Siegfried

Directing

Siegfried

Born 1973-01-23 · France

Siegfried Debrebant (23 January 1973 – 3 October 2024), more commonly known as simply Siegfried (also Sig, SIG or ZIG), was a French independent film director and improviser musician (cello, piano). He became famous for his films "Louise (take 2)", "Sansa" and others, the music for which he wrote himself (as a rule, he also acted as a cinematographer of his films). He performed concerts, including as part of small groups, including collaborations with such performers as Viktor Pivtorypavlo, Pavel Protasov, Vladimir Volkov, Artis Orubs, Sergey Letov, Vladimir Glushko, Anatoly Gerasimov, Erik Truffaz and Ivry Gitlis.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Bengali Variation poster
NR

A young female poet and journalist decides to look for her childhood love, a perpetual student who gets mixed up with oppressive gambling debts. The lovers unintentionally play a game of hide and seek through the crowded maze of Calcutta in an effort to re-connect.

Bengali Variation

2021

Bengali Variation poster
NR

A young female poet and journalist decides to look for her childhood love, a perpetual student who gets mixed up with oppressive gambling debts. The lovers unintentionally play a game of hide and seek through the crowded maze of Calcutta in an effort to re-connect.

Bengali Variation

2021

Bengali Variation poster
NR

A young female poet and journalist decides to look for her childhood love, a perpetual student who gets mixed up with oppressive gambling debts. The lovers unintentionally play a game of hide and seek through the crowded maze of Calcutta in an effort to re-connect.

Bengali Variation

2021

Louise (Take 2) poster
6.1

The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels. When Louise has an encounter with homeless Remi (Roschdy Zem), they have a magnetic attraction, but she is already attached to illiterate shoplifter and pickpocket punk Yaya (Gerald Thomassin). Although allied with Yaya in petty crimes, Louise lives with her widowed father (Lou Castel), a devoted writer of fiction. After a Metro bum (Bruce Myers) tells her of his desire to see his young son, she plucks the kid, Gaby (Antoine de Merle), right out of school, making him the newest rookie recruited into their subway gang. Shoplifting in a department store, the young toughs escape the store's security guards by hiding in the ballet rehearsal rooms of the nearby opera. But does Louise really belong with the subway toughs, or is she just pretending? When she's arrested, Louise is forced to reexamine her lifestyle.

Louise (Take 2)

1999

Louise (Take 2) poster
6.1

The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels. When Louise has an encounter with homeless Remi (Roschdy Zem), they have a magnetic attraction, but she is already attached to illiterate shoplifter and pickpocket punk Yaya (Gerald Thomassin). Although allied with Yaya in petty crimes, Louise lives with her widowed father (Lou Castel), a devoted writer of fiction. After a Metro bum (Bruce Myers) tells her of his desire to see his young son, she plucks the kid, Gaby (Antoine de Merle), right out of school, making him the newest rookie recruited into their subway gang. Shoplifting in a department store, the young toughs escape the store's security guards by hiding in the ballet rehearsal rooms of the nearby opera. But does Louise really belong with the subway toughs, or is she just pretending? When she's arrested, Louise is forced to reexamine her lifestyle.

Louise (Take 2)

1999

Riga (Take One) poster
5.5

Riga, Latvia. Four women: Elita, a passioned actress, Elina, her daughter, Iveta, a tourist guide and Paulina, a teenage ballet dancer. All are in love and going through strong emotions. A free-style composition about passion and arts, a visually stunning cinematic jazz partition.

Riga (Take One)

2018

Riga (Take One) poster
5.5

Riga, Latvia. Four women: Elita, a passioned actress, Elina, her daughter, Iveta, a tourist guide and Paulina, a teenage ballet dancer. All are in love and going through strong emotions. A free-style composition about passion and arts, a visually stunning cinematic jazz partition.

Riga (Take One)

2018

Kinogamma Part Two: Far East poster
NR

Part two of filmmaker Siegfried's travelogue, continuing through China and Southeast Asia.

Kinogamma Part Two: Far East

2008

Kinogamma Part Two: Far East poster
NR

Part two of filmmaker Siegfried's travelogue, continuing through China and Southeast Asia.

Kinogamma Part Two: Far East

2008

Sansa poster
7.3

Artist/writer/director/producer Siegfried follows a street hustler/artist Sansa who makes his way from Paris to Russia using his street smarts. Sansa is charming and careless, living the bohemian life. His encounters are numerous, mostly with feminine characters, until he gets attached to an old and eccentric orchestra conductor who becomes a kind of father figure.

Sansa

2004

Sansa poster
7.3

Artist/writer/director/producer Siegfried follows a street hustler/artist Sansa who makes his way from Paris to Russia using his street smarts. Sansa is charming and careless, living the bohemian life. His encounters are numerous, mostly with feminine characters, until he gets attached to an old and eccentric orchestra conductor who becomes a kind of father figure.

Sansa

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kids Stories

2014

Kinogamma Part One: East poster
NR

Kinogamma is a unique cinematic experience – a strange, lost gem. The camera takes us on a hypnotic journey to the discovery of people, places, sounds, and things – a travel journal in which the eye stops to admire the everyday and the uncommon, a magnetic experiment to kidnap our gaze and rediscover the pleasure of simply seeing. The first part, East, takes us to the cities of Moscow, Tallinn, Orsk, and Novotroisk.

Kinogamma Part One: East

2008

Kinogamma Part One: East poster
NR

Kinogamma is a unique cinematic experience – a strange, lost gem. The camera takes us on a hypnotic journey to the discovery of people, places, sounds, and things – a travel journal in which the eye stops to admire the everyday and the uncommon, a magnetic experiment to kidnap our gaze and rediscover the pleasure of simply seeing. The first part, East, takes us to the cities of Moscow, Tallinn, Orsk, and Novotroisk.

Kinogamma Part One: East

2008