Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean -Jacques Annaud ( born October 1, 1943 in Draveil, France ) is a French film director.
He began his career with the Director of TV commercials in the late 1960s to the early 1970s. In his first feature film, longing for Africa in 1976, he transformed the experience he had made in the early 1960s in Cameroon during his time as an aid worker. The film was awarded an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
The over next movie, Quest for Fire was received two César Awards for Best Film and Best Director. With this film, Annaud established as a director difficult to categorizing movies. With other works, he cemented his reputation as an unconventional director even further: these include literary adaptation The Name of the Rose with Sean Connery and Christian Slater on the book by Umberto Eco, based on Marguerite Duras ' novel The Lover -based, eponymous film starring Jane March and The bear with two bears and Tchéky Karyo.
For Seven Years in Tibet, a film adaptation of the life of Heinrich Harrer, he was - as the main actors - a lifelong ban on entry to China.