François Duplat Filmography

Occupation:: Producer

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New Year's Concert in St Petersburg

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bashmet, Yefim Bronfman, Valery Gergiev

Synopsis: In the classical performance release New Year's Concert in St Petersburg - shot on New Year's Day 2007 at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall - Russian maestro Valery Gergiev leads the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in interpretations of symphonic works by Wagner, Strauss, Verdi Read More

2007
Proust, Or How the Heart Skips a Beat

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eleonora Abbagnato, Hervé Moreau, Stéphane Bullion, Manuel Legris, Mathieu Ganio

Synopsis: The Opera National de Paris mounted this production of choreographer Roland Petit's ballet Proust: Or How the Heart Skips a Beat, adapted from Marcel Proust's A La Recherche du temps perdu. The production stars Eleonora Abbagnato, Hervé Moreau, Stéphane Bullion and Manuel Legris and features music Read More

2007
Don Pasquale

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Patrizia Ciofi, Marzio Giossi, Simone Alaimo and Norman Shankle co-star in this 2007 production of Gaetano Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale, mounted by the Grand Théâtre du Genève and directed for the stage by Daniel Slater. The Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, under the direction of Evelino Pidò Read More

2007
The Bolt

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anastasia Yatsenko, Andrei Merkuriev, Denis Savin, Morikhiro Iwata

2006
The Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: In the Heart of Music

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The Twelfth International Van Cliburn International Piano Competition showcases highlights from that edition of the world-renowned contest that has become a launching pad for numerous classical music performers. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2005
Cardillac

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alan Held, Angela Denoke, Christopher Ventris, Hannah Esther Minutillo, Charles Workman, Roland Bracht, Stephen Gadd

Synopsis: André Engel directed this October 2005 production of Paul Hindemith's 1926 gothic opera Cardillac at the Opéra de Paris-Bastille. The work concerns an expert jeweler who murders his clients to retrieve the gems he created for them. Alan Held essays the title role; the supporting cast includes Read More

2005
Die Verhoevens

Crew: Producer

2004
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This performance of Richard Wagner's three act opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, performed at the Zurich Opera House, offers Jose Van Dam, Matti Salminen, Michael Volle, and eter Seiffert in major roles. The production is the only comic opera ever written by Wagner. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

2004
Le Nozze di Figaro

Crew: Producer

Actors: Pietro Spagnoli, Annette Dasch, Rosemary Joshua

2004
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Claudio Monteverdi's operatic adaptation of this story from Homer's The Odyssey receives a modern and distinctive staging in this 2002 production directed by Humphrey Burton for Les Arts Florissants. Penelope (Marijana Mijanovic) is left to her own devices when her husband, the heroic Ulysses Read More

2002
Les Ballets Trockadero, Vol. 1

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This documentary captures ballet performances from sections of Swan Lake. The music is performed by the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra under the conduct of Pierre-Michel Durand. There is also an interview with the ballet company's artistic director Tony Dobrin. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

2001
Otello

Crew: Producer

Actors: Emily Magee, Christian Franz, Valeri Alexejev, Stephan Rügamer, Andreas Schmidt, Kwangchul Youn

Synopsis: Giuseppi Verdi's operatic adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy is captured live at the Staatsoper Berlin in a 2001 performance starring Christian Franz, Valeri Alexejev, and Andreas Schmidt. Conductor Daniel Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin, and the Dutch Staatsoper Berlin sings Read More

2001
The Turn of the Screw (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence)

Crew: Producer

Actors: Olivier Dumait, Mirielle Delunsch, Gregory Monk, Nazan Fikret, Hanna Schaer

Synopsis: Based on the unsettling supernatural novella from author Henry James, this opera by Benjamin Britten stars Mireille Delumsch as the governess sent to a remote castle to look after two troubled children, and features Gregory Monk and Nazan Fikret disturbed young charges. Myfanwy Piper pens libretto Read More

2001
Le Nozze di Figaro

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rene Pape

Synopsis: This production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's four-act opera Le Nozze di Figaro stars Rene Pape in the title role. Performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim leads the orchestra. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
The Serpent's Kiss

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: Haughty and vain British industrialist Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) dearly loves his wife Juliana (Greta Sacchi). Since they only have a daughter (Carmen Chaplin), and a strange one at that, Smithers decides that rather than leaving his fortune to his wife and child, he will build a Read More

5/16/98
Hard Eight

Crew: Producer

Actors: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, F. William Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Before his commercial breakthrough with Boogie Nights (1997), writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson made this low-key drama. John (John C. Reilly), a half-bright loser stranded in Reno, is down to his last few bucks when Sydney (Phillip Baker Hall), taking pity on him, buys him breakfast and offers Read More

1996
The Usual Suspects

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: Near the end of The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey, in his Oscar-winning performance as crippled con man Roger "Verbal" Kint, says, "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." This may be the key line in this story; the farther along the movie goes, the more Read More

1995
Romeo and Juliet

Crew: Producer

1995
La Bayadère (Paris Opera Ballet)

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This production of the three act ballet La Bayadere is directed and choreographed by the legendary Rudolf Nureyev. The three characters who figure in the love triangle that comprises the plot are danced by Isabelle Guerin, Laurent Hilaire, and Elisabeth Platel. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Zentropa

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Erik Mork

Synopsis: Europa (retitled Zentropa for the American release) is an hallucinatory Danish film set in postwar Germany. Jean-Marc Barr plays a young German who aspires for a job as a street conductor. But this is no mere "Joe Job;" Barr's adventures on the line are designed as a metaphor for the emergence of Read More

5/22/92
Docteur M.

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler, Benoit Regent

Synopsis: Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse. The film features an all-star international cast as it tells the futuristic horror story of a bizarre epidemic which has swept West Berlin leaving a grim trail of grisly Read More

1989
Julie

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Julie presents a one-act opera inspired by the August Strindberg play Froken Julie. This production, adapted by Luc Bondy and Marie-Louise Bischofberger, stars Malena Ernman in the title role. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More
Love for Three Oranges

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alexey Tanovitsky, Andrey Ilyushnikov, Nadezhda Serdjuk, Eduard Tsanga, Kirill Dushechkin

Synopsis: This production of Prokofiev's opera Love for Three Oranges features Andrey Ilyushnikov and Nadezhda Serdjuk. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More