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Robert Guédiguian
French film director and actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Jules Guédiguian (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ ɡediɡjɑ̃]; born 3 December 1953) is a French filmmaker, producer and actor. Most known for Marius and Jeannette (1997) and Gloria Mundi (2019), his films usually star his wife Ariane Ascaride or Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
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Life
Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Armenian father, whose family immigrated to France in the early 20th century after the Armenian genocide. He evokes his paternal roots in his 2006 film Le Voyage en Armenie. He has a working-class background, as his father is a worker on the Marseille docks. Guédiguian became concerned with political questions and for a while was involved with the French Communist Party. In 2008 he joined the Left Party in France.
He has been married to actress Ariane Ascaride since 1975 and they have two daughters, Valentine and Madeleine.[1]
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Career
Like Marcel Pagnol and René Allio before him, he anchors his films in social reality. His films are strongly marked by the local and regional environment of the city of Marseille, and in particular L'Estaque (north-west Marseille), for example in Marius et Jeannette. His 2011 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.[2][3]
In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Guédiguian signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.[4][5][6]
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- 1990: L'Ami Giono: Jofroi de la Maussan (Telefilm)
- 2002: Lulu as Marius
- 2012: Rendezvous in Kiruna
- 2021: Twist à Bamako
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