André Engel

Time Regained (1999)

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life. ...

Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies. ...

The Patriots (1994)

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist. ...

The Last Dive (1992)

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said to b ...

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)

Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon h ...

City of Pirates (1984)

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities. ...

Travail du comédien (1974)

We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' in 1972 by the company Théâtre de l'Espérance. The three directors: Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean Jourdheuil and André Engel discuss their joint work of stag ...

The Cunning Little Vixen (2008)

In the forest, the animals and insects are playing and dancing. The Forester enters and lies down against a tree for a nap. A curious Vixen Cub inquisitively chases a frog right into the lap of the surprised forester who forcibly takes the vixen home as a ...

Le Roi Lear (2007)

Louise - Opera National de Paris (2007)

Late 19th-century Paris, home to Louise, her traditional working-class parents and her bohemian artist lover Julien. An opera about the tension between Louise's responsibility to her parents and her opportunity to break free with Julien. ...