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{{Short description|French filmmaker (1934–2009)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Claude Berri
| name = Claude Berri
| birthdate = [[July 1]], [[1934]]
| image = Claude_Berri.jpg
| birthplace = [[Paris]], [[France]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|07|01|df=y}}
| deathdate = [[January 12]], [[2009]]
| deathplace = [[Paris]], [[France]]
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|01|12|1934|07|01|df=y}}
| othername = Claude Berel Langmann
| death_place = Paris, France
| occupation = [[Film producer]]<br>[[Actor]]<br>[[Screenwriter]]<br>[[Film director]]
| birthname = Claude Beri Langmann
| yearsactive = [[1953 in film|1953]] - present
| occupation = Film producer, actor, screenwriter, film director
| imdb_id = 0001945
| years_active = 1953–2008
| spouse = Anne-Marie Rassam <br />({{abbr|m.|married}} ??; {{abbr|d.|died}} 1997)
| children = [[Julien Rassam]]<br />[[Thomas Langmann]]
| relatives = [[Arlette Langmann]] (sister)
| awards = [[Academy Awards|Oscar Best Short Film]]<br />(for ''[[Le Poulet]]'')
}}
}}
'''Claude Berri''' (born Claude Berel Langmann on [[July 1]], [[1934]] in [[Paris]], [[France]], died January 12, 2009) was a French [[film director]], [[actor]], [[screenwriter]] and [[Film producer|producer]], of [[Jewish]] origin.
'''Claude Berri''' ({{IPA|fr|bɛʁi|lang}}; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.


==Early life==
Berri won the "Best Film" [[BAFTA]] for ''[[Jean de Florette]]'', and has also been nominated for no less than twelve [[César Award]]s, although he has yet to win one. Berri also won the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for Best Short Film for "[[Le Poulet]]" at the [[39th Academy Awards]] in 1966, and produced [[Roman Polanski]]'s ''Tess'' which was nominated for Best Picture in 1981.
Born '''Claude Beri Langmann''' in [[Paris]], Berri was the son of [[Jewish]] immigrant parents.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/claude-berri-film-director-and-screenwriterbest-known-for-jean-de-florette-and-manon-des-sources-1334132.html |title=French director, producer and actor Claude Berri |work=[[The Independent]] |date= 14 January 2009|access-date=14 January 2009}}</ref> His mother, Beila (née Bercu), was from [[Romania]], and his father, Hirsch Langmann, was a furrier from [[Poland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/11/Claude-Berri.html|title=Claude Berri Biography (1934-)}}</ref> His sister was the screenwriter and editor [[Arlette Langmann]].

==Career==
Berri won the "Best Film" [[BAFTA]] for ''[[Jean de Florette]]'', and was also nominated for twelve [[César Award]]s, though he never won. Berri also won the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for Best Short Film for ''[[Le Poulet]]'' at the [[38th Academy Awards]] in 1966, and produced [[Roman Polanski]]'s ''[[Tess (1979 film)|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 (1986 film)|Manon des Sources]]'' were huge hits.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/arts/13berri.html NY Times Obituary] Bruce Weber 13 January 2009</ref> In 1991, his film ''[[Uranus (1990 film)|Uranus]]'' was entered into the [[41st Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale 1991">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1991/02_programm_1991/02_Programm_1991.html |title=Berlinale: 1991 Programme |access-date=21 March 2011 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> Six years later, his film ''[[Lucie Aubrac (film)|Lucie Aubrac]]'' was entered into the [[47th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale 1997">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1997/02_programm_1997/02_Programm_1997.html |title=Berlinale: 1997 Programme |access-date=8 January 2012 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref>

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.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/movies/26gehr.html NY Times] A New Life for a Has-Been, a Gehry Building 26 October 2005</ref>

==Personal life==
Berri's wife, Anne-Marie Rassam, committed suicide in 1997, jumping from the apartment of [[Isabelle Adjani]]'s mother.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-cinema/2009-01-13/claude-berri-adieu-monsieur-cinema/903/0/306358 | title = Claude Berri : adieu, Monsieur Cinéma | first = François-Guillaume | last = Lorrain | work = [[Le Point]] | location = Paris | date = 15 January 2009 | access-date = 14 January 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171107003857/http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-cinema/2009-01-13/claude-berri-adieu-monsieur-cinema/903/0/306358 | archive-date = 7 November 2017 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Berri and Rassam had two children: actor [[Julien Rassam]] and actor and film producer [[Thomas Langmann]].

==Death==
Berri died of a stroke, in [[Paris]], aged 74.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.peoplestar.co.uk/index.html?news=332 |title=" French cinema icon Claude Berri dies at 74 " |work=peoplestar.co.uk |access-date=12 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726025021/http://www.peoplestar.co.uk/index.html?news=332 |archive-date=26 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Georgina |last1=Adam |first2=Charlotte |last2=Burns |date=7 July 2011 |url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Qatar-revealed-as-the-world-s-biggest-contemporary-art-buyer/24185 |title=Qatar revealed as the world's biggest contemporary art buyer |newspaper=[[The Art Newspaper]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711180547/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Qatar-revealed-as-the-world-s-biggest-contemporary-art-buyer/24185 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |access-date=1 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==

{{expandsection}}
===Director===
*''[[The Two of Us (1967 film)|The Two of Us]]'' (1967)
*1962: ''[[The Chicken (film)|Le Poulet]]'' (short) (released 1965) Winner [[Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film|Best Live Action Short Film Oscar]] (also produced)
*''[[So Long, Stooge]]'' (1983)
*1964: ''[[Les Baisers]]'' (segment ''« Baiser de 16 ans »'')
*''[[Jean de Florette]]'' (1986)
* ''[[Manon des Sources]]'' (1986) (US title: ''Manon of the Spring'')
*1964: ''[[La Chance et l'amour]]'' (segment ''« La Chance du guerrier »'')
*1967: ''[[The Two of Us (1967 film)|Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant]]'' (US title: ''The Two of Us'') (also screenwriter)
*''[[Germinal (1993 film)|Germinal]]'' (1993) &mdash; at that time the most expensive French feature film ever made
*''[[Une femme de ménage]]'' (2002)
*1968: ''[[Mazel Tov ou le Mariage]]''
*1969: ''[[Le Pistonné]]''
*''[[Hunting and Gathering (film)|Ensemble, c'est tout]]'' (2007)
*1971: ''[[Le Cinéma de papa]]''
*1972: ''[[Sex-shop (film)|Sex-shop]]''
*1975: ''[[Le Mâle du siècle]]''
*1976: ''[[La Première fois]]''
*1977: ''[[Un moment d'égarement (1977 film)|Un moment d'égarement]]''
*1980: ''[[Je vous aime]]''
*1981: ''[[Le Maître d'école]]''
*1983: ''[[So Long, Stooge|Tchao Pantin]]'' (English title: ''So Long, Stooge'')
*1986: ''[[Jean de Florette]]''
*1986: ''[[Manon des Sources (1986 film)|Manon des Sources]]'' (US title: ''Manon of the Spring'')&nbsp;— sequel to ''Jean de Florette'' (second half of the book ''[[L'Eau des collines]]'')
*1990: ''[[Uranus (1990 film)|Uranus]]''
*1993: ''[[Germinal (1993 film)|Germinal]]'' at the time, the most expensive French feature film ever made
*1996: ''[[Lucie Aubrac (film)|Lucie Aubrac]]''
*1999: ''[[La débandade]]''
*2002: ''[[Une femme de ménage]]'' (English title: ''A Housekeeper'')
*2004: ''[[L'Un reste, l'autre part]]''
*2007: ''[[Hunting and Gathering (film)|Ensemble, c'est tout]]'' (English title: ''Hunting and Gathering'')
*2009: ''[[Trésor (film)|Trésor]]'' (also screenwriter and producer; died after four days of filming)

===Producer===
{{Div col}}
*1962: ''[[The Chicken (film)|Le Poulet]]'' (dir. Claude Berri)
*1967: ''[[Marie pour mémoire]]'' (dir. [[Philippe Garrel]]) – associate producer
*1968: ''[[Oratorio for Prague]]'' short documentary film (dir. [[Jan Nemec]])
*1969: ''[[L'Enfance nue]]'' (dir. [[Maurice Pialat]])
*1970: ''[[Le Pistonné]]'' (dir. Claude Berri)
*1970: ''[[La Maison]]'' (dir. [[Gérard Brach]])
*1972: ''[[L'Œuf]]'' (dir. [[Jean Herman]])
*1973: ''[[Pleure pas la bouche pleine]]'' (dir. [[Pascal Thomas]])
*1975: ''[[Le Mâle du siècle]]'' (dir. Claude Berri)
*1976: ''[[Je t'aime... moi non plus (film)|Je t'aime… moi non-plus]]'' (dir. [[Serge Gainsbourg]]) – (co-producer)
*1978: ''[[Vas-y maman]]'' (dir. [[Nicole de Buron]]) (uncredited)
*1978: ''[[Une histoire simple]]'' (dir. [[Claude Sautet]])
*1979: ''[[Tess (1979 film)|Tess]]'' (dir. [[Roman Polanski]])
*1980: ''[[Inspecteur la Bavure]]'' (dir. [[Claude Zidi]])
*1982: ''[[Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ]]'' (dir. [[Jean Yanne]])
*1983: ''{{Interlanguage link multi|L'Africain (film)|fr|3=L'Africain (film)|lt=L'Africain}}'' (dir. [[Philippe de Broca]])
*1983: ''[[Banzaï]]'' (dir. [[Claude Zidi]])
*1983: ''[[The Wounded Man (film)|L'Homme blessé]]'' (dir. [[Patrice Chéreau]])
*1983: ''[[La Femme de mon pote]]'' (dir. [[Bertrand Blier]])
*1983: ''[[Waiter!|Garçon !]]'' (English title: ''Waiter!|'') (dir. [[Claude Sautet]])
*1985: ''[[Les Enragés (film)|Les Enragés]]'' (dir. [[Pierre-William Glenn]])
*1985: ''[[Madman at War|Le Fou de guerre]]'' (English title: ''Madman at War'') (dir. [[Dino Risi]]) (also French adaptation)
*1987: ''[[Hôtel de France]]'' (dir. [[Patrice Chéreau]])
*1988: ''[[À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur]]'' (dir. [[Édouard Molinaro]])
*1988: ''[[The Bear (1988 film)|L'Ours]]'' (English title: ''The Bear'') (dir. [[Jean-Jacques Annaud]])
*1988: ''[[Trois places pour le 26]]'' (dir. [[Jacques Demy]])
*1988: ''[[La Petite Voleuse]]'' (dir. [[Claude Miller]])
*1989: ''[[Valmont (film)|Valmont]]'' (dir. [[Miloš Forman]])
*1992: ''[[The Lover (1992 film)|L'Amant]]'' (English title: ''The Lover'') (dir. [[Jean-Jacques Annaud]])
*1993: ''[[Une journée chez ma mère]]'' (dir. [[Dominique Cheminal]])
*1994: ''[[La Reine Margot (1994 film)|La Reine Margot]]'' (dir. [[Patrice Chéreau]])
*1994: ''[[La Séparation]]'' (dir. [[Christian Vincent (director)|Christian Vincent]])
*1995: ''[[Les Trois Frères]]'' (dir. [[Didier Bourdon]]) and [[Bernard Campan]] (also actor)
*1995: {{Lang|fr|[[Gazon maudit]]}} (dir. [[Josiane Balasko]]) – (executive producer)
*1996: ''[[The Ogre (1996 film)|Le Roi des aulnes]]'' (German title: ''Der Unhold''; English ''The Ogre'') (dir. [[Volker Schlöndorff]]) – (executive producer)
*1997: ''[[Didier (film)|Didier]]'' (dir. [[Alain Chabat]])
*1997: ''[[Arlette (1997 film)|Arlette]]'' (dir. [[Claude Zidi]])
*1997: ''[[The Bet (1997 film)|Le Pari]]'' (English title: ''The Bet'') (dir. [[Didier Bourdon]] and [[Bernard Campan]])
*1998: ''[[Mookie (film)|Mookie]]'' (dir. [[Hervé Palud]]) – (associate producer)
*1999: ''[[Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar|Astérix et Obélix contre César]]'' (English title: ''Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar'') (dir. [[Claude Zidi]])
*1999: ''[[The Escort (1999 film)|The Escort]]'' (dir. [[Michel Blanc]])
*2001: ''[[La Boîte]]'' (dir. [[Claude Zidi]])
*2001: ''[[Ma femme est une actrice]]'' (dir. [[Yvan Attal]])
*2002: ''[[Amen.]]'' (dir. [[Costa-Gavras]])
*2002: ''[[Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra|Astérix & Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre]]'' (English title: ''Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'') (dir. [[Alain Chabat]])
*2003: ''[[Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine)|Le Bison]]'' (dir. [[Isabelle Nanty]])
*2003: ''[[Une femme de ménage]]'' (dir. Claude Berri)
*2003: ''[[Les Sentiments]]'' (dir. [[Noémie Lvovsky]])
*2004: ''[[San-Antonio (film)|San-Antonio]]'' (dir. [[Frederic Auburtin]])
*2004: ''[[Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants]]'' (dir. [[Yvan Attal]])
*2005: ''[[L'Un reste, l'autre part]]'' (dir. Claude Berri)
*2005: ''[[Les Enfants (2005 film)|Les Enfants]]'' (dir. [[Christian Vincent (director)|Christian Vincent]])
*2005: ''[[The Demon Stirs|Le Démon de midi]]'' (dir. [[:fr:Marie-Pascale Osterrieth|Marie-Pascale Osterrieth]])
*2005: ''[[La Maison du Bonheur (film)|La Maison du Bonheur]]'' (dir. [[Dany Boon]])
*2007: ''[[Hunting and Gathering (film)|Ensemble, c'est tout]]'' (English title: Hunting and Gathering) (dir. Claude Berri)
*2007: ''[[La Graine et le Mulet]]'' (dir. [[Abdellatif Kechiche]])
*2008: ''[[Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis]]'' (English title: ''Welcome to the Sticks'') (dir. [[Dany Boon]])
{{Div col end}}

===Writer===
*1967: ''Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant'', novel that was adapted by Berri for [[The Two of Us (1967 film)|the film]]. (English: {{cite book |title=The Two of Us |url=https://archive.org/details/twoofusberr00berr |url-access=registration |others=[[Helen Weaver]] (translation), Lydia Rosier (drawings) |publisher=Morrow |date=1968 |oclc=343943 }})
*1968: ''[[Mazel Tov ou le Marriage]]''
*1969: ''[[Le Pistonné]]''
*1970: ''[[Le Cinéma de Papa]]''
*1972: ''[[Sex-shop (film)|Sex-shop]]''
*1975: ''[[Le Mâle du Siècle]]'' (English title: ''Male of the Century '')
*1976: ''[[La Première Fois]]''
*1977: ''[[Un Moment d'Égarement]]''
*1980: ''[[Je Vous Aime]]''
*1981: ''[[Le Maître d'École]]''
*1983: ''[[So Long, Stooge|Tchao Pantin]]'' (English title: ''So Long, Stooge'')
*1986: ''[[Jean de Florette]]''
*1986: ''[[Manon des Sources (1986 film)|Manon des Sources]]'' (US title: ''Manon of the Spring'')
*1990: ''[[Uranus (1990 film)|Uranus]]''
*1993: ''[[Germinal (1993 film)|Germinal]]''
*1997: ''[[Lucie Aubrac (film)|Lucie Aubrac]]''
*1999: ''[[La Débandade]]''
*2002: ''[[Une Femme de Ménage]]'' (English title: ''A Housekeeper'')
*2004: ''[[L'un Reste, l'Autre Part]]'' (English title: ''One Stays, the Other Leaves'')
*2007: ''[[Hunting and Gathering (film)|Ensemble, c'est tout]]'' (English title: ''[Hunting and Gathering'')

===Actor===
{{Div col}}
* ''[[Rue de l'Estrapade (film)|Rue de l'Estrapade]]'' (1953) – Petit rôle (uncredited)
* ''[[Good Lord Without Confession]]'' (1953) – Le fils d'Eugène (uncredited)
* ''[[Le Blé en herbe (1954 film)|Le Blé en herbe]]'' (1954) – Le fils du forain (uncredited)
* ''[[French Cancan]]'' (1955) – Un jeune homme à l'inauguration (uncredited)
* ''Dangerous Games'' (1958) – Un jeune
* ''Asphalte'' (1959) – Garçon bande à Gino (uncredited)
* ''J'irai cracher sur vos tombes'' (1959) – David
* ''[[Les Bonnes Femmes]]'' (1960) – Le copain de Jane
* ''[[Zazie dans le Métro]]'' (1960) – Waiter (uncredited)
* ''[[La Vérité (film)|La Vérité]]'' (1960) – Georges
* ''[[My Baby is Black]]'' (1961)
* ''[[Please, Not Now!]]'' (1961) – Bernard
* ''[[The Seven Deadly Sins (1962 film)|The Seven Deadly Sins]]'' (1962) – André (segment "Avarice, L'") (uncredited)
* ''[[Behold a Pale Horse (film)|Behold a Pale Horse]]'' (1964)
* ''[[The Sleeping Car Murders]]'' (1965) – Un porteur (uncredited)
* ''[[Line of Demarcation (film)|Line of Demarcation]]'' (1966) – Le chef de famille juif (uncredited)
* ''Mazel Tov ou le Mariage'' (1968) – Claude
* ''Le pistonné'' (1970) – Le médecin militaire
* ''Le Cinéma de papa'' (1971) – Claude Langmann adulte
* ''Le Sex Shop'' (1972) – Claude
* ''Zig-Zag'' (1975) – Un client de Marie & Pauline (uncredited)
* ''Le mâle du siècle'' (1975) – Claude
* ''Le roi des cons'' (1981) – L'agent de police
* ''[[The Wounded Man (film)|The Wounded Man]]'' (1983, directed by [[Patrice Chéreau]]) – Le client
* ''Stan the Flasher'' (1990) – Stan Goldberg
* ''[[Germinal (1993 film)|Germinal]]'' (1993) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
* ''La machine'' (1994) – Hugues
* ''Les Trois Frères'' (1995) – Le président du tribunal
* ''[[Didier (film)|Didier]]'' (1997) – Type aéroport #1
* ''[[Un grand cri d'amour]]'' (1998, directed by [[Josiane Balasko]]) – Maillard
* ''La débandade'' (1999) – Claude Langmann
* ''[[Va savoir]]'' (2001) – Librarian
* ''[[Les Rois mages]]'' (2001) – Un passant (uncredited)
* ''[[Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra]]'' (2002) – Peintre Cléopâtre
* ''Les clefs de bagnole'' (2003) – Himself / Un producteur
* ''[[Happily Ever After (2004 film)|Happily Ever After]]'' (2004) – Le père de Vincent (final film role)
{{Div col end}}

==See also==
*[[1962 in film]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{imdb name|id=0001945|name=Claude Berri}}
*{{IMDb name|1945|Claude Berri}}
*[http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Claude-Berri/85007930 Obituary of Claude Berri]
*[http://www.cineartistes.com/fiche-Claude+Berri.html Claude Berri at the CinéArtistes] {{in lang|fr}}


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Latest revision as of 09:56, 20 September 2024

Claude Berri
Born
Claude Beri Langmann

(1934-07-01)1 July 1934
Paris, France
Died12 January 2009(2009-01-12) (aged 74)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Film producer, actor, screenwriter, film director
Years active1953–2008
Spouse(s)Anne-Marie Rassam
(m. ??; d. 1997)
ChildrenJulien Rassam
Thomas Langmann
RelativesArlette Langmann (sister)
AwardsOscar Best Short Film
(for Le Poulet)

Claude Berri (French: [bɛʁi]; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.

Early life

[edit]

Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents.[1] His mother, Beila (née Bercu), was from Romania, and his father, Hirsch Langmann, was a furrier from Poland.[2] His sister was the screenwriter and editor Arlette Langmann.

Career

[edit]

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.[3] In 1991, his film Uranus was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.[4] Six years later, his film Lucie Aubrac was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.[5]

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.[6]

Personal life

[edit]

Berri's wife, Anne-Marie Rassam, committed suicide in 1997, jumping from the apartment of Isabelle Adjani's mother.[7] Berri and Rassam had two children: actor Julien Rassam and actor and film producer Thomas Langmann.

Death

[edit]

Berri died of a stroke, in Paris, aged 74.[8] 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.[9]

Filmography

[edit]

Director

[edit]

Producer

[edit]

Writer

[edit]
  • 1967: Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant, novel that was adapted by Berri for the film. (English: The Two of Us. Helen Weaver (translation), Lydia Rosier (drawings). Morrow. 1968. OCLC 343943.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link))
  • 1968: Mazel Tov ou le Marriage
  • 1969: Le Pistonné
  • 1970: Le Cinéma de Papa
  • 1972: Sex-shop
  • 1975: Le Mâle du Siècle (English title: Male of the Century )
  • 1976: La Première Fois
  • 1977: Un Moment d'Égarement
  • 1980: Je Vous Aime
  • 1981: Le Maître d'École
  • 1983: Tchao Pantin (English title: So Long, Stooge)
  • 1986: Jean de Florette
  • 1986: Manon des Sources (US title: Manon of the Spring)
  • 1990: Uranus
  • 1993: Germinal
  • 1997: Lucie Aubrac
  • 1999: La Débandade
  • 2002: Une Femme de Ménage (English title: A Housekeeper)
  • 2004: L'un Reste, l'Autre Part (English title: One Stays, the Other Leaves)
  • 2007: Ensemble, c'est tout (English title: [Hunting and Gathering)

Actor

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "French director, producer and actor Claude Berri". The Independent. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Claude Berri Biography (1934-)".
  3. ^ NY Times Obituary Bruce Weber 13 January 2009
  4. ^ "Berlinale: 1991 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  5. ^ "Berlinale: 1997 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
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