Jean-Yves Gautier

Jean-Yves Gautier

Nacimiento : 1942-08-25, Rennes, France

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Jean-Yves Gautier

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Quelque chose de mal
Maurice, le père
Balthazar's grandfather has just died. He does not understand the sadness of his parents as, being very religious, he believes that his grandfather will go to heaven and there is therefore no reason to be sad..
Change My Life
client Nina
Nina is an unemployed actress who has just taken a lethal overdose of tranquilizers. Stumbling though the streets of Paris in a deathly haze, Nina collapses into unconsciousness. Fortunately for Nina, lonely Algerian Sami happened to jog by at just the right time. But as soon as Sami previously appeared, he vanishes back into the blackness of night, leaving the recovered Nina with no one to thank for saving her life. Determined to let her guardian angel know just how thankful she truly is, Nina discovers that Sami was once a promising long-distance runner whose dreams of Olympic stardom had been dashed, and who now scrapes by as a transvestite prostitute. Realizing that they've both hit rock bottom, Nina and Sami make a pledge to support one another to the point where they can both get clean and pursue their dreams before it's too late.
Inseparable
Le surveillant général
Eric, a twelve year old in care and up for adoption, and his close friendship with the older Petia, who has dreams of joining the circus. One weekend Petia is blamed for the misdeeds of Momo and Graf, two other teenagers in care. Once adopted, Eric falls in love for the first time, with his stepsister Marie.
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Afonso
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
Genealogías de un crimen
Mathieu
Una abogada famosa por aceptar casos perdidos, decide defender a un joven acusado de matar a su tía psicoanalista. Todas las pruebas están en su contra, pero ciertos aspectos del crimen -como el extenso estudio que la muerta hizo de la psiquis del joven- van conformando una maraña de pistas y falsas pruebas.
Le bébé d'Elsa
Jean
A more or less wild teenager finds herself pregnant after a brief affair with a high school student.
A Chef in Love
Anton Gogoladze
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
Tres vidas y una sola muerte
Mario
En París suceden tres historias que, en principio, parece que no tienen nada que ver entre sí. Un viajante sale a comprar cerillas y regresa veinte años más tarde. Un catedrático de Universidad se hace pasar por mendigo. Finalmente, un hombre de negocios se inventa una familia ficticia en el extranjero para ocultar oscuros asuntos financieros.
Fado, Major and Minor
Joachim
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
La promesa, un amor, un muro, una esperanza
Gérard
Berlín Oriental, otoño de 1961. Sophie y Konrad se han propuesto huir juntos al Berlín occidental. Sophie logra burlar la vigilancia, pero Konrad es sorprendido por un coche militar y no puede escapar. A partir de ese momento, la vida de ambos sigue cursos totalmente distintos. En casi 30 años ellos sólo se ven cuatro veces. Sin embargo, durante la larga noche del 9 al 10 de noviembre de 1989 el muro de Berlín es derribado...
The Telegraph Route
Pilot
This French film chronicles the amazing-but-true story of Lisa Alling who in 1928 successfully walked from New York City to Siberia via the Bering Straight by following telegraph poles. It was shot entirely in the Ukraine. Lisa, a chambermaid, has had enough of American life and wants go home to Siberia. Because she had no money, she decided it was better to walk than stay in the U.S. any longer. An opportunist, she takes whatever food, warmth and even romance that is offered along the way.
The Heart's Cry
Paul Guerin
This drama focuses upon the psychological adjustment problems of a young boy whose family moves him from Africa to Paris, France. Moctar, a boy whose first 11 years were spent in a small village in Mali, is having difficulty adjusting to his new life in Paris. After several years in Paris, Moctar suddenly sees a terrible hyena in the street. When Moctar tries to explain his vision, he becomes the laughingstock of his peers and a patient for the school psychologist. No one believes Moctar, not even his parents, until he is befriended by Paulo who helps Moctar understand.
Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
Paul
Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentionally causes an accident that leads her to the emergency ward of a psychiatric hospital. During her brief stay, she unexpectedly sparks into life. She takes an interest in two young patients, Pierre and Anne, convinced that she is doing the right thing in supervising their love life...
Point d'orgue
Vignault
Sébastien Fischer, a celebrated pianist, takes the advice of his agent and friend Gorgio and decides to take a break and spend some time in a little village in Provence, at the house of Avril Espart.
Dismissed From Life
Milicjant
Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shelter with a girlfriend/bagwoman who supposedly was once queen of Paris boulevards. Marek regains his memory just as the villains are to get him. He eventually returns to his house only to find out that his mother died and his brother left for Australia.
To the Bitter End
Filipe
Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman, Cláudia, who betrayed him before. When she unexpectedly returns to Portugal and to the club, Jorge immediately understands Queirós's obsession over her. For her, Jorge also gets involved in diamond traffic and is slowly dragged into a world of passion, violence and betrayal.
Le cri des hommes
Rubio
1957, the town of Mostaganem, Algeria: the country is still under French occupation, and repression of the National Liberation Front is at its height. The authorities indulge in torture, intimidation and public executions.
Touch and Die
Pierre
Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes.
La vida y nada más
Caporal
Alegato antibélico ambientado en las postrimerías de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) que relata el penoso trabajo de un militar que dirige una sección encargada de la búsqueda e identificación de muertos en acto de servicio. Cosechó excelentes críticas tanto en Europa como en USA.
Sauve-toi, Lola
Bertrand Benoît, aka BB
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is supported by Ferdinand, his fiery lover and naive who is a journalist. In the hospital, treated by Prof. Tobman, deeply human doctor, she met a group of women, all living with the same bad but each following a different social environment. This group will become his new "family".
Guy de Maupassant
Dorchain
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Charlie Bravo
Berthaud, l'artificier
Durante los últimos días de la guerra entre Francia y los rebeldes comunistas en Indochina en 1954, doce paracaidistas franceses toman tierra en la jungla para llevar a cabo una misión de rescate.
Brigade Call Girls
Jacques Lefin
A mysterious maniac is killing a madame's call-girls.
El incorruptible
Letellier
Un joven y un policía son asesinados por el matón de un político de derechas que se halla en plena campaña electoral. El comisario Verjeat sigue las huellas del asesino, pero en las altas esferas hay alguien a quien no le conviene esa investigación. Por esa razón, Verjeat es ascendido y destinado a Montpellier... (FILMAFFINITY)
One Morning in June 1940
Dunand
18 June 1940: German troops sweep through France. The cavalry school at Saumer is ordered to withdraw, but the director resolves to stop the enemy on a 25km front with his students.
El Affaire Dominici
Orderly (uncredited)
En 1952, y a la edad de 75 años, Gaston Dominici fue oficialmente declarado culpable del brutal asesinato de Sir Jack Drummond, su mujer y su hija. La familia inglesa, de paso por la Provenza, había acampado en las tierras de una familia de granjeros, los Dominici, cuyo patriarca era Gaston. El suceso y el posterior juicio tuvo repercusión internacional. En el año 2003 se hizo una adaptación para la televisión de la historia, protagonizada por Michel Serrault y Michel Blanc. (FILMAFFINITY)