Jean Achache (born 1952) is a French director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer.

Biography

Jean Achache began his career as a filmmaker in the mid-1970s alongside

Robert Enrico Robert Georgio Enrico (April 13, 1931 – February 23, 2001) was a French film director and scriptwriter best known for making the Oscar-winning short '' An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'' (1961). He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the no ...

as an

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for ''

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'' and '' The Secret''. In the eighties, he collaborated with

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on films like ''

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'' or ''

A Sunday in the Country ''A Sunday in the Country'' ( French: ''Un Dimanche à la Campagne'') is a 1984 French drama film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Bertrand Tavernier, based on Pierre Bost's 1945 novel ''Monsieur Ladmiral va bientôt mourir''. The film ...

''. Jean Achache then turned to the realization of his own works through clips, documentaries like ''Diabolo's Workshop'' with

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and films like the adaptation of the novel '' Un soir au Club'' by Christian Gailly in 2009. In 2006, he published his first novel, ''Juste une nuit'' at Éditions du Masque.

Personal life

Achache was married to French writer and photographer

Carole Achache Carole Hélène Marthe Andrée Achache (née Salomon-Lange; 31 May 1952 – 1 March 2016) was a French writer, photographer and actress. She was the daughter of French writer Monique Lange and the mother of French-Moroccan film director Mona Ach ...

, with whom he had a daughter,

Mona Achache Mona Achache (born 18 March 1981) is a French-Moroccan film director, screenwriter, and actress. She wrote and directed the feature films ''The Hedgehog'' (2009), '' Les Gazelles'' (2014), '' Valiant Hearts'' (2021), and '' Little Girl Blue'' ( ...

, born on 18 March 1981. In 2023, Achache portrayed himself in a biographical

docudrama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television show, television and feature film, film, which features Drama (film and television), dramatized Historical reenactment, re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of docu ...

about Carole Achache, '' Little Girl Blue'', which was directed by their daughter, Mona Achache.

Filmography

Assistant director

* 1974: '' The Secret'' * 1975: ''

Director

Cinema

* 1994: ''Les deux Amants'' (

short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

) * 1994: ' (short film) * 2004: ''Marcel !'' * 2006: ''La guerre du Nil aura-t-elle lieu ? ''(

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

) * 2009: ''Diabolo'S Workshop'' (documentary) * 2009: '' Un soir au club''

Clips

* 1989: Le petit Train,

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* 1990: Regarde les riches,

Patricia Kaas Patricia Noëlle Kaas (; born 5 December 1966) is a French singer. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson. Since the appearance of her 1988 debut album '' Mademoiselle chante...,'' Kaas won 6 Victoires de la Musique awards and ...

* 1990: Au Tourniquet des grands cafés,

Jean Guidoni Jean Guidoni (born 3 May 1952 in Toulon, Var) is a French singer and songwriter. Music career Jean Guidoni started recording in 1975, and in 1977, recorded his first album with a song written by Jacques Lanzmann.

* 1990: Des fleurs pour Salinger, Indochine * 1991: Punishment Park, Indochine * 1997: Love in Motion,

Peter Kingsbery Peter Kingsbery (born December 2, 1952) is an American singer-songwriter who co-founded the band Cock Robin in the 1980s. He grew up in Austin (Texas) where he studied classical music. He moved to Nashville (Tennessee) where he began his care ...

Producer

* 1987: ''Waiting for the moon''

Screenwriter

* 2009: '' Un soir au club''

References

External links

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