Patrice Chéreau Filmography

Born:: November 2, 1944 in Lézigné, Maine et Loire, France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Primarily known as a stage director in his native France, Patrice Chéreau has also made quite a name for himself in the realm of cinema with such acclaimed features as Queen Margot (1994) and Intimacy (2001). The Lezigne native crossed from stage to screen with the 1975 thriller Flesh and the Orchid...Read More

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Janacek: From the House of the Dead

Crew: Stage Director

Actors: Olef Bár, Eric Stoklossa, Stefan Margita, Peter Straka, Vladimir Chmelo

Synopsis: This adaptation of Leos Janacek's From the House of the Dead, an opera itself adapted from the work of Dostoyevsky, concerns the stories of people interned in a Russian prison camp. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Gabrielle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Raina Kabaivanska, Claudia Coli

Synopsis: A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, Gabrielle. Based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad, the film opens with Jean (Pascal Greggory) extolling the virtues of his pretty wife, Gabrielle (Isabelle Huppert), in voice-over as he Read More

7/14/06
The Time of the Wolf

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Maurice Bénichou, Lucas Biscombe, Patrice Chéreau, Béatrice Dalle

Synopsis: On the heels of his award-winning, emotionally devastating 2001 drama The Piano Teacher, German filmmaker Michael Haneke weaves this disturbing tale of a family forced into a harrowing confrontation with a group of strangers set against the backdrop of a global apocalypse. In the aftermath of an Read More

6/25/04
Son Frère

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Todeschini, Eric Caravaca, Maurice Garrel, Nathalie Boutefeu, Catherine Terran, Sylvain Jacques

Synopsis: Patrice Chéreau, who directed the controversial Intimacy, returns with another story of a human relationship under difficult circumstances. Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) has been estranged from his brother Luc (Eric Caravaca) for several years, due in part to Thomas' difficulties in dealing with Luc's Read More

4/2/04
Nearest To Heaven

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, William Hurt, Bernard Le Coq, Hélène Fillières, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: A middle-aged Frenchwoman is either experiencing delusions of grandeur or the full force of destiny in director Tonie Marshall's 2002 romantic drama Nearest to Heaven (Au Plus Pres Du Paradis). When single non-fiction book author Fanette (Catherine Deneuve) accidentally bumps into former Read More

2002
Intimacy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alistair Galbraith

Synopsis: One man's sexual obsessions and emotional weaknesses are laid bare in this controversial drama. Jay (Mark Rylance) is a cold, emotionally distant man who abandoned his wife and children several years ago andnow works in a nightclub. Jay enters into an affair with a married woman, an amateur Read More

10/19/01
Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pascal Greggory, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini

Synopsis: Patrice Chereau (Queen Margot) directed this French drama about a train trip to an artist's funeral. Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich (Jean-Louis Trintignant, seen in flashbacks) gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The Read More

5/15/98
Lucie Aubrac

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Roger Milo, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad. He was arrested after blowing up a train during the war. Lucie is also a freedom fighter who goes by the moniker of Aubrac. She helps free Raymond by directly threatening a Read More

2/26/97
Bete De Scene

Actors: Emmanuel Salinger, Bulle Ogier, Patrice Chéreau, Michel Piccoli

1994
Queen Margot

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Read More

1994
The Last of the Mohicans

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Randolph Scott) than on Cooper's novel (in fact, Philip Dunne's 1936 screenplay is cited as source material for this film). Set in the 1750s during the Read More

9/25/92
The Time and the Room

Crew: Director

1992
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

1991
Hôtel de France

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Laurent Grévill, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Perez, Laura Benson, Thibault de Montalembert

Synopsis: Noted stage director Patrice Chereau adds his stylistic flair to this drama loosely taken from a story by Anton Chekhov. A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The Read More

1987
Adieu, Bonaparte

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Mohsen Mohiedine, Mohamed Atef, Patrice Chéreau, Mohsena Tewfik, Christian Patey

Synopsis: This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli Read More

1985
L'Homme Blessé

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin, Lisa Kreuzer

Synopsis: L'Homme Blesse is known in English-speaking countries as The Wounded Man. Jean-Hughes Anglade is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into Obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the Read More

1983
Danton

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story about the ethical boundaries of power and leadership, which had many parallels to Poland's volatile political situation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Danton (Gérard Depardieu Read More

1982
Der Ring des Niblungen: Gotterdammerung - Boulez/Chereau

Crew: Producer

Actors: Manfred Jung, Franz Mazura, Hermann Becht, Fritz Hübner, Gwyneth Jones

Synopsis: Patrice Chéreau's scandalous adaptation of Richard Wagner's Ring comes from the stage to the screen in this performance captured live at the Bayreuth Festival by acclaimed television director Brian Large. Manfred Jung and Franz Mazura star, and Pierre Boulez conducts the Orchester der Bayreuther Read More

1981
Judith Therpauve

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simone Signoret, Philippe Léotard, François Simon, Robert Manuel

Synopsis: When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to Read More

1978
La Chair de l'Orchidée

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret, Hugues Quester

Synopsis: The heiress Claire (Charlotte Rampling) in this movie is the daughter of the Miss Blandish of the film No Orchids for Miss Blandish. She has been raised under the unsympathetic eye of her aunt (Edwige Feuillere), who has no intention of seeing her receive her large inheritance. A somewhat violent Read More

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