Claude Berri (1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor. 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. His sister was the screenwriter and editor Arlette Langmann. Berri won the "Best Film" BAFTA for Jean de Florette, and was also nominated for twelve César Awards, though he never won. Berri also won the Oscar for Best Short Film for Le Poulet at the 38th Academy Awards in 1966, and produced Roman Polanski's Tess which was nominated for Best Picture in 1981. Internationally, however, two films in 1986 overshadow all his other achievements. Jean de Florette and its sequel Manon des Sources were huge hits. In 1991, his film Uranus was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Six years later, his film Lucie Aubrac was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2003, he was elected President of the Cinémathèque Française where he obtained enough state subsidies to cover the costs of its resurgence at its new site in the rue de Bercy. Berri's wife, Anne-Marie Rassam, committed suicide in 1997, jumping from the apartment of Isabelle Adjani's mother. Berri and Rassam had two children: actor Julien Rassam and actor and film producer Thomas Langmann. Berri died of a stroke, in Paris, aged 74. After his death, a group of nine works by Robert Ryman, Ad Reinhardt, Giorgio Morandi, Richard Serra and Lucio Fontana was promised to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in lieu of tax. But the heirs of the film director finally sold them through French art dealer Philippe Ségalot for about €50 million to Qatar. Source: Article "Claude Berri" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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)
The Good Girls
(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
French Cancan
(Un jeune homme à l'inauguration (uncredited))
Asphalt
(Band Boy (uncredited))
The Man with Connections
Marry Me! Marry Me!
(Claude)
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
(Self)
Male of the Century
(Claude)
Dangerous Games
(Un jeune)
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 / 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 (non crédité))
My Baby Is Black!
(Dauber)
Greed
(André (uncredited))
Germinal
(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
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
(Screenplay)
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
(Producer)
Queen Margot
(Producer)
Hunting & Gathering
(Director)
Manon of the Spring
(Director)
Manon of the Spring
(Screenplay)
I Love You, I Don't
(Producer)
I Love All of You
(Writer)
The Lover
(Producer)
Tess
(Producer)
Inspector Blunder
(Producer)
Welcome to the Sticks
(Producer)
The Secret of the Grain
(Producer)
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
(Producer)
The Housekeeper
(Director)
The Chicken
(Director)
I Love All of You
(Director)
Uranus
(Director)
Uranus
(Screenplay)
Tresor
(Director)
Tresor
(Screenplay)
Tresor
(Writer)
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
(Screenplay)
Germinal
(Director)
The African
(Producer)
Lucie Aubrac
(Director)
Lucie Aubrac
(Writer)
San Antonio
(Producer)
Le Maître d'école
(Director)
Madman at War
(Producer)
Le Cinema de Papa
(Director)
Sex Shop
(Director)
Hard Off
(Director)
One Wild Moment
(Director)
Waiter!
(Producer)
Tchao Pantin
(Scenario Writer)
Tchao Pantin
(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
(Producer)
Sex Shop
(Screenplay)
Hôtel de France
(Producer)
Take It from the Top
(Producer)
The House
(Producer)
Zig Zig
(Producer)
Marry Me! Marry Me!
(Director)
Marry Me! Marry Me!
(Producer)
Marry Me! Marry Me!
(Writer)
The Housekeeper
(Writer)
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
(Producer)
Le Cinema de Papa
(Writer)
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)
Le Maître d'école
(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)