Jacques Ouaniche

Jacques Ouaniche est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste français. Il a créé et produit lui-même la série Maison close pour la chaîne Canal+. Il en a également écrit tous les épisodes et en a réalisé deux. Jacques Ouaniche est également producteur de films notamment avec L'Esquive, drame ayant obtenu quatre César d'Abdellatif Kechiche. En 2013, il réalise son premier long-métrage, Victor Young Perez, biopic du boxeur juif tunisien dans les années 30 qui a été déporté à Auschwitz, et est mort pendant la marche de la mort en 1945, avec dans le rôle titre Brahim Asloum, ancien champion du monde de boxe.

Works

Trois petites filles

Release Date2004-09-29

Charactersd Le père de Pauline

Vote Count4

Maison close

Paris, 1871. This is a story of the women trapped in a luxury brothel, 'Paradise'. The very young Rose came to Paris in search of her mother, former prostitute. She is trapped and forced to enroll in Paradise. Vera is 35 years. She knows that the end of her career as a prostitute is near. She is betting everything on the Baron Du Plessis, her main client, and the only one able to redeem her debt. Hortense is the owner of Paradise. She must take care of her girls and resist pressure from a suburban thug who is charging her money.

Release Date2010-10-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count16

Vote Count13

Croisement Gaza - Boulevard Saint-Germain

Release Date2023-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Games of Love and Chance

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.

Release Date2003-11-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count143

Victor Young Perez

Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.

Release Date2013-11-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

Madame Edouard

In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.

Release Date2004-06-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count9

Toujours possible

Release Date2025-09-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector