Jean-Jacques AnnaudFilmography

Born:: October 1, 1943 in Draveil, France
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: French director Jean-Jacques Annaud received his training in the nuts-and-bolts aspects of filmmaking through his many army training films and TV commercials. Annaud's feature film debut, Black and White in Color (1976), an amusing but affectionate look at French national chauvinism which won an...Read More

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Kashmir

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Three mercenaries head into the heart of the Middle East to track down a terrorist in this Relativity Media production. Seven Years in Tibet's Jean-Jacques Annaud directs from a script by D.B. Weiss. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

2009
His Majesty Minor

Crew: Director

Actors: José Garcia, Vincent Cassel, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Melanie Bernier, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Annaud directed and co-wrote this wildly offbeat comic fantasy set in an ancient land in the Aegean Sea thousands of years ago. Minor (José Garcia) was abandoned by his parents as a child and was raised by a pack of pigs; he speaks in porcine grunts and lives and loves much like his Read More

2007
Two Brothers

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Moussa Maaskri

Synopsis: Like The Bear, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's acclaimed animal picture released 15 years prior, Two Brothers offers a family-friendly epic as told through the eyes of its four-legged protagonists, who, in this case, are sibling tiger cubs Koumal and Sangha. Though a life in the jungles of French Read More

6/25/04
Enemy at the Gates

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris

Synopsis: A turning point in 20th century war history is the focus of this fact-based account of the 1942-1943 battle of Stalingrad, in which the Germans were finally defeated by Russian influence -- one of the bloodiest battles in World War II history. The film stars Jude Law as Vassili, a marksman from Read More

3/16/01
Running Free

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Graham Clarke, Dan Robbertse, Chase Moore, Jan Decleir, Maria Geelbooi, Lukas Haas, Arie Verveen

Synopsis: Chase Moore and Arie Verveen are the human stars of this period drama about the extraordinary life and times of a horse. In 1914, a German supply ship is en route to Africa with a cargo of work horses when one of the mares gives birth to a foal. The pony is soon separated from his mother when the Read More

6/2/00
Seven Years in Tibet

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe

Synopsis: Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to Read More

1997
Wings of Courage

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This was billed as the first dramatic feature to be shot in IMAX 3D. It was first shown at Sony's new IMAX 3D Theater in New York on an eight-story high screen. The story is based on the true-life tale of two French aviators, Jean Mermoz and Antoine de St Exupery, who in 1930 formed the first Read More

1995
The Lover

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jane March, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Frederique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese Read More

1/22/92
The Bear

Crew: Director

Actors: Douce the Bear, Bart the Bear, Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Annaud directed this unusual and compelling tale of animals in the wild, which tells its tale from the bears' point of view. A pair of carefully-trained bruins deliver remarkably effective "performances" (aided by clever editing and, in some sequences, the use of realistic animated Read More

10/25/89
La Rosa dei Nomi

Actors: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Jean-Jacques Annaud

Synopsis: This documentary attempts to create an interesting and profitable encounter between the filmmakers, award-winning writer Umberto Eco, and Jean-Jacques Annaud, the director of a film based on one of Eco's more popular books The Name of the Rose and starring Sean Connery. In the process, the Read More

1987
The Name of the Rose

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Elya Baskin, Michel Lonsdale, Ron Perlman, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., William Hickey

Synopsis: Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William Read More

9/24/86
Quest for Fire

Crew: Director

Actors: Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi, Gary Schwartz

Synopsis: Quest for Fire takes place some 80,000 years in the past. A primitive homo sapiens tribe huddles around a natural fire source for comfort and survival. When that source is extinguished, tribesmen Naoh (Everett McGill), Amoukar (Ron Perlman), and Gaw (Nameer El-Kadi) are sent out on a "quest Read More

1981
Coup de tete

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Michel Aumont, Jean Bouise, Paul Le Person, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: Like other young men in his soccer-obsessed town, a belligerent and rebellious factory worker Francois Perrin plays on a local team. His obnoxious tendencies endear him to no one. Trouble brews when a woman cries rape and the team's star player becomes the chief suspect. To protect the valued Read More

1978
Je Suis Timide, Mais Je Me Soigne

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Richard, Aldo Maccione, Mimi Coutellier, Jacques Francois, Catherine Lachens

Synopsis: In this comedy, Pierre (Pierre Richard) is a timid cashier in a Parisian bank who has grown obsessed with getting to know a beautiful woman (Mimi Coutellier). Based on her stylishness, exquisite manner, and the places she frequents, he assumes she must be a movie star, a model, or an heiress. Read More

1977
Black and White in Color

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll

Synopsis: The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Black and White in Color is set during World War I. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, a French trading post in West Central Africa finds itself at odds with a formerly peaceful German post, for no other reason than their parent Read More

1976