Biography
Régis Wargnier (born 18 April 1948) is a French film director, film producer, screenwriter and film score composer. His 1992 film Indochine won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards. His 1995 A French Woman was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver St. George for the Direction. Source: Article "Régis Wargnier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Complete Filmography
La Réparation
2025
Director, Screenplay
A few hours before his third Michelin star was awarded, a renowned chef disappeared with his second chef during a hunting trip. His daughter Clara fou...
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2023
as Self (archive footage)
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with ...
Michel Serrault, un clown en liberté
2015
as Self
The Gate
2014
Director, Screenplay
Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latt...
The Straight Line
2011
Director
Leila is released from prison after five years of confinement. She will meet Yannick, a young athlete who became blind after an accident. This last pr...
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010
as Self
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. ...
Have Mercy on Us All
2007
Director
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is fou...
Man to Man
2005
Director, Author
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
Cœurs d'athlètes
2003
as Self / Interviewer
Cœurs d'athlètes
2003
Director
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...
Femme Fatale
2002
as Special Guest Cannes Film Festival
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug s...
Maman les petits bateaux
2000
Director, Writer
Day-Dreams of a famous young actress during the shoot of an important scene.
East/West
1999
Director, Writer
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician a...
Lumière & Company
1995
Director
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...
A French Woman
1995
Director, Writer
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a PO...
Indochine
1992
Director, Screenplay
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnam...
I'm the King of the Castle
1989
Director, Writer
Thomas, the son of a millionaire lives a fairly isolated existence, in a mansion in rural France. His father hires a widowed woman to take care of thi...
The Woman of My Life
1986
Director, Writer
Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays. But is ...