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Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.

Life

Dayan grew up in Algiers, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television director; her grandmother was the owner of a cinema. Since 1974 she directed mainly movies for television. In 1979, under her direction, a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared. Her most successful works are the 1998 TV mini-series The Count of Monte Cristo with Gérard Depardieu in the lead role, and the 2002 mini-series Les Misérables with Depardieu and John Malkovich. Then there is Balzac: A Passionate Life (1999) and Cet amour-là (2001), both with Jeanne Moreau, and Raspoutine (2011) with Depardieu. A major success was Les Liaisons dangereuses (2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Nastassja Kinski in the leading roles.

Filmography

External links

• Josée Dayan at IMDb
• http://www.citwf.com/person489014.htm
• http://php88.free.fr/bdff/real.php?id=136&real=Jos%E9e%20Dayan

References

1. Josée Dayan, 56 ans. Sa mère l'appelait «mon petit Balzac, à cause de mon physique». Elle revient avec Balzac sur TF1. Dame épique.
2. Arte TV
3. Josée Dayan, 56 ans. Sa mère l'appelait «mon petit Balzac, à cause de mon physique». Elle revient avec Balzac sur TF1. Dame épique.
4. Arte TV
5. "Cet Amour la".

• 1943 births
• Living people
• French women film directors
• French television directors
• People from Toulouse
• People from Algiers
• 20th-century French Jews
• Women television directors
• 21st-century French LGBTQ people
• LGBTQ Jews
• Jewish film people
• Institut des hautes études cinématographiques alumni