Director
Ariane Mnouchkine
March 3, 1939 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Ariane Mnouchkine (born 3 March 1939) is a French stage director. She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964. She wrote and directed 1789 (1974) and Molière (1978), and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse (1989). She holds a Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France, an Honorary Degree in Performing Arts from the University of Rome III, awarded in 2005 and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008.
Ariane Mnouchkine is the daughter of Jewish Russian film producer Alexandre Mnouchkine and June Hannen (daughter of Nicholas Hannen). Mnouchkine's paternal grandparents, Alexandre and Bronislawa Mnouchkine, were both deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 17 December 1943, where they were both murdered. Ariane is the namesake of the production company Ariane Films that was founded by her father.
Notable work
Often works with
Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini
5 titles together
The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, The Flood Drummers, The Castaways of the Fol Espoir
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Serge Nicolaï
5 titles together
The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, The Flood Drummers, The Flood Drummers
Olivia Corsini
4 titles together
The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, Les Éphémères
Juliana Carneiro da Cunha
4 titles together
The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, The Flood Drummers, The Castaways of the Fol Espoir
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Sébastien Brottet-Michel
4 titles together
The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, Les Éphémères
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Eve Doe-Bruce
4 titles together
The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, The Castaways of the Fol Espoir, Les Éphémères
