Claude Berri
Claude Berri (1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, producer, screenwriter, distributor and actor. Berri was a leading figure of the French film industry both a director and as a producer. Following a short film that won an Academy Award, Berri achieved success with his first feature film, The Two of Us (1967). He then had a varied career, producing and distributing both mainstream and avant-garde films. During the 1970s, Berri's films as a director were mostly comedies but he later found increased success with several high-profile literary adaptations. In 1986, his two-part film Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring won public and critical acclaim, becoming his best-known work. He next directed Uranus (1990) and most notably Germinal (1993). In 1997, he directed the historical biopic Lucie Aubrac. Directors whose films were produced by Berri include Roman Polanski, Jacques Demy, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Claude Sautet, Miloš Forman, Claude Zidi, Jacques Rivette, Patrice Chéreau, Alain Chabat, Abdellatif Kechiche and Dany Boon. Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents. His mother, Beila (née Bercu), was from Romania, and his father, Hirsch Langmann, was a furrier from Poland. In 1943, during the Nazi occupation of France, Berri's parents entrusted him for his safety to a family in the countryside. He spent the rest of the occupation being fostered by "an antisemitic couple" who were unaware that he was Jewish. His sister, screenwriter and editor Arlette Langmann, was born after the war. Berri's original vocation was to be an actor. He began a career in the early 1950s but struggled to find roles, which prompted him to turn to directing and eventually producing. In 1965, he gained notice for The Chicken, which won the Award for best short film at the 38th Academy Awards. In 1967, Berri directed The Two of Us (Le Vieil homme et l'enfant), a partially autobiographical film that told the story of a Jewish child, entrusted during World War II to a benevolent and antisemitic old farmer who remains unaware that the boy he is caring for is a Jew. The film was a great success in France and abroad. Berri also adapted the story into a novel, released the same year as the film. During the years that followed, Berri became active as a producer and film distributor while continuing to direct his own films. Also in 1967, with his associate (later brother-in-law) Jean-Pierre Rassam, Berri bought the international distribution rights for Miloš Forman's The Firemen's Ball which was a great success and was nominated to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Berri's company, Renn Productions, which he had founded to produce The Two of Us, gradually became a major player in the French film industry. ... Source: Article "Claude Berri" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
The Wounded Man
(Client)
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
(Self)
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
(Portrait painter of Cléopâtre)
Good Lord Without Confession
(Le fils d'Eugène)
Tess: The Experience
(Self)
Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'
(Self)
Les Bonnes Femmes
(André, young soldier)
Happily Ever After
(le père de Vincent)
The Truth
(Georges)
Un grand cri d'amour
(André Maillard)
Le Cinema de Papa
(Claude Langmann adulte)
Hard Off
(Claude Langmann)
I Spit on Your Grave
(David)
Sex Shop
(Claude)
Stan the Flasher
(Stan Goldberg)
Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
(Librarian)
The Machine
(Hugues)
Janine
(Claude)
The Seven Deadly Sins
(André (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited))
Once Upon a Time... Tchao Pantin
(Self)
Didier
(Type aéroport)
The Three Brothers
(Le Président du tribunal)
Rue de l'estrapade
((uncredited))
French Cancan
(Un jeune homme à l'inauguration (uncredited))
Asphalt
(Band Boy (uncredited))
The Man with Connections
(Military doctor (uncredited))
Marry Me! Marry Me!
(Claude)
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
(Self)
Male of the Century
(Claude)
Dangerous Games
(Young man)
To Be... A Classic
(Self)
Tess: From Novel to Screen
(Self)
Filming 'Tess'
(Self)
Zazie dans le Métro
(Waiter (uncredited))
Please, Not Now!
(Bernard)
The Car Keys
(Self / Self - Un producteur)
On the Trail of the New Wave
(Self (archive footage))
Line of Demarcation
(Chef de famille juif)
The Sleeping Car Murder
(Un porteur à la gare de Lyon (uncredited))
My Baby Is Black!
(Dauber)
Greed
(André (uncredited))
Germinal
(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
Le Roi des cons
(L'agent de police)
The Force of Destiny
(Self)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
(Self)
Behold a Pale Horse
Un film et son époque
(Self)
Nulle part ailleurs
(Self)
Sacrée Soirée
(Self)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Cadet Rousselle
(Self)
Midi Première
(Self)
Les Nuls, l'émission
(Self - Guest)
Vivement dimanche
(Self)
The Wounded Man
(Producer)
The Bear
(Producer)
Hunting & Gathering
(Director)
Hunting & Gathering
(Screenplay)
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
(Producer)
Queen Margot
(Producer)
Manon of the Spring
(Director)
Manon of the Spring
(Screenplay)
I Love You, I Don't
(Producer)
I Love You All
(Writer)
The Lover
(Producer)
Tess
(Producer)
Inspector Blunder
(Producer)
Welcome to the Sticks
(Producer)
The Secret of the Grain
(Producer)
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
(Producer)
The Housekeeper
(Director)
The Chicken
(Director)
I Love You All
(Director)
Uranus
(Director)
Uranus
(Screenplay)
Tresor
(Director)
Tresor
(Writer)
Tresor
(Screenplay)
The First Time
(Director)
The Two of Us
(Director)
The Two of Us
(Writer)
The Ogre
(Executive Producer)
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
(Producer)
Germinal
(Director)
Germinal
(Screenplay)
The African
(Producer)
Lucie Aubrac
(Director)
Lucie Aubrac
(Writer)
San Antonio
(Producer)
The School Teacher
(Director)
Madman at War
(Producer)
Le Cinema de Papa
(Director)
Hard Off
(Director)
Sex Shop
(Director)
One Wild Moment
(Director)
Waiter!
(Producer)
So Long, Stooge
(Director)
One Stays, the Other Leaves
(Director)
Germinal
(Producer)
The Housekeeper
(Producer)
A Simple Story
(Producer)
French Twist
(Executive Producer)
The Man with Connections
(Director)
All About My Mother
(Co-Producer)
Oratorio for Prague
(Producer)
Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
(Producer)
Banzaï
(Producer)
Le Chaud Lapin
(Producer)
Les enragés
(Producer)
Naked Childhood
(Producer)
The Escort
(Producer)
Sex Shop
(Screenplay)
Sex Shop
(Producer)
Hôtel de France
(Producer)
Take It from the Top
(Producer)
The House
(Producer)
Zig Zig
(Producer)
Marry Me! Marry Me!
(Writer)
Marry Me! Marry Me!
(Director)
Marry Me! Marry Me!
(Producer)
One Wild Moment
(Screenplay)
Seven Days to Remember
(Producer)
The Egg
(Scenario Writer)
The Three Brothers
(Producer)
Chance at Love
(Writer)
Feelings
(Producer)
Le Cinema de Papa
(Writer)
Le Cinema de Papa
(Producer)
The Man with Connections
(Writer)
Jean de Florette
(Screenplay)
Marie for Memory
(Associate Producer)
That Kid
(Producer)
Tender Dracula
(Producer)
Male of the Century
(Director)
Male of the Century
(Writer)
One Stays, the Other Leaves
(Producer)
My Best Friend's Girl
(Producer)
Janine
(Writer)
Headstrong
(Producer)
I'm Losing My Temper
(Producer)
Les baisers
(Director)
The Mother and the Whore
(Co-Producer)
Hard Off
(Writer)
The School Teacher
(Writer)
Jean de Florette
(Director)
Three Seats for the 26th
(Producer)
A Child in the Crowd
(Producer)
One Stays, the Other Leaves
(Writer)
Chance at Love
(Director)
Part-time Parents
(Producer)
La Séparation
(Producer)
Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
(Producer)
My Wife Is an Actress
(Producer)
A House of Your Dreams
(Producer)
The Children
(Producer)
Van Gogh
(Producer)
One Wild Moment
(Original Story)
The Bet
(Producer)
Blame It on Rio
(Original Film Writer)
The Housekeeper
(Adaptation)
The Housekeeper
(Dialogue)
The Housekeeper
(Screenplay)
So Long, Stooge
(Screenplay)
Happily Ever After
(Producer)
The Three Kings
(Producer)
Didier
(Producer)