- Kurys, Diane
- (December 3, 1948, Lyon, Rhône, France - )The daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia, she was educated in Paris and began an acting career onstage in the late 1960s. In 1970, she joined the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud theater company and soon appeared in movies (1972 Les Petits Enfants d'Attila, Jean-Pierre Bastid; What a Flash!, Jean-Michel Barjol; Le Bar de la Fourche, Alain Levent; 1973 Elle court, elle court la Banlieue / La pendolare, Gérard Pirès, France / Italy; Poil de Carotte, Henri Graziani; 1976 F . . . comme Fairbanks, Maurice Dugowson; Il Casanova di Federico Fellini / Fellini / USA: Fellini's Casanova, Federico Fellini, Italy / France) and on TV (1975 Histoires abominables, short, episode "La Mémoire", Gébé; Les Brigades du Tigre / Mit Rose und Revolver, episode "Le Défi", Victor Vicas, France / West Germany / Switzerland; Les Grands Détectives, episode "Rendez-vous dans les Ténèbres", Jean Herman; Messieurs les Jurés, episode "L'Affaire Lambert", André Michel; Le Père Amable, Claude Santelli; 1976 Hôtel Baltimore, Arcady; 1977 Commissaire Moulin, episode "Marée basse", Jacques Trébouta; Les Cinq Dernières Minutes, episode "Châteaux en Campagne", Guy Lessertisseur). In 1977, she directed her first movie and co-created with Alexandre Arcady a production company that financed all their films.Filmography1977 ◘ Diabolo Menthe / USA: Peppermint Soda (also screenwriter, dialogist)1980 ◘ Cocktail Molotov (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)1983 ◘ Coup de Foudre / UK: At First Sight / USA: Between Us / Entre Nous (also screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist)1987 ◘ Un Homme amoureux / Un uomo innamorato / USA: A Man in Love (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer; France / Italy)◘ La Bataille de Midouais (short)1990 ◘ La Baule-Les-Pins / USA: C'est la Vie (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer)1992 ◘ Après l'Amour / USA: After Love / Love After Love (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer)1994 ◘ A la Folie / UK and USA: Six Days, Six Nights (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)1999 ◘ Les Enfants du Siècle / USA: The Children of the Century (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer)2003 ◘ Je reste! (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)2005 ◘ L'Anniversaire (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, co-producer)2008 ◘ Sagan / TV version: 2 x 90' (also screenwriter, dialogist, co-producer)
Encyclopedia of French film directors . Philippe Rège. 2011.