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GenderMale
BirthdayJune 30, 1934 (90 years old)
Place of BirthParis, France
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.
The Wounded Man
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Good Lord Without Confession
Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'
Tess: The Experience
The Good Girls
Happily Ever After
The Truth
Un grand cri d'amour
Le Cinema de Papa
Hard Off
I Spit on Your Grave
Sex Shop
Stan the Flasher
Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
The Machine
Janine
The Seven Deadly Sins
Once Upon a Time... Tchao Pantin
Didier
The Three Brothers
Rue de l'Estrapade
French Cancan
Asphalt
The Man with Connections
Marry Me! Marry Me!
François Truffaut, une autobiographie
Male of the Century
Dangerous Games
To Be... A Classic
Tess: From Novel to Screen
Filming 'Tess'
Zazie dans le Métro
Please, Not Now!
The Car Keys
On the Trail of the New Wave
Line of Demarcation
The Sleeping Car Murder
My Baby Is Black!
Greed
Germinal
Le Roi des cons
Un film et son époque
Nulle part ailleurs
Sacrée soirée
Spécial cinéma
Le Grand Échiquier
Cadet Rousselle
Midi Première
Les Nuls, l'émission
Vivement dimanche
The Wounded Man
The Bear
Hunting & Gathering
Hunting & Gathering
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Queen Margot
Manon of the Spring
Manon of the Spring
I Love You, I Don't
I Love You All
The Lover
Tess
Inspector Blunder
Welcome to the Sticks
The Secret of the Grain
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
The Housekeeper
The Chicken
I Love You All
Uranus
Uranus
Tresor
Tresor
Tresor
The First Time
The Two of Us
The Two of Us
The Ogre
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Germinal
Germinal
The African
Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Aubrac
San Antonio
Le Maître d'école
Madman at War
Le Cinema de Papa
Hard Off
Sex Shop
One Wild Moment
Waiter!
So Long, Stooge
So Long, Stooge
One Stays, the Other Leaves
Germinal
The Housekeeper
A Simple Story
French Twist
The Man with Connections
All About My Mother
Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
Banzaï
Le Chaud Lapin
Les enragés
Naked Childhood
The Escort
Sex Shop
Sex Shop
Hôtel de France
Take It from the Top
The House
Zig Zig
Marry Me! Marry Me!
Marry Me! Marry Me!
Marry Me! Marry Me!
The Housekeeper
One Wild Moment
Seven Days to Remember
The Egg
The Three Brothers
Chance at Love
Feelings
Le Cinema de Papa
Le Cinema de Papa
The Man with Connections
Jean de Florette
Marie for Memory
That Kid
Tender Dracula
Male of the Century
Male of the Century
One Stays, the Other Leaves
My Best Friend's Girl
Janine
Headstrong
I'm Losing My Temper
Les baisers
The Mother and the Whore
Hard Off
Le Maître d'école
Jean de Florette
Three Seats for the 26th
A Child in the Crowd
One Stays, the Other Leaves
Chance at Love
Part-time Parents
La Séparation
Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
My Wife Is an Actress
A House of Your Dreams
The Children
Van Gogh
One Wild Moment
The Bet