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Jean Achache is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter French

Jean Achache

Jean Achache
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Nationality France

Jean Achache est un réalisateur, scénariste, producteur de cinéma et écrivain français.

Biography

Jean Achache commence sa carrière de cinéaste au milieu des années 1970 aux côtés de Robert Enrico en tant qu'assistant réalisateur pour Le Vieux Fusil et Le Secret. Dans les années quatre-vingt, il collabore avec Bertrand Tavernier sur des films comme La mort en direct ou encore Un dimanche à la campagne. Jean Achache se tourne ensuite vers la réalisation de ses propres œuvres au travers de clips, documentaires comme Diabolo's Workshop avec Terry Gilliam et films comme l'adaptation du roman de Christian Gailly : Un soir au Club en 2009.

En 2006, il publie son premier roman Juste une nuit aux Éditions du masque.

Best films

A Sunday in the Country (1984)
(Director)
Coup de Torchon (1981)
(Director)
Spy, Stand Up (1982)
(Director)
Death Watch (1980)
(Director)

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Filmography of Jean Achache (10 films)

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Actor

Nothing But Lies, 1h26
Directed by Paule Muret
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Fanny Ardant, Alain Bashung, Jacques Perrin, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Christine Pascal, Alexandra Kazan
Rating60% 3.004243.004243.004243.004243.00424
Plus de vingt ans après les évènements, que sont devenus les quelques romantiques de Mai 68 dont la vie amoureuse fut bouleversée par la révolution sexuelle ?

Director

Un soir au club, 1h28
Directed by Jean Achache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Piano
Actors Thierry Hancisse, Élise Caron, Marilyne Canto, Anne Kessler, Jean-Paul Bathany, Geordy Monfils
Rating61% 3.083323.083323.083323.083323.08332
A former jazz pianist visits a jazz club and is drawn back into the jazz scene.
A Sunday in the Country, 1h30
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Achache
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Peinture
Actors Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma, Monique Chaumette, Geneviève Mnich, Jean-Roger Milo
Rating73% 3.6910853.6910853.6910853.6910853.691085
The story takes place during a Sunday in the late summer of 1912. Monsieur Ladmiral is a painter without any real genius and in the twilight of his life. Since the death of his wife, he lives alone with Mercedes, his servant. As every Sunday, he invites Gonzague, his son, a steady young man, who likes order and propriety, accompanied by his wife, Marie-Thérèse and their three children, Emile, Lucien and Mireille. That day, Irène, Gonzague's sister, a young non-conformist, liberated and energetic woman, upsets this peaceful ritual and calls into question her father's artistic choices.
Spy, Stand Up, 1h38
Directed by Yves Boisset, Jean Achache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Lino Ventura, Michel Piccoli, Krystyna Janda, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson, Heinz Bennent
Rating66% 3.3123.3123.3123.3123.312
L'action se déroule à Zurich (Suisse), septembre 1981. Sébastien Grenier (Lino Ventura) est un agent secret français du Service de documentation extérieure et de contre-espionnage (SDECE), en sommeil depuis huit ans. Il dirige à Zurich une société fiduciaire et partage la vie d'Anna Gretz (Krystyna Janda), jeune allemande professeur de littérature comparée dont les idées gauchistes sont clairement affichées.
Coup de Torchon, 2h4
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Achache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Assassinat, La colonisation française, Films about sexuality, Serial killer films, Histoire de France
Actors Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell, Guy Marchand
Rating73% 3.693763.693763.693763.693763.69376
Lucien Cordier (Philippe Noiret) is an ineffectual local constable with a cheating wife and laughable job. He accepts condescension from his superiors and his wife with good humor, as his antisocial personality allows him to tolerate such abuse. However, he soon realizes that he can use his position to gain vengeance with impunity, and he starts to kill everyone who has regarded him as a fool.
Death Watch, 2h8
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Achache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction
Themes Films about television, Films set in the future, La téléréalité, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Thérèse Liotard, Caroline Langrishe, William Russell
Rating65% 3.294883.294883.294883.294883.29488
The film is set in a future where death from illness has become extremely unusual. When Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider) is diagnosed as having an incurable disease, she becomes a celebrity and is besieged by journalists. The television company NTV (headed by Vincent Ferriman) offers her a large sum of money if she will allow her last days to be filmed and made into a reality television show – they have already spied on her as she is told of her diagnosis (her doctor is colluding with them) and prepared posters for the show which show her face (to her annoyance when she sees the posters on display before they have contacted her).
The New Beaujolais Wine Has Arrived..., 1h32
Directed by Jean Achache, Jean-Luc Voulfow
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Jean Carmet, Michel Galabru, Pierre Mondy, Tchéky Karyo, Pascale Roberts, Paul Crauchet
Rating47% 2.391072.391072.391072.391072.39107
Camadule est prié par tous ses amis d'acheter plusieurs barriques du fameux beaujolais chez une vieille comtesse dont il a les faveurs. Il accepte à condition que tous ses frais soient payés. Après diverses aventures et rebondissements, il revient à Paris avec un camion chargé de bouteilles de vin.
Le voyage d'Amélie
Directed by Daniel Duval, Jean Achache
Origin France
Actors Daniel Duval, Stéphane Bouy, Max Morel, Myriam Boyer, François Chardeaux
Rating60% 3.009513.009513.009513.009513.00951
Le mari d'Amélie avait formulé le souhait d'être enterré dans son village de province. Mais les finances d'Amélie ne lui permettent pas de respecter les dernières volontés de son mari. La veuve décide alors d'embaucher dans son quartier un groupe de cinq jeunes désoeuvrés qu'elle charge de transporter le corps au village. Ceux-ci entendent bien soutirer beaucoup d'argent à Amélie. Mais la vieille dame n'a pas les moyens de les rémunérer. Aussi repartent-ils du village aussi pauvres qu'ils sont arrivés...
The Secret
The Secret (1974)
, 1h42
Directed by Robert Enrico, Claire Denis, Jean Achache, Denys Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert, Solange Pradel, Antoine Saint-John, Patrice Melennec
Rating66% 3.340633.340633.340633.340633.34063
At the start we see "David" Jean-Louis Trintignant as a prisoner in some sort of torture chamber, a row of cells whose occupants, in straitjackets, are chained to their beds. David manages to escape from custody. On the run, he arrives at the home of a couple living in an isolated farmhouse (Marlène Jobert and Philippe Noiret). He claims that he is in possession of an important secret, one that he came across by chance, that is so terrible that the authorities will do anything to protect it. He predicts, correctly, that the state will soon mobilize all its resources to find him, using as a cover story the claim that a paranoid killer is on the loose from an asylum. The couple are unsure whether to believe him, but give him some assistance. Whether David is an unlucky but innocent fugitive or is the psychopath described by the police and press remains a mystery until the last moment of the film.

Scriptwriter

Un soir au club, 1h28
Directed by Jean Achache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Piano
Actors Thierry Hancisse, Élise Caron, Marilyne Canto, Anne Kessler, Jean-Paul Bathany, Geordy Monfils
Rating61% 3.083323.083323.083323.083323.08332
A former jazz pianist visits a jazz club and is drawn back into the jazz scene.