Bertrand TavernierFilmography

Holy Lola

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Carré, Lara Guirao, Bruno Putzulu, Frederic Pierrot

Claude Sautet, ou le Magie Invisible

Actors: Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Sarde, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Graziella Sautet, José Giovanni

Safe Conduct

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Christian Berkel, Marie Gillain, Charlotte Kady

Synopsis: During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate; some filmmakers and technicians simply went along with what their new leaders demanded in hopes keeping themselves and their families safe, while others sought to subvert the messages of Read More

Safe Passage

Crew: Director

Mon Pere ... il M'a Sauve la Vie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Vincent Lecoeur, Rufus, Michelle Goddet, Nicolas Abraham

Synopsis: Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a character Giovanni modeled after himself) Read More

It All Starts Today

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci, Veronique Ataly, Nathalie Becue

Synopsis: Ça commence aujourd'hui, a social drama, is Bertrand Tavernier's first major film since winning a César (the Oscar of France) in 1996 for his epic Capitaine Conan. Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once Read More

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: A documentary about the iconic career of actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows traces its subject's work from his earliest days in Hollywood to his award-winning (and career-salvaging) films of the 1990s. Directed by Bruce Ricker, who also made the lauded jazz Read More

De L'Autre Cote Du Periphe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Hoping to provide an insider's view of the horrible conditions endured by residents (most of them North African immigrants) of Paris' notorious suburban housing projects, noted filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and his son and co-director Niles Tavernier lived in one of them for several months. The Read More

Fred

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Clotilde Courau, François Berléand, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Fred lives in a housing project outside of Paris with his lover Lisa and her five-year old son. When not working in a factory or being with his little family, he hangs out with his close friend and neighbor Michel. Like the other factory workers, Fred and Michel live humble lives. Unfortunately Read More

Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz

Actors: Bob Belden, Joachim Ernst Berendt, Art Blakey, Ron Carter, John Coltrane

Synopsis: Blue Note Records was founded in the 1930s and has played a vital role in the development of jazz for more than 60 years. Important works by some of the greatest jazz musicians in history -- John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, and many others Read More

The Lumiere Brothers' First Films

Actors: Bertrand Tavernier

Synopsis: Along with his brother Auguste, film pioneer Louis Lumière thrilled audiences at the turn of the century with moving pictures that seemed to burst from the screen, and many have credited the Lumierès as the fathers of modern film. Of course, filmmaking techniques have come a long way in the 100 Read More

Capitaine Conan

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Torreton, Catherine Rich

Synopsis: Bertrand Tavernier directed this hard-hitting anti-war drama. In November of 1918, just as World War I had come to a close, Capt. Conan (Phillippe Torreton) and his men await new assignments in Bucharest. Conan regards himself as a warrior, not a soldier: while a soldier will fight in a war, it Read More

Fresh Bait

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry, Philippe Duclos

Synopsis: This drama examines three amoral young people living in Paris. 18-year-old Nathalie (Marie Gillain) works in a clothing store and dreams of opening her own boutique in the United States. She shares an apartment with her boyfriend Eric (Olivier Sitruk) and his slow-witted pal Bruno (Bruno Putzulu); Read More

The World of Jacques Demy

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third such tribute and is the only one to look deeply into Demy's vision as a director and his filmmaking techniques. To do so, she uses perfectly preserved film clips from each of Read More

Veillées d'armes: Histoire du journalisme en temps de guerre

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marcel Ophüls, Philippe Noiret, John Simpson, John F. Burns, Martha Gellhorn

Synopsis: This highly intellectual European documentary examines the benefits and moral basis for war reporting in the 20th century. It is done in two separate films that are part of a three-part project. The acclaimed documentarian Max Ophüls is featured in both films. Included is archival footage, movie Read More

Revenge of the Musketeers

Crew: Director

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey, Jean-Luc Bideau, Raoul Billerey, Nils Tavernier

Synopsis: A brave and resourceful young woman keeps the spirit of the Three Musketeers alive in this historical adventure. Eloise (Sophie Marceau) is the daughter of the famed swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret); while she has a remarkable gift with a blade herself, Eloise is devoting herself to her Read More

Les Demoiselles Ont Eu 25 Ans

Actors: Mag Bodard, Catherine Deneuve, Bernard Evein, Michel Legrand

Synopsis: In 1967, the phenomenally successful director of the films Lola and the groundbreaking musical Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, arrived in the little port town of Rochefort and, together with his art director, decorated the whole town in cheerful, almost surreal fashion for the filming Read More

Francois Truffaut: Portraits Volés

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Claude Chabrol

Synopsis: In homage to one of France's great directors, this highly personal documentary features those that knew him best, including his daughter Ewa and fellow filmmaker Claude Chabrol as they offer their comments and analysis of his career and his fascinating life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jean Renoir

Actors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Bogdanovich, Leslie Caron

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894-1979) had an extremely long career writing, directing, producing and acting in films, beginning in the silent era, right up until the time of his death, when most of his productions were influenced by the medium of television. He was one of the sons of the famous Read More

L.627

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Philippe Torreton, Nils Tavernier, Jean-Roger Milo

Synopsis: Bertrand Tavernier directed this gritty, unglamorous look at the grunge work police officers perform in attempting to uphold the law. Didier Bazace stars as Lucien Marguet, a drug squad cop who is dedicated to getting drugs off the street. Lucien is passionate about eradicating drugs, even though Read More

La Guerre Sans Nom

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Due to the fact that the French-Algerian War (beginning in 1954) brought down several governments and led to the creation of the Fifth Republic, a deeply divided France struggled over whether to retain Algeria as the southern outpost of France proper, and this conflict was never formally declared Read More

Daddy Nostalgia

Crew: Director

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Charlotte Kady, Emmanuelle Bataille, Michele Minns

Synopsis: In Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgia, Caroline (Jane Birkin of Agnes Varda's Kung Fu Master), a Parisian screenwriter who has recently left her husband and their young son, travels to the countryside when she hears that her British father, Tony (Dirk Bogarde of Death in Venice, in his last film Read More

Contre L'Oubli

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the lives of political prisoners around the world. Each filmmaker speaks passionately on behalf of an individual whose life has been warped by political intolerance, imprisonment Read More

Life and Nothing But

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: The grim post-World War I era in Europe is grist for director Bertrand Tavernier's mill in Life and Nothing But. Philipe Noiret portrays a French major who is supervising the gruesome task of counting and identifying the corpses still strewn over the battlefield. Noiret is obsessed with the Read More

Lyon Le Regard Interieur

Crew: Director

La Passion Béatrice

Crew: Director

Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Julie Delpy, Nils Tavernier, Monique Chaumette, Robert Dhéry

Synopsis: In this 1987 film, director Bertrand Tavernier depicts French life in the Middle Ages as dreary, unromantic, and brutal. The story begins when a warrior leaves home to fight in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) between France and England. Before his departure, he gives his young son, François, a Read More

'Round Midnight

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Christine Pascal, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, John Berry, Lonette McKee

Synopsis: A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody drama. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon portrays Dale Turner, a fictional musician inspired by a number of famed jazz figures, including Bud Powell and Lester Young. Largely Read More

Les Mois d'Avril Sont Meurtriers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Pierre Bisson, François Berléand, Brigitte Roüan

Synopsis: Fred (Jean-Pierre Marielle) follows hired killer Gravier (Jean-Pierre Bisson) in this routine crime drama. He knows Gravier is responsible for a gangland murder but must shadow the killer to provide solid evidence of the crime. The two engage in a psychological game of cat-and-mouse before the Read More

Mississippi Blues

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A pleasant and sometimes off-the-wall journey through Southern culture, in a local manifestation, is offered in Mississippi Blues by the French co-director Bertrand Tavernier (with American Robert Parrish). A broad spectrum of politics, gospel and blues, literature (native son William Faulkner) Read More

A Sunday in the Country

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont, Genevieve Mnich, Monique Chaumette

Synopsis: French stage actor Louis Ducreux makes his film debut as a 76-year-old traditionalist painter, Monsieur Ladmiral, in this bittersweet portrait of a brooding artist. A widower, Ladmiral lives on an estate in the countryside near Paris with only his housekeeper, Mercedes (Monique Chaumette), and his Read More

La Trace

Crew: Associate Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Berry, Bérangere Bonvoisin, Sophie Chemineau, Marc Perrone, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: Director Bernard Favre has created the "look and feel" of a moment in time that has long since disappeared -- 1859-60 in the Savoy Alps. Joseph (Richard Berry) is a young Savoyard peasant who has been established in a village with his wife and two children for some time, and like others before Read More

Coup de Torchon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell

Synopsis: Based on pulp master Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon is a sardonic thriller that remains true to its source's spirit, even as it transposes the action from the American South to colonial West Africa. Lucien (Philippe Noiret) is the bumbling police chief of Bourkasa Read More

L'Homme Fragile

Crew: Technical Advisor

Actors: Richard Berry, Francoise Lebrun, Didier Sauvegrain

Synopsis: Henri Natange (Richard Berry) and Cecile Delvert (Francoise Lebrun) are both newly divorced, and going through the painful adjustments of regaining a lost equilibrium while trying to keep up with their jobs. Both work at a Parisian newspaper and find themselves thrown together as the paper Read More

Une Semaine de Vacances

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Michel Galabru, Philippe Noiret, Flore Fitzgerald, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: French director Bernard Tavernier once again successfully translates the fragile intimacy of human relationships to the screen in A Week's Vacation, which he also co-produced and co-wrote. Nathalie Baye stars as a schoolteacher whose efficiency is compromised by her troubled private life. She Read More

La Mort En Direct

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Therese Liotard, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the Read More

Cosi come sei

Crew: Producer

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Anja Pieroni, Giuliana Calandra

Synopsis: An idyllic May-December romance becomes unraveled when the much-older man begins suspecting that his tender young lover may be his own daughter, the result of an illicit affair many years before. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Question

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Francois Dyrek, Christian Rist

Synopsis: Charlegue (Jacques Denis) is a small-time publisher who ran a left-wing newspaper in Algeria and worked in support of that country's independence movement. When the country is taken over by right-wing French military types in the 1950s, he is forced to go underground. The country's rulers Read More

Des Enfants Gatés

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont, Gérard Jugnot, Arlette Bonnard

Synopsis: Spoiled Children (Des enfants gates) finds director Bertrand Tavernier tempering his New Wave impulses with an overwhelming desire to entertain a mass audience. The "children" of the title are actually artistically inclined grown-ups. Filmmaker Bernard (Michel Piccoli), who is suffering a creative Read More

Le Juge et l'Assassin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renée Faure, Isabelle Huppert

Synopsis: Le Juge et L'Assassin probes a curious relationship between condemner and condemnee. Philippe Noiret plays Rousseau, a French judge who holds the fate of convicted child killer Bouvier (Michel Galabru) in his hands. Should Rousseau decide that Bouvier is insane, the killer will not go prison. As Read More

Let Joy Reign Supreme . . .

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: The humanistic actions of Philippe D'Orleans, the cultured gentle regent to young Louis the XV in pre-revolutionary France (1719) are chronicled in this French costumer. Though the regent endeavors to keep his subjects cultured and happy to stop the peasants from rising up, he knows he has no real Read More

The Clockmaker

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Julien Bertheau

Synopsis: French film critic Bertrand Tavernier made his directorial debut in The Clockmaker. The title character, played by Tavernier's "alter ego" Philipe Noiret, is benumbed by the nihilistic activities of his son Sylvain Rougerie. Arrested on charges ranging from arson to murder, Rougerie offers the Read More

Les Baisers

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie-France Boyer, Leticia Roman

La Boulangere de Monceau

Actors: Barbet Schroeder, Michéle Girardon

Synopsis: La Boulangere De Monceau (The Girl at the Monceau Bakery is the first of six short films that make up the Six Moral Tales series by French New Wave director Eric Rohmer. This 25-minute segment was shot in Paris with 16 mm black-and-white film. Barbet Schroeder (who also produced) plays a young Read More