Patrick Schulmann
Directing
Biography
Patrick Schulmann, born January 2, 1949 in Paris 20e, and died March 19, 2002 in Chesnay in Yvelines, is a French director, screenwriter, composer of original music, director of photography, actor, reporter. Abandoned by his father when he was only 3 years old, he was raised in the 19th arrondissement of Paris by his mother and his aunt, both survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. He was expelled from six middle and high schools but still managed to obtain his baccalaureate. He began by writing poems and songs for which he wanted to propose the texts to Serge Reggiani, but, received by his artistic director Jacques Bedos, the latter gave him suggests becoming the interpreter of his texts: this is how he sang, at the very beginning of the 1970s, Côté du coeur and Une petite fille qui s'ennuie. He was also an actor in the feature film La Foire aux cancres (1963) directed by Louis Daquin. Patrick Schulmann directed Axel and Zoé loving each other with tender love in 1971, then And what about tenderness? Mess ! with Jean-Luc Bideau and Bernard Giraudeau. After three failures, he found success with P.R.O.F.S (1985) with Patrick Bruel and Fabrice Luchini. After filming Les Oreilles entre les dents (1987), he became a television reporter for the show Envoyé spécial on France 2. He returned to cinema in 1998 with Comme une bête (1998). On March 19, 2002, Patrick Schulmann was the victim of a car accident around 4:20 p.m. on the RD 11 in Yvelines. He died at Mignot hospital in Chesnay shortly after 7 p.m. Patrick Schulmann is the father of screenwriter, director and documentary filmmaker Tristan Schulmann.
Known For
The lives of three Parisians - a color-blind painter, a radio show host and a perverted photographer - intertwine and go hilariously out of control.
Zig Zag Story
The confrontation of a sixty-eight-year-old father and his son with conservative ideas.
Aldo et Junior
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
P.R.O.F.S.
A man and a woman get into a car accident with a witch, who takes out her anger on them by switching their bodies...
Give Me Back My Skin
Francois, seducer very misogynist, directs an Eros Club, that from which suffers his Carole wife silently. Julie, saleswoman in a clock industry, as for it is taken of an access of madness after having surprised her husband, Léo, future
Et la tendresse ?… Bordel !
On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.
The Blockhead Fair
A stodgy, married schoolteacher has a chance encounter with a free spirited young woman who loosens him up and introduces him to a hippie lifestyle.
Living Together
An assassin signs his crimes by cutting off the ears of his victims which he places between their teeth. In order to proceed with his arrest, an expert in criminology is contacted.
Les Oreilles entre les dents
25 years ago, Leo was born in a monkey orphanage his father was running. When he passed away and the orphanage went to the indonesian locals, Leo felt left out and decided to travel to France, to civilization. His father only tought him poetry and music: he's not a savage but he only sees our world with a kind and naive eye. In France, he'll meet real people, with all their flaws.