Denis Lavant
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Director: Claude Lelouch
Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Erik Berchot, Michel Piccoli
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Actors: Daniel Brühl, Jesper Christensen, Amira Casar, Geraldine Chaplin, Denis Lavant
He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overcame young athletes, and questions of honor and justice did not know compromises. And only love could put Russian Heroes on both blades
Director: Gleb Orlov
Actors: Mikhail Porechenkov, Katerina Shpitsa, Roman Madyanov, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Vladimir Ilin
1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.
Director: Mikhail Lokshin
Actors: Fedor Fedotov, Sofya Priss, Aleksey Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janušauskaitė
Director: Andrea Vecchiato
Actors: Jemeela Mustchin, Maria Papas, Denis Lavant, Drew Edwards, Roxanne Gregory
The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up in trafficking opium with Mounir, his brother-in-arms who was wounded in the ambush, Lafayette, a foster child, and tormented war hero, chooses a new family and life – a criminal’s life. To escape this vicious circle of violence, Christian has to learn how to love.
Director: Mathieu Gerault
Actors: Niels Schneider, Sofian Khammes, India Hair, Denis Lavant, Thomas Daloz
Two cowboys look for a bullet in the desert.
Director: Anne-Laure Daffis
Actors: Denis Lavant, Cosme Castro
All girls volley ball team The Falcons end up stranded in the middle of nowhere after their mini-van breaks down. Little do they know they landed in degenerate hunters' territory and the hunt is on. Thus begins a very long night where they must run for their lives and test their team spirit. But the girls are more resourceful than it appears. In the heart of the forest, the tables are about to turn between hunter and hunted...
Director: Olivier Afonso
Actors: Artus, Manon Azem, Louise Blachère, Tiphaine Daviot, Margot Dufrene
Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.
Director: Denis Côté
Actors: James Hyndman, Simone-Elise Girard, Denis Lavant, Isolda Dychauk, Dounia Sichov
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.
Director: Jacques Weber
Actors: Jacques Weber, Michel Boujenah, Emmanuelle Béart, Penélope Cruz, Ariadna Gil
Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind father that business is thriving. Working to sabotage their efforts is Gregor - Anton's brother - an amoral developer who is determined to raze the entire town and construct a sprawling condominium complex. Gregor engineers an accident that seems certain to doom the business and in the process steals away Eva, the beautiful woman of Anton's dreams. Will Gregor's dastardly plan succeed?
Director: Veit Helmer
Actors: Denis Lavant, Philippe Clay, Terrence Gillespie, E.J. Callahan, Đoko Rosić
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
Director: Leos Carax
Actors: Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Michel Piccoli, Edith Scob
Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little inner voice let us hear the anxieties of love.
Director: Philippe Ramos
Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Jacques Bonnaffé, Mélodie Richard, Jacques Nolot, Pauline Acquart
A woman of Turkish ascent, following ancient Anatolian healing rites, dreams her way through fragments of memory, both personal and collective. Guided by a mythological character, Kheiron the Centaur, she travels freely between the ruins of an ancient Roman hospital and the streets of a mountain village, high above the river Euphrates. Time and space become dislocated, opening up passages between worlds. An inner experience translated into a film poem, KAZARKEN explores memory as a place of struggle against oblivion and the violence of hidden history.
Director: Güldem Durmaz
Actors: Güldem Durmaz, Denis Lavant
Dans son laboratoire, un homme veut comprendre ce qu’est le fracas. À tâtons, cheminant dans le mot jusqu’à l’éprouver avec son corps, il est vite happé par ses recherches.
Director: Kévin Noguès
Affected by a neurodegenerative disease, Guillaume will finish losing his memory in a specialized center. In the hope of leaving him a happy memory, his childhood friends organize a last weekend of festivities, under the sign of good wine. But if Guillaume can place the same order at the bar three times, some wounds from his past are still open. Accompanied by his friends, he decides to embark on a road trip that will perhaps allow him to solve his problems before he forgets them...
Director: Matthieu Yakovleff
Actors: Guillaume Darnault, Julie Gallibert, Andy Pimor, Fabien Strobel, Denis Lavant
A small circus arrives in a coastal area of the North Sea: the place looks rather eerie and the audience is quite scarce. But despite all of this, the life of the performers is animated by feelings born under the circus tent, and which are often lived out in the secret of their trailers. The ballerina Angèle has an affair with Elliot, the company's clown who is tormented by his conscience; but she is also courted by Heroy, the circus director; he is a cruel and potentially dangerous man who is willing to win her over by resorting to the powers of the magician Zephyr.
Director: Sophie Blondy
Actors: Denis Lavant, Iggy Pop, Tchéky Karyo, Béatrice Dalle, Natacha Régnier
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual routine. However, his daily life is soon about to be disrupted by his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings. Until one blisteringly hot day, a tragic event occurs on a beach...
Director: François Ozon
Actors: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud, Denis Lavant
Documentary about French actor Michel Simon.
Director: Nicolas Billon
Actors: Denis Lavant, Claude Gauteur, Alain Cohen, Gilles Cohen
A Buddhist monk walks barefoot and incredibly slowly through Marseille – so slowly, that his progress is barely perceptible and he becomes a calming influence in the midst of the town’s goings-on.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Denis Lavant
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
Director: Claude Lelouch
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Evelyne Bouix, Charles Aznavour
In 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talent. Years later, he's a success, but game of life and love has higher stakes than chess.
Director: Yves Hanchar
Actors: Pierre Richard, Catherine Deneuve, Denis Lavant, James Wilby, Hilde Heijnen
A man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he’s stripped from his clothes and identity, dressed in a military uniform and armed. His determination not to fall behind the others is then tested by a series of unsettling events.
Director: Jan Vejnar
Actors: Denis Lavant, Michal Kern, Jiří Kocman, Michael Drahoš, Filip Chlud
Near the oldest bridge in Paris, the Pont-Neuf, Camille, a second-hand bookseller, crosses paths with Paul, an Eiffel Tower trinket seller. Over the course of one night, these two young souls give in to the captivating rhythm of the City of Light.
Director: Pierre Bermond
Actors: Célie Verger, Simon Baur, Denis Lavant, Jérôme Soubeyrand, Arthur Hinnekens
1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together, they appear like two regular women who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is supposed to offer the support the sensitive actress needs to be able to truly face her own demons.
Director: Emily Atef
Actors: Marie Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Charly Hübner, Robert Gwisdek, Denis Lavant
Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence Garret travels in the footsteps of Buñuel, from Calanda to Zaragoza, Madrid to Toledo, Spain to Mexico.
Director: Laurence Garret
After waking up in an apartment where only the night before a party was raging, Sam is forced to come to grips with reality: He is now alone and the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris. Petrified with fear, Sam is going to have to barricade himself inside the building and organize his survival. But is he really the sole survivor?
Director: Dominique Rocher
Actors: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz, David Kammenos
In the working-class neighborhoods of Nice, a pillar of the local Georgian community is murdered. His son Tristan, who aspires to become an orthodox priest, finds himself finds himself alone with his grieving mother. Gabriel, his older brother with a troubled past, reappears from a long exile to make amends by redeeming his family honor.
Director: Akaki Popkhadze
Actors: Denis Lavant, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Finnegan Oldfield, Florent Hill
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".
Director: Tessa Louise-Salomé
The director of a department store is murdered. He is discovered in a park, a bunch of daffodils on his chest.
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Actors: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Isabelle Nanty, Richard Bohringer, Denis Lavant, Laura Mélinand