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Didier Decoin
Writer 81 years old

Didier Decoin

Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Didier Decoin (born 13 March 1945) is a French screenwriter and writer awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1977. He is the son of filmmaker Henri Decoin. He began his career as a newspaper journalist at France Soir, Le Figaro and VOD, and radio Europe 1. At the same time he started... Read full bio →

Filmography

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6 titles
Le roi danse

Le roi danse

Gérard Corbiau 2000 1h 55m 7.0

Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer

Jakob the Liar

Jakob the Liar

Peter Kassovitz 1999 2h 6.2

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements.

Le comte de Monte Cristo

Le comte de Monte Cristo

1998 1h 30m 8.0

Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.

Hors la vie

Hors la vie

Maroun Bagdadi 1991 1h 37m

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

L'homme voilé

L'homme voilé

Maroun Bagdadi 1987 1h 33m

Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini).

I... comme Icare

I... comme Icare

Henri Verneuil 1979 2h 9m 8.4

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

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