Directors ╞ Social outline ╡
by angeliki_spatki | created - 25 Oct 2013 | updated - 8 months ago | PublicSocial, political, situations brought to light ╒ social realism ╕
1. Alain Resnais
Director | Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle (1980). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux. He died on March 1, 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...
Hiroshima mon Amour 1959, Wild Grass 2009 - FR
2. Mikhail Kalatozov
Director | Letyat zhuravli
Mikhail Kalatozov was born on December 28, 1903 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Cranes Are Flying (1957), True Friends (1954) and Zagovor obrechyonnykh (1950). He died on March 27, 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now ...
Soy Cuba 1964, The Cranes are Flying 1957, Letter Never Send 1959 RS
3. Nikita Mikhalkov
Actor | 12
Nikita Mikhalkov is the son of the famous communist poet Sergey Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics of the Soviet national anthem and had strong connections to the Communist Party. Nikita Mikhalkov's mother, Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya, was also a poet and daughter of famous painter Pyotr Petrovich...
Burnt by the sun 1994 RS
4. Dusan Makavejev
Director | W.R. - Misterije organizma
Dusan Makavejev is the premier figure in Yugoslavian film history; his films are deeply rooted in his nation's painful postwar experiences and draw on important Yugoslavian cinematic and cultural models. Makavejev's work has violated many political and sexual taboos and invited censorship in dozens...
Mysteries of Organism 1971 SRV former Yugoslavia
5. Costa-Gavras
Director | Z
Costa-Gavras was born on February 12, 1933 in Loutra-Iraias, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Z (1969), Missing (1982) and Amen. (2002). He has been married to Michèle Ray-Gavras since 1968. They have two children.
Z 1969, Missing 1982, Music Box 1989, Eden à l' Ouest, Le Couperet 2009 ○ b. GR l. FR
6. Elio Petri
Writer | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
Elio Petri was born on January 29, 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) and His Days Are Numbered (1962). He was married to Paola Pegoraro. He died on November 10, 1982 in Rome, Lazio,...
La classe operaia va in paradiso 1977 IT
7. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
Tetro 2009, Youth without Youth 2007, The RainMaker 1997, Apocalypse Now 1979 , The Outsiders 1983, Peggy Sue got Married 1986, Rumble Fish 1983 - US
8. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
The Departed 2006, The Aviator 2004, Taxi Driver 1996, Goodfellas 1990 ○ b. IT l. US
9. Neil Jordan
Writer | The Crying Game
Neil Jordan was born on February 25, 1950 in Sligo, Ireland. He is a writer and producer, known for The Crying Game (1992), Greta (2018) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). He has been married to Brenda Rawn since June 30, 2004. They have two children. He was previously married to Vivienne Shields.
The crying game 1992 IR
10. Ken Loach
Director | I, Daniel Blake
Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.
After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into ...
The wind that shakes the barely UK ○ see director's movies selection list
11. Aki Kaurismäki
Producer | Le Havre
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific ...
The other side of hope 2017 ○ Helsinki, FI
12. Louis-Julien Petit
Assistant_director | One Day
Louis-Julien Petit is known for One Day (2011), Welcome to the Sticks (2008) and Carole Matthieu (2016).
Les Invisibles 2017
13. Saeed Roustayi
Writer | Baradaran-e Leila
Saeed Roustayi (born 14 August 1989) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing. Life+1 Day is his first major cinematic work. At the Fajr International Film Festival, Roustayi won 2 Crystal Simorghs for best ...
6.5 (Metri Shesh Va Nim) 2019 IR
14. François Ozon
Director | Dans la maison
François Ozon was born on November 15, 1967 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for In the House (2012), 8 Women (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003).
15. Manuela Martelli
Actress | Machuca
Manuela Martelli was born on April 16, 1983 in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress and writer, known for Machuca (2004), Chile '76 (2022) and Il Futuro (2013).
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