Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Annaud

1943-10-01 Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, France 33 Credits

Biography

Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne. He was educated at the technical school in Vaugirard and in 1964 graduated from the prestigious film school Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris. He began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s. In his first feature film, Black and White in Color from 1976, he used personal experience obtained during his own military service in Cameroon. The film won an Academy Award for the Best F...

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A Look Through His Lens

A Look Through His Lens

2024

as Self

Acting

Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot offers a master class in image making, with insightful examples from his work on Diva, Hope and Glory...

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

2022

as Self - director

9.0
Acting

The actress Lola Dewaere recounts the film career and traumatic life of celebrated actor Patrick Dewaere, the father she never knew, under the watchfu...

Notre-Dame on Fire

Notre-Dame on Fire

2022

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

2019

as Himself

Acting

A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers of the Arte della Luce and of photograp...

Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem

2015

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization ...

Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations

Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations

2013

as Self

7.5
Acting

A documentary about erotic obsessions by Laure Michel.

Der Bernd

2012

as Self

10.0
Acting
Black Gold

Black Gold

2011

Director, Adaptation

6.5
Directing

On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to riva...

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

2010

as Self

6.3
Acting

The Documentary Dante Ferretti – Production Designer retraces the life and the career of Dante Ferretti, the famous Italian Artist and Production Desi...

La Traversée du désir

La Traversée du désir

2009

as Self

5.7
Acting

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

His Majesty Minor

His Majesty Minor

2007

Writer, Director, Producer

3.4
Writing Directing Producing

In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of speech, elevating his stature among his fellow humans.

Photo Video Journey with Jean-Jacques Annaud

2004

as self

Acting
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire

Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire

2004

as Self

10.0
Acting

A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose".

Two Brothers

Two Brothers

2004

Director, Screenplay, Producer

7.1
Directing Writing Producing

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces...

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

100 Greatest Sexy Moments

2003

as Self

5.0
Acting

Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and au...

Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates

2001

Director, Screenplay, Producer

7.4
Directing Writing Producing

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Running Free

Running Free

1999

Producer, Writer

5.6
Producing Writing

The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a st...

Seven Years in Tibet

Seven Years in Tibet

1997

Director, Producer

7.2
Directing Producing

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the...

Wings of Courage

Wings of Courage

1995

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.7
Directing Writing Producing

In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service over the Andes. When one of the youn...

The Lover

The Lover

1992

Director, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Writing

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has cont...

The King of Ads

The King of Ads

1991

Director

4.3
Directing

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-...

The Making of The Lover

1991

as Self

Acting
Pictures of Europe

Pictures of Europe

1990

as Self

Acting

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between...

The Bear

The Bear

1988

Director

7.1
Directing

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

La rosa dei nomi

La rosa dei nomi

1987

as Self

5.7
Acting

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

1986

as Self

6.5
Acting

A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of ...

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

1986

Director

7.5
Directing

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my...

Quest for Fire

Quest for Fire

1981

Director

7.0
Directing

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start ...

À propos de 'La guerre du feu'

1981

as Self

2.0
Acting

Making of ”Quest for Fire“.

Hothead

Hothead

1979

Director

7.1
Directing

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the ...

Too Shy to Try

Too Shy to Try

1978

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000...

Black and White in Color

Black and White in Color

1976

Director, Writer

6.4
Directing Writing

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their pr...

The Reality Trip

The Reality Trip

N/A

as self

Acting

Documentary celebrating the centenary of cinema which looks at how technological innovations - from widescreen to 3D, Cinerama to Showscan and IMAX - ...