Serge Moati

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Serge Moati (* 17th August 1946 in Tunis as Henry Moati ) is a French director, producer and actor Franco-Tunisian descent.

Life

Serge Moati is the brother of the writer Nine Moati . In the 1960s he ran the film school of the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien in Niger together with Gérard de Battista and Gérard Delassus .

Moati became known in 1972 with the film adaptation of François Mauriacs Le Sagouin (with Marie-Christine Barrault ). He celebrated his breakthrough in 1976 with the thriller Nuit d'or - The Night of Gold , in which French stars such as Bernard Blier , Marie Dubois , Charles Vanel , Maurice Ronet and Anny Duperey also played the German Klaus Kinski and Elisabeth Flickenschildt . Moati's film, in which a man believed dead (Kinski) terrorizes his family, uses surreal scenes and numerous symbols to castigate the hypocrisy of a bigoted bourgeoisie. This was followed by Rossel et la commune de Paris (1977), Everything is forgotten in the end (1981), Olympe de nos amours (1989), Le piège (1991) and Une femme dans la tourmente (1995, with Miou-Miou ) , Une page d'amour (1996, with Miou-Miou and Jacques Perrin ), Sapho (1997, with Mireille Darc ), Maison de famille (1999, with Marie-Christine Barrault) and Mercenaries of Hell (2005, with Richard Bohringer ) . In addition to the feature films, Moati also made documentaries ( Les Mitterrand , Une vie ordinaire ou Mes questions sur l'homosexualité )

As an actor, Moati occasionally appears in his own films. a. in Au bout du chemin (1981), Le Garçon qui ne dormait pas (1994) and Sami, le pion (2002).

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1970: Yan Diga
  • 1976: Nuit d'or - The Night of Gold (Nuit d'or)
  • 1977: Rossel et la commune de Paris (TV)
  • 1981: In the end everything is forgotten (T'es grand et puis t'oublies) (TV)
  • 1984: Bloody asphalt (Mort aux ténors)
  • 1989: Olympe de nous amours (TV)
  • 1991: Le piège (TV)
  • 1994: Des feux mal éteints
  • 1995: The Diplomat (Une femme dans la tourmente) (TV)
  • 1996: Une page d´amour (TV)
  • 1997: Sapho (TV)
  • 1998: Israel on the 7th day - A kibbutz in Galilee (Le septième jour d'Israël, un kibboutz en Galilée)
  • 1999: Maison de famille (TV)
  • 1999: Jesús (TV)
  • 2008: Mitterrand à Vichy
  • 2010: Je vous ai compris: De Gaulle 1958–1962 (TV)
  • 2011: Changer la vie, Mitterand 1981–1983 (TV)
  • 2001: A completely normal life (Une vie ordinaire ou Mes questions sur l'homosexualité) (also screenplay)
  • 2004: Enemies, neighbors, friends - French and German journalists tell stories (France - Allemagne, les ondes parallèles)
  • 2005: Mercenaries of Hell (Capitaine des ténèbres)
  • 2005: François Mitterrand - French, statesman, legend (Les Mitterand's)

actor

  • 1980: Children for the Fatherland (Allons z'enfants)

production

  • 1999: Give me my name back (Rends-moi mon nom)
  • 2002: My brother Leo (Tout contre Léo)

Literary work

Web links

Commons : Serge Moati  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andréa Paganini: Cinémas en Afrique - 2/5: Jean Rouch, CINEMAFRIQUE. (PDF) Cinémas Indépendants Parisiens, January 2013, pp. 14 and 17 , archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; accessed on March 30, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Moati, Serge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moati, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director, producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France