Claude Lelouch

30.10.1937, Paris, France

 

Director
Lelouch is a self-taught director who financed, directed, edited and acted in his first films. He achieved his first success with his fifth feature film A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme, 1966), which won the Golden Palm and an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Film. His other films include And Now My Life (Toute une vie, 1974), Live For Life (Vivre pour vivre, 1967), The Crook (Le voyou, 1970), Money Money Money (L’aventure c’est l’aventure, 1972), A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (Un homme et une femme:20 ans déja, 1986), Far From Vietman (Loin du Vietnam, 1967), which he made together with Godard, Resnais and others, Life Love Death (La vie, l’amour, la mort, 1969), A Man I Like (Un homme qui me plaît, 1970), An Adventure for Two (A nous deux, 1979), Long Live Life (Viva la vie!, 1984), Les misérables (1995) based on Victor Hugo’s novel.

Filmography

Far From Vietnam


Films by this director

An Adventure for Two

(A nous deux, 1979)

Directed by: Claude Lelouch
PHOTOGRAPHY: Bernard Zitzermann
Synopsis:

A man and a woman, both musicians on the run from the police, share a shelter. Since the police are close to catching them, the couple flees from France to Canada. On the way they encounter many difficulties and challenges and gradually fall in love.

color, 112 min
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