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Nils Tavernier
Born: 1st Sep 1965 Paris, France
Dept: Acting
Nils Tavernier (born 1 September 1965) is a French actor and director. He is best known for his film appearances in Beatrice (1987), Valmont (1988), and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994), and for his directorial efforts The Other Side of the Tracks (1997), Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet (2001), and Les enfants de Thiès (2001). He is the son of film director Bertrand Tavernier.
Nils Tavernier was born on 1 September 1965 in Normandy, France, the son of director, screenwriter, actor, and producer Bertrand Tavernier and Colo Tavernier O'Hagan. Tavernier made his first screen appearance in a film by his father, Spoiled Children in 1977 while still a teenager. He landed additional roles in feature films such as Beatrice in 1987, L.627 in 1991, and Revenge of the Musketeers in 1993 which was directed by his father. He also played supporting roles in Claude Chabrol's drama film Story of Women (1988) and Miloš Forman's period film Valmont (1988). He also appeared in Brigitte Roüan's After Sex in 1996, and Sylvie Verheyde's Un frère... in 1997.
Tavernier started his career as a director making short films and documentaries. In Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet (2001), he explored his passion for dance with Etoiles. He co-directed with his father the documentary Histoires de vies brisées: les 'double peine' de Lyon (2001). In 2009, he directed the documentary The Mystery of Twins. In 2012, he performed with Gil Rabier a documentary about medical errors, What is left of our mistakes? This film is supported by the French Ministry of Health and Public-Hôpitaux de Paris. In 2013, he returned to the themes of childhood, disability, and commitment with the film Of all our forces.
Tavernier has also directed two documentaries for television: L'odyssée de la vie in 2004, in which he questioned the sexuality of the French, and L'odyssée de la vie in 2006, following a woman throughout her pregnancy and its affirmation as a mom within the couple. His most recent film is The Finishers (2013). Tavernier also authored The Mystery of Twins with Marie-Noelle Humbert in 2009.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 23
Film: 21 (91%)
Television: 2 (9%)
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Filmography
2003
Dominique Bazin is a 40-year-old woman, business manager, married to Camille, English teacher. They have three children, including an infant. Dominiqu ... view
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Stéphane Weil
2002
Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French ... view
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Jean, le journaliste
1998
Angelo believes his father works with extraterrestrials on a top secret project. ... view
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Pierre
Original title: De l'autre côté du périph
1997
The first part of a documentary made by Bertrand and Nils Tavernier, following a letter judged provocative by the Minister of Integration at the time, ... view
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Lui-même
Original title: Un frère...
1997
Loic and Sophie are siblings living with their mother in a block of flats. The impetuous, promiscuous Loic is a talented photographer about to make it ... view
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Vincent
Original title: Post coïtum animal triste
1997
The end of an affair from the woman's point of view. ... view
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François Narou
Original title: L'@mour est à réinventer
1997
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tal ... view
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Christophe
Original title: La mouette
1996
After agonizing for weeks, Valéria finally comes to terms with being in love with another woman and confesses her love for her best friend, Laurence. ... view
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Christophe
Dec 1996 (first aired)
A series of shorts about the AIDS crisis, homosexuality, and the reinvention of love in such conditions. ... view
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Christophe (1 ep.)
Original title: La Fille de d'Artagnan
1994
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and th ... view
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Quentin La Misère
1994
The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they b ... view
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Francois
Original title: كش ملك
1994
During a visit to another country, a coup d'état occurs against a state ruler. Meanwhile, a girl gets to know him in order to avenge her father's dea ... view
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1992
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some ... view
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Vincent
Original title: Sisi und der Kaiserkuß
1991
The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around women but (according to this film) was constantly bein ... view
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Kaiser Franz Joseph
Original title: Sale comme un ange
1991
Georges Deblache, a despondent middle-aged cop, falls for his partner's wife. ... view
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Didier Theron
Mar 1991 (first aired)
In the near future, the poor and the underprivileged will come together to form roving road gangs. They form hordes that increasingly worry the state. ... view
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Sonny Boy (3 ep.)
1989
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that h ... view
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2nd Knight of the Maltese Order
1988
An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an ... view
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Tatiano
Original title: Une affaire de femmes
1988
France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a f ... view
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Lucien
Original title: La Passion Béatrice
1987
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that th ... view
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Arnaud de Cortemart
Original title: Coup de foudre
1983
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husba ... view
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Le milicien
Original title: Des enfants gâtés
1977
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for ... view
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Un enfant