Alexandre Mnouchkine
Alexandre Mnouchkine · Arts & Literature
Founded Ariane Films and produced Fanfan la Tulipe, Le Corniaud, La Grande Vadrouille and Rabbi Jacob
10 February 1908, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 3 April 1993, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
France
Alexandre Mnouchkine is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Founded Ariane Films and produced Fanfan la Tulipe, Le Corniaud, La Grande Vadrouille and Rabbi Jacob
Alexandre Mnouchkine came from a Russian Jewish family, was born in Saint Petersburg in 1908 and moved to Paris in 1925. He entered the cinema in 1932 and founded Ariane Films in 1945, becoming one of the most important French producers of the post-war decades: Fanfan la Tulipe, Gérard Oury's Le Corniaud and La Grande Vadrouille, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, and later films by Claude Lelouch and Jean-Jacques Annaud.
His daughter is the theatre director Ariane Mnouchkine, who founded the Théâtre du Soleil and is also in this directory.
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Founded Ariane Films and produced Fanfan la Tulipe, Le Corniaud, La Grande Vadrouille and Rabbi Jacob
Source: Wikipedia — Alexandre Mnouchkine
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