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Michel Fessler
Writer

Michel Fessler

Lyon, France

Filmography

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11 titles
Visions

Visions

Yann Gozlan 2023 2h 3m

Follows a brilliant airline captain, Estelle, who has a perfect life with her husband Guillaume, a renowned doctor. Something is about to change as Estelle falls in love with Ana and starts and intense affair.

Le petit Nicolas: Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?

Le petit Nicolas: Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?

Benjamin Massoubre, Amandine Fredon 2022 1h 26m 6.0

Somewhere between Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny lean over a large white sheet of paper and bring to life a mischievous and endearing boy, Little Nicolas. From schoolyard games and fights, to summer camp pranks and camaraderie, Nicolas lives a merry and enriching childhood.

Le chêne

Le chêne

Michel Seydoux, Laurent Charbonnier 2022 1h 21m 7.0

Follows many families who inhabit the oak like a home, living together as in a proper society, with problems with the neighbors, education, solidarity, survival, etc.

Le portrait interdit

Le portrait interdit

Charles de Meaux 2017 1h 34m

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.

Gibier d'élevage

Rithy Panh 2011 1h 31m

When an American plane crashes in the Cambodian jungle, the pilot is taken captive by the Khmer Rouge. They instruct the kids of a village to keep an eye on the prisoner. While the younger kids gradually become friends with the stranger, the older boy called Pang has a different attitude.

Un barrage contre le Pacifique

Un barrage contre le Pacifique

Rithy Panh 2008 1h 55m

A troubled mother's spirit crumbles when her adult children strike out for independence. Feeling abandoned she contemplates taking drastic action.

Le sacre de l'homme

Le sacre de l'homme

Jacques Malaterre 2007 1h 45m

With the help of state of the art special effects, this National Geographic documentary attempts to recreate what civilization looked like during the first 8,000 years that human beings lived on Earth.

Serko

Serko

Joël Farges 2006 1h 36m

In 1889, mounted on a small gray horse named Serko, Dimitri leaves his garrison on the Asian borders of the Russian Empire on the banks of the Amur River. After extraordinary adventures, they both arrive in St. Petersburg, at the court of the Tsar.

La marche de l'empereur

La marche de l'empereur

Luc Jacquet 2005 1h 20m 7.5

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills.

Hanuman

Hanuman

Frédéric Fougea 1998 1h 30m

Hanuman is the most lovable baby monkey one can imagine. He meets Tom who comes to visit the temple in the Valley of Monkeys and tries to protect it from the robbers. A warm relationship develops between the two.

Ridicule

Ridicule

Patrice Leconte 1996 1h 42m 7.6

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

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