Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier was a French director, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on April 25, 1941 in Lyon, and died on March 25, 2021 in Sainte-Maxime (Var). Son of the writer and resistance fighter from Lyon, René Tavernier, he was first an assistant director, press officer (notably for Stanley Kubrick) and critic before moving on to directing with The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul, his first critical success, which led to a long collaboration with the actor Philippe Noiret (Let the Party Begin..., The Judge and the Assassin, Coup de torchon, Life and Nothing But, The Daughter of d'Artagnan). Eclectic, he tackled several cinematographic genres, from the dramatic comedy (A Sunday in the Country, Daddy Nostalgia) to the war film (Captain Conan) through the historical film (Pass, The Princess of Montpensier) or the thriller (L.627, The Bait). Several of his films have won awards, in France and abroad (including Autour de minuit which won an Oscar and was nominated for a Golden Globe). He was president of the Lumière Institute from 1982, the year the Institute was created, until his death. He is the father of director and actor Nils Tavernier and novelist Tiffany Tavernier.
32 directing credits · 52 acting credits
Directing · 32
In the Electric Mist
2009
Journeys Through French Cinema
2017
'Round Midnight
1986
The Princess of Montpensier
2010
D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994
Death Watch
1980
A Week's Vacation
1980
Coup de Torchon
1981
Captain Conan
1996
The French Minister
2013
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
Beatrice
1987
A Sunday in the Country
1984
Safe Conduct
2002
L.627
1992
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
Daddy Nostalgia
1990
Chance at Love
1964
Lest We Forget
1991
Spoiled Children
1977
It All Starts Today
1999
The Judge and the Assassin
1976
Life and Nothing But
1989
Fresh Bait
1995
Holy Lola
2004
My Journey Through French Cinema
2016
Mississippi Blues
1984
Les baisers
1964
The Undeclared War
1992
Histoires de vies brisées: les 'double peine' de Lyon
2001
The Other Side of the Tracks
1997
Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme
1984
Acting · 52
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
L'Invité
2002
Midi trente
1972
Journeys Through French Cinema
2017
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
1996
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
2024
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
Code Name: Melville
2010
The French Minister
2013
Filmmakers in Action
2006
The Bakery Girl of Monceau
1963
A Sunday in the Country
1984
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
Daddy Nostalgia
1990
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
Pictures of Europe
1990
Before Midnight
1986
The World of Jacques Demy
1995
Les Secrets de la belle endormie
2020
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
1988
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
1997
The Young Girls Turn 25
1993
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
Gershwin
1993
My Journey Through French Cinema
2016
The Lumière Brothers' First Films
1996
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
2008
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018
In the Shadow of Hollywood
2000
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
2010
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015
An American Named Kazan
2019
Michael Powell
2005
In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin
2012
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
2003
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016
M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier
2016
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
2002
The Undeclared War
1992
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
Seuls sont les indomptés
2003
The Other Side of the Tracks
1997
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
2010
The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis
2004
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
2014
L'homme au cigare
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Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme
1984
Souvenirs de Voyage
2017
The Cineastes' Exit
1995