Denis Dercourt
Denis Dercourt (born October 1, 1964 in Paris ) is a French film director .
Life
Denis Dercourt is the son of a film producer and a piano teacher, he studied philosophy at Sciences-Po . As a child he received violin lessons and played from 1988 to 1993 as principal violist in the private Orchester Symphonique Français . He is a music teacher for viola at the Strasbourg Conservatory . He made his first film Le déménagement in 1997.
Dercourt's tragic comedy Lise et André won an award at the 2001 Avignon Festival. His film drama The Girl Who Turns the Pages appeared in 2006 in the Un Certain Regard category at the Festival de Cannes , as did the film drama Demain dès l'aube in 2009 . Dercourt moved to Berlin with his wife and their children . In 2012 he shot the psychodrama Zum Birthday in Germany, which came out in Germany in 2013. In 2019 a retrospective was dedicated to him at the French Film Days Tübingen-Stuttgart .
Filmography (selection)
- 1998: Les Cachetonneurs
- 2000: Lise et André
- 2003: Mes enfants ne sont pas comme les autres
- 2004: Ukyio, moons flottant
- 2006: The Girl Who Turns the Pages ( La Tourneuse de pages )
- 2008: Demain dès l'aube
- 2013: La Chair de ma chair
- 2013: Birthday ( Pour ton anniversaire )
- 2015: In equilibrium ( En équilibre )
- 2018: Deutsch-les-Landes
- 2019: L'Enseignante
Web links
- Literature by and about Denis Dercourt in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Denis Dercourt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Denis Dercourt at filmportal.de
- Denis Dercourt on unifrance.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dercourt, Denis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |