Paolo Barzman

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Paolo Barzman (born May 9, 1957 in Cannes , France ) is a French-American director .

Life

His parents, Ben and Norma Barzman, were screenwriters in Hollywood . When they were suspected of being communists and put on the blacklist in the late 1940s , they were no longer able to work in the United States. They moved to Europe in 1949, where their father worked in the film industry and made the acquaintance of Vittorio De Sica , Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers . Paolo Barzman was born in Cannes and grew up there. The parents returned to Los Angeles in 1977, the father died in 1989, the mother lives in Beverly Hills .

Paolo Barzman studied at the Académie Julian art academy in Paris and at the University of California in Los Angeles. After that he was an assistant to the film director Jean Renoir . His first feature film was Time is Money (1994). He mainly works as a director of television series and films, e.g. B. the television thriller That you always think of me (2002) with Nastassja Kinski .

In 1994 Barzman was nominated for Time Is Money at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival . In 2006 he won the Gemini Award for an episode of the television series Matchball für die Liebe ( 15 / Love ).

In his second feature film Emotional Arithmetic (2007) he worked as a director and executive producer . The cast of this Canadian drama includes Gabriel Byrne , Roy Dupuis , Christopher Plummer , Susan Sarandon and Max von Sydow . It deals with the fates of three Holocaust survivors. The film had its world premiere as the closing film of the Toronto International Film Festival 2007 .

Filmography (selection)

Director

Second unit director or assistant director

  • 1983: Headhunt - Prize of Fear ( Le Prix du danger )
  • 1985: Code name: Emerald
  • 1987: Passionate encounter ( Un homme amoureux )
  • 2006: 10.5 - Apocalypse ( 10.5: Apocalypse )

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personal data
SURNAME Barzman, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-American director
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannes , France