Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Annaud

October 1, 1943 · 82 years old

Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne. He was educated at the technical school in Vaugirard and in 1964 graduated from the prestigious film school Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris. He began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to ea…

Known For

13 titles
1
Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates

2001 · 2h 11m · Movie

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

7.5
2
Seven Years in Tibet

Seven Years in Tibet

1997 · 2h 16m · Movie

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber and Nazi supporter, breaks out of a British POW camp in India and treks to the holy city of Lhasa where he's employed as an instructor to the young 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close co...

7.1
3
The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

1986 · 2h 10m · Movie

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

7.7
4
Quest for Fire

Quest for Fire

1981 · 1h 40m · Movie

This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.

7.3
5
The Lover

The Lover

1992 · 1h 55m · Movie

In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.

6.8
6
The Bear

The Bear

1988 · 1h 36m · Movie

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

7.7
7
Two Brothers

Two Brothers

2004 · 1h 49m · Movie

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.

7.0
8
Day of the Falcon

Day of the Falcon

2011 · 2h 10m · Movie

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and his modern, liberal father-in-law.

6.6
9
Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem

2015 · 2h 1m · Movie

During China's Cultural Revolution, a young urban student is sent to live with Mongolian herders, where he adopts a wolf cub.

6.6
10
Notre-Dame on Fire

Notre-Dame on Fire

2022 · 1h 50m · Movie

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

6.4
11
Black and White in Color

Black and White in Color

1976 · 1h 30m · Movie

During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.

6.7
12
Wings of Courage

Wings of Courage

1995 · 40m · Movie

While flying mail across the Andean mountains, Henri Guillaumet's plane has to crash-land, he must trek back to civilizatin on foot.

6.4
13
Running Free

Running Free

1999 · 1h 21m · Movie

The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.

5.4