Stephen Frears

Stephen Frears

出生 : 1941-06-20, Leicester, England, UK

略歴

Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. Frears is also known for his work on various television programs, including Fail Safe (2000), The Deal (2003), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), A Very English Scandal (2018), State of the Union (2019), and Quiz (2020). He has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with one win. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph named Frears among the 100 most influential people in British culture.

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参加作品

Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Self
An in-depth look of the 40 year journey, from post-war Germany to Hollywood royalty, of Hans Zimmer, the man who’s become the dominant force in the world of movie soundtracks. His film credits include The Lion King, Rain Man, Pirates of The Caribbean, Gladiator, The Dark Knight Trilogy, 12 Year A Slave, The Thin Red Line, The Da Vinci Code and Dune.
The Lost King
Director
An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
Original Film Writer
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
Alexandre Desplat is one of the most famous film music composer of today. Innovative artist with a singular expression, he is the successor of french masters of film music: Georges Delerue, Antoine Duhamel, Maurice Jarre. Writing music for films gather his two passions: music and cinema. Between working sessions, confidences, films and personnal archives, Alexandre Desplat offers, through this documentary, a great record on the creative process and today’s cinema.
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
Director Stephen Frears, film historian Ian Christie, and author and British film historian Richard Dacre discuss the unique qualities of The Man in the White Suit as well as the legacy of its director, Alexander Mackendrick.
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Himself
Chris Wade's documentary film is a personal, intimate and affectionate look at the life and work of Lindsay Anderson, the legendary film and theatre director behind if. - and O Lucky Man. With new recollections from director Stephen Frears, if - star David Wood, plus actor and friend Brian Pettifer, Memories of Lindsay Anderson paints a portrait of a stubborn, self assured artist, an anti establishment non conformist who refused to play the game, and a private man who, though on the surface seemed confident, held his emotional cards close to his chest. This is an in depth study of one of our most brilliant yet undervalued filmmakers.
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
A brand new feature-length documentary on the film’s production, including new interviews with director Stephen Frears, director of photography Oliver Stapleton, editor Michael Audsley, executive producer Barbara Defina and co-producer Peggy Rajaki.
Who Killed British Cinema?
Himself
A feature length documentary about the real state of the British film industry in relation to UK structures past, present and currently for the future. This film exposes the shocking truths about the UK Governments' will to grow an indigenous British film industry, the legacy and testament of the now closed UK Film Council (UKFC), the current British Film Institute and the new Creative England.
ヴィクトリア女王 最期の秘密
Director
夫と従僕を亡くして心を閉ざしていたヴィクトリア女王が、インドから来た青年との交流で人生の明るさを取り戻して……。英国女王の晩年を輝かせた真実の秘話をジュディ・デンチ主演で描いたハートフル・ストーリー。
マダム・フローレンス! 夢見るふたり
Writer
メリル・ストリープとヒュー・グラントの顔合わせで、1944年にあった感動の実話を映画化。類稀なるオンチでありながら、ソプラノ歌手になる夢を追い続けるマダム・フローレンスが、持病と戦いながら夢を実現させる姿を描く。
マダム・フローレンス! 夢見るふたり
Director
メリル・ストリープとヒュー・グラントの顔合わせで、1944年にあった感動の実話を映画化。類稀なるオンチでありながら、ソプラノ歌手になる夢を追い続けるマダム・フローレンスが、持病と戦いながら夢を実現させる姿を描く。
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
Stephen Frears in a interview with film scholar and producer Colin MacCabe. The topics which he touches upon include his career in theater and TV prior to making the film, his impressions of Hanif Kureishi, his relative ignorance of immigrant life and the world he was unwittingly stepping into, the impact of the release of the film, and plenty more.
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their language to produce a portrait of French cinema.
Night Will Fall
Producer
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
Night Will Fall
Executive Producer
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
あなたを抱きしめる日まで
Director
その日、フィロミナは50年間隠し続けてきた秘密を娘のジェーンに打ち明けた。1952年、アイルランド。10代で未婚のまま妊娠したフィロミナは家を追い出され、修道院に入れられる。そこでフィロミナは男の子を出産するが、彼が3歳になったある日、修道院は金銭と引き換えに息子を養子に出してしまう。以後50年間、我が子のことを想いつづけた母のために、元エリート記者マーティンは息子捜しを助けることに。全く住む世界の違う2人の旅が始まる―。
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Director
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
噂のギャンブラー
Director
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Sam was born with an extremely rare genetic disorder called Familial Dysautonomia. When born, he had 50 per cent chance of making it to his fifth birthday. Now, at the age of 39 we follow this exceptional person as he pursues his joint goals of getting his acting career back on track and finding love.
Hans Zimmer - Der Sound für Hollywood
Himself
Documentary about Hans Zimmer.
タマラ・ドゥルー~恋のさや当て~
Director
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Once Upon a Time... Notorious
Self
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film NOTORIOUS.
Jean Charles
Executive Producer
The tragic true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist alerts.
Great Directors
Self
Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera.
Chéri
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
Chéri
Director
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Himself
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
クィーン
Director
1997年。パリでパパラッチの追跡を振り切ろうとした車が事故を起こし、車に乗っていたダイアナ元皇太子妃は命を落としてしまう。英国民の関心は、生前からたびたびダイアナとの不仲説が取り沙汰されていたエリザベス女王に向くが、チャールズ皇太子と離婚して民間人に戻っていたダイアナの死に対し、女王など王室の人々は静観を決め、大衆の不信感が募る。そこで首相に選ばれたばかりのトニー・ブレアが事態収拾に臨むが……。
Le court des grands
Director
A program of short films from some of the cinema's greatest diectors. Curated by Emir Kusturica and Stephen Frears. - George Lucas "1.42.08 to Qualify" (1966) - Ridley Scott "A Boy and a Bicycle" (1965) - Robert Zemeckis "The Lift" (1972) - Tony Scott "One of the Missing" (1969) - Emir Kusturica "Guernica" (1978) - Luc Besson "L'avant dernier" (1981) - Lars von Trier "Nocturne" (1980) - Terry Gilliam "Storytime" (1968) - Paul Verhoeven "A Lizzard Too Much" (1960) - Roman Polanski "Le gros et le maigre" (1960) - Jane Campion "Peel" (1982) - Stephen Frears "The Burning" (1967)
ヘンダーソン夫人の贈り物
Director
第二次世界大戦直前のロンドン。閉鎖されていた劇場を買い取ったヘンダーソン夫人は、そこでヌードの女性によるレビューを見せようと思いつくが……。ヌード・レビュー誕生の実話をミュージカル・シーン満載で描く、愛と感動の物語。
Cast & Crew: If....
Self - Interviewee
Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", featuring interviews with star Malcolm McDowell, cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček, assistant editor Ian Rakoff, director’s assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin
The Route V50
Director
As a traveler searches for a place called Confidence, he keeps running into other versions of himself.
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Interviewee (archival)
A documentary about film director Lindsay Anderson, made for BBC Scotland television series "Artworks Scotland."
The Deal
Director
It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.
堕天使のパスポート
Director
『ハイ・フィデリティ』でメジャー・シーンに復活したスティーヴン・フリアーズ監督作品。イギリスの労働者階級を活写した描写が見事。主演のオドレイ・トトゥ目当てで観ると肩透かしを食らう、社会派の力作!
Robert Altman in England
Himself
Robert Altman interviewed during the making of GOSFORD PARK (2001), as well as members of the cast and crew. Also, revealing behind the scenes footage and information about his career leading up to this feature.
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Narrator
A rare look at the the career of film director Pedro Almodóvar, especially his early works, with interviews with the director himself and his stars and admirers.
Liam
Director
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Himself
British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And yet Clarke only ever made 3 feature films. This documentary explores the life and career of an exceptional director - Alan Clarke.
Fail Safe
Director
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
ハイ・フィデリティ
Director
英国の作家、ニック・ホーンビィの同名ベストセラー小説に惚れ込んだジョン・キューザックの情熱から生まれた意欲作。自ら製作・脚本・音楽監修を担当している。キャスティングも豪華そのもの。
The Hi-Lo Country
Director
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
Beyond Fear
Executive Producer
The true story of Stephanie Slater, a British estate agent who was kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom by Michael Sams, who imprisoned her in a coffin-like box for eight days.
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Narrator
A tribute of Howard Hawks by the British Film Institute.
The Van
Director
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
ジキル&ハイド
Director
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Director
Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema.
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema.
The Snapper
Director
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
靴をなくした天使
Director
バーニーはせこいこそ泥。ある夜、彼の目の前で飛行機が墜落する。嫌々ながらも、煙の立ちこめる機内から負傷者を救出した彼は、乗客の財布を失敬して姿を消す。事故機に敏腕レポーターのゲイルがのりあわせていたことから、マスコミ挙げての "謎のヒーロー"探しが始まる。しかし、名乗り出たのはバーニーではなくハンサムなホームレス、ババーだった・・・。
Director: Alan Clarke
Documentary - Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" and "Elephant" inspired a generation of British actors, writers and directors that changed cinema forever. This documentary features rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with friends and colleagues of Clarke, including Tim Roth, Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels. -
グリフターズ/詐欺師たち
Director
母はベテラン詐欺師、息子はおとなしそうだが実はケチ臭い詐欺師、そしてその息子の恋人はといえば、色仕掛けが得意なこれまた詐欺師。そんな3人の愛憎と運命とを描いたラヴ・サスペンス。
危険な関係
Director
セシルの純潔を汚させようするメルトイユ侯爵夫人の計画と、それを実行するバルモン子爵……。18世紀のフランス革命前夜、貴族社交界を舞台に繰り広げられた快楽と退廃の人間模様を描いた、88年アメリカ作品。
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Director
A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit-gang and an ax-murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood and maximum hilarity, all rolled into one.
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Director
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
Prick Up Your Ears
Director
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton moves to London in 1951, to study at RADA, and enjoys an openly gay relationship with Halliwell in their famous Islington flat in the 1960s. However, when Orton achieves spectacular success with such plays as 'What the Butler Saw' and 'Loot', Halliwell begins to feel alienated and the pair's future looks increasingly uncertain.
Hooray For Holyrood
Himself
Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Samuel Fuller and Barry Norman, among many others.
Song of Experience
Director
As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set out for a day's train-spotting. They see more than just trains, though, on a day when innocence and illusion are lost.
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in television and film. Featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Bill Paterson, Ken Loach, Neil Jordan, and Jeremy Isaacs.
マイ・ビューティフル・ランドレット
Director
叔父からコイン・ランドリーの経営を任されたパキスタンの青年、オマール。経営がうまくいかず、幼なじみのジョニーの力を借りておしゃれに改装すると……。人種を超越した男同士の関係を描く。
December Flower
Director
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings renewed meaning to the lives of both women, but also reveals family secrets and forces confrontations with her aunt's indifferent son and hostile daughter-in-law.
The Hit
Director
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance...
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
Director
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.
Walter and June
Director
Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".
Walter
Director
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".
Going Gently
Director
Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
Bloody Kids
Director
The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
Long Distance Information
Director
Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.
One Fine Day
Producer
Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
One Fine Day
Director
Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.
Afternoon Off
Producer
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
Afternoon Off
Director
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
Doris and Doreen
Director
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Director
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
Long Shot
Biscuit Man
A budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and while he attracts some major stars and directors to the film he finds that with their support come more and more script changes... Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking, with terrific cameos from Wim Wenders, Susannah York, Stephen Frears, Alan Bennett and John Boorman.
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Director
Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit. A brash, charmless woman who seems to take no pleasure in anything but putting people down, Miss Prothero wants to fill her old boss in on all the changes that have taken place at work since he left. Dodsworth isn't very curious, and as the visit wears on it puts a little strain on his politeness and patience. Miss Prothero doesn't enjoy it much either, but lingers on as there's a bombshell she wants to drop. The docketing system Dodsworth introduced thirty years earlier, which revolutionised the firm, has been scrapped by her adored new boss Mr Skinner. The crowning achievement of Dodsworth's career has just become obsolete, and she wants to tell him all about it.
Black Christmas
Director
A bittersweet drama on a familiar theme - the frictions forced to the surface during a Christmas family get-together - Michael Abbensetts' Black Christmas is an understated and affecting study of relationships, unexpressed pain and a tormented nostalgia for a distant home.
Last Summer
Producer
A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.
Last Summer
Director
A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.
Early Struggles
Director
Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?
Three Men in a Boat
Director
One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
Sunset Across the Bay
Director
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
Match of the Day
Director
Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it
A Day Out
Director
Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
Gumshoe
Director
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Incident
Man
An anti-short short. On three occassions a man overhears a car accident while relaxing in his room. He reacts with less and less concern to each crash.
The Burning
Director
The Burning is Stephen Frears’ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering summer’ day, a wealthy white matriarch insists on taking her household on a planned trip to the country, in spite of their urgent warnings that an uprising is underway.
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Assistant Director
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
State of the Union
Director
State of the Union
Executive Producer
Billy Wilder and Me
Director
Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set during the summer of 1977, when an innocent young woman begins working for the famed director and his screenwriter Iz Diamond on a Greek island during the filming of Fedora.