Christian Carion

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Christian Carion (born January 4, 1963 in Cambrai ) is a French film director , screenwriter and actor .

biography

Christian Carion was born in 1963 as the son of two farmers in Cambrai , in the French department of Nord . At the age of thirteen he discovered his passion for cinema. After a classic French high school diploma (Baccalauréat classique), he studied at an engineering school of the Ministry of Agriculture at the request of his parents. While studying, he began to work with a video camera and initially made films without much interest. This changed, however, when he made the acquaintance of the French film producer Christophe Rossignon , who recognized and promoted Carion's talent.

In addition to his work for the Ministry of Agriculture, Carion made three short films, including Monsieur le député , in which Christophe Rossignon was also seen as an actor. In 2001 Christian Carion realized his first feature film together with Rossignon. In A Swallow Makes the Summer , Sandrine , a 30-year-old office worker from Paris, decides to give up the hectic life of the big city and to fulfill her dream of a lonely farm in south-east France. The tragic comedy starring Mathilde Seigner and Michel Serrault drew 2.4 million visitors to French cinemas and earned Carion praise from critics. A year later he was nominated for the prestigious French César film award in the category Best First Work.

After the success of Eine Schwalbe macht den Sommer , the director ventured into a larger project that he had already considered in 1993. In 2005, in the large-scale production Merry Christmas , Carion filmed the Christmas peace that took place in his home region during the First World War (1914-1918). The fairytale-like film adaptation of an unauthorized armistice between German , Scottish and French soldiers on December 24, 1914, celebrated its premiere on May 16, 2005 at the Cannes Film Festival . The German-French co-production with Benno Fürmann , Diane Kruger , Guillaume Canet and Daniel Brühl in the leading roles, costing around 22 million euros, immediately conquered number 1 in the French cinema charts and won an Oscar in 2006 , the Golden Globe and the British Academy Film Award for best foreign language film and six times for the César. Outside of France, Carion's staging was considered authentic, but was largely interpreted as old-fashioned, clichéd and kitschy.

Carion acted in his works Ein Schwalbe im Sommer and Merry Christmas in supporting roles in front of the camera. In 2006 he received a small part in Guillaume Canet's drama No Death Word . Carion, in turn, used Canet together with Diane Kruger and Willem Dafoe in his thriller L'affaire Farewell (2009), with which, however, he could not build on his previous successes.

Filmography

Awards

Oscar

  • 2006 : Nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category for Merry Christmas

British Academy Film Award

  • 2006 : Nominated for Best Non-English Language Film for Merry Christmas

César

  • 2002: nominated in the category best first work for Eine Schwalbe macht den Sommer
  • 2006 : Nominated in the categories of Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for Merry Christmas

Another
working group Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater

  • 2003: Film award in gold for a swallow makes the summer

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • 2003: John Schlesinger Prize for A Swallow Makes Summer

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personal data
SURNAME Carion, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director, screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambrai