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Louis Gardel is a Scriptwriter French born on 8 september 1939 at Algiers (Algerie)

Louis Gardel

Louis Gardel
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Nationality France
Birth 8 september 1939 (85 years) at Algiers (Algerie)

Louis Gardel est un romancier et éditeur français né à Alger en 1939. Il est également directeur de collection au Seuil et membre du jury du Prix Renaudot.

Best films

Indochine (1992)
(Scriptwriter)
Fort Saganne (1984)
(Novel)
East/West (1999)
(Writer)
Himalaya (1999)
(Writer)

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Filmography of Louis Gardel (10 films)

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Scriptwriter

Bay of Algiers, 1h40
Directed by Merzak Allouache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Catherine Jacob, Solal Forte, Gabrielle Lazure, Biyouna, Jean Benguigui, Michèle Moretti
Roles Writer
Rating61% 3.092553.092553.092553.092553.09255
L'écrivain Louis Gardel se souvient de sa jeunesse en Algérie : un monde idyllique en voie de disparition.
Princesse Marie
Directed by Benoît Jacquot
Genres Drama
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Fred Ulysse, Heinz Bennent, Michèle Gleizer, Anne Bennent, Sebastien Koch
Roles Writer
Rating69% 3.4800753.4800753.4800753.4800753.480075
Évocation de la vie de Marie Bonaparte, petite-nièce de Napoléon et disciple de Sigmund Freud. Cette princesse est réputée pour avoir beaucoup soutenu Freud et n'a cessé de le promouvoir auprès de ses amis et connaissances.
Untouched by the West
Directed by Raymond Depardon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Raymond Depardon
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.284033.284033.284033.284033.28403
Le personnage central, Alifa, un enfant nomade rendu orphelin par une razzia malheureuse de son père, est sauvé et recueilli par des chasseurs. Il s'adaptera, mais suit bientôt un autre groupe de nomades pillards, dont il devient le guide.
You Only Live Once
Directed by Jacques Deray
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Robin Renucci, Marianne Basler, Franco Interlenghi, Luca Barbareschi, Michel Creton, Julie Arnold
Rating66% 3.3398853.3398853.3398853.3398853.339885
Un homme et une femme se rencontrent et décident de tout plaquer. Ils partent à Malte et c'est le grand bonheur, l'extase mais le passé ne tarde pas à ressurgir...
Himalaya
Himalaya (1999)
, 1h48
Origin France
Genres Drama, Documentary, Adventure
Themes Films about Tibet
Actors Tsering Dorjee, Gurgon Kyap, Thinle Lhondup, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Jampa Kalsang Tamang
Roles Writer
Rating73% 3.6978553.6978553.6978553.6978553.697855
Dans les hautes montagnes du Népal, dans le Dolpo, au Tibet à 5 000 m d'altitude, deux caravanes de nomades du sel partent vendre leur sel.
East/West
East/West (1999)
, 2h1
Directed by Régis Wargnier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, Oleg Menshikov, Bohdan Stupka, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Meglena Karalambova
Roles Writer
Rating73% 3.6935753.6935753.6935753.6935753.693575
After the Second World War, former White Emigres are offered Soviet citizenship, amnesty, and an invitation to return to the Motherland, so that they could join in the post-war reconstruction. While most of the émigrés decide to remain abroad, there are many people anxious to return to the ‘Holy Russia’. Among the returnees are Alexei Golovin (Oleg Menshikov), his French wife Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire) and their son Sergey. But Joseph Stalin's offer was merely a tactical step.
Indochine
Indochine (1992)
, 2h32
Directed by Régis Wargnier, Emmanuel Hamon, Philippe Charigot, Thierry Binisti, Jacques Cluzaud
Origin Vietnam
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Politique, La guerre d'Indochine, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Pérez, Linh-Dan Pham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Alain Fromager
Rating69% 3.49923.49923.49923.49923.4992
In 1930 marked by growing anti-colonial unrest, Éliane Devries (Catherine Deneuve), a single woman born to French parents in colonial Indochina, runs her and her widowed father's (Henri Marteau) large rubber plantation with many indentured laborers, whom she casually refers to as her coolies, and divides her days between her homes at the plantation and outside Saigon. After her best friends from the Nguyễn Dynasty die in a plane crash, she adopts their five-year-old daughter Camille (Ba Hoang, as child). Guy Asselin (Jean Yanne), the head of the French security services in Indochina, courts Éliane, but she rejects him and raises Camille alone giving her the education of a privileged European through her teens.
Nocturne Indien, 1h50
Directed by Alain Corneau
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Jean-Hugues Anglade, Clémentine Célarié, Otto Tausig, Iftekhar
Roles Writer
Rating68% 3.4378553.4378553.4378553.4378553.437855
Rossignol, un jeune Français arrive à Bombay, à la recherche de Xavier, un ami proche disparu depuis peu sur place. Il part sur ses traces, voyageant à travers une Inde déroutante, se rapprochant à chaque étape un peu plus de son ami.
Fort Saganne, 3h
Directed by Alain Corneau, Samuel Bronston
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Political films, Le désert, Histoire de France
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau, Michel Duchaussoy, Roger Dumas
Roles Novel
Rating62% 3.1415953.1415953.1415953.1415953.141595
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne (Gérard Depardieu) enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh (Philippe Noiret). Saganne attracts the attentions of Madeleine (Sophie Marceau), the daughter of the regional administrator. In the Sahara, Saganne earns the respect of the Arabs, including Amajan, an independent warrior. After several campaigns, Saganne travels to Paris on a diplomatic mission. After having an affair with a journalist in Paris, Saganne returns to Africa, where he leads a valliant defense against Sultan Omar. He is awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and marries Madeleine. The onset of World War I puts his success and happiness at risk.