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