Josée Dayan

Josée Dayan born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse France is a French film director screenwriter and producer Dayan grew up in Algiers Algeria where her father Albert Dagnant who came from a Jewish family worked as a television director her grandmother was the owner of a cinema Since 1974 she directed mainly movies for television In 1979 under her direction a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared Her most successful works are the 1998 TV miniseries The Count of Monte Cristo with Gérard Depardieu in the lead role and the 2002 miniseries Les Misérables with Depardieu and John Malkovich Then there is Balzac A Passionate Life 1999 and Cet amourlà 2001 both with Jeanne Moreau5 and Raspoutine 2011 with Depardieu A major success was Les Liaisons dangereuses 2003 with Catherine Deneuve and Nastassja Kinski in the leading roles Source Article Josée Dayan from Wikipedia in english licensed under CCBYSA 30