Daniel Mesguich Movies

The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with...

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In...

In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his...

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written...

Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria.

In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons of power. The function of prime minister, torn...

Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an...

A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström.

The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a...

The demoness Sylvie Bréal offers voyeurs a breast to die for. Notable for being the first French feature shot on video.

July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy....

In Jean Rouch's cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou's theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic...

An adaptation of La Sorcière from Jules Michelet

Escorted by his valet Sganarelle, Dom Juan, a libertine gentleman, brave and hypocritical, seduces women, fights duels, denies his father's...

A staging of Jacques Attali's play "From Crystal to Smoke" by Daniel Mesguich.