Claude SautetFilmography

Born:: February 23, 1924 in Montrouge, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of France's most respected directors, Claude Sautet was without equal in his ability to chronicle the banal complexities of French bourgeois life. In such works as Les Choses de la Vie (1969), Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres (1974), and Un Coeur en Hiver (1992), Sautet explored the...Read More

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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Charles Berling, Claire Nadeau, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud further explores repressed emotions and failed relationships. Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), an attractive young woman, is six months behind in her rent and struggling with odd jobs, while her husband (Charles Berling Read More

1995
Un Coeur en Hiver

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine, Myriam Boyer

Synopsis: Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart from Manon of the Spring (1986) co-star once again in Un Coeur en Hiver, playing characters whose distance from each others' lives belies the enormous emotional impact they have on one another. Directed by Claude Sautet, whose 40-year career included the Read More

9/2/92
Quelques Jours Avec Moi

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's A Few Days With Me (Quelque Jours avec Moi) stars Daniel Auteuil as the emotionally disturbed heir to a supermarket empire. Auteuil's mother Danielle Darrieux tries to give her son some purpose in life by assigning him the task of reinvigorating one of the supermarket chain's least Read More

4/14/89
Mon Ami Le Traitre

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Thierry Frémont, Valérie Kaprisky, André Dussollier, Steve Kalfa, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: Georges (Thierry Fremont) is a juvenile Nazi collaborator who agrees to gather information on others in France in exchange for the authorities forgiving his own transgressions. Rove (Andre Dussolier) is the intelligence officer who trains Georges in his quest to hunt down Nazi war criminals. Read More

1989
Garçon!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yves Montand, Jacques Villeret, Nicole Garcia, Bernard Fresson, Rosy Varte, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Yves Montand stars in this French seriocomedy as a middle-aged waiter. He has long harbored dreams of becoming a singer, and is also anxious to prove he's as virile as he was when he started pushing plates. Montand gets a chance to rev up his sexual energy and his musical skills when an old flame (Nicole Garcia Read More

1983
Un Mauvais Fils

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dufilho, Yves Robert, Claire Maurier

Synopsis: This is a quiet drama about the struggles of a former drug addict and dealer, Bruno Calgagni (Patrick Dewaere), as he is released from prison in the U.S. and arrives back home in France. His unhappy father blames this disgraceful prison stint for the death of Bruno's mother. No one wants to hire Read More

1980
Une Histoire Simple

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Claude Brasseur, Roger Pigaut, Sophie Daumier, Arlette Bonnard

Synopsis: Nominated for an Academy Award, Claude Sautet's A Simple Story (Une Histoire Simple) examines the behavior of its characters as dictated by their environment. Romy Schneider plays Marie, a fortysomething working woman whose tiresome existence has prompted her to inaugurate an affair. Marie Read More

1978
Mado

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Romy Schneider, Charles Denner

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Simon, a French businessman reluctantly venturing into middle age. As he deals with his own midlife crisis, Simon becomes virtually oblivious to the social changes around him. The businessman tries to counter advancing age with an increased sex life, but finds that women Read More

10/27/76
Vincent, François, Paul et les Autres

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others is a gentle character study of a group of friends who meet each weekend in the country for food, drink and conversation. Over the course of the film, the three main characters undergo a variety of personal and professional struggles, which are all vividly Read More

10/20/74
Cesar & Rosalie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, Sami Frey, Umberto Orsini, Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's romantic drama César et Rosalie (Cesar and Rosalie) stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful young woman happily married to successful businessman Cesar (Yves Montand). One day, Rosalie's former flame David (Sami Frey) appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a Read More

10/27/72
Les Mariés De L'An II

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlène Jobert, Laura Antonelli, Sami Frey

Synopsis: This film is a French period comic romance, set in the time just surrounding the French Revolution (1789). "Year Two," of the French title refers to the second year following the revolution. Those who guided the French Revolution renamed the days of the week, the months of the year, and much more. Read More

4/7/71
Max et les Férrailleurs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, François Perier, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: Max (Michel Piccoli) is a former judge obsessed with seeing criminals brought to justice. The frustrations of the courtroom, where evidence matters more than guilt, lead him to join the police force. Independently wealthy, he uses all his official and personal resources to make criminals pay for Read More

2/17/71
Borsalino

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet, Catherine Rouvel, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: Based on a Eugene Saccomano novel entitled The Bandits of Marseilles, this movie was followed by a sequel entitled Borsalino and Co. This movie captures the mood of 1930 Marseilles beautifully with the use of ambience and music. Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo portray two gangsters who kill Read More

3/20/70
Les Choses de la Vie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Lea Massari, Jean Bouise, Bobby Lapointe

Synopsis: After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with moviegoers in Les Choses de la Vie. The plot isn't much: the hero, businessman Michel Piccoli, must choose between his wife and his mistress, two women whom he loves with equal Read More

1/1/70
La Petite Vertu

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Hossein, Raymond Gerome

Synopsis: A young woman living on the Left Bank of Paris is a pickpocket and a prostitute. Running away from a man she has robbed, she sees a young street photographer and plants the stolen wallet on him. Before she goes to prison, the two fall in love. Upon her release, they are married and things look Read More

1968
L'Arme à Gauche

Crew: Director

Actors: Lino Ventura, Sylva Koscina, Alberto de Mendoza, Leo Gordon

Synopsis: A veteran sea captain (Lino Ventura) is blamed for the disappearance of a ship when the vessel is hijacked by gunrunners. Mrs. Osborne (Sylva Koscina) is a pretty American widow who helps the accused captain search for the missing ship. Leo Gordon plays the menacing heavy, Morrison, and co-stars Read More

6/18/65
La Vie de Château

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Brasseur, Mary Marquet, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: A Matter of Resistance is the English-language title of the frothy wartime comedy La Vie De Chateau. Set in occupied France, the film stars Catherine Deneuve as the young and beautiful bride of middle-aged and homely Philipe Noiret. Disappointed at Noiret's indifference concerning the Nazi Read More

1965
Monsieur

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Mireille Darc, Philippe Noiret, Berthe Grandval

Synopsis: Left a young widower, banker Monsieur (Jean Gabin) discovers that his late wife was having an affair before her death. About to end his life after the news, he is rescued from his misery by a prostitute who was once his maid. Deciding to make a change in his life, he abandons his old one and Read More

4/22/64
Peau De Banane

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: In this lightweight French comedy a pair of sharpers, Cathy (Jeanne Moreau) and her ex-husband Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) attempt to bilk a miserly millionaire out of his fortune during his visit to the French Riviera. Unfortunately for them, he is just as crafty as they are. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Read More

9/25/63
Symphonie Pour un Massacre

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Auclair, Claude Dauphin, Charles Vanel, José Giovanni, Jean Rochefort, Daniela Rocca

Synopsis: Trouble begins when five Frenchmen pool their money in an attempt to pull off a huge drug deal. One intercepts the money and kills his friend to cover his tracks. The others are haunted by doubt and innuendo to the point where they all point fingers and guns at each other. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Read More

8/2/63
Classe Tous Risques

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo, Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis: A criminal on the run finds going home after a decade is harder than he expects in this drama from French filmmaker Claude Sautet. Gangster Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) is wanted for murder in France, and has been living underground in Italy for ten years. Since then, Abel has married Therese (Simone Read More

3/23/60
Eyes Without a Face

Crew: First Assistant Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Francois Guerin, Juliette Mayniel

Synopsis: French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film. Pierre Brasseur plays a brilliant plastic surgeon, Prof. Genessier, who has vowed to restore the face of his daughter, Christiane (Edith Scob), who was mutilated in an Read More

3/2/60
Bonjour Sourire

Crew: Director

Actors: Annie Cordy, Lisette Lebon, Christian Duvaleix

1955