Jacques Ouaniche

Producer

Biography

Jacques Ouaniche est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste français. Il a créé et produit lui-même la série Maison close pour la chaîne Canal+. Il en a également écrit tous les épisodes et en a réalisé deux. Jacques Ouaniche est également producteur de films notamment avec L'Esquive, drame ayant obtenu quatre César d'Abdellatif Kechiche. En 2013, il réalise son premier long-métrage, Victor Young Perez, biopic du boxeur juif tunisien dans les années 30 qui a été déporté à Auschwitz, et est mo…

Filmography

6.4

Maison close

Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client, and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care of her girls and resist pressure from a suburban thug who is charging her money.

6.6

Games of Love and Chance

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.

5.9

Victor Young Perez

Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.

4.8

Madame Edouard

In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.

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