
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