Activities : Executive Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Adaptation/Dialogue Writer, Actor, Voice-over, Sales Agent, Vice-President, Founder
Represented by : Artmedia
Agent : Claire Blondel

Azor Films : Founder
La Cinémathèque Française : Vice-President

Azor Films
4, rue de Braque
75003 Paris
France
Phone number : +33 1.48.04.73.04
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Persécution(2008), from Patrice Chéreau
Gabrielle(2004), from Patrice Chéreau
His brother(2003), from Patrice Chéreau
Nearest to Heaven(2002), from Tonie Marshall
Time of the Wolf(2002), from Michael Haneke
Intimacy(2000), from Patrice Chéreau
Time regained(1999), from Raoul Ruiz
C'était là depuis l'après-midi(1999), from Stéphane Metge
Those Who Love Me Will Take the Train(1998), from Patrice Chéreau
Lucie Aubrac(1996), from Claude Berri

Complete filmography

Propos Now I know what the cinema brings me and I can’t find anywhere else. It’s a mistake to force a distinction between cinema and theatre as some people do, even though I know that this is a country where borders are not easily crossed. So when I meet people who ask me what I’m doing and I say I’ve just finished one film and am starting another (which is true), they say “But what about the theatre?” “No immediate plans.” “What a pity!” they exclaim. It’s not a pity. The cinema and the theatre are not two separate, incompatible worlds, no matter what people say. With all due respect I prefer to recall “Citizen Kane”, of which the credits include those wonderful words: “Filmed with the actors of the Mercury Theater”...
(Patrice Chéreau)


Youngest son of a painting artist, Patrice Chéreau soon and assiduously frequents the Cinémathèque where he discovers Orson Welles’ work as well as the German expressionism, two of the major influences of his own work.
He studies classics and German and leads theatre groups in Sartrouville (1966-1969), Villeurbanne (1971-1977) and at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
In 1975, he directs his first movie, a stylized thriller from a novel by James Hadley Chase The Flesh of the Orchid starring Simone Signoret and Charlotte Rampling. His next movie, The Wounded Man, introduces Jean-Hugues Anglade in the part of a young and tormented homosexual and offers Patrice Chéreau the Cesar for Best Screenplay in 1984.
As the manager of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre, Patrice Chéreau directs in Hôtel de France the students of this school, among them Vincent Perez or Valeria Bruni Tdeschi. He sometimes performed as an actor, personifying Napoleon for Youssef Chahine or Camille Desmoulins for Andrzej Wajda.
Major character of the French theatre, Patrice Chéreau’ cinematographic talent is revealed in 1994 with Queen Margot who wins the Jury Awards and the Best Actress Award (Virna Lisi) in Cannes. His director talent is confirmed with Those Who Love Me Will Take the Train in 2000 (Cesar Award for Best Director). His next works focuses on characters duets such as in Intimacy (Golden Bear for Best Actress in Berlin & Louis-Delluc Prize), His Brother (Golden Bear in Berlin 2003) and the conjugal drama Gabrielle, period movie adapted from a novel by Conrad. This film stands for his encounter with Isabelle Huppert and his first selection in Venice.

INTERNATIONAL CAREER
1992 – The Last of the Mohicans – Dir: M. Mann (USA)

TV
2005 – Cosi fan tutte (stage director) – Dir: S. Metge;
2003 – Phèdre (stage director) – Dir: S. Metge;
1996 – Dans la solitude des champs de coton (stage director) – Dir: P. Chéreau;
1994 – Wozzeck (stage director) – Dir: P. Chéreau;
1992 – Le Temps et la chambre (stage director) – Dir: P. Chéreau;
1990 – Hamlet (stage director) – Dir: P. Cavassilas;
1985 – La Fausse suivante (stage director) – Dir: P. Chéreau;
1985 – Lucio Silla (stage director) – Dir: B. Sobel & C. Stratz;
1981 – Peer Gynt (stage director) – Dir: B. Sobel;
1980 – Götterdämmerung (stage director) – Dir: B. Large;
1980 – Das Rheingold (stage director) – Dir: B. Large;
1980 – Der Ring des Nibelungen (stage director) – Dir: B. Large;
1980 – Siegfried (stage director) – Dir: B. Large;
1980 – Die Walküre (stage director) – Dir: B. Large;
1979 – Lulu (stage director) – Dir: Y. Gérault & B. Sobel;
1978 – Les Contes d’Hoffmann (stage director) – Dir: A. Flédérick

TV DOCUMENTARIES
1995 – Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude – Dir: S. Metge;
1987 – Il était une fois dix-neuf acteurs – Dir: F. Manceaux;
1986 – Chéreau, L’Envers du théâtre – Dir: A. Sélignac

THEATRE
2005 – Le Mausolée des amants de H. Guibert (Msc : P. Chéreau);
2005 – Les Carnets du sous-sol de F. Dostoïevsky (Msc : P. Chéreau);
2003 – Phèdre de J. Racine (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1998 – Henry VI/Richard III de W. Shakespeare (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1995 – Dans la solitude des champs de coton de B.-M. Koltès (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1991 – Le Temps et la chambre de B. Strauss (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1989 – Le Retour du désert de B.-M. Koltès (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1988 – Hamlet de W. Shakespeare (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1987 – Dans la solitude des champs de coton de B.-M. Koltès (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1987 – Platonov de A. Tchekhov (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1986 – Quai Ouest de B.-M. Koltès (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1985 – Quartett de H. Müller (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1985 – La Fausse suivante de Marivaux (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1983 – Combat de nègres et de chiens de B.-M. Koltès (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1983 – Les Paravents de J. Genet (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1981 – Peer Gynt de H. Ibsen (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1977 – Loin d’Hagondange de J.-P. Wenzel (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1975 – Lear de E. Bond (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1973 – Toller de T. Dorst (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1973 – La Dispute de Marivaux (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1972 – Le Massacre à Paris de C. Marlowe (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1972 – Lulu de F. Wedekind (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1970 – Splendeur et mort de Joaquim Muriéta de P. Neruda (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1970 – Toller de T. Dorst (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1970 – Richard II de W. Shakespeare (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1968 – Le Prix de la révolte au marché noir de D. Dimitriadis (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1968 – Les Soldats de J. Michael & E. Lenz (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1967 – La Neige au milieu de l’été/Le Voleur de femmes de K.-H. Ching (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1966 – L’Affaire de la rue de Lourcine de E. Labiche (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1965 – L’Héritier di village de Marivaux (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1965 – Fuentovejuna de L. de Vega (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1964 – L’Intervention de V. Hugo (Msc : P. Chéreau)

OPERA
2005 – Cosi Fan Tutte de W. A. Mozart (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1994 – Don Giovanni de W. A. Mozart (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1992 – Wozzeck de A. Berg (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1984 – Lucio Silla de W. A. Mozart (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1979 – Lulu de A. Berg (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1976 – L’Anneau des Niebelungen de R. Wagner (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1974 – Les Contes d’Hoffmann de J. Offenbach (Msc : P. Chéreau);
1969 – L’Italienne à Alger de G. Rossini (Msc : P. Chéreau)