---
name: "Pierre Charbonnier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pierre-charbonnier"
fi1m_id: "pierre-charbonnier"
imdb_id: "nm0152793"
tmdb_id: 10352
wikidata_id: "Q15638817"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1897"
died: "2 July 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 86
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T08:30:56.098335+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Pierre Charbonnier

## Identity

Pierre Charbonnier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pierre-charbonnier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pierre-charbonnier
- **IMDb ID:** nm0152793
- **TMDB ID:** 10352
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15638817
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15638817, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152793/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10352

Production designer. Born 1 January 1897 in Vienne, France. Died 2 July 1978.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1897, Vienne, France
- **Died:** 2 July 1978
- **Active:** 1951–1959
- **Frequently works with:** [Robert Bresson](https://film.one/person/robert-bresson.md)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 86 to 82 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15638817, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152793/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10352

## Biography

Pierre Charbonnier (1897–1978) was a French production designer, art director, painter and short-film director. Born in Vienne, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the Académie Ranson in Paris. He worked in stage design and made short films from the late 1920s before moving into feature-film production design.

Charbonnier maintained a long collaboration with Robert Bresson, serving as production designer or art director on eight of the director’s films: *Diary of a Country Priest* (1951), *A Man Escaped* (1956), *Pickpocket* (1959), *The Trial of Joan of Arc* (1962), *Au Hasard Balthazar* (1966), *A Gentle Woman* (1969), *Four Nights of a Dreamer* (1971) and *Lancelot of the Lake* (1974).

*Sources: imdb.com, svenskfilmdatabas.se, cineressources.net, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Pickpocket* (1959), Fi1m 84, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/pickpocket.md)
- *A Man Escaped* (1956), Fi1m 90, Art Direction, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/a-man-escaped.md)
- *Diary of a Country Priest* (1951), Fi1m 84, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/diary-of-a-country-priest.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lancelot of the Lake* (1974), as Art Direction
- *Four Nights of a Dreamer* (1972), Production Design
- *A Gentle Woman* (1969), Production Design
- *Au Hasard Balthazar* (1966), Production Design
- *The Trial of Joan of Arc* (1963), Production Design
- *Naked Autumn* (1961), as Art Direction
- *Pickpocket* (1959), Production Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/pickpocket.md)
- *Bobosse* (1959), Production Design
- *A Man Escaped* (1956), Production Design, Art Direction — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/a-man-escaped.md)
- *Diary of a Country Priest* (1951), as Art Direction — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/diary-of-a-country-priest.md)
- *Les Pirates du Rhône* (1933), Director

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