Claude Zidi

Claude Zidi

Nascimento : 1934-07-25, Paris, France

História

Claude Zidi (born 25 July 1934) is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then a cinematographer, and he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971. He won the César Award for Best Director for My New Partner, for which he was also nominated for Best Writing. Source: Article "Claude Zidi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Perfil

Claude Zidi

Filmes

Claude Chabrol's Eye
Self
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Self
Louis de Funès Forever
Self
A moving and very funny portrait of the personal and professional life of the magnificent French comedian Louis de Funès (1914-83), as well as a detailed analysis of his masterful acting technique.
Belmondo: Il était une fois le beau monde
Self (archive footage)
Um perfil de Jean-Paul Belmondo por seus pares. Além de fazer mais de oitenta filmes, o ator também brindou seu público com as cenas perigosas em que dispensou o dublê, seu riso, as brincadeiras, uma desenvoltura e impertinência refrescantes. Cultivando a arte do contrapé, ele atravessou meio século de cinema francês.
Ripoux anonymes
Director
Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu
Writer
Les Ripoux 3
Director
My New Partner III
Scenario Writer
Durante dez anos, os caminhos de René e François ficaram separados. Dos gloriosos dias em que, como policiais, eles percorriam a área de Montmartre restaram um punhado de memórias. René, à beira da falta de moradia, sobrevive em uma casa-barco em ruínas atracado na bacia do arsenal abaixo do BRB, a Brigada Repressão banditismo. O destino trabalha para reunir novamente René e Francis. Desta vez, não lado a lado, mas um contra o outro.
My New Partner III
Director
Durante dez anos, os caminhos de René e François ficaram separados. Dos gloriosos dias em que, como policiais, eles percorriam a área de Montmartre restaram um punhado de memórias. René, à beira da falta de moradia, sobrevive em uma casa-barco em ruínas atracado na bacia do arsenal abaixo do BRB, a Brigada Repressão banditismo. O destino trabalha para reunir novamente René e Francis. Desta vez, não lado a lado, mas um contra o outro.
La Boîte
Director
Five childhood friends, who live in a small provincial town, were excluded from the only nightclub in the region. With nothing else to do they plan to open a competing nightclub in the garage of two of the father of two of them.
Asterix & Obelix Contra César
Screenplay
A pequena aldeia de Asterix e Obelix é a pedra no sapato do imperador Júlio César: de toda a França, a aldeia gaulesa é o único local que não é controlado pelo Império Romano. O maior problema, segundo os comandantes da legião romana, é a força descomunal dos gauleses, conseguida através de uma poção mágica preparada pelo druida Panoramix. Entretanto, o comandante Detritus tem um plano para derrotar os gauleses: capturar Obelix e o druida Panoramix.
Asterix & Obelix Contra César
Director
A pequena aldeia de Asterix e Obelix é a pedra no sapato do imperador Júlio César: de toda a França, a aldeia gaulesa é o único local que não é controlado pelo Império Romano. O maior problema, segundo os comandantes da legião romana, é a força descomunal dos gauleses, conseguida através de uma poção mágica preparada pelo druida Panoramix. Entretanto, o comandante Detritus tem um plano para derrotar os gauleses: capturar Obelix e o druida Panoramix.
Arlette
Director
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...
True Lies
Screenplay
Uma história explosiva sobre um agente secreto americano que arrasta sua esposa frustrada para seu perigoso mundo em uma tentativa de proporcionar as emoções que ela anseia. A experiência de combater terroristas fanáticos é completamente inesperada, pois ela achava que o marido era um vendedor de computadores e não um homem de ação.
Low Profile
Writer
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.
Low Profile
Director
A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.
The Jackpot!
Writer
A história segue um agente secreto, François, e sua esposa, Hélène, que está entediada com o casamento e crê que o marido trabalha em telecomunicações. Um dia, ela conhece um vendedor de carros que finge ser um agente secreto e começa um romance com ele, buscando alguma excitação em sua vida chata. Mas o marido, desconfiado, usa a aparelhagem de sua agência para espioná-los. La Totale! serviu de inspiração para True Lies, filme de ação dirigido por James Cameron e estrelando Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Jackpot!
Director
A história segue um agente secreto, François, e sua esposa, Hélène, que está entediada com o casamento e crê que o marido trabalha em telecomunicações. Um dia, ela conhece um vendedor de carros que finge ser um agente secreto e começa um romance com ele, buscando alguma excitação em sua vida chata. Mas o marido, desconfiado, usa a aparelhagem de sua agência para espioná-los. La Totale! serviu de inspiração para True Lies, filme de ação dirigido por James Cameron e estrelando Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Promotion canapé
Story
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
My New Partner II
Story
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.
My New Partner II
Director
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.
Deux
Director
The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been used to living an independent life: they want to marry but at the same time, are afraid of marriage
Top Managers
Writer
While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gérard decide to play a cruel trick on him by making him think he has won the national lottery.
Top Managers
Director
While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gérard decide to play a cruel trick on him by making him think he has won the national lottery.
Les rois du gag
Director
Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters".
Golpe de Tiras
Screenplay
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
Golpe de Tiras
Director
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
Banzaï
Dialogue
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.
Banzaï
Screenplay
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.
Banzaï
Director
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.
The Under-Gifted In Vacation
Director
A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.
Inspector Blunder
Writer
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Inspector Blunder
Director
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
The Under-Gifted
Director
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
Bête, mais discipliné
Director
Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.
O Teimoso
Screenplay
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
O Teimoso
Director
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Animal
Director
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
The Wing or the Thigh?
Head waiter of the 'Coquille d'Or' (uncredited)
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
The Wing or the Thigh?
Screenplay
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
The Wing or the Thigh?
Director
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
The Wild Goose Chase
Director
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?
Rookies Go to War
Writer
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
Rookies Go to War
Director
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
Perdendo a Cabeça
Writer
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
Perdendo a Cabeça
Director
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
The Big Store
Writer
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.
The Big Store
Director
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.
Stadium Nuts
Writer
Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.
Stadium Nuts
Director
Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.
Rookies Run Amok
Writer
Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.
Rookies Run Amok
Director
Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.
The Great Java
Director of Photography
Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.
The Great Java
Writer
Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.
O Açougueiro
Camera Operator
O açougueiro Popaul conhece a professora Helene num casamento, numa pequena cidade rural na França. Eles se tornam amigos, mas garotas são assassinadas na região, e Helene descobre na cena do crime o isqueiro que ela havia dado a Popaul.
A Besta Deve Morrer
Camera Operator
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
The Scarlet Lady
Camera Operator
Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
The Killing Game
Camera Operator
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.
O Escândalo
Camera Operator
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
The Blue Panther
Camera Operator
Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger - apparently a fugitive from someone aboard - entrusts her with a jewel in the shape of a tiger with ruby eyes. Unknown to her, these false jewels contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind. Doctor Kha is just one among many spies from different nations trying to get their hands on the tiger, or Marie-Chantal... It will give any nation a tremendous control over all others! Marie-Chantal, a snob girl, will evade all attacks by sheer female cunning, and shows tigerish qualities in dealing with her male, and female foes.
As Duas Faces da Felicidade
Camera Operator
Um carpinteiro ama sua mulher, seus filhos e a natureza. Em seguida, ele encontra uma outra mulher, funcionária dos correios, que adiciona felicidade à sua felicidade. Sempre apaixonado por sua mulher, ele não quer se privar, nem se esconder, nem mentir.
As Duas Faces da Felicidade
Assistant Camera
Um carpinteiro ama sua mulher, seus filhos e a natureza. Em seguida, ele encontra uma outra mulher, funcionária dos correios, que adiciona felicidade à sua felicidade. Sempre apaixonado por sua mulher, ele não quer se privar, nem se esconder, nem mentir.
Head Against the Wall
Assistant Director of Photography
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.