François Margolin
Production
Born 1957-03-29
Paris, France
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François Margolin, born on the 29th of March 1957, alumnus from FEMIS (French National Film School), combines the hats of writer, director and producer. He directed Mensonge in 1994, with Nathalie Baye, The Opium of the Talibans in 2001 and Les Petits Soldats (about Child Soldiers in Liberia) in 2005. His first short movie, Elle et Lui, won the famous Jean Vigo Prize. His work as a producer won him to work with prestigious directors like Raoul Ruiz (Nucingen House, Dias de Campo), Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Flight of the Red Balloon), Raymond Depardon (Empty Quarter, une Femme en Afrique), Olivier Assayas (Boarding Gate) or Costa Gavras and Abbas Kiarostami for the omnibus documentary À propos de Nice, la suite. In 1986 he created the production company of Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris and worked as a journalist during the eighties for Liberation and L’Express, in Africa and Afghanistan. He published a successful book about the Black Jews of Ethiopia, We were the only Jews in the World, in 2008.
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Filmography
Producing
21 credits
The Battle of Mosul
Boarding Gate
Peshmerga
Flight of the Red Balloon
Slava Ukraini
La Recta Provincia
Dirty Lands
Secrets
Napalm
Nucingen House
Days in the Country
Concerning Nice
Opium
Death in Sarajevo
The Pilgrimage of Students and Jacob
The Art Dealer
Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Sons of Cain
La Recta Provincia
Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa
Sarah Halimi: An Anti-Semitic and Unpunished Crime
Directing
8 credits
Mensonge
Jihadists
The Art Dealer
Paris, The Visit
OAS, Une histoire interdite
L'automne à Pyongyang, un portrait de Claude Lanzmann
Sarah Halimi: An Anti-Semitic and Unpunished Crime
Les petits soldats
Writing
3 credits
Acting
2 credits
Other credits
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