Lionel Kaplan

Birth : , Toulouse, France

History

Lionel Kaplan debuted his career as a director with the short film ‘‘La première fois’’ with Benoît Magimel as the lead actor. He then directed three other films including a medium-length one. He is now also working in production as a development and production manager. He is currently working on the development of a couple of his own feature films projects. The first one is in its financing phase and the main characters will be played by Tcheky Karyo, Sabrina Ouazani, Pierre Perrier and Rashid Debbouze.

Movies

Fumer tue

Writer

After dropping a body in the morgue, a hospital porter takes a break to smoke a cigarette and contemplate his life. The line bewteen life and death is not as clear as we think.

Fumer tue

Director

After dropping a body in the morgue, a hospital porter takes a break to smoke a cigarette and contemplate his life. The line bewteen life and death is not as clear as we think.

Eux seuls

Director

Simon, former member of a Corsican independence movement, lives in exile in Paris. Cass, a young German girl, lives in exile in Paris. Ludo, a fine, upstanding young man, lives in exile everywhere. The promise of financial gain being their principle motivation, things can only turn out badly.

Middle of the Night

Technical Advisor

Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.