Alain Berbérian

Alain Berbérian 2 July 1953 22 August 2017 was a French film director and writer of Armenian descent Born in Beirut to an Armenian father and a Greek mother Berbérian spent his youth in Lebanon before finishing his studies in France He was the brother of cartoonist Charles Berberian He began his career in the audiovisual field working as an editor at Canal His first feature film was the comedy La Cité de la peur which was hit in France Based on a script by Les Nuls the film describes a series of murders in Cannes Berbérian returned in 1998 with Paparazzi starring Vincent Lindon and Patrick Timsit The film follows the life of a night watchman Timsit who is fired after being photographed at a soccer game instead of being at his job He then meets Michel Lindon who teaches him how to be a paparazzo In 2000 Berbérian directed SixPack a thriller with Richard Anconina who stalks a serialkiller to the four corners of Paris Returning in 2002 with the comedy Le Boulet starring Gérard Lanvin and Benoît Poelvoorde a prison guard Poelvoorde has to team up with a convict Lanvin to retrieve a lotto ticket from the latter Then in 2004 Berbérian paired Christian Clavier and Jean Reno in the comedy The Corsican File based on a comic book of the same name by René Pétillon in which a detective is responsible for locating a man living in Corsica who is owed an inheritance In 2007 he reunited Gérard Jugnot and JeanPaul Rouve in LÎle aux trésors Berbérian died in Paris France on 22 August 2017 at the age of 64 Source Article Alain Berbérian from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30