Daniel Mesguich
Acting
Biography
Daniel Mesguich (born 15 July 1952) is a French actor and director in theater and opera, and professor of stage acting school. In 1970, he was admitted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique, after which he opened the Théâtre du Miroir ("Mirror Theater"), with whom he opened a course in drama. After ten years, he returned to the school to teach at the request of Jean-Pierre Miquel, becoming the youngest professor on campus. He is currently the director of the school. He has acted in over a hundred plays, fifty operas in France and abroad, and some 40 movies and television pieces. The actor William Mesguich is his son. Source: Article "Daniel Mesguich" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: July 15, 1952
Place of Birth: Algiers, Algeria
Known For
Astrid et Raphaëlle
Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ongoing investigations. The district commander decides to use it to the fullest, entrusting her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date.
The Boy Soldier
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
Love on the Run
Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.
La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Following a fall during mistletoe picking, Druid Getafix decides that it is time to secure the future of the village. Accompanied by Asterix and Obelix, he undertakes to travel the Gallic world in search of a talented young druid to transmit the Secret of the Magic Potion.
Everything Went Fine
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life.
Limited Edition
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge.
Les mots pour le dire
A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
Dossier 51
A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.
Le radeau de la Méduse
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.
Filmography
as Conle le Fameux
as Conle le Fameux
as Me Georges Kiejman
as Athanasius
as Sulfurix (voice)
as Léon Blum
as Narrator (voice)
as Norbert
as Dom Juan
as David Rashevski
as King Louis XIII
as Paul-Louis Gérard
as Coudein
as Nicolas Fabry
as Léon Blum
as Mesmer
as Ida's husband
as Eric Lethuillier
as Fouquier-Tinville
as Jules Pascin
as Lucien
as Lucien
as Le prêtre
as L'amant de Claire (voice)
as Hector Berlioz
as Psychoanalyst
as Mathieu
as Walter Raim
as Le génie
as Franz Kafka
as Self
as Pierre Schlamovitz
as Schlamovitz
as Capitaine Mourre
as Rémy Lecoudray
as Christophe Le Kerlec
as The guest socialite evening / The client of the luxury brothel
as Napoléon
as Commissioner Curbec
as Xavier Barnerias
as Esculape 4
as Monsieur, frère du Roi
as Self