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Jean-Christophe Grangé is a Scriptwriter and Producer French born on 15 july 1961 at Paris (France)

Jean-Christophe Grangé

Jean-Christophe Grangé
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Nationality France
Birth 15 july 1961 (62 years) at Paris (France)

Jean-Christophe Grangé, né le 15 juillet 1961 à Boulogne-Billancourt, est un journaliste, reporter international, écrivain, scénariste et scénariste de bande dessinée. Son œuvre a été traduite en plus de trente langues et il est l’un des auteurs de polar les plus lus en Europe.

Biography

Après une maîtrise de lettres en Sorbonne (axée sur Gustave Flaubert), Jean-Christophe Grangé devient rédacteur publicitaire puis, âgé de 28 ans, il rencontre le photographe Pierre Perrin qui le prend sous son aile et le forme au journalisme. En 1989, cette collaboration commence par un reportage d’une année sur les derniers peuples nomades à travers le monde et se poursuit durant une dizaine d’années. Ensemble, Grangé et Perrin parcourent le monde, réalisent de nombreux reportages qu’ils vendent ensuite à des magazines tels que Paris Match, le Sunday Times ou le National Geographic.

Les deux journalistes sont indépendants et financent eux-mêmes leurs voyages. Ils produiront ainsi quelques-uns des reportages les plus originaux des années 1990 (constituant une importante source d'inspiration pour les écrits littéraires de Grangé) et remporteront notamment le Prix Reuter (1991) avec "Péril en la forêt" (sur la déforestation dans le monde) et le Prix World Press (1992) avec "La balade du cormoran" (sur la peuplade chinoise qui utilise cet oiseau pour pêcher).

Best films

The Crimson Rivers (2000)
(Writer)
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004)
(Characters)
Vidocq (2001)
(Scriptwriter)

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Filmography of Jean-Christophe Grangé (8 films)

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Scriptwriter

Miserere
Miserere (2013)
, 1h46
Directed by Sylvain White
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Gérard Depardieu, JoeyStarr, Thierry Lhermitte, Helena Noguerra, Marthe Keller, Rüdiger Vogler
Roles Writer
Rating56% 2.8163452.8163452.8163452.8163452.816345
In Paris, Lionel Kasdan, a retired BRI commander desperate to come back to action, investigates the strange murder of Wilhelm Goetz, a choir master and Chilean refugee found dead in his church with his eardrums blown out, surrounded by bloody children's footprints. Meanwhile, Captain Frank Salek, an Interpol agent on the verge of being suspended due to his erratic behavior, is on the trail of a secret organization specialized in kidnapping children. When he learns of Goetz's death, he establishes a link with his own investigation and reluctantly agrees to team up with Kasdan.
Flight of the Storks, 3h
Directed by Jan Kounen
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Harry Treadaway, Rutger Hauer, Clemens Schick, Perdita Weeks, Antoine Basler, Amr Waked
Rating52% 2.6157352.6157352.6157352.6157352.615735
Jonathan Anselme, a young English academic, teams up with Max Böhm, an amateur ornithologist, to follow storks on their migration from Switzerland to Africa. Max wants to find out why some birds never return from this journey. However, after Max is found dead in mysterious circumstances, Jonathan decides to make the trip alone, never suspecting that he will find himself caught up in an international web of intrigue. While the Swiss detective Dumaz investigates Max Böhm’s murky past, Jonathan is forced to confront his own troubled history. He uncovers a trail of grisly murders travelling through Bulgaria, Turkey, the Middle East, the Congo along the pathway of the migrating storks and their deadly secret.
Switch
Switch (2011)
, 1h39
Directed by Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Karine Vanasse, Mehdi Nebbou, Stéphane Demers, Eric Cantona, Aurélien Recoing, Karina Testa
Roles Writer
Rating62% 3.142613.142613.142613.142613.14261
À la suite d'une déconvenue professionnelle, une jeune graphiste montréalaise, Sophie Malaterre, décide d'échanger son appartement pour les vacances avec une Parisienne, Bénédicte Serteaux, via un site internet : switch.com. Mais, le lendemain matin de son arrivée à Paris, la police débarque dans l'appartement et révèle la présence d'un cadavre décapité dans une chambre dont la porte était fermée à clé la veille. Qui plus est, il n'y a pas de Sophie Malaterre sur les listes de vol en provenance de Montréal, et le site switch.com n'existe pas.
The Stone Council, 1h40
Directed by Guillaume Nicloux
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about children
Actors Monica Bellucci, Catherine Deneuve, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sami Bouajila, Elsa Zylberstein, Lorenzo Balducci
Roles Writer
Rating48% 2.4009652.4009652.4009652.4009652.400965
La première scène se passe quelque part en Mongolie, il y a 30 ans, dans un centre retiré en pleine forêt tenu par des Russes. Un couple s'introduit dans un bâtiment et libère un vieil homme asiatique. Lors de cette tentative d'évasion, ils sont surpris et sont abattus. La femme, qui gît mourante au fond d'un puits, regarde une dernière fois un médaillon où l'on découvre qu'elle et son partenaire sont parents d'un bébé.
Empire of the Wolves, 2h8
Directed by Chris Nahon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Jean Reno, Arly Jover, Jocelyn Quivrin, Laura Morante, Philippe du Janerand, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Novel
Rating57% 2.8991352.8991352.8991352.8991352.899135
Arly Jover plays Anna Heymes, a stylish 31-year-old Parisian housewife, who experiences nightmares and hallucinations related to a series of gruesome murders in the city. At the same time, a duo of policemen, the unorthodox Schiffer (Jean Reno) and the cautious officer Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin), work to unravel the mystery surrounding the murders. The plot thickens when Anna discovers that she has been subjected to intensive reconstructive surgery, which concealed her Turkish heritage. A series of events escalates into a confrontation with the Turkish mafia and the death of Anna's would-be assassin.
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse, 1h40
Directed by Olivier Dahan
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Jean Reno, Benoît Magimel, Christopher Lee, Johnny Hallyday, Camille Natta, Serge Riaboukine
Roles Characters
Rating59% 2.9530552.9530552.9530552.9530552.953055
After a body is found in the walls of a French monastery, Commissioner Niemans, played by Jean Reno, teams up with Detective Reda, played by Benoit Magimel, who is already investigating a murder of his own. As with the first movie, the pair's investigations intertwine and soon they are looking at a giant conspiracy involving a secretive group of monks on amphetamines led by Heinrich von Garten, played by Christopher Lee, searching for a treasure hidden by King Lothair II somewhere near the Maginot Line. Reno and Magimel are joined by a religious specialist called Marie, played by Camille Natta.
Vidocq
Vidocq (2001)
, 1h33
Directed by Pitof
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Crime
Themes Serial killer films, Steampunk films
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Inés Sastre, André Dussollier, Moussa Maaskri, Édith Scob
Rating63% 3.1947553.1947553.1947553.1947553.194755
In 19th century Paris, the famed detective Vidocq (Gérard Depardieu) disappears while pursuing a murderer called the Alchemist.
The Crimson Rivers, 1h47
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Roles Writer
Rating69% 3.4501753.4501753.4501753.4501753.450175
Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), an investigator well known in Paris, is sent to the small rural university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder. The victim's body is found bound in the fetal position and suspended high on a cliff face, his eyes removed and his hands cut off. Niemans learns that the victim was a professor and the University's librarian, Remy Callois, and he seeks out a local ophthalmologist for an explanation to the removal of the eyes. Dr. Cherneze, once on the University staff, explains that the school's isolation led to in-breeding amongst the professors, with increasingly serious genetic disorders. Recently the trend has reversed, with the local village children becoming ill and the college babies remaining healthy. Cherneze hints that the killer is leaving Niemans clues to their motive by removing the body parts that are unique to each individual - the eyes and hands. Niemans questions the Dean and examines the librarian's apartment, where he finds images of athletic "supermen" juxtaposed with texts on genetic deformities. The Dean's assistant (and son) Hubert translates the title of Callois' Ph.D. thesis as, "We are the masters. We are the slaves. We are everywhere. We are nowhere. We control the crimson rivers.

Producer

Switch
Switch (2011)
, 1h39
Directed by Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Karine Vanasse, Mehdi Nebbou, Stéphane Demers, Eric Cantona, Aurélien Recoing, Karina Testa
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.142613.142613.142613.142613.14261
À la suite d'une déconvenue professionnelle, une jeune graphiste montréalaise, Sophie Malaterre, décide d'échanger son appartement pour les vacances avec une Parisienne, Bénédicte Serteaux, via un site internet : switch.com. Mais, le lendemain matin de son arrivée à Paris, la police débarque dans l'appartement et révèle la présence d'un cadavre décapité dans une chambre dont la porte était fermée à clé la veille. Qui plus est, il n'y a pas de Sophie Malaterre sur les listes de vol en provenance de Montréal, et le site switch.com n'existe pas.