Frédéric Mitterrand

Acting

Frédéric Mitterrand

Born 1947-08-21 · Paris, France

Frédéric Mitterrand (21 August 1947 – 21 March 2024) was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, and politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Born in Paris, he was the nephew of François Mitterrand (1916–1996), who was the president of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand (1915–2002) and Édith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule". Owing to his family heritage, Mitterrand acquired Tunisian citizenship in 1995. He was openly bisexual. Mitterrand attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and studied history and geography at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and political science at Sciences Po. He taught economics, history, and geography at EABJM from 1968 to 1971. In 1978, he was a film critic at J'informe. From 1971 to 1986, he ran several art film cinemas in Paris (Olympic Palace, Entrepôt, and Olympic-Entrepôt). He also had roles in a number of films, and in the 1980s was active as a producer and director in TV productions.[citation needed] Mitterrand also penned a monthly column for Têtu. In June 2008, Mitterrand was appointed the director of the French Academy in Rome by President Nicolas Sarkozy, and was appointed to the French government a year later as the Minister of Culture and Communications, a role he would hold for the remainder of Sarkozy's time in office. Mitterrand's novel The Bad Life (French: La mauvaise vie), which mixed autobiographical and fictionalised elements, was the source of significant controversy. In the book he detailed his "delight" whilst visiting the male brothels of Bangkok, and wrote ..."I got into the habit of paying for boys ... The profusion of young, very attractive and immediately available boys put me in a state of desire I no longer needed to restrain or hide." Mitterrand's writings were applauded for their honesty at time of release, but resurfaced in a different light four years later following his defence of Roman Polanski, who had been detained in Switzerland and awaiting extradition to face American charges for sexually abusing a minor. On 5 October 2009, Marine Le Pen quoted sections of the book on French television, accusing him of having sex with underage boys and engaging in "sex tourism", demanding that Mitterrand resign from the government. He was also criticised by then-Socialist Party spokesman Benoît Hamon, who stated that "as a minister of culture, he has drawn attention to himself by defending [Polanski], and he has written a book where he said he took advantage of sexual tourism. To say the least, I find it shocking." On the other hand, he received support from a close aide to Nicolas Sarkozy who said the French President backed his Culture Minister, describing the controversy around him as "pathetic". ... Source: Article "Frédéric Mitterrand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Acting credits

Amélie poster
7.9

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Amélie

2001

E. M. Cioran. Sa vie. Son oeuvre poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

E. M. Cioran. Sa vie. Son oeuvre

1999

Fortunate poster
7.4

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.

Fortunate

1960

Christian Dior, la France poster
6.5

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitterrand traces the entire life of the French couturier who revolutionized fashion. He also explores France, which Christian Dior loved, and ventures into landscapes that inspired him.

Christian Dior, la France

2017

The Conquistadores poster
10.0

A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they begin to spend their time daydreaming, both creating their own imaginary world. At the office, she writes the story of an heroine's imaginary life. He collects material to compose an opera which glorifies the conquistadors.

The Conquistadores

1976

Jeux d'artifices poster
4.4

Elisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. Their only contact with the exterior is through Jacques, a loyal friend, but he also cuts himself out of any social life. The sister and the brother then take to get in touch with the world by Mrs Jean, a friend of their deceased mother with whom Elisa takes courses of singing. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.

Jeux d'artifices

1987

The Car Keys poster
5.2

Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

The Car Keys

2003

Bourvil : le rire et la tendresse poster
NR

Can you become a star without being a loudmouth? Absolutely, and Bourvil is proof of that. This discreet artist had many talents: he was both an actor and a singer, with equal success and enjoyment. First noticed for his songs and sketches, in which he created the character of the village idiot, he learned through experience the art of creating characters who were naive, certainly, but increasingly subtle. We propose to look back on the all too brief life of this man who was as endearing as he was discreet.

Bourvil : le rire et la tendresse

2025

Merry-Go-Round poster
7.2

New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery.

Merry-Go-Round

1981

The Garden That Tilts poster
6.7

Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ...

The Garden That Tilts

1975

No artwork available
7.6

A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with it.

The Musician Killer

1976

Fairouz poster
8.0

This document-portrait traces the career of Fairuz, one of the biggest stars of the Arabic music, born in Lebanon, and summarizes her success and her musical collaborations. This film is also a a moving portrait of a tortured dreamlike Lebanon.

Fairouz

1998

No artwork available
NR

Reel 30 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Cinématon XXX

1984

Let There Be Light! poster
6.3

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Let There Be Light!

1998

Dorothée Show poster
7.5

The romanticized life of Dorothée summarized in various sketches and songs.

Dorothée Show

1987

No artwork available
NR

Portrait of French screenwriter and film producer Frédéric Mitterrand, shot in Paris (France) on June 12, 1983 at 7:00 PM.

Cinématon n°291 : Frédéric Mitterrand

No artwork available
3.0

In this epistolary film, the traveler gives us his impressions of Africa parallel to the expression of his amorous distress. The images of the present intertwine with the incessant echoes of lost love, combining intimate pain with the misery of a country torn apart by internal struggles and poverty.

Love Letters in Somalia

1982

Frédéric Mitterrand, une vie en images poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Frédéric Mitterrand, une vie en images

2024

Arletty, Lady Paname poster
6.0

A biography of the French actress Arletty.

Arletty, Lady Paname

2007

The Scorched Triangle poster
4.0

The 22-year-old Sabine is married to 38 years old Jacques. They have a child. Their emotional life becomes monotonous and she gets bored more and more. So she takes a lover, Pierre, whom she meets in the underground parking lot of the building. Jacques has his doubts about this relationship and says nothing. He hopes to save his family and regain Sabine.

The Scorched Triangle

1975

Say it with Flowers poster
5.7

The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an attempt on Hitler. Desperate, Klaus shoots and kills his children and then shoots at his pregnant wife and leaves her badly injured. Finally, attempts suicide, but at the last moment does not have the courage to pull the trigger, and flees on a motorcycle, having an accident ... The action continues in France. Jean-Claude is a handsome young man self-conscious about a malformation in his face. Jean-Claude lives with his parents, Jacques Bergé, an amnesiac man, self-enclosed and obsessed with Egyptian art, and Concepcion, a woman also closed in herself and obsessed with flowers from her garden, and apparently , suffering from paranoia.

Say it with Flowers

1974

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto poster
NR

A documentary about the historic film producer, the first woman to make her mark in a predominantly male environment. A key figure in the great season of Italian auteur cinema between the late 1960s and the 1970s, Marina Cicogna worked with great directors and actors, winning an Oscar with "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" by Elio Petri and a Golden Lion with "Belle de Jour" by Luis Buñuel in Venice.

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

2021

Bécassine, le trésor viking poster
6.3

Known and loved by generations of children, Pinchon's classic Bécassine is now a feature-length movie. A cross between Mary Poppins and Mr Bean, Bécassine is the nanny every child dreams of having ! Her mismatched green dress, white apron and red-and-white striped socks might look a little strange, but the gawky Bécassine is a truly lovable character. Her adventures begin when Bécassine arrives in Paris to take care of Charlotte, the daughter of one of her former charges. Bécassine and Charlotte get caught up in a fanatic and comical adventure filled with song and dance. They race from Paris to Marseilles to Ibiza and Lapland trying to unravel the mystery of what happened to Charlotte's father, Edmond. What is he running from ? What secret is he trying to protect ? Will Charlotte's family escape the evil clutches of Gaspard, a so-called family friend ?

Bécassine, le trésor viking

2001

Roberte poster
4.3

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.

Roberte

1979

Behind the camera

Broken April poster
9.0

A 100-year-old family feud in Albania continues to target men for vengeful execution in this somber drama.

Broken April

1987

Apollonie, les dieux avaient raison poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Apollonie, les dieux avaient raison

2022

Christian Dior, la France poster
6.5

Christian Dior, the creator of the New Look, died 60 years ago, on October 23, 1957. Frédéric Mitterrand traces the entire life of the French couturier who revolutionized fashion. He also explores France, which Christian Dior loved, and ventures into landscapes that inspired him.

Christian Dior, la France

2017

The Rose of Tirana poster
NR

English subtitles. Queen Geraldine, a young, penniless Hungarian countess, married King Zog of Albania in 1938 after years of exile. The media nicknamed Geraldine, "The Rose of Tirana". Through this romantic destiny, the tormented history of Albania is brought to light.

The Rose of Tirana

2015

Fairouz poster
8.0

This document-portrait traces the career of Fairuz, one of the biggest stars of the Arabic music, born in Lebanon, and summarizes her success and her musical collaborations. This film is also a a moving portrait of a tortured dreamlike Lebanon.

Fairouz

1998

Madame Butterfly poster
6.6

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.

Madame Butterfly

1995

Madame Butterfly poster
6.6

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.

Madame Butterfly

1995

No artwork available
3.0

In this epistolary film, the traveler gives us his impressions of Africa parallel to the expression of his amorous distress. The images of the present intertwine with the incessant echoes of lost love, combining intimate pain with the misery of a country torn apart by internal struggles and poverty.

Love Letters in Somalia

1982

No artwork available
3.0

In this epistolary film, the traveler gives us his impressions of Africa parallel to the expression of his amorous distress. The images of the present intertwine with the incessant echoes of lost love, combining intimate pain with the misery of a country torn apart by internal struggles and poverty.

Love Letters in Somalia

1982

No artwork available
9.0

What happens to the actors when they are left to their own devices? How to tear the screen of conventional cinema?

Les Écrans déchirés

1976

Arletty - Soehring : Hélas je t'aime poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Arletty - Soehring : Hélas je t'aime

2020

Arletty - Soehring : Hélas je t'aime poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Arletty - Soehring : Hélas je t'aime

2020

I am Brezhnev's Queen! poster
3.7

This documentary focuses on the repression of homosexuals in the USSR during the Soviet regime. Trials, deportations, gulags, disappearances and executions, homosexuality was ferociously repressed. Communism condemned for a long time sexual practices considered subversive and which, even today, are difficult to perceive and live simply. With his very personal tone, the director is also interested in Soviet icons (Nureyev, Eisenstein).

I am Brezhnev's Queen!

2001

Norodom Sihanouk, King and Film-maker poster
NR

Profile of the Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, at the head of a country that has experienced colonization, the wars of the 20th century and the tragic period of the Khmers Rouge.

Norodom Sihanouk, King and Film-maker

1997

No artwork available
NR

A look at the life story of the Controversial Billionaire.

Trump: Anatomy of a Man

2018

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After poster
4.6

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After

1984

Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner poster
9.5

Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.

Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner

2019

Trump, le parrain de Manhattan poster
8.5

Known for his erratic politics, unforeseeable behavior and verbal provocations, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the USA throws the world into a panic.

Trump, le parrain de Manhattan

2018

Trump, le parrain de Manhattan poster
8.5

Known for his erratic politics, unforeseeable behavior and verbal provocations, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the USA throws the world into a panic.

Trump, le parrain de Manhattan

2018

Grace Kelly: The Princess of Monaco poster
NR

documentary about Princess Grace oof Monaco

Grace Kelly: The Princess of Monaco

2007

Grace Kelly: The Princess of Monaco poster
NR

documentary about Princess Grace oof Monaco

Grace Kelly: The Princess of Monaco

2007