Jean-Jacques Annaud

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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018)

Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997) and Wolf Totem (2015). Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including four César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first film, Black and White in Color (1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Notre-Dame on Fire
6.4
- Director
- 2022
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
7.4
TV Mini Series
- Director
- 2018
Wolf Totem
6.6
- Director
- 2015
Day of the Falcon
6.6
- Director
- 2011
Dior J'adore
7.4
Video
- Director
- 2011
Sa majesté Minor
4.0
- Director
- 2007
Two Brothers
7.0
- Director
- 2004
Enemy at the Gates
7.5
- Director
- 2001
Seven Years in Tibet
7.1
- directed by
- 1997
Wings of Courage
6.3
- Director
- 1995
The Lover
6.8
- Director
- 1992
The King of Ads
5.4
- Director (segments "Hertz commercial, ", "Kelton commercial, ", "Ford Escort Manhattan")
- 1991
The Bear
7.7
- Director
- 1988
The Name of the Rose
7.7
- Director
- 1986
Quest for Fire
7.3
- Director
- 1981

Trivia
Used to be banned from entering China because of his film Seven Years in Tibet (1997). But years later, he was hired to direct the Chinese-French co-production Wolf Totem (2015) and had his ban lifted.

Quotes
Enemy at the Gates (2001) is a film about duels and duality, about contrasts and extremes. The event is minuscule, but the propaganda makes it extremely important. Two individuals track each other in the midst of millions who are dying, but the focus is on these two. The smallest part is only one little piece of the large canvas, but it consequently becomes the central symbol of the whole.