Christian Fechner

Christian Fechner (26 July 1944 – 25 November 2008) was a French film producer, screenwriter and director. After starting off as an illusionist, he became a music producer with French singer Antoine. He transformed Antoine’s musicians, les Problems, into a band named Les Charlots. Fechner produced such films as Les bidasses en folie, Les fous du stade, Bons baisers de Hong Kong, Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine, Papy fait de la résistance, Les Spécialistes, Marche à l'ombre, The Children of the Marshland, La Tour Montparnasse Infernale, Chouchou. In 2005, he produced Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie (and marked his last great success making nearly $151,211,264 at the box office. Fechner had two children: film producer Alexandra Fechner and Maxime Fechner, owner of the fashion brand Kymerah. Christian Fechner died of cancer on 25 November 2008. Source: Article "Christian Fechner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

L'Entente cordiale

The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...

Release Date:2006-06-21

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:45

The Antidote

JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.

Release Date:2005-03-30

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:108

Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres

Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.

Release Date:2003-01-03

Character:Self

Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire

A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.

Release Date:2003-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

La Tour Montparnasse Infernale

Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive Marie-Joelle (who in reality hates his guts), Ramzy stays at work late while Eric hangs around with him. As a result, the pair witness a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie- Joelle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Eric and Ramzy swing into action.

Release Date:2001-03-28

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:866

A Crime in Paradise

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...

Release Date:2001-02-28

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:143

The Girl on the Bridge

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

Release Date:1999-03-31

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:198

The Children of the Marshland

The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.

Release Date:1999-03-03

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:166

Half a Chance

Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.

Release Date:1998-03-25

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:107

Everything Must Disappear

Robert Millard has based his industrial kingdom - based on all the noise technologies - thanks to his marriage with the wealthy and cantankerous Irene, he blithely cheat for years. However, his last link with his pretty secretary, Eve, is the straw that broke the camel : Irene has indeed hired a detective-photographer, aptly named M.Colle order to have a maximum of incriminating shots. Threatened to divorce and thus to total ruin by his wife, the unfaithful husband should give up and dismiss Eve.

Release Date:1997-01-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:29

Elisa

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.

Release Date:1995-02-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:89

Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard

Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...

Release Date:1993-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

The Lovers on the Bridge

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.

Release Date:1991-10-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:328

Investigation of a Film Above Suspicion

A documentary on the set of the ultra eventful Leos Carax film "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf", which spans three years of filming and knows an accumulation of disasters, increasing an initial budget of 32 million francs to more than 120 million francs.

Release Date:1991-06-06

Character:Self

David Lansky

Release Date:1989-04-30

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Camille Claudel

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

Release Date:1988-12-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:133

Palace

The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...

Release Date:1988-10-29

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:6

Sacrée soirée

Release Date:1987-09-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

The Joint Brothers

After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...

Release Date:1986-10-15

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:53

Marche à l'ombre

Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.

Release Date:1984-10-17

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:171

Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!

Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love...

Release Date:1983-04-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:37

The Ruffian

The adventures of a group of friends who plan to recover crates full of gold from a fall in Canada.

Release Date:1983-01-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:57

The Cabbage Soup

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Release Date:1981-12-02

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:874

The Miser

Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.

Release Date:1980-03-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:437

The Discord

Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...

Release Date:1978-03-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:319

Animal

Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.

Release Date:1977-10-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:102

The Wing or the Thigh?

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!

Release Date:1976-10-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:886

From Hong Kong with Love

Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots with scenes shot in Hong Kong. Mickey Rooney featured in the film as well as Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, stars of the James Bond films who appeared as M and Moneypenny respectively.

Release Date:1975-12-17

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:16

The Wild Goose Chase

The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?

Release Date:1975-10-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:74

Numéro un

A French variety show.

Release Date:1975-04-05

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Rookies Go to War

A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.

Release Date:1974-11-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:78

I'm Losing My Temper

Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.

Release Date:1974-10-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:86

Céline and Julie Go Boating

Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.

Release Date:1974-09-18

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:132

Tender Dracula

Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor.

Release Date:1974-08-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:13

The Big Store

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.

Release Date:1973-09-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:96

The Mother and the Whore

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.

Release Date:1973-05-01

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:170

Charlots Go to Spain

Four friends from Paris are living misadventures of all sorts in Spain when their group of travelers is forced to split due to a travel scam.

Release Date:1972-12-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Un terroriste dans l'avion (uncredited)

Vote Count:58

Stadium Nuts

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.

Release Date:1972-09-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Marathon starter (uncredited)

Vote Count:86

Rookies Run Amok

Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

Release Date:1971-12-15

Character:Restaurant customer (uncredited)

Vote Count:103

Samedi soir

Release Date:1971-01-09

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1