Didier Daeninckx

Writing

Didier Daeninckx

Born

1949-04-27 (77)

Place of birth

Saint-Denis, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

Known for

Writing

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5 titles

Didier Daeninckx (born 27 April 1949 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a French author and left-wing politician of Belgian descent, best known for his romans noirs. Source: Article "Didier Daeninckx" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Apostrophes poster
8.5

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Apostrophes

1975

Black Light poster
7.0

When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.

Black Light

1994

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos poster
7.8

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

2018

The Repentant poster
5.6

A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...

The Repentant

2002

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6.5

Documentary about the making of Louis Malle's 1963 film "The Fire Within".

Jusqu’au 23 Juillet

2018

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