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Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in
Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.


Life

Dayan grew up in
Algiers Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...
, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television director; her grandmother was the owner of a cinema. Since 1974 she directed mainly movies for television. In 1979, under her direction, a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared. Her most successful works are the 1998 TV mini-series '' The Count of Monte Cristo'' with Gérard Depardieu in the lead role, and the 2002 mini-series '' Les Misérables'' with Depardieu and John Malkovich. Then there is '' Balzac: A Passionate Life'' (1999) and '' Cet amour-là'' (2001), both with Jeanne Moreau, and '' Raspoutine'' (2011) with Depardieu. A major success was '' Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Nastassja Kinski in the leading roles.


Filmography


External links

* * http://www.citwf.com/person489014.htm * http://php88.free.fr/bdff/real.php?id=136&real=Jos%E9e%20Dayan


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dayan, Josee 1943 births Living people French women film directors French television directors People from Toulouse People from Algiers French people of Algerian-Jewish descent 20th-century French Jews Women television directors 21st-century French LGBTQ people LGBTQ Jews Jewish film people Institut des hautes études cinématographiques alumni