Franco Zeffirelli

Activities : Director, Author of original work, Screenwriter

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (4 films)

Callas Forever (2002) Director : Franco Zeffirelli Actors : Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Jay Rodan, Gabriel Garko... Co-production : Galfin, France 2 Cinéma, Babe Productions Genres : Fiction Synopsis : 1997. Maria Callas, the greatest opera singer that the world has ever known, spends her final months as a recluse in her Parisian apartment. Larry Clark, a friend and producer, offers her the chance to sing “Carmen” at a huge...

Jane Eyre (1996) Director : Franco Zeffirelli Actors : William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin Co-production : Flach Film Genres : Fiction Synopsis : At the age of ten, the orphan Jane Eyre is taken in by her aunt. Her subsequent life is one of perpetual and calumnious humiliation. She continues to suffer when her aunt sends her to a orphanage run by a priest whose rigor verges...

Toscanini (1988) Director : Franco Zeffirelli Actors : Thomas C. Howell, Elisabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward, John Rhys Davies, Pat Heywood Associate production company : Lucy Finance, IIF - Italian International Film, Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana, Carthago Films

Jésus de Nazareth (1976) Director : Franco Zeffirelli Actors : Michael York, Rod Steiger, James Mason, Laurence Olivier, Olivia Hussey Associate production company : Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana Genres : Fiction