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Bertrand Tavernier
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Bertrand Tavernier was a French director, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on April 25, 1941 in Lyon, and died on March 25, 2021 in Sainte-Maxime (Var).
Son of the writer and resistance fighter from Lyon, René Tavernier, he was first an assistant director, press officer (notably for Stanley Kubrick) and critic before moving on to directing with The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul, his first critical success, which led to a long collaboration with the actor Philippe Noiret (Let the Party Begin..., The Judge and the Assassin, Coup de torchon, Life and Nothing But, The Daughter of d'Artagnan).
Eclectic, he tackled several cinematographic genres, from the dramatic comedy (A Sunday in the Count…
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Bertrand Tavernier was a French director, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on April 25, 1941 in Lyon, and died on March 25, 2021 in Sainte-Maxime (Var). Son of the writer and resistance fighter from Lyon, René Tavernier, he was first an assistant director, press officer (notably for Stanley Kubrick) and critic before moving on to directing with The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul, his first critical success, which led to a long collaboration with the actor Philippe Noiret (Let the Party Begin..., The Judge and the Assassin, Coup de torchon, Life and Nothing But, The Daughter of d'Artagnan). Eclectic, he tackled several cinematographic genres, from the dramatic comedy (A Sunday in the Country, Daddy Nostalgia) to the war film (Captain Conan) through the historical film (Pass, The Princess of Montpensier) or the thriller (L.627, The Bait). Several of his films have won awards, in France and abroad (including Autour de minuit which won an Oscar and was nominated for a Golden Globe). He was president of the Lumière Institute from 1982, the year the Institute was created, until his death. He is the father of director and actor Nils Tavernier and novelist Tiffany Tavernier.
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Lumière, Le Cinéma!
as Self
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
as Self (archive footage)
Les Secrets de la belle endormie
as Self
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
as Self
An American Named Kazan
as Self
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self
Souvenirs de Voyage
My Journey Through French Cinema
as Self
No Poster
M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier
as Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
as Self
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
as Self
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
as Self
The French Minister
as Un journaliste TV (voice)
In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin
as Self
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
as Self (cinéaste)
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
as Self
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
as Himself
Code Name: Melville
as Self
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
as Self
Filmmakers in Action
as Self
Michael Powell
The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis
Seuls sont les indomptés
as Lui-même
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
as Self
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
as Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self - Director
No Poster
In the Shadow of Hollywood
as Self
The Other Side of the Tracks
as Lui-même
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
as Self
The Lumière Brothers' First Films
as Narrator
The World of Jacques Demy
as Self
No Poster
The Cineastes' Exit
as Narrator
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Self
Gershwin
as Self
The Young Girls Turn 25
as Self
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
as Self
The Undeclared War
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Daddy Nostalgia
as Narrator (uncredited)
Pictures of Europe
as Self
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
as Self
Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)
Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme
as Lui-même
A Sunday in the Country
as Le narrateur
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Un homme du pouvoir (uncredited)
The Bakery Girl of Monceau
as Young Man / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
No Poster
L'homme au cigare
as Himself