Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film A Man and A Woman. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, A Man and a Woman won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism. Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to Charlotte (née Abeilard) and Simon Lelouch. His father was born to an Algerian Jewish family while his mother was a convert to Judaism. Lelouch says that his first contact with cinema was very young: "My mother hid me in movie theaters when I was little. We were wanted by the Gestapo. [...] Cinema, for starters, saved my life." Of his personal faith, he says "Today I believe in God. My faith was sparked when I made a film in Israel. Over there, it is impossible not to believe in God. I loved the places of worship of all the religions. Everything which happens is for the best. I sometimes have the feeling that my inspiration comes from heaven. I think it is wonderful to be Jewish." His father bought him a camera as a fresh start after his failure in the baccalaureat. He started his career with a reportage – one of the first to film daily life in the Soviet Union, with the camera hidden under his coat as he made his personal journey. He also filmed sporting events, like the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Tour de France. Lelouch served in the French Army working in the film unit where he made over 100 films. He was demobilized in 1960. His first full-length film as director, Le Propre de l'homme, was decried by the critics: "Claude Lelouch, remember this name well, because you will not hear it again" – Cahiers du cinéma said. La femme spectacle (1963), following prostitutes, women shopping, going for nose-jobs, was censored for its misogynist tendency. A Man and a Woman changed his fortunes and was met with favour even by the Cahiers group. The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as his masterpiece, and his credits now add up to 50 or so films. His 1976 film, C'était un rendez-vous purportedly features a Ferrari 275 GTB being driven at extreme speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. The entire short is shot from the point of view of the car. Legend has it that Lelouch was arrested after it was first shown publicly. In a 2006 interview, Lelouch stated that he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and created a soundtrack of the radically different sounding Italian sports car for effect. He collaborated more than two dozen times with composer Francis Lai. They scored a great hit with the theme song for the film A Man and a Woman sung by Nicole Croisille and Pierre Barouh, and more than 300 versions of the song exist. In 1993 he was the president of the jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. ... Source: Article "Claude Lelouch" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Rendezvous
(The driver)
D'un film à l'autre
(Narrator (voice))
Poumon Vert et Tapis Rouge
(Self)
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
(Self)
Smic, Smac, Smoc
(Hooligan)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
(Self (archive footage))
Trintignant by Trintignant
(Self (archive footage))
Re-belles
(Self)
Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
(Self)
Shoot to Live
(Self)
Jean-Marie fête Bigard
(Self)
Annie Girardot selon son cœur
(Self - Réalisateur)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
(Self)
Bolero: A Global Hit
(Self (archive footage))
Visions of Eight
(Narrator)
Heart to Heart
(Le metteur en scène)
De la piste aux étoiles
(Self - Director)
Who Is Bernard Tapie?
(Self)
Happy New Year
Resistencia Cultural
(Self (archive footage))
Long Live Life
(Claude Lelouch (uncredited))
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
(Self)
Anouk Aimée, la beauté du geste
(Self)
Far West
(Psychiatrist (uncredited))
Conversation avec Claude Lelouch
(Self - subject)
A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov
(Self)
Belmondo by Belmondo
(Self (uncredited))
The Right of Man
(Claude)
Lino, il n'était que lui-même
(Self)
Les Misérables et Victor Hugo : au nom du peuple
(Self)
Deauville et le rêve américain
(Self)
Happy New Year
(Man on Train)
One 4 All
(Self)
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
(Self)
Boléro, le refrain du monde
(Self (archive footage))
Claude Lelouch, la vie en mieux
(Self)
Bernard, Albert et l'Empereur
(Claude Lelouch)
Claude Lelouch - Le symphonique
(Self)
Bardot
(Self)
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
(Self)
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
(Self)
À la poursuite de Claude Lelouch
(Self)
Je m'appelle Régine et je vous emmerde !
(Self : Réalisateur)
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
(Self (archive footage))
La Saga du Napoléon d'Abel Gance
(Self - filmmaker)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Tout le monde en parle
(Self)
The Oscars
(Self)
Télématin
(Self)
Victoires de la musique
(Self)
Nulle part ailleurs
(Self)
Vintage Mecanic
(Self - Guest)
Vivement dimanche prochain
(Self)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Le Grand Tralala
(Self)
The Secret Song
(Self)
The Unexpected Getaway
(Self)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Cérémonie des César
(Self - President)
Samedi soir
(Self)
Midi Première
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Empreintes
(Self)
Day for Night in Paris
(Self - Director)
Discorama
(Self)
Vivement dimanche
(Self)
Midi trente
(Self)
Call My Agent!
(Self)
Reflets de Cannes
(Self)
Beau geste
(Self)
Clique
(Self - Guest)
Le Cercle
(Self)
Sacrée Soirée
(Self)
C à vous
(Self - Guest)
The Apartment
(Self - Guest)
Top Gear France
(Self - Guest)
Vidéo Club
(Self)
Messi: The Cannes Film Festival from a Dog's Eye View
(Self - Guest)
The A Talks
(Self - Guest)
Rendezvous
(Director)
Shoot to Live
(Producer)
The Good and the Bad
(Director)
In the Affirmative
(Director of Photography)
A Man and a Woman
(Director of Photography)
In the Affirmative
(Editor)
A Man and a Woman
(Producer)
Life Love Death
(Author)
Life Love Death
(Director)
To Be a Crook
(Author)
To Be a Crook
(Editor)
To Be a Crook
(Director)
Les grands moments
(Director)
All That... for This?!
(Director)
Money Money Money
(Screenplay)
Money Money Money
(Director)
To Each His Own Cinema
(Director)
Far from Vietnam
(Director)
Crossed Tracks
(Director)
Crossed Tracks
(Screenplay)
Crossed Tracks
(Producer)
A Man and a Woman
(Screenplay)
A Man and a Woman
(Director)
Bolero
(Director)
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
(Director)
Marriage
(Director)
Marriage
(Screenplay)
The Beautiful Story
(Director)
Lumière & Company
(Director)
Les Miserables
(Writer)
Les Miserables
(Director)
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
(Screenplay)
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
(Director)
The Good and the Bad
(Screenplay)
Cat and Mouse
(Producer)
Happy New Year
(Producer)
The Good and the Bad
(Producer)
Love Is a Funny Thing
(Director)
There Were Days... and Moons
(Director)
What War May Bring
(Director)
A Man and a Woman
(Editor)
Live for Life
(Director)
Live for Life
(Screenplay)
Happy New Year
(Screenplay)
Cat and Mouse
(Director)
Cat and Mouse
(Screenplay)
Happy New Year
(Director)
Us Two
(Screenplay)
Us Two
(Director)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
(Director)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
(Screenplay)
Men, Women: A User's Manual
(Screenplay)
Men, Women: A User's Manual
(Director)
Chance or Coincidence
(Director)
The Courage to Love
(Screenplay)
The Courage to Love
(Director)
Going and Coming Back
(Director)
One 4 All
(Director)
Edith and Marcel
(Director)
For a Yellow Jersey
(Director)
For a Yellow Jersey
(Camera Operator)
The Crook
(Director)
Long Live Life
(Story)
Long Live Life
(Director)
Long Live Life
(Writer)
In the Affirmative
(Director)
Another Man, Another Chance
(Director)
In the Affirmative
(Writer)
Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens
(Director)
The Seacrets
(Executive Producer)
The Seacrets
(Co-Producer)
And Now My Love
(Director)
And Now My Love
(Screenplay)
Bandits
(Producer)
Bandits
(Director)
Bandits
(Writer)
Iran
(Director)
Alors... Heureux ?
(Producer)
It Only Happens to Others
(Producer)
We Love You, You Bastard
(Director)
Robert et Robert
(Producer)
Robert et Robert
(Director)
Robert et Robert
(Writer)
A Second Chance
(Director)
We Love You, You Bastard
(Screenplay)
13 Days in France
(Director)
D'un film à l'autre
(Writer)
D'un film à l'autre
(Producer)
A Second Chance
(Writer)
Love Is Better Than Life
(Writer)
Love Is Better Than Life
(Director)
Plan-Séquence
(Cinematography)
Plan-Séquence
(Director)
Plan-Séquence
(Writer)
Le Psychodrame
(Camera Operator)
Another Man, Another Chance
(Writer)
De la piste aux étoiles
(Thanks)
There Were Days... and Moons
(Writer)
Live for Life
(Editor)
All That... for This?!
(Writer)
Un + une
(Director)
Un + une
(Writer)
Un + une
(Producer)
Bolero
(Writer)
Bolero
(Producer)
Our Earthmen Friends
(Producer)
The Crook
(Dialogue)
The Crook
(Story)
The Crook
(Director of Photography)
The Crook
(Screenplay)
The War of Silence
(Director)
The War of Silence
(Writer)
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
(Writer)
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
(Producer)
One 4 All
(Writer)
What War May Bring
(Writer)
Happy New Year
(Original Film Writer)
The Beautiful Story
(Dialogue)
D'un film à l'autre
(Director)
The Beautiful Story
(Writer)
Everyone's Life
(Director)
Rendezvous
(Writer)
Edith and Marcel
(Writer)
Visions of Eight
(Director)
Iran
(Producer)
Les Gauloises bleues
(Producer)
At the End of the Day
(Producer)
The Blood
(Executive Producer)
Smic, Smac, Smoc
(Director)
Smic, Smac, Smoc
(Writer)
All That... for This?!
(Director of Photography)
All That... for This?!
(Producer)
Les Miserables
(Producer)
Les Miserables
(Director of Photography)
At the End of the Day
(Writer)
At the End of the Day
(Director)
The King of Ads
(Director)
What War May Bring
(Producer)
The Right of Man
(Director)
Night Women
(Director)
September 11
(Director)
The Best Years of a Life
(Director)
The Best Years of a Life
(Producer)
The Best Years of a Life
(Screenplay)
The Right of Man
(Dialogue)
To Be a Crook
(Producer)
To Be a Crook
(Camera Operator)
September 11
(Writer)
Earth Light
(Producer)
Le Grand Rendez-Vous
(Writer)
Le Grand Rendez-Vous
(Director)
Dance of Chance
(Director)
Türkiye
(Supervising Producer)
Happy New Year
(Original Story)
Molière
(Producer)
When the Curtain Rises
(Director)
Dance of Chance
(Producer)
Dance of Chance
(Writer)
We Love You, You Bastard
(Producer)
Everyone's Life
(Writer)
Everyone's Life
(Producer)
Il a besoin
(Director)
Il était une fois tout ça
(Director)
Il était une fois tout ça
(Writer)
One 4 All
(Producer)
L'incroyable fertilité du chaos
(Director)
For a Yellow Jersey
(Director of Photography)
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
(Producer)
Chance or Coincidence
(Writer)