
Alain Tasma
Directing
Biography
Alain Tasma, born February 26, 1959 in Tunis, is a French film director and screenwriter. In 1981, he began his career as assistant director to François Truffaut on Truffaut's film 'The Woman Next Door', followed by Godard's 'Passion' in 1982 and Barbet Schroeder's 'Tricheurs' in 1984. Alain Tasma then began writing screenplays and directing. Since the late 1980s, he has directed films and series for television, which have met with both public and critical acclaim. He has twice won the Grand Prix for TV Film at the Cognac Crime Film Festival: in 1994 for 'La Bavure' (The Slaughter) with Clovis Cornillac and in 1999 for 'Les Duettistes: Une Débête Mortel' (The Dummies: A Deadly Debt). Since then, Alain Tasma has addressed numerous current affairs in documentaries and fiction, such as ‘Mata Hari, la vraie histoire’ (2003), ‘Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961’ (2005), ‘Harkis’ (2006) and ‘Opération turquoise’ (2007). He is also the author of an adaptation of Balzac’s ‘Rastignac ou les ambitious’, in which Father Goriot is played by Charles Aznavour. Interested in historical and social issues, he regularly works with historian and documentary filmmaker Patrick Rotman.
Known For

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Maigret

After a plot to kill the president of the USA an agent with lost memories tries to recover his life and memories. Others use him to cover up some dirty business involving high ranking officials from the CIA and the White House.
XIII: The Series

Caitlin "Cat" Sullivan is an NYPD detective working in Brooklyn. After her driving privileges are suspended, she relies on Leo Romba, a highly skilled Brooklyn cab driver from France. Leo becomes Cat's driver and a consultant on her cases. While solving crimes with Leo, Cat is also running her own unauthorized investigation into the death of her father, an NYPD detective thought to have been executed by the Capella crime family. In doing so, she clashes with her boss, Captain Baker, and her ex-husband Gregg, who has picked up the case for the FBI.
Taxi Brooklyn

Screen adaptation of the memoires of Daniel Cordier, a member of the French Resistance and close friend of Resistance leader, Jean Moulin.
Alias Caracalla, au cœur de la Résistance

A young French couple deals with ramifications of world events on their relationship as Saddam Hussein threatens to launch SCUD missiles on Israel.
Ultimatum

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
The Last Metro

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
The Woman Next Door

A lively duchess befriends the shy queen of France. The duchess aims to reunite the queen with the aloof king by injecting merriment into the staid royal atmosphere, causing controversy at court.
A Dangerous Friendship

The cases of five young and well-intentioned police recruits often turn into catastrophes.
The Rookies
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Haute tension

When the closing of a local factory impacts a small French town, a desperate unionist and a bodybuilder resort to a dangerous scheme to make ends meet.
War on Beasts

Drama series that explores Voltaire's early life and evolution. It reveals aspects of the gifted philosopher's life that received less attention: Voltaire the adventurer, lover, man of justice who had an obscure relationship with royalty.
Voltaire in Love

French miniseries.
Fleur bleue

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
Godard's Passion

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Les Duettistes

Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
God Is Great and I'm Not

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
Cheaters

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.
Dark Night, October 17, 1961

Anna is a young teacher assigned as a substitute at a challenging middle school in the suburbs of Paris. In her class, Lakhdar, a well-behaved and promising student, has suffered a medical mishap and lost the use of his right hand.
Fracture

A teen's life changes when her new half-brother arrives accompanied by an elusive stranger while spending the summer with her father and his new family.