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Gérard Krawczyk (17 May 1953, Paris) is a French
Gérard Krawczyk (17 May 1953, Paris) is a French film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
. He is of Polish descent (his grandparents were from Częstochowa
Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...
).
Filmography
Director
* ''Homicide by Night'' (1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
)
* ''Je hais les acteurs'' (a.k.a. ''I hate actors'') (1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
)
* ''L'été en pente douce
''L'été en pente douce'' (''Summer on a gentle slope'') is a French film, an adaptation of a novel by Pierre Pelot. It was directed by Gérard Krawczyk, and released in 1987.
Synopsis
Following the death of his mother, Stephane Leheurt, nickn ...
'' (1987
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)
* '' Taxi 2'' (2000
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)
* '' Wasabi'' (2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
* '' Taxi 3'' (2003
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)
* '' Fanfan la tulipe'' (2003
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)
* ''La vie est à nous !
''It's Our Life!'' or ''La vie est à nous!'' is a 2005 French comedy film. It was directed by Gérard Krawczyk and starred Josiane Balasko and Sylvie Testud.
Plot
Blanche buries her husband, Camille. Everyone liked him in the village of Savoy. ...
'' (2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
)
* ''Taxi 4
''Taxi 4'' (stylized on-screen as ''T4Xi''; french: Taxi Quatre) is a 2007 French action comedy film directed by Gérard Krawczyk and the fourth installment of the ''Taxi'' film series. It is a sequel to '' Taxi 3'' and followed by '' Taxi 5''. ...
'' (2007
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)
* '' L'Auberge rouge'' (2007
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)
Actor
* ''Papillon du vertige'' (1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
)
* ''XY, drôle de conception'' (1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
) - L'homme spermogramme #2
* '' Amour et confusions'' (1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
)
* '' Héroïnes'' (1997
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) - Médecin
* '' The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' (1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
) - Church's Peer - Coronation
* '' Taxi 3'' (2003
File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
) - Policier Camionnette #2
* ''La vie est à nous !
''It's Our Life!'' or ''La vie est à nous!'' is a 2005 French comedy film. It was directed by Gérard Krawczyk and starred Josiane Balasko and Sylvie Testud.
Plot
Blanche buries her husband, Camille. Everyone liked him in the village of Savoy. ...
'' (2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
) - Un client du bar
* '' A French Gigolo'' (2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
) - Le patron du bistrot
* '' Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets'' (2017
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) - Captain Welcoming Martapuraïs
Decorations
*Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters
The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and letters, Arts and Letters) is an Order (distinction), order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Ministry of Culture (France), Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the w ...
(2016)
References
External links
* 1953 births Living people French people of Polish descent French film directors French-language film directors Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Film directors from Paris {{France-film-director-stub