Gérard Corbiau
Gérard Corbiau (lang; born 19 September 1941) is a Belgian film director. He is best known for his costume dramas about music, Le maître de musique (1988), Farinelli (1994) and Le roi danse (2000). Two of them (Le maître de musique and Farinelli) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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- Name
- Gérard Corbiau
- Born
- 19 September 1941
- Birthplace
- Brussels, Belgium
- Occupation
- Filmmaker
- Nationality
- Belgium.
- Honours
- Officer of Arts and Letters and Officer of the Order of the Crown.
- Languages
- French.
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He lives in Belgium and is working on several projects.
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• Name — Gérard Corbiau • Born — 19 September 1941 • Birthplace — Brussels, Belgium • Occupation — Filmmaker
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• Le maître de musique (1988) • L'année de l'éveil (1991) • Farinelli (1994) • Versailles, la visite (1999) • Le roi danse (2000) • Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003) • Augustin Dumay, Laisser une trace dans le coeur (2009) • Abdel Rahman El Bacha: Un piano entre Orient et Occident (2015) • Saving Mozart (forthcoming)
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Gérard Corbiau born at Brussels metropolitan area.
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- 1.Fiche du téléfilm « Chronique d'une saison » sur l'IMDb.
- 2.Dictionnaire du cinéma. Larousse. 2001. 978-2-03-505031-1.
- 3.Comme le confirme l'Internet Movie Database.
- 4.Comme le confirme l'Internet Movie Database.
- 5.Comme le confirme l'Internet Movie Database.
- 6.Récompenses 2004 attribuées par le Gouvernement de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Communauté Francophone de Belgique)
- 7.Fiche sur « Première »
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