Alain Tasma

Known for DirectingBorn 1959-02-26 (age 67)Tunis, Tunisia

Alain Tasma, born February 26, 1959 in Tunis, is a French film director and screenwriter. In 1981, he began his career as assistant director to François Truffaut on Truffaut's film 'The Woman Next Door', followed by Godard's 'Passion' in 1982 and Barbet Schroeder's 'Tricheurs' in 1984. Alain Tasma then began writing screenplays and directing. Since the late 1980s, he has directed films and series for television, which have met with both public and critical acclaim. He has twice won the Grand Prix for TV Film at the Cognac Crime Film Festival: in 1994 for 'La Bavure' (The Slaughter) with Clovis Cornillac and in 1999 for 'Les Duettistes: Une Débête Mortel' (The Dummies: A Deadly Debt). Since then, Alain Tasma has addressed numerous current affairs in documentaries and fiction, such as ‘Mata Hari, la vraie histoire’ (2003), ‘Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961’ (2005), ‘Harkis’ (2006) and ‘Opération turquoise’ (2007). He is also the author of an adaptation of Balzac’s ‘Rastignac ou les ambitious’, in which Father Goriot is played by Charles Aznavour. Interested in historical and social issues, he regularly works with historian and documentary filmmaker Patrick Rotman.Read more

Movies & web series

Les Duettistes

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

A Dangerous Friendship

Alias Caracalla, au cœur de la Résistance

Maigret

Dark Night, October 17, 1961

Voltaire in Love

Harkis

Opération Turquoise

Par amour

The Last Metro

Fleur bleue

The Woman Next Door

Fracture

Falling for Love

War on Beasts

XIII: The Series

Le Viol

A Tale of the Wind

Nine Days in Winter

L'héritière

Taxi Brooklyn

Godard's Passion

The Rookies

Cheaters

God Is Great and I'm Not

Sous un autre jour

Mamirolle

Une leçon d'amour

Mata Hari, la vraie histoire

Les brouches

Ultimatum

Pékin Central

Out of the Blue

Emma

À cran, deux ans après

Haute tension

Impacts