Directing

Frédéric Sojcher

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Known for

Hitler in Hollywood poster
6.2

A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.

Hitler in Hollywood

2011

Life Lessons poster
6.3

Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, meets up with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. Through an extraordinary masterclass where intimacy rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie will teach Vincent and his students that the art of writing a screenplay is the art of living passionately.

Life Lessons

2023

Born to Film poster
5.8

Three no-budget semi-professional filmmakers finally get their due in this witty but respectful documentary. Director Frederic Sojcher visits three fellow Belgian auteurs whose ambitions outstrip their budgets, or their recognition. Max Naveaux is a projectionist who decided to take a stab at making movies himself, putting together small-scale war films whose realism was heightened by the fact that the Belgian Ministry of Defense gave him permission to use real bullets for one of his movies. Schoolteacher Jacques Hardy has dabbled in creating film noir, costume horror, and comic-book adventures, most starring his friend Christian Vranken, who makes his living as a church caretaker and insists on casting approval for his female co-stars. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a self-styled surrealist whose commitment to obscurity is great enough that he insists on being interviewed while wearing a ski mask.

Born to Film

2004

No artwork available
8.0

Comedy about a clumsy female intern conducting her first survey about smoking and smokers. Both flattered and impressed, she meets a few major artistic figures such as Serge Gainsbourg or Bernard Lavilliers. But the film is also about the cigarettes which helped to make Humphrey Bogart, James Dean - and several others - immortal myths. And about the cigarettes and cigars of ordinary people which fill restaurants and other public places with their heavy smoke.

Requiem pour un fumeur

1985

Climax poster
2.0

A young director will make his first film, about the deportation of Jews during World War II. With a diva in the lead role.

Climax

2009

No artwork available
7.0

A family in a car that seems to be speeding through the night. We learn that the father, a pharmaceutical sales representative, has contaminated his entire family by testing hormone pills... changing men's voices to women's voices, and vice versa.

Vroum-vroum

1995

Behind the camera

Hitler in Hollywood poster
6.2

A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.

Hitler in Hollywood

2011

Life Lessons poster
6.3

Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, meets up with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. Through an extraordinary masterclass where intimacy rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie will teach Vincent and his students that the art of writing a screenplay is the art of living passionately.

Life Lessons

2023

Born to Film poster
5.8

Three no-budget semi-professional filmmakers finally get their due in this witty but respectful documentary. Director Frederic Sojcher visits three fellow Belgian auteurs whose ambitions outstrip their budgets, or their recognition. Max Naveaux is a projectionist who decided to take a stab at making movies himself, putting together small-scale war films whose realism was heightened by the fact that the Belgian Ministry of Defense gave him permission to use real bullets for one of his movies. Schoolteacher Jacques Hardy has dabbled in creating film noir, costume horror, and comic-book adventures, most starring his friend Christian Vranken, who makes his living as a church caretaker and insists on casting approval for his female co-stars. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a self-styled surrealist whose commitment to obscurity is great enough that he insists on being interviewed while wearing a ski mask.

Born to Film

2004

No artwork available
8.0

Comedy about a clumsy female intern conducting her first survey about smoking and smokers. Both flattered and impressed, she meets a few major artistic figures such as Serge Gainsbourg or Bernard Lavilliers. But the film is also about the cigarettes which helped to make Humphrey Bogart, James Dean - and several others - immortal myths. And about the cigarettes and cigars of ordinary people which fill restaurants and other public places with their heavy smoke.

Requiem pour un fumeur

1985

No artwork available
8.0

Comedy about a clumsy female intern conducting her first survey about smoking and smokers. Both flattered and impressed, she meets a few major artistic figures such as Serge Gainsbourg or Bernard Lavilliers. But the film is also about the cigarettes which helped to make Humphrey Bogart, James Dean - and several others - immortal myths. And about the cigarettes and cigars of ordinary people which fill restaurants and other public places with their heavy smoke.

Requiem pour un fumeur

1985

Climax poster
2.0

A young director will make his first film, about the deportation of Jews during World War II. With a diva in the lead role.

Climax

2009

Climax poster
2.0

A young director will make his first film, about the deportation of Jews during World War II. With a diva in the lead role.

Climax

2009

No artwork available
7.0

A family in a car that seems to be speeding through the night. We learn that the father, a pharmaceutical sales representative, has contaminated his entire family by testing hormone pills... changing men's voices to women's voices, and vice versa.

Vroum-vroum

1995

No artwork available
7.0

A family in a car that seems to be speeding through the night. We learn that the father, a pharmaceutical sales representative, has contaminated his entire family by testing hormone pills... changing men's voices to women's voices, and vice versa.

Vroum-vroum

1995

Je veux être actrice poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Je veux être actrice

2016

Regarde-moi poster
6.0

A man writes a play, hoping that it will help him understand the dramatic events his son lived in Greece.

Regarde-moi

2001

Regarde-moi poster
6.0

A man writes a play, hoping that it will help him understand the dramatic events his son lived in Greece.

Regarde-moi

2001

No artwork available
NR

1991 version of Requiem For a Smoker by Frédéric Sojcher.

Fumeurs de charme

1991

No artwork available
9.0

A short film directed by Frédéric Sojcher.

A comme acteur

1995