François Margolin
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- March 29, 1957
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
Biography
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.
Movies with François Margolin
- Nucingen House 2009 · ★ 6.3
- Ballet aquatique 2012 · ★ 5.5
Movies directed by François Margolin
- Jihadists 2016 · ★ 7.7
- The Art Dealer 2015 · ★ 3.6
- Mensonge 1993 · ★ 4.0
- L'automne à Pyongyang, un portrait de Claude Lanzmann 2023 · ★ 6.5
- OAS, Une histoire interdite 2003 · ★ 8.0
- Les petits soldats 2004 · ★ 9.0
- Sarah Halimi: An Anti-Semitic and Unpunished Crime 2023