Olivier Schatzky (born 1949) 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 ...

. His 1991 film '' Fortune Express'' was entered into the

41st Berlin International Film Festival The 41st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1991. The festival opened with ''Uranus (film), Uranus'' by Claude Berri. The Golden Bear was awarded to Italian film ''The House of Smiles'' directed by Marco F ...

Filmography

* 1986 : '' Le Complexe du kangourou'', Screenwriter * 1987 : '' A Man in Love'', Screenwriter * 1989 : ''

Force Majeure In contract law, force majeure ( ; ) is a common clause in contracts which essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, ...

'', Screenwriter * 1990 : '' Fortune Express'', Director / Screenwriter * 1994 : ''

Maigret Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created ...

'' (TV series): episode ''"

Maigret et l'écluse no.1 Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created by ...

"'', Director * 1996 : '' L'Elève'', Director / Screenwriter (Based on the story "The Pupil" by

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

) * 1999 : '' Monsieur Naphtali'', Director * 2007 : ''

Chez Maupassant ''Chez Maupassant'' is a French anthology television series based on short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Created by and Gaëlle Girre, it ran on France 2 France 2 () is a French free-to-air public television channel. The flagship channel o ...

'' (TV): episode ''"Le père Amable"'', Director * 2008 : ''Chez Maupassant'' (TV): episode ''"Aux champs"'', Director * 2009 : '' Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle'' (TV): episode ''"

Claude Gueux "Claude Gueux" () is a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction, and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel ''Les ...

"'', Director * 2009 : '' Quand la guerre sera loin'' (TV), Director * 2010 : ''Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle'' (TV): episode ''"Aimé de son concierge"'', Director * 2011 : ''Chez Maupassant'' (TV): episode ''"Yvette"'', Director

References

1949 births Living people French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters {{france-film-director-stub