Jean Cosmos (Writer)
Little is known about Jean Cosmos, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
The Princess of Montpensier
Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier.
Release Date: 2010-11-03
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 271
Conversations with My Gardener
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.
Release Date: 2007-06-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 124
Sounds of Sand
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.
Release Date: 2007-05-02
Department: Writing
Job: Script Consultant
Vote Count: 13
Michou d'Auber
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
Release Date: 2007-02-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 75
The Great Meaulnes
A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty.
Release Date: 2006-10-04
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 42
Aurore
Once upon a time there was a kingdom where dancing was forbidden by a tyrant king. Defying the edict of her father, the Princess Aurore continues to dance, for the amusement of herself and brother, Solal. With the kingdom virtually bankrupt, the King has no choice but to marry his daughter to a wealthy prince. As preparations are made for a ball that will set the seal on the marriage, the princess discovers that she is in love.
Release Date: 2006-03-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
Secret Agents
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...
Release Date: 2004-03-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 148
Fan-Fan the Tulip
In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters
Release Date: 2003-06-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 221
Strange Gardens
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.
Release Date: 2003-03-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 121
Safe Conduct
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
Release Date: 2002-01-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 30
On Guard
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Release Date: 1997-12-03
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 191
Captain Conan
The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
Release Date: 1996-10-16
Department: Writing
Job: Dialogue
Vote Count: 84
Colonel Chabert
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.
Release Date: 1994-09-21
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 68
D'Artagnan's Daughter
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
Release Date: 1994-08-24
Department: Writing
Job: Adaptation
Vote Count: 114
Life and Nothing But
In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.
Release Date: 1989-09-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 82
Fabien de la Drôme
Release Date: 1983-12-16
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Julien Fontanes, magistrat
Release Date: 1980-01-27
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
La Lumière des justes
Release Date: 1979-03-22
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
The Line
The series follows a group of Allied pilots who crashed in occupied territories during WWII. A network of civilians and Resistance fighters, "La Filière", is in charge of helping them pass from France to Spain so they can avoid capture.
Release Date: 1978-01-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 1
Marie-Antoinette
Release Date: 1975-12-24
Department: Writing
Job: Scenario Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 2
Ardéchois, cœur fidèle
In 1822, Toussaint Rouveyre, a former captain in Napoleon's army, returned to his village in the Ardèche after the defeat at Waterloo and a seven-year stay in America. There, he reunited with his family, persecuted by the Restoration regime. In order for his father to give him his share of the inheritance in advance of his permanent move to America, he needs the consent of his younger brother Antoine, a carpenter who is on the Compagnons' Tour de France. When Toussaint learns that his brother, a member of the Compagnons du Devoir (Devoirants) association, has been killed by a companion from the rival association, the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté (Gavots), he is determined to find the murderer, a certain Tourangeau Sans-Quartier, and avenge his brother. To find this man, he joins the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté incognito.
Release Date: 1974-11-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 3
the famous escapes
From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.
Release Date: 1972-03-06
Department: Writing
Job: Dialogue
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Le 16 à Kerbriant
Release Date: 1972-02-21
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 25
Le Grand Échiquier
Release Date: 1972-01-12
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Rue barrée
Release Date: 1967-07-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 26
It Only Happens to the Living
A young garage owner, Henri, whose business is not going well, fixes the lovely Gloria's car on the road. She suggests he let part of his garage to her friends.
Release Date: 1959-05-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Hi Doc
24 hours in the life of a humble general practitioner. A very busy life to say the least... Like every other day, Dr. Forget works from morning till dusk (and even later). He sees patients in his consulting room or visits them either on house calls or at the hospital. But is today just another day? Not quite since on this very day, Junior, Dr. Forget's son, will know if he has passed or not his exam at the faculty of medicine.
Release Date: 1957-03-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1