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Nicolas Gessner
Director 1931 - 2023

Nicolas Gessner

Budapest, Hungary

Nicolas Gessner (17 August 1931 – 22 August 2023) was a Hungarian-born filmmaker who mostly worked in France. Nicolas Gessner was born in Budapest, Hungary on 17 August 1931. His films are often characterized by strange, quirky atmospheres and unusual cast mixing French and... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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3 titles
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Nicolas Gessner 1976 1h 31m 8.0

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with a neighbor Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.

Quelqu'un derrière la porte

Quelqu'un derrière la porte

Nicolas Gessner 1971 1h 33m 6.0

A brain doctor (Anthony Perkins) with an unfaithful wife (Jill Ireland) brings home an amnesiac (Charles Bronson) and gets him to commit murder.

12 + 1

12 + 1

Nicolas Gessner 1969 1h 34m

Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair.

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