Claude Berri

Claude Berri

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.

Tresor
2009
Screenplay
Welcome to the Sticks
2008
Producer
Hunting & Gathering
2007
Screenplay
The Secret of the Grain
2007
Producer
Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'
2007
Self
A House of Your Dreams
2006
Producer
One Stays, the Other Leaves
2005
Director
The Children
2005
Producer
San Antonio
2004
Producer
Tess: The Experience
2004
Self
Happily Ever After
2004
le père de Vincent
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
2004
Self
Tess: From Novel to Screen
2004
Self
Filming 'Tess'
2004
Self
Feelings
2003
Producer
Once Upon a Time... Tchao Pantin
2003
Self
The Car Keys
2003
Self / Producer
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002
Producer
The Housekeeper
2002
Director
My Wife Is an Actress
2001
Producer
Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
2001
Librarian
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
1999
Producer
Hard Off
1999
Director
All About My Mother
1999
Co-Producer
The Escort
1999
Producer
Un grand cri d'amour
1998
André Maillard
Lucie Aubrac
1997
Writer
The Bet
1997
Producer
Didier
1997
Type aéroport
The Ogre
1996
Executive Producer
French Twist
1995
Executive Producer
The Three Brothers
1995
Producer
Queen Margot
1994
Producer
La Séparation
1994
Producer
The Machine
1994
Hugues
Germinal
1993
Screenplay
Part-time Parents
1993
Producer
The Lover
1992
Producer
Van Gogh
1991
Producer
Uranus
1990
Screenplay
Stan the Flasher
1990
Stan Goldberg
Headstrong
1989
Producer
The Bear
1988
Producer
Three Seats for the 26th
1988
Producer
Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
1988
Producer
Hôtel de France
1987
Producer
Manon of the Spring
1986
Screenplay
Jean de Florette
1986
Screenplay
Madman at War
1985
Producer
Les enragés
1985
Producer
Blame It on Rio
1984
Original Film Writer
The Wounded Man
1983
Producer
The African
1983
Producer
Waiter!
1983
Producer
So Long, Stooge
1983
Director
Banzaï
1983
Producer
My Best Friend's Girl
1983
Producer
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
1982
Producer
Le Maître d'école
1981
Director
Le Roi des cons
1981
L'agent de police
I Love You All
1980
Writer
Inspector Blunder
1980
Producer
Tess
1979
Producer
A Simple Story
1978
Producer
Take It from the Top
1978
Producer
One Wild Moment
1977
Director
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1977
Self
I Love You, I Don't
1976
Producer
The First Time
1976
Director
That Kid
1976
Producer
A Child in the Crowd
1976
Producer
Zig Zig
1975
Producer
Male of the Century
1975
Director
Le Chaud Lapin
1974
Producer
Tender Dracula
1974
Producer
I'm Losing My Temper
1974
Producer
Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
1973
Producer
The Mother and the Whore
1973
Co-Producer
Sex Shop
1972
Director
The Egg
1972
Scenario Writer
Le Cinema de Papa
1971
Director
The Man with Connections
1970
Director
The House
1970
Producer
Naked Childhood
1969
Producer
Marry Me! Marry Me!
1968
Writer
Seven Days to Remember
1968
Producer
Marie for Memory
1968
Associate Producer
The Two of Us
1967
Writer
Line of Demarcation
1966
Chef de famille juif
The Chicken
1965
Director
The Sleeping Car Murder
1965
Un porteur à la gare de Lyon (uncredited)
Chance at Love
1964
Writer
Les baisers
1964
Director
Janine
1962
Writer
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962
André (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited)
Greed
1962
André (uncredited)
Please, Not Now!
1961
Bernard
My Baby Is Black!
1961
Dauber
The Good Girls
1960
André, young soldier
The Truth
1960
Georges
Zazie dans le Métro
1960
Waiter (uncredited)
I Spit on Your Grave
1959
David
Asphalt
1959
Band Boy (uncredited)
Dangerous Games
1958
Young man
French Cancan
1955
Un jeune homme à l'inauguration (uncredited)
Good Lord Without Confession
1953
Le fils d'Eugène
Rue de l'estrapade
1953