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.
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Known For | Production |
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Most Rating | 4.151 |
Birthday | 1934-07-01 |
Place of Birth | Paris, France |
Also Known As | Claude Berel Langmann, Claude Langmann, |
1983
The Wounded Man
5.5/30
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The Wounded Man
1978
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
0/0
A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are als...
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Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
2002
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
7.4/3489
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has lon...
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
1953
Good Lord Without Confession
5.5/8
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress,...
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Good Lord Without Confession
2004
Tess: The Experience
10/1
A documentary that interviews the cast and crew of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."
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Tess: The Experience
2007
Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'
6/1
Television documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."
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Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'
1960
The Good Girls
6.2/66
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.
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The Good Girls
2004
Happily Ever After
6/102
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
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Happily Ever After
1960
The Truth
7.6/160
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the...
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The Truth
1998
Un grand cri d'amour
5.5/17
A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate.
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Un grand cri d'amour
1971
Le Cinema de Papa
6.3/13
Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially, Claude's...
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Le Cinema de Papa
1999
Hard Off
3.2/7
This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Th...
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Hard Off
1959
I Spit on Your Grave
5.2/12
Joe Grant, a light-skinned African American, heads to a small Southern town to investigate the lynching death of his brother. He draws the attention o...
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I Spit on Your Grave
1972
Sex Shop
5.66/25
On the advice of a friend, Claude, married to the charming Isabelle and father of two, decided to transform his library, hardly flourishing, into a se...
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Sex Shop
1990
Stan the Flasher
4.7/10
Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as Stan, an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quotin...
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Stan the Flasher
2001
Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
6.5/25
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting h...
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Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
1994
The Machine
5/18
This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist s...
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The Machine
1962
Janine
6.9/5
During a desultory night on the town, two men talk about their experiences with women. One of them disparages his ex-wife, while the other is enamored...
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Janine
1962
The Seven Deadly Sins
5.6/16
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates i...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
2003
Once Upon a Time... Tchao Pantin
0/0
A documentary on the making of Tchao Pantin (1983), featuring interviews with writer-director Claude Berri, novelist Alain Page, stars Richard Anconin...
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Once Upon a Time... Tchao Pantin
1997
Didier
6.1/591
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him...
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Didier
1995
The Three Brothers
6.933/734
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that...
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The Three Brothers
1953
Rue de l'Estrapade
5.2/8
While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique to luxury boutique with her best friend D...
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Rue de l'Estrapade
1955
French Cancan
7.1/87
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays...
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French Cancan
1959
Asphalt
7/4
Françoise Arnould plays here a married woman who decides one day to get away from her husband and return to her childhood place, where she meets all h...
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Asphalt
1970
The Man with Connections
5.7/14
Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he rec...
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The Man with Connections
1968
Marry Me! Marry Me!
5/5
Claude and Isabella met on a beach one summer and got easily involved. But while he has dreams of settling down with a family, she just wants to have...
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Marry Me! Marry Me!
2004
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
6.2/6
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers.
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François Truffaut, une autobiographie
1975
Male of the Century
8/1
The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
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Male of the Century
1958
Dangerous Games
5/3
Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she is going...
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Dangerous Games
2012
To Be... A Classic
0/0
Film historian/professor at UCLA Janet Bergstrom and Positif journalist N.T. Bihn discuss To Be or Not to Be and Ernst Lubitsch's career and legacy. T...
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To Be... A Classic
2004
Tess: From Novel to Screen
0/0
Documentary about Roman Polanski's film adaptation of the 1891 novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy.
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Tess: From Novel to Screen
2004
Filming 'Tess'
0/0
Documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."
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Filming 'Tess'
1960
Zazie dans le Métro
6.6/160
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
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Zazie dans le Métro
1961
Please, Not Now!
4.7/23
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
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Please, Not Now!
2003
The Car Keys
5.1/74
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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The Car Keys
2009
On the Trail of the New Wave
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On the Trail of the New Wave
1966
Line of Demarcation
6.1/31
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Line of Demarcation
1965
The Sleeping Car Murder
6.9/74
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead...
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The Sleeping Car Murder
1961
My Baby Is Black!
5/3
Black and white unite and are confronted with hatred in two color-line-busting classics from the classic years of exploitation.
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My Baby Is Black!
1962
Greed
7.5/1
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Greed
1993
Germinal
6.71/307
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Germinal
1981
Le Roi des cons
4.4/8
Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The ta...
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