Carion, Christian

(January 4, 1963, Cambrai, Nord, France - )

   Born into a peasant family, he graduated from the Strasbourg National School for Water and Environ­ment Engineering in 1986. He remained an engineer at the Ministry of Agriculture until 2001, the very year he directed his first feature film (he already had filmed shorts). Other credit (as actor): 2006 Ne le dis à Per­sonne / UK and USA: Tell No One (Guillaume Canet).

 Filmography

1994 ◘ Doucement les Violons! (short; also screenwriter)

1997 ◘ Le Château d'Eau (short; also screenwriter)

1999 ◘ Monsieur le Député (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

2001 ◘ Une Hirondelle a fait le Printemps / UK and USA: The Girl From Paris (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

2005 ◘ Joyeux Noël! / USA: Merry Christmas (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)