1. Jean-Jacques Annaud directed Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose, The Bear, The Lover, Seven Years in Tibet, Enemy at the Gates, Black Gold, and Wolf Totem.
16 Facts About Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Jean-Jacques Annaud was born on 1 October 1943 in Draveil, Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, in France.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud was educated at the technical school in Vaugirard, and in 1964 graduated from the prestigious film school Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques in Paris.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud then directed Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose, which was shot in Italian and German monasteries, and is based on Umberto Eco's popular novel of the same name.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud spent four years preparing for the film, traveling throughout the United States and Europe, searching for the cast and film set locations.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud supposedly felt personally intrigued by the project, among other things because of a lifelong fascination with medieval churches and familiarity with Latin and Greek.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud then shot in Vietnam the adaptation of Marguerite Duras's autobiographical novel, The Lover, recreating the atmosphere of colonial Indochina.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud then set back out to the Canadian Rockies and directed Wings of Courage, the first 3D fiction film ever made in Imax-3D.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud worked with Brad Pitt when he directed Seven Years in Tibet, shot in Argentina, Canada, Tibet, Nepal and Tyrol.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud then set out to revive ancient Greece, shot entirely in Spain, then Arabia of the late 1930s, directing Antonio Banderas in Tunisia and Qatar in Black Gold.
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In 2015, Jean-Jacques Annaud adapted Wolf Totem, a Chinese literary phenomenon entirely shot in Inner Mongolia.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski in 2009, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.
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In 2018, Jean-Jacques Annaud directed Patrick Dempsey in his 10-part television adaptation of Joel Dicker's best-seller The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair ; it was released in 22 countries and shot in Canada.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud is a member of the Institut de France and has received numerous distinctions: Film Award of the National French Academy, Knight of the National Order of Merit, Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, and the Charlemagne Medal for European Media.