Directing

Nicolas Ribowski

Born

1939-01-01 (87)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

Nicolas Ribowski is a French film and television director known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s. Born to parents who were deported during World War II, Ribowski was hidden by a family in Moissac until the end of the war. He began his career as an assistant director, working with filmmakers like Alain Cavalier and Jacques Tati. Ribowski directed episodes for television series such as Médecins de nuit and Navarro. He also directed the film Une affaire d'hommes (1981). Ribowski's work often explores themes of justice and human relationships.

Known for

Evening Classes poster
6.5

Tati plays a comedy teacher and explains the basic rules of comedy to some rather slow-witted students, illustrating his points with demonstrations.

Evening Classes

1967

A Business of Men poster
6.2

Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.

A Business of Men

1981

Périgord noir poster
4.6

The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her compatriots were expelled from, and enlists some unlikely helpers to bring them back into the country and enact their plot. Meanwhile, these "local" blacks are unwittingly accepted by the other landowners as more cheap labor.

Périgord noir

1989

La femme du boulanger poster
3.5

In a small village of Haute-Provence, it is an event. The abandoned bakery comes back to life. Aimable and his wife Aurélie bring out the first batch of bread for the happiness of the inhabitants. Among the first customers, Dominique, a young shepherd, does not leave Aurélie indifferent...

La femme du boulanger

1999

Clémy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Clémy

2005

Vaines recherches poster
8.0

An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedules, he finds himself running after a provocative murderer who announces his crimes over the phone. Very quickly, a doubt comes over him: could the culprit be closer to him than he thought?

Vaines recherches

1987

Behind the camera

Evening Classes poster
6.5

Tati plays a comedy teacher and explains the basic rules of comedy to some rather slow-witted students, illustrating his points with demonstrations.

Evening Classes

1967

A Business of Men poster
6.2

Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.

A Business of Men

1981

Périgord noir poster
4.6

The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her compatriots were expelled from, and enlists some unlikely helpers to bring them back into the country and enact their plot. Meanwhile, these "local" blacks are unwittingly accepted by the other landowners as more cheap labor.

Périgord noir

1989

La femme du boulanger poster
3.5

In a small village of Haute-Provence, it is an event. The abandoned bakery comes back to life. Aimable and his wife Aurélie bring out the first batch of bread for the happiness of the inhabitants. Among the first customers, Dominique, a young shepherd, does not leave Aurélie indifferent...

La femme du boulanger

1999

Clémy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Clémy

2005

Vaines recherches poster
8.0

An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedules, he finds himself running after a provocative murderer who announces his crimes over the phone. Very quickly, a doubt comes over him: could the culprit be closer to him than he thought?

Vaines recherches

1987

Vaines recherches poster
8.0

An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedules, he finds himself running after a provocative murderer who announces his crimes over the phone. Very quickly, a doubt comes over him: could the culprit be closer to him than he thought?

Vaines recherches

1987

Kelly et les bergères poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kelly et les bergères

2024