Writing

José Giovanni

Born 1923-06-22 Paris, France 5 films

José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques, overlooking that the…

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Filmography

5 films

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The fall of 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of Lino Ventura's death. Whether in the role of tough…

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Lino Ventura, la part intime

★ 7.9 2018

Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic poster

Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews, recorded shortly before his death, director Claude Sa…

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Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic

★ 8.0 2003

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes poster

A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with…

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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

★ 7.7 2002

A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in va…

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The Repentant

★ 5.6 2002

A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffick…

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Symphony for a Massacre

★ 6.7 1963