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.

Фільмографія

• 2015Ця незручна мить — Original Story
• 2009Tresor — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2008Лашкаво прошимо — Producer
• 2007The Secret of the Grain — Producer
• 2007Просто разом — Screenplay, Director
• 2006A House of Your Dreams — Producer
• 2005One Stays, the Other Leaves — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2005The Children — Producer
• 2004Happily Ever After — le père de Vincent, Producer
• 2004San Antonio — Producer
• 2003Feelings — Producer
• 2003The Car Keys — Producer
• 2002The Housekeeper — Director, Producer, Adaptation, Dialogue, Screenplay
• 2002Астерікс і Обелікс: Місія Клеопатра — Portrait painter of Cléopâtre, Producer
• 2001My Wife Is an Actress — Producer
• 2001The Three Kings — Producer
• 2001Va Savoir (Who Knows?) — Librarian
• 1999Hard Off — Claude Langmann, Director, Writer
• 1999Sachs' Disease — Associate Producer
• 1999The Escort — Producer
• 1999Астерікс і Обелікс проти Цезаря — Producer
• 1999Все про мою матір — Co-Producer
• 1998Un grand cri d'amour — André Maillard
• 1997Didier — Type aéroport, Producer
• 1997Lucie Aubrac — Director, Writer
• 1997The Bet — Producer
• 1996The Ogre — Executive Producer
• 1995French Twist — Producer
• 1995The Three Brothers — Le Président du tribunal, Producer
• 1995Time — Co-Producer
• 1994La Séparation — Producer
• 1994Queen Margot — Producer
• 1994The Machine — Hugues
• 1993Germinal — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 1993Part-time Parents — Producer
• 1992Коханець — Producer
• 1991Van Gogh — Producer
• 1990Stan the Flasher — Stan Goldberg
• 1990Uranus — Director, Screenplay
• 1989Headstrong — Producer
• 1988Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator — Producer
• 1988Three Seats for the 26th — Producer
• 1988Ведмідь — Producer
• 1987Hôtel de France — Producer
• 1986Жан де Флоретт — Screenplay, Director
• 1986Манон із джерел — Director, Screenplay
• 1985Les enragés — Producer
• 1985Madman at War — Producer
• 1984Blame It on Rio — Original Film Writer
• 1983Banzaï — Producer
• 1983My Best Friend's Girl — Producer
• 1983So Long, Stooge — Director, Screenplay
• 1983The African — Producer
• 1983The Wounded Man — Client, Producer
• 1983Waiter! — Producer
• 1982Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ — Producer
• 1981Le Roi des cons — L'agent de police
• 1981The School Teacher — Director, Writer
• 1980I Love You All — Writer, Director
• 1980Inspector Blunder — Producer
• 1979Тесс — Producer
• 1978A Simple Story — Producer
• 1978Take It from the Top — Producer
• 1977One Wild Moment — Director, Screenplay
• 1976A Child in the Crowd — Producer
• 1976I Love You, I Don't — Producer
• 1976That Kid — Producer
• 1976The First Time — Director
• 1975Male of the Century — Claude, Director, Writer
• 1975Zig Zig — Producer
• 1974I'm Losing My Temper — Producer
• 1974Le Chaud Lapin — Producer
• 1974Tender Dracula — Producer
• 1973Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full — Producer
• 1973The Mother and the Whore — Co-Producer
• 1972Sex Shop — Claude, Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1972The Egg — Scenario Writer
• 1971Le Cinema de Papa — Claude Langmann adulte, Director, Producer, Writer
• 1970The House — Producer
• 1970The Man with Connections — Military doctor (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1969Naked Childhood — Producer
• 1968Marie for Memory — Associate Producer
• 1968Marry Me! Marry Me! — Claude, Director, Producer, Writer
• 1968Oratorio for Prague — Producer
• 1968Seven Days to Remember — Producer
• 1967The Two of Us — Director, Writer
• 1966Line of Demarcation — Chef de famille juif
• 1965The Chicken — Director
• 1965The Sleeping Car Murders — Un porteur à la gare de Lyon (uncredited)
• 1964Behold a Pale Horse
• 1964Chance at Love — Writer, Director
• 1964Les baisers — Director
• 1962Greed — André (uncredited)
• 1962The Seven Deadly Sins — André (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
• 1961Janine — Claude, Writer
• 1961My Baby Is Black! — Dauber
• 1961Please, Not Now! — Bernard
• 1960Les Bonnes Femmes — André, Young Soldier
• 1960The Truth — Georges
• 1960Zazie dans le Métro — Waiter (uncredited)
• 1959Asphalt — Band Boy (uncredited)
• 1959I Spit on Your Grave — David
• 1958Dangerous Games — Young man
• 1955French Cancan — Un jeune homme à l'inauguration (uncredited)
• 1953Good Lord Without Confession — Le fils d'Eugène
• 1953Rue de l'estrapade — (uncredited)

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (21)

• 2017The Force of Destiny — Self
• 2012To Be... A Classic — Self
• 2009On the Trail of the New Wave — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Once Upon a Time... 'Tess' — Self
• 2004Filming 'Tess' — Self
• 2004François Truffaut, une autobiographie — Self
• 2004Tess: From Novel to Screen — Self
• 2004Tess: The Experience — Self
• 2003Once Upon a Time... Tchao Pantin — Self
• Un film et son époque — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Les Nuls, l'émission — Self - Guest
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• 1978Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• 1977Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante — Self
• Midi Première — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Cadet Rousselle — Self