Denis Dercourt (born 1 October 1964) is a French

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. Denis Dercourt's grandfather directed documentaries; his father was a film producer and his brother is also a film producer. From 1988 to 1993, Dercourt studied philosophy at the

Paris Nanterre University Paris Nanterre University (), formerly University of Paris West, Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It is one of the most pres ...

and also studied at

Sciences Po Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

. Dercourt started his career as a singer and violin player. He performed with the French symphonic orchestra directed by

Laurent Petitgirard Laurent Petitgirard (born 10 June 1950, in Paris) is a French classical composer and conductor. Biography Laurent Petitgirard was born in Paris on 10 June 1950. He studied piano with his father Serge Petitgirard, a pupil of Alfred Cortot and ...

and taught music at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. He shot his first short film with his brother. He has directed nine films since 1997. His film '' The Page Turner'' (''La Tourneuse de pages'') was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films with unusua ...

section at the

2006 Cannes Film Festival The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Chinese filmmaker Wong Kar-wai served as jury president for the main competition, the first Chinese to preside over the jury. English filmmaker Ken Loach won the Palme d'Or for th ...

. The $4.2 million (€3.07 million) film went on to become an international box office success, grossing $11.1 million worldwide. Three years later, his film ''

Demain dès l'aube (English: Tomorrow at dawn) is one of French writer Victor Hugo's most famous poems. It was published in his 1856 collection . It consists of three quatrains of rhyming alexandrines. The poem describes a visit to his daughter Léopoldine H ...

'' competed in the same section at the 2009 festival. In 2021, he shot the French-Korean film '' Vanishing'' based on the novel ''The Killing Room'' by Peter May.

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* 1964 births Living people French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters Writers from Paris {{France-film-director-stub