Fantasy Tales) opened to great acclaim at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris. Marcel Marceau is such an interesting figure, and this film attempts to pursue so many interesting threads of his life: his time in the French resistance rescuing children from the Nazis, his performance years, his family, his legacy; his family's attempts to stage a show about him, mine as a therapeutic tool, the directors relationship with his father via Marcel Marceau. After the war ended in 1945, he enrolled as a student in Charles Dullin's School of Dramatic Art in the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris, where he studied with teachers such as Joshua Smith and Étienne Decroux [10] and Jean-Louis Barrault. C., the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles demonstrating the timeless appeal of the work and the mastery of this unique artist.Marceau was married three times: first to Huguette Mallet, with whom he had two sons, Michel and Baptiste; then, to Ella Jaroszewicz, with whom he had no children. Marceau accepted the honor and responsibilities of serving as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Second World Assembly on Aging, which took place in Madrid, Spain, in April 2002. His extensive transcontinental tours included South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, South East Asia, Taiwan, Russia, and Europe. He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years.

I used to sneak in and sit in the audience and watch how he would defy the laws of gravity like he was stepping on air. His silent mimed exercises, which included The Cage, Walking Against the Wind, The Mask Maker, and In The Park, all became classic displays. The OJC, which was composed of nine clandestine Jewish networks, rescued thousands of Jewish children and adults during the war in France. In 1944 Marcel's father was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed. In 1949, following his receipt of the Deburau Prize (established as a memorial to the 19th-century mime master Jean-Gaspard Deburau) for his second mimodrama, Death before Dawn, Marceau founded Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau, the only company of pantomime in the world at the time.Regisseur Maurizius Staerkle Drux versteht es, seine eigene Familiengeschichte (gehörloser Vater, der auch als Pantomime auftritt), Interviews mit den Verwandten und Schülern sowie das Filmen derer theatralischer Aktivitäten in sehr klug konzipierter Schnittfolge mit alten Aufnahmen des Meisters zu einem flüssigen Ganzen zu verbinden.