Jean-Jacques Annaud

Directeur, Producteur, Scénariste, Acteur

1 octobre 1943 (82 ans)
Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne. He was educated at the technical school in Vaugirard and in 1964 graduated from the prestigious film school Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris.

He began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s. In his first feature film, Black and White in Color from 1976, he used personal experience obtained during his own military service in Cameroon. The film won an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. His third film Quest for Fire (La Guerre du feu) received two Césars for best film and best director.

In 1986 he directed The Name of the Rose, a film adaptation of Umberto Eco's popular novel of the same name. The film version, with a screenplay written by Andrew Birkin, won two BAFTA Film Awards and was the subject of another 14 wins & two nominations. Jean-Jacques Annaud spent four years preparing for the film, traveling throughout the United States as well as Europe, searching for the perfect cast and film set locations. He supposedly felt personally intrigued by the project, among other things because of a lifelong fascination with medieval churches and a great familiarity with Latin and Greek.[citation needed]

For Seven Years in Tibet, a film adaptation of the life of Heinrich Harrer, he has received a lifelong denial of entry to China, as have starring actors Brad Pitt and David Thewlis.

In 2000 he wrote and produced Running Free directed by Sergei Bodrov. He also directed the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates, detailing the exploits of Vassili Zaitsev during the Battle of Stalingrad.

His latest work was filmed in the year 2006, a film known by the name His Majesty Minor, which was filmed in Benitatxell and Benigembla, basically in the district of the Marina Alta, which is located in the Valencian Community.

Annaud's next project will be the film adaptation of the award-winning best-selling Chinese novel Wolf Totem.

Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Le Nom de la rose
    Le Nom de la rose1986
  • Or Noir
    Or Noir2011
  • La Victoire en chantant
    La Victoire en chantant1976

Connue pour

  • Stalingrad
    Stalingrad2001
  • Sept ans au Tibet
    Sept ans au Tibet1997
  • Le Nom de la rose
    Le Nom de la rose1986
  • La Guerre du feu
    La Guerre du feu1981
  • L'Amant
    L'Amant1992
  • L'Ours
    L'Ours1988
  • Deux Frères
    Deux Frères2004
  • Or Noir
    Or Noir2011
  • La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert
    La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert10 épisodes
  • Le dernier loup
    Le dernier loup2015
  • Notre-Dame brûle
    Notre-Dame brûle2022
  • Coup de tête
    Coup de tête1979
  • La Victoire en chantant
    La Victoire en chantant1976
  • Je suis timide... mais je me soigne
    Je suis timide... mais je me soigne1978
  • Sa Majesté Minor
    Sa Majesté Minor2007
  • Guillaumet, les ailes du courage
    Guillaumet, les ailes du courage1995
  • Crinière au vent, une âme indomptable
    Crinière au vent, une âme indomptable1999
  • Genghis Khan
    Genghis Khan2018

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