Jean Achache

Activities : Director, Assistant Director, Screenwriter

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (9 films)

Un soir au Club (2009) Director : Jean Achache Actors : Thierry Hancisse, Elise Caron, Marilyne Canto, Anne Kessler, Jean-Paul Bathany... Associate production company : Arts Premiers Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Simon Nardis, a former jazz pianist with an international reputation, has been leading a quiet life for ten years with his wife and family. But his life takes a whole new direction when he passes by a jazz club one night. He finds...

Marcel ! (2004) Director : Jean Achache Actors : Anne Kessler, Raphaël Goldman, Samuel Achache Associate production company : Palo Alto Productions Genres : Fiction Synopsis : While looking at Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades at the George Pompidou Center in Paris, Zack and Seb realize that the bottle holder gathering dust in their parents' cellar is a spitting image of a piece by the great artist. They...

A Sunday in the Country (1984) Director : Bertrand Tavernier Actors : Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont, Louis Ducreux, Geneviève Mnich, Monique Chaumette... Associate production company : Sara Films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone...

Espion, lève-toi (1981) Director : Yves Boisset Actors : Lino Ventura, Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Krystyna Janda, Bernard Fresson... Associate production company : Cathala Productions, Top n°1 Productions, Ugc Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their...

Coup de torchon (1981) Director : Bertrand Tavernier Actors : Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell... Associate production company : Les Films de la Tour Genres : Fiction Synopsis : In a French colonial town in West Africa of 1938, Lucien Cordier is the police chief, a likeable slob who turns a blind eye to all the corruption that surrounds him.  Everyone regards him as a harmless buffoon, but he seems not to...

Allons z'enfants (1981) Director : Yves Boisset Actors : Lucas Belvaux, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Cotton, Jean Carmet, Alexandre Sterling... Associate production company : Sara Films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : France, the 1930s. Simon Chalumet (Lucas Belvaux), 15 years old, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films...

Delegations (2)

	Richmond French Film Festival - 2013 Director : Un soir au Club Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : United States
	Hof International Film Festival - 2009 Director : Un soir au Club Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Germany