Michel Deville

Activities : Actor, Executive Producer, Director, Assistant Director, Adaptation/Dialogue Writer, Dialogue Writer, Producer, Screenwriter, Producer, Still Photographer, Continuity Supervisor
Date of Birth : 13/04/1931

Companies

Éléfilm : Producer

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Michel Deville

Michel Deville

Michel Deville

Michel Deville

Michel Deville

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (45 films)

Un fil à la patte (2005) Director : Michel Deville Actors : Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Bonnaffé, Mathieu Demy... Associate production company : Éléfilm Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Bois d’Enghien loves Lucette, the diva, his appointed mistress, but must break up with her urgently because…he has to sign his marriage settlement, that very afternoon, with the pretty Viviane Duverger, a young woman who also has...

Almost Peaceful (2002) Director : Michel Deville Actors : Simon Abkarian, Lubna Azabal, Zabou Breitman, Clotilde Courau, Vincent Elbaz... Associate production company : Éléfilm Genres : Fiction Synopsis : August 1946, in a tailor’s workroom for the creation of ladies’ wear in Paris’ Jewish neighborhood. In this world of sewing machines, three tables and rolls of cloth, a café and square, cramped hotel room or spacious apartment,...

Sachs' Disease (1999) Director : Michel Deville Actors : Albert Dupontel, Valérie Dréville, Dominique Reymond, François Clavier, Martine Sarcey... Associate production company : Éléfilm Genres : Fiction Synopsis : "La Maladie de Sachs" recounts the daily life of a country doctor confronted with the suffering, anxiety and violence of human relationships, with everything that makes people ill. His sensitivity to such suffering (what might be...

The Gods Must Be Dancing (1996) Director : Michel Deville Actors : Antoine de Caunes, Emmanuelle Seigner, Élodie Bouchez, Denis Podalydès, Richard Gotainer... Associate production company : Éléfilm Genres : Fiction Synopsis : In life, everyone runs all the time : to take the lift to the top floor (delivery men), the fire-escape (the thieves), the motorway, the next plane, the next man's seat, the next man's wife. Everyone runs to get somewhere and to...

Son of Gascogne (1995) Director : Pascal Aubier Actors : Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Grégoire Colin, Dinara Droukarova, Pascal Bonitzer, Gérard Cherqui... Associate production company : Sybarite, CADRAGE S.A. Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Two young people - 18 years-old -, Harvey and Dinara, serve as guides to a group of Georgian singers who come to Paris for a recital. A love story develops between our two heroes, but this relationship is soon troubled by Marco...

Life's Little Treasures (1993) Director : Michel Deville Actors : Anémone , Xavier Beauvois, André Dussollier, Sylvie Laporte, Michèle Laroque... Associate production company : Éléfilm Genres : Fiction Synopsis : The scene is a summer house, being re-opened in spring by four women (in the presence of a few men) over a four-and-a-half-day period. They are all forty, an age when people are supposed to have made it, when life's die is cast....

Awards (1)

San Sebastian International Film Festival - 1999 Silver Shell for Best Director : Sachs' Disease Type : Feature film festival Location : Spain

Delegations (3)

	Greece - French Film Festival - 2003 Almost Peaceful Type : Feature film festival Location : Greece
	Venice International Film Festival - 2002 Director : Almost Peaceful Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Italy
	San Sebastian International Film Festival - 1999 Director : Sachs' Disease Type : Feature film festival Location : Spain