CINEMA - Gérard OURY (1919-2006, successful film director an - Lot 377

CINEMA - Gérard OURY (1919-2006, successful film director and screenwriter) / Autograph letter signed, 2 p in-4, February 3, 1972, [to Marcel Diamant-Berger, 1893-1990, , soldier and writer) : he thanks him for sending his book, but warns him, "it is out of the question for the moment, and I fear for a long time to come, for me to be able to shoot a subject based on it", "I'm leaving in a few hours for the United States to work on my next film, which won't be shot for another year - the time to write it" (NB: "Rabbi Jacob"), "I have contracts to shoot two films, the first in a year's time, the second in three, on comic stories already chosen", "beyond that, it is of course out of the question to commit myself".