Didier Decoin
Nacimiento : 1945-03-13, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Historia
Didier Decoin (born 13 March 1945) is a French screenwriter and writer awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1977.
He is the son of filmmaker Henri Decoin. He began his career as a newspaper journalist at France Soir, Le Figaro and VOD, and radio Europe 1. At the same time he started writing.
While continuing his writing, he became writer in film and television (and adapted scripts for television as the major TV films Les Misérables, The Count of Monte Cristo, Balzac and Napoleon).
In 1995, he became the Secretary of the Académie Goncourt.
Source: Article "Didier Decoin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Self - Écrivain
Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated the cinema? Because he could never become a director? Because, claustrophobic, he was unable to lock himself in a projection room? Clearly, there is an affair between the writer and the cinema and Georges Simenon is the main protagonist. An investigation that is more than ever topical as Patrice Leconte has announced his plan to adapt an investigation by the famous Inspector Maigret.
Writer
Paul Berthier, un ambicioso fiscal de la República, es el único testigo de la muerte accidental de una joven en la Charente. El caso pronto toma la apariencia de delito y las sospechas recaen sobre el joven Guillaume Vauban, hijo de un rico industrial de la Región y ex novio de la joven.
Writer
The story of Pierre Brossolette, who was a talented student, journalist and a defender of human rights.
Novel
In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, certainly. But at the end, nobody called the police. Nevertheless, sorrows are too heavy for Pierre, which feel the needs to tell everything to his wife (Sophie Quinton), and to the police. During the investigation, it appears that 38 people witnessed the murdering, and none reacted...
Writer
Self - Interviewee
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1942 film.
Screenplay
Imperio Austro-húngaro, siglo XIX. Historia de amor imposible entre Rodolfo de Habsburgo (hijo de Francisco José y Sissi) y la joven Marie Veetzera, que tiene como telón de fondo la crisis del Imperio de los Habsburgo a causa de las tendencias separatistas de las diversas nacionalidades que lo integraban. Las ideas liberales y modernas de Rodolfo, el heredero del trono, contrastaban con el absolutismo de la Corte austríaca.
Novel
Screenplay
Jean-Francois Abgrall, today the head of a private detective agency, was just a simple provincial gendarme back in 1989 when he was assigned to investigate a murder on a beach. Instead, his investigation put him on the trial of one of France's most terrifying serial killers, Francis Heaulme, who for eight years wandered the country committing some of the most brutal murders in the annals of modern crime. This is the true story of that manhunt, a tale of terror, suspense and determination.
Writer
El filme narra narra la relación entre el Rey Sol (Luis XIV) y el compositor de su corte Lully.
Screenplay
Jakob era el propietario de un popular café del barrio judío de una localidad de Polonia. Después de la ocupación, sobrevive como puede en el ghetto implantado por el ejército nazi, antes de correr la misma suerte que su mujer, asesinada en un campo de concentración. Un día, por casualidad y estando cerca de un oficial alemán, oye las noticias por una radio, las cuales no son nada favorables para Hitler. Después de contarlas a los demás, todos creen que Jakob tiene una radio, momento a partir del cual decide inventarse noticias. Remake del film alemán "Jakob, el Mentiroso", dirigido en 1975 por Frank Beyer
Writer
Biografía del escritor francés Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), centrada, sobre todo, en su relación con las mujeres. A pesar de sus rudos modales, ajenos a cualquier sofisticación, y de su poco agraciado aspecto físico, Balzac ejerció una irresistible fascinación sobre ellas. No obstante, sólo dos mujeres fueron realmente importantes en su vida: su madre Charlotte, una mujer fría, manipuladora y autoritaria, que nunca le dio el amor que necesitaba; y la bella y encantadora Eva Hansa, a la que Balzac siguió por Suiza, Alemania y Rusia en una cruzada sin tregua para ganar su corazón.
Novel
Francia, 1912. Horty, un joven obrero gana el concurso anual de fuerza que organiza su empresa: el premio es un billete de ida y vuelta para ir a Southampton a ver la partida del Titánic. Durante la noche, una hermosa muchacha llama a su habitación del Gran Hotel de Southampton y le pide alojamiento. Es una camarera del Titanic: debe embarcar al día siguiente y todos los hoteles de la ciudad estan completos. A la mañana siguiente, ella desaparece. Horty la ve en el Titanic, intenta acercarse, pero el barco zarpa.
Self
An interview of French film director Marcel Carné by Didier Decoin
Screenplay
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.
Original Story
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live.
Screenplay
Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured. Driven by his doctor’s oath, he crosses the demarcation line to treat Christian casualties of the ongoing clashes. This causes Muslims in his neighborhood to brand him a traitor. He is kidnapped to be exchanged for a fighter captured by Christian militiamen. The film is part of the TV series *Médecins des hommes *(*Doctors of men*). It was considered the best movie in the series.
Writer
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.
Dialogue
Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of war.
Writer
The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform about her lover's associates.
Writer
In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
Screenplay
Un fiscal investiga la clave del funcionamiento de una organización secreta que ha acabado con la vida de un jefe de Estado. Un film basado en el asesinato de John Fitzgerald Kennedy y la posterior investigación del magnicidio. (FILMAFFINITY)
