Marion Hänsel

Marion Hänsel

1949-02-12 Marseille, Bouches du Rhône, France 38 Credits

Biography

Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 - 8 June 2020) was a French-born Belgian film director, producer, actress and screenwriter.

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The Whaler Boy

The Whaler Boy

2020

Co-Producer

6.0
Producing

Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for th...

The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light

The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light

2020

Producer

8.0
Producing

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pompidou which will be dedicated to him in 2020, this ...

Mother

Mother

2020

Co-Producer

7.0
Producing

In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth du...

Par-delà les nuages – Le cinéma de Marion Hänsel

Par-delà les nuages – Le cinéma de Marion Hänsel

2019

as Self

Acting

On the basis of conversations with Hänsel and some of her permanent crew members, a remarkable portrait is created of a filmmaker who is also her own ...

There Was a Little Ship

There Was a Little Ship

2019

as voice

8.0
Acting

A woman, hospitalized for a relatively long period, observes what surrounds her. She has time to dream, to revisit certain moments of her life. These ...

There Was a Little Ship

There Was a Little Ship

2019

Director, Writer

8.0
Directing Writing

A woman, hospitalized for a relatively long period, observes what surrounds her. She has time to dream, to revisit certain moments of her life. These ...

¡Ay, Carmen!

¡Ay, Carmen!

2018

as Self - Filmmaker

5.3
Acting

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant arti...

Zagros

Zagros

2017

Co-Producer

7.3
Producing

Zagros (26) is a shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip abou...

Upstream

Upstream

2017

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.2
Directing Writing Producing

Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the o...

La tendresse

La tendresse

2013

Director, Writer, Producer

5.8
Directing Writing Producing

This is the first film by Hänsel based entirely on her own script and gives a wise and loving significance to the concept of personal and anecdotal. W...

Black Ocean

Black Ocean

2011

Director, Writer

5.2
Directing Writing

Though its aftertitles detailing the history of French nuke experiments suggest otherwise, writer/director Marion Hänsel’s Black Ocean is not a politi...

Cirkus Columbia

Cirkus Columbia

2010

Co-Producer

6.7
Producing

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile in Germany for the past twenty years, returns to ...

Sounds of Sand

Sounds of Sand

2007

Director, Screenplay

6.1
Directing Writing

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The vi...

Hell

Hell

2005

Producer

6.1
Producing

Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

Gilles' Wife

Gilles' Wife

2004

Writer

5.8
Writing

Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he...

25 Degrees in Winter

25 Degrees in Winter

2004

Producer

5.0
Producing

An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had ...

Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes

Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes

2003

Thanks

A documentary directed by Birkin's friend, who produced the Birkin's Arabesque concert at the Odeon in Paris as well as published a book of photos of ...

Clouds: Letters to My Son

Clouds: Letters to My Son

2001

Writer, Director

5.0
Writing Directing

Marion Hänsel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic musings...

No Man's Land

No Man's Land

2001

Co-Producer

7.5
Producing

Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefir...

Come Undone

Come Undone

2000

Associate Producer

6.5
Producing

Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-ol...

The Quarry

The Quarry

1998

Director, Writer

5.6
Directing Writing

This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

1995

Director, Screenplay, Delegated Producer

6.5
Directing Writing Producing

A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.

Between Heaven and Earth

Between Heaven and Earth

1992

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down e...

Hostel Party

1990

Producer

Producing

How to take revenge on the person who murdered you...

Blueberry Hill

Blueberry Hill

1989

Associate Producer

6.2
Producing

Antwerp in the fifties. Robin de Hert grew up in a Catholic parochial environment; on the one hand there is his authoritarian father and the sadistic ...

Il maestro

Il maestro

1989

Director

Directing

A renowned conductor suddenly pulls out of an evening rehearsal of Madame Butterfly. The opera director senses something is going on and forces the mu...

The Cruel Embrace

The Cruel Embrace

1987

Director, Producer, Scenario Writer

5.9
Directing Producing Writing

Ludovic is the son of Nicole, a single mother who married Micho, a man older than her. He agreed to adopt her son. Ludo is the scapegoat of Tatave, fi...

Dust

Dust

1985

Director, Writer, Producer

4.6
Directing Writing Producing

A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.

Mauvaises réponses

Mauvaises réponses

1985

Acting

Marion Hänsel was cast for this story of a man's job interview for an important position in a company that doesn't go the way he expected.

Mauvaises réponses

Mauvaises réponses

1985

Producer

Producing

Marion Hänsel was cast for this story of a man's job interview for an important position in a company that doesn't go the way he expected.

The Silent Pacific

1984

Producer

Producing

Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named Ma...

Le Lit

Le Lit

1982

as Tilly

4.3
Acting

Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his se...

Le Lit

Le Lit

1982

Director, Screenplay

4.3
Directing Writing

Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his se...

Pol. Bru.

Pol. Bru.

1980

Acting
One Sings, the Other Doesn't

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

1977

as Pregnant Tightrope Walker

7.2
Acting

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suza...

Equilibres

Equilibres

1977

Writer, Director, Producer

Writing Directing Producing

A silent teenage girl who works as a tightrope walker tries to keep her balance while crossing Paris.

Berthe

1976

as La servante

Acting

Berthe, a pretty young woman, has suffered from a mental disease since she was a child. A doctor has tried for years to understand her behavior and to...

Palaver

1970

as Village girl

6.2
Acting

"Palaver" tells us the day of three Congolese students (Albert, Victor and Marcel) who visit Bruges for a tour of the city, and end up on the beaches ...