Patrice Chéreau
Birthday: Born in 1944-11-02 in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, France
Deathday: 2013-10-07
Patrice Chéreau (1944-2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.
TV Credits
La Foi du siècle
Character: Narrator (voice)
Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent follow...
Il était une fois dix-neuf acteurs
Character: Self
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...
Movie Credits
Danton
Character: Camille Desmoulins
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not a...
Time of the Wolf
Character: Thomas Brandt
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process....
The Last of the Mohicans
Character: General Montcalm
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue....
Lucie Aubrac
Character: Jean Moulin
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband......
Nearest to Heaven
Character: Pierre
People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance, to her daughter, to colleagues. Beneath the surface, she roils with passion for a lost love, Philippe. She watches "An Affair to Remember" again and again, and when she receives a letter from Philippe asking her to meet him atop the Empire State Building, she swoons. She's writing a book on an aged painter, so she organizes a trip to New York ostensibly to secure photographs of some of his pieces. The ...
Trotsky
Character:
Story of the life of an extraordinary man, who with Lenin, was the symbol of the Revolution of 1917....
Adieu Bonaparte
Character: Napoléon Bonaparte
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet....
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Character: Self (archive footage)
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a ...
Patrice Chéreau, irrésistiblement vivant
Character: Self (archive footage)
A biography of creative prodigy Chéreau who ran his first theater aged 22 and went on to fascinate audiences with innovative stage productions and haunting movies, as witnessed by many of his collaborators....
Francois Simon the Presence
Character: Self
The work of legendary actor François Simon, son of Michel Simon....
Des Amandiers aux Amandiers
Character: Self (archive footage)
A free and intimate portrait behind the scenes of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's creation. In front of the camera, she transmits to today’s young actors the memory of the 1980s....
Resistencia Cultural
Character: Himself (archive)
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Patrice Chéreau, the body at work
Character: Self
In this documentary, Stéphane Metge, friend and collaborator of Patrice Chéreau, offers a portrait of the artist through archives of his plays, films, and interviews....
Il était une fois… « La Reine Margot »
Character: Self
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The Making of 'The Ring des Nibelungen'
Character: Self
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