Christian Brendel

L'Affaire Salengro (2009)

July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy. But one man alone is about to get the French people back to work, and peacefully: Roger Salengro (Bernard-P ...

Il faut sauver Saïd (2008)

10-year-old Saïd, a child of Algerian immigrants, is talented, motivated and would like to be a good student. But the conditions at the collège he attends in the Parisian banlieue hardly give him a chance. And then he is drawn into the criminal machinati ...

Cherche fiancé tous frais payés (2007)

Alexandra, trente ans, s'apprête à passer les vacances d'été en famille. Au moment de prendre la route, elle apprend que sa mère a aussi invité son ex, accompagné d'une "fiancée" jeune et ravissante. Dans un café, elle croise un acteur au chômage ...

Justice de femme (2002)

Cazas (2001)

Unjustly incriminated in a dark case of drug trafficking, Philippe Cazas, a military doctor, had to go into exile in a dispensary in Africa. Five years later, he returns to Paris under military supervision to bury his son who died of an overdose. ...

Saint Paul (2000)

A biblical epic from the Book of Acts and Paul's epistles covering his conversion from Saul of Tarsus to his ministry to the Gentiles. ...

Water War (1998)

The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the United Arab Emirates. ...

Sharpe's Siege (1996)

Winter, 1813. Sharpe marries his sweetheart, Jane Gibbons, but has to leave her immediately to go on a dangerous mission in the Pyrenees, to capture a French fort. While Sharpe is battling with the French, his wife contracts a deadly fever which has swept ...

Loin des yeux (1996)

The Passage (1986)

Film-maker Jean Diaz lives with his son David after separated from his wife. On their way to the new house near the sea, Jean and David have a car accident provoked by The Death (portrayed here like a grim-reaper). The doctor actually can save Jean, but Th ...