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Marin Karmitz

Producer, Director, Actor, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn October 7, 1938 (86 years)
Marin Karmitz (born 7 October 1938) is a Romanian-French businessman whose career has spanned the French film industry, including director, producer, film distributor, and operator of a chain of cinemas.

He comes from an assimilated Jewish-Romanian family and emigrated to France in 1948. Karmitz attended film school at IDHEC (renamed La Fémis) and worked as a director of photography after graduating.

Karmitz founded MK2, a production company and movie theater chain, which has specialized in creating, distributing, and screening independent or "auteurist" cinema, including short films.

In 2005, he turned over leadership of the MK2 company and its theaters to his son, Nathanaël.

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Known For

  • Three Colors: Red
  • Three Colors: Blue
  • Three Colors: White
  • The Ceremony
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Ten
  • Summer Hours
  • Paranoid Park
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • The Wind Will Carry Us
  • Nightcap
  • Story of Women
  • Certified Copy
  • Madame Bovary
  • The Wall
  • The Clay Bird
  • The Swindle
  • Code Unknown
  • Black Venus
  • The Color of Lies
  • Next Stop Paradise
  • Cop Au Vin
  • Woman Is the Future of Man
  • The Silence

Filmography

2012
Something in the Air · as Associate Producer
2012
2012
On the Road · as Associate Producer
2011
2010
2010
2010
White as Snow · as Associate Producer
2009
Zion and His Brother · as Co-Producer
2009
The Fish Child · as Associate Producer
2009
The True Story of Puss'N Boots · as Associate Producer
2009
2008
2008
2007
2007
2005
2005
Tale of Cinema · as Executive Producer
2004
2004
2004
Woman Is the Future of Man · as Executive Producer
2003
2003
2002
2002
2002
2002
2001
2001
2001
2000
2000
2000
2000
1999
1999
1999
1998
1998
1998
1998
1997
1997
1996
1996
1996
1995
1995
1994
1994
1994
1994
1993
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1988
Chocolat · as Co-Producer
1987
1987
1986
1986
Singing the Blues in Red · as Co-Producer
1986
1985
1985
1985
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
Every Man for Himself · as Associate Producer
1980
1978
1974
1962

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