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Jacques Ouaniche is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer French

Jacques Ouaniche

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Nationality France

Jacques Ouaniche est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste français. Il a créé et produit lui-même la série Maison close pour la chaîne Canal+. Il en a également écrit tous les épisodes et en a coréalisé deux avec Carlos de Fonseca Parsotam. Jacques Ouaniche est également producteur de films via sa société Noé Productions.

En 2013, il réalise son premier long-métrage, Victor Young Perez, biopic du boxeur juif et tunisien des années 1930 qui a été déporté à Auschwitz, et qui est mort pendant la marche de la mort en 1945, avec dans le rôle-titre Brahim Asloum, ancien champion du monde de boxe.

Usually with

Steve Suissa
Steve Suissa
(1 films)
Davy Sardou
Davy Sardou
(1 films)
Bruce Payne
Bruce Payne
(1 films)
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Filmography of Jacques Ouaniche (3 films)

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Actor

3 petites filles, 1h42
Directed by Jean-Loup Hubert
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Gérard Jugnot, Adriana Karembeu, Morgane Cabot, Sabrina Ouazani, Marc Andreoni, Julien Hubert
Roles Le père de Pauline
Rating53% 2.678082.678082.678082.678082.67808
Trois jeunes adolescentes - dont l'une essaie d'échapper à un mariage forcé - parcourent la Corse à la recherche de rêve et d'échappatoire.

Director

Victor Young Perez, 1h50
Directed by Jacques Ouaniche
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Bruce Payne, Steve Suissa, Isabella Orsini, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, Davy Sardou, Julien Chatelet
Rating62% 3.1412953.1412953.1412953.1412953.141295
Victor "Young" Perez tells the astonishing, harrowing and poignant story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin "Kid" Perez Perez and rose to great fame thanks to the help and guidance of Leon Bellier. Moreover he had a love affair with French-Italian actress Mireille Balin. The 5'1", 110-pound Perez won the International Boxing Union's version of the World Flyweight crown by a 2nd-round knockout of US-American champion Frankie Genaro, subsequently becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history! Perez got arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and was detained in the Drancy internment camp France, before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz to serve as a slave laborer. Victor Perez arrived at Auschwitz on October 10, 1943, as part of "Transport 60" a group of 1,000. He was held in AuschwitzIII/Monowitz. Whilst there he was forced to fight in boxing matches for the amusement of the SS command. By 1945 Victor had survived 140 bouts in 15 months. Perez was one of the prisoners on the death march that left the camp on January 18, 1945.

Scriptwriter

Victor Young Perez, 1h50
Directed by Jacques Ouaniche
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Bruce Payne, Steve Suissa, Isabella Orsini, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, Davy Sardou, Julien Chatelet
Rating62% 3.1412953.1412953.1412953.1412953.141295
Victor "Young" Perez tells the astonishing, harrowing and poignant story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin "Kid" Perez Perez and rose to great fame thanks to the help and guidance of Leon Bellier. Moreover he had a love affair with French-Italian actress Mireille Balin. The 5'1", 110-pound Perez won the International Boxing Union's version of the World Flyweight crown by a 2nd-round knockout of US-American champion Frankie Genaro, subsequently becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history! Perez got arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and was detained in the Drancy internment camp France, before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz to serve as a slave laborer. Victor Perez arrived at Auschwitz on October 10, 1943, as part of "Transport 60" a group of 1,000. He was held in AuschwitzIII/Monowitz. Whilst there he was forced to fight in boxing matches for the amusement of the SS command. By 1945 Victor had survived 140 bouts in 15 months. Perez was one of the prisoners on the death march that left the camp on January 18, 1945.

Producer

Victor Young Perez, 1h50
Directed by Jacques Ouaniche
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Bruce Payne, Steve Suissa, Isabella Orsini, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, Davy Sardou, Julien Chatelet
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.1412953.1412953.1412953.1412953.141295
Victor "Young" Perez tells the astonishing, harrowing and poignant story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his older brother Benjamin "Kid" Perez Perez and rose to great fame thanks to the help and guidance of Leon Bellier. Moreover he had a love affair with French-Italian actress Mireille Balin. The 5'1", 110-pound Perez won the International Boxing Union's version of the World Flyweight crown by a 2nd-round knockout of US-American champion Frankie Genaro, subsequently becoming the youngest world champion in boxing history! Perez got arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and was detained in the Drancy internment camp France, before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz to serve as a slave laborer. Victor Perez arrived at Auschwitz on October 10, 1943, as part of "Transport 60" a group of 1,000. He was held in AuschwitzIII/Monowitz. Whilst there he was forced to fight in boxing matches for the amusement of the SS command. By 1945 Victor had survived 140 bouts in 15 months. Perez was one of the prisoners on the death march that left the camp on January 18, 1945.
Games of Love and Chance, 1h57
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about alcoholism, La banlieue française, Films about children, Films about immigration, Théâtre, La précarité
Actors Sara Forestier, Osman Elkharraz, Sabrina Ouazani, Rachid Hami, Carole Franck, Olivier Loustau
Roles Producer
Rating68% 3.443863.443863.443863.443863.44386
A group of teenagers from the housing projects of the Paris suburbs practice a passage from the play Games of Love and Chance by Marivaux for their French class. Abdelkrim, or Krimo, who initially does not act in the play, falls in love with Lydia. In order to try to seduce her, he accepts the role of Arlequin and joins the rehearsal. But his timidness and awkwardness keeps him from participating in the play as well as succeeding with Lydia.