Jean-Charles Tacchella Filmography

Born:: September 23, 1925 in Cherbourg, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Born in Cherbourg, France, Jean-Charles Tacchella emerged as a filmmaker during the early '70s, and, following his debut, Voyage to Grand Tartaire (1973), he had a surprise hit two years later with the romantic comedy Cousin Cuisine, which was successful in the United States and became the subject...Read More

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Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

10/12/05
Les Gens qui s'aiment

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Berry, Jacqueline Bisset, Julie Gayet, Bruno Putzulu, Marie Collins

Synopsis: Neither the youthful or the experienced have a monopoly on the joys or the follies of romance -- or at least that appears to be the message of Jean-Charles Tacchella's Les Gens Qui S'Aiment. Jean-Francois (Richard Berry) and Angie (Jacqueline Bisset) have known each other for 25 years and have Read More

1999
Tous les jours dimanche

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Maurizio Nichetti, Rod Steiger, Marie-France Pisier, Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: This Italian comedy was filmed in Sarasota, Florida and features the exploits of a would be gigolo and a violinist. Dodo, a Frenchman, is the gigolo, and Jesus is the Italian violinist who pursued his girlfriend to Florida to marry her. When Jesus finds that his gal is helping to support Dodo he Read More

1994
L'Homme de Ma Vie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Thierry Fortineau, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Letourneau, Ginette Garcin

Synopsis: As a way of getting on in the world, working for wages and constantly being in danger of being fired or laid off is a pretty poor system. In this movie, pretty, young Aimee decides that marriage to the right man is a much better bargain. Though she is very fond of an impoverished bookstore owner Read More

1992
Dames Galantes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Isabella Rossellini, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marianne Basler, Laura Betti, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome (Richard Bohringer) manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire (Isabella Rossellini), is beyond his reach most Read More

1990
Travelling Avant

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Thierry Frémont, Ann-Gisele Glass, Simon de la Brosse, Sophie Minet, Laurence Côte

Synopsis: Writer-director Jean-Charles Tacchella, who had a huge international hit with Cousin, Cousine in 1975, helmed this drama 12 years later. In post-WWII France, three friends are intent on starting a film club for different reasons. Nino (Thierry Fremont), a rich playboy, thinks that it would be Read More

1987
Escalier C

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robin Renucci, Catherine Leprince, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jacques Weber

Synopsis: Based on the prize-winning novel by Elvire Mural, the French Escalier C (Staircase C) stars Robin Renucci as a cynical, spiteful art critic. The critic learns the error of his ways through the catharsis of disturbing life experiences. Though many of his friends and neighbors try to crack the shell Read More

1985
Croque la Vie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carole Laure, Brigitte Fossey, Bernard Giraudeau, Alain Doutey

Synopsis: Therese, Catherine, and Alain (Carole Laure, Brigitte Fossey, and Bernard Giraudeau) are three friends who undergo several personal trials and tribulations over an eight-year period in which all three try to hang on to their original visions of who they are and what they want out of life. Read More

1981
Il Y a Longtemps Que Je T'aime

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Carmet, Marie Dubois, Alain Doutey

Synopsis: After a 25-year marriage, a pleasant couple announce to their grown children that they intend to seek a divorce. The children are not amused. Nontheless, the two feel trapped in their routines and want greater freedom. They try a brief separation and attempt to appreciate the fruits of their Read More

1979
Le Pays Bleu

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Sernas, Jacques Serre, Ginette Garcin, Armand Philoxene Meffre, Ginette Mathieu

Synopsis: Brigett Fossey stars as a repressed young nurse who hopes that moving from the city to the country will open up new vistas in her life (thereby reversing the usual country-to-city route of most movie heroines!) She meets and falls in love with bachelor Jacques Serre, likewise a free spirit. Though Fossey Read More

1977
Cousin Cousine

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand, Ginette Garcin

Synopsis: Love turns out to be all in the family in this romantic comedy from France. When an elderly couple decides to marry, their families come together for a wedding banquet that turns into a raucous, wine-soaked celebration. Marthe (Marie-Christine Barrault) and Ludovic (Victor Lanoux) are distant Read More

1975
Voyage En Grande Tartarie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Luc Bideau, Micheline Lanctôt, Lou Castel, Catherline Laborde

Synopsis: Unhinged by the murder of his wife by a madman dressed as a cowboy, Alexis (Jean-Luc Bideau) hops into his car and lays himself wide open for a number of adventures; some of them are heavenly, but most of them are harrowing in the extreme. Along the way he meets a suicidal emigre (Micheline Lanctot Read More

1973
Les Derniers Hivers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No relation to the 1973 Israeli film Last Winter, the French Last Winters (Les Derniers Hiver) was the first cinematic effort of director Jean-Charles Tachella. Like his subsequent Cousin, Cousine, Last Winters is a seriocomic tale of an enduring relationship. The protagonists are an elderly man Read More

1971
Le Crime Ne Paie Pas

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Edwige Feuillère, Gino Cervi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darreaux, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Gentle Art of Murder is comprised of a trio of short crime tales: "The Spider's Web," "The Fenyrou Case" and "The Mask." An international all-star cast appears in these filmed playlets, wherein each perfect murder turns out to be less than perfect. The stories are linked by "bookend" scenes in Read More

7/6/62
Les Honneurs De La Guerre

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Collet, Danielle Godet, Paul Mercey, Serge Davri

Synopsis: An uneven, occasionally unconvincing wartime drama by director Jean Dewewer, this story is set at the very end of World War II when the American forces are about to enter a small French town. Some German soldiers have captured a group of resistance fighters and are keeping them prisoners in the Read More

1960
La Loi C'est la Loi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fernandel, Totò, Noël Roquevert, Leda Gloria, Nathalie Nerval

Synopsis: Fernandel plays a French customs sergeant who conducts an ongoing war of nerves with Italian smuggler Toto on the Franco-Italian border. The French sergeant discovers that, through a long-ago hospital mix-up, he is actually an Italian citizen. Now Fernandel is legally prevented from arresting Read More

10/27/58
Typhon sur Nagasaki

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi

Synopsis: This Franco-Japanese production made the American TV rounds as Typhoon Over Nagasaki. Jean Marais heads the cast as Pierre, a French engineer working in the titular Japanese metropolis. Ignoring social and racial conventions, Pierre falls in love with local girl Noriko (Kishi Keiko). The fly in Read More

1957
Les Enfants De L'Amour

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Pascal, Lise Bourdin, Dominique Page, Joelle Bernard

Synopsis: After several years in the Italian film industry, director Leonide Moguy returned to France for Les Enfants de L'Amour (The Children of Love). The film is set in a dormitory for teenaged mothers, both unwed and deserted. No one personal story is given precedent over any of the others, though the Read More

1953