Samuel Benchetrit

Samuel Benchetrit ( born June 26, 1973 in Champigny -sur -Marne, Val- de -Marne ) is a French director, screenwriter, actor and writer.

Life

Samuel Benchetrit grew up in modest circumstances in Champigny -sur -Marne, a suburb in the south-east of Paris. His mother is French and his father Ukrainian- Moroccan descent. At fifteen he went out from home and went to Paris. There he made a photo lesson went according to various occupations, worked as a photographer and made ​​his first short films. At eighteen, he won an award for a short film and made ​​the acquaintance of Jean -Louis Trintignant, whose daughter he later married Marie. Marie Trintignant and François Cluzet 2003 played the leading role in Benchetrits debut Janis et John. The star-studded with Sergi López, Christopher Lambert and Jean- Louis Trintignant comedy was the last film of the actress who died during filming of a TV biography of the writer Colette in Vilnius.

For the episodic film J'ai toujours d'être un gangster rêvé Benchetrit in 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival awarded the World Cinema Screenwriting Award and won the 2009 Prix Lumière for Best Screenplay. In 2002 his short film Nouvelle de la tour L had been honored with a nomination for the European Film Awards in the category Best Short Film. In 2011 he published his novel Le cœur en dehors, for which he received the 2009 Prix du roman populiste, under the title of Rimbaud and the things of the heart and in German translation.

Samuel Benchetrit was married until her death in 2003 with Marie Trintignant, from the marriage went forth a son. He is in a relationship with actress Anna Mouglalis, who participated in J'ai toujours d'être un gangster and rêvé With Gino. Both have a daughter (* 2007).

Filmography

  • 2000: Nouvelle de la tour L (Short Film ) - Written and Directed by
  • 2003: Janis et John - cameo, screenwriter and director
  • 2005: Backstage - Director: Emmanuelle Bercot - Performer
  • 2007: J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster - Written and Directed by
  • 2009: La Marche des crabes ( short film ) - Director: Hafid Aboulahyane - Performer
  • 2011: At Gino (Chez Gino ) - Written and Directed by

Theater

  • 2001: Comédie sur un quai de gare
  • 2005: Moins deux

Publications

  • 2000: Recit d'un branleur
  • 2005: Les Chroniques de l' asphalts, Volume I
  • 2007: Les Chroniques de l' asphalts, Volume II
  • 2009: Le cœur en dehors (German Rimbaud and the things of the heart novel Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-351-03312-5. . )
  • 2010: Les Chroniques de l' asphalts, Volume III
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