Marin Karmitz

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Oct 07, 1938 (86 years old)

Marin Karmitz

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Talking Heads 2021
0h 23m
Movie 2021

Talking Heads 2021

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

D’Agata limite(s)
1h 19m
Movie 2019

D’Agata limite(s)

Franck Landron follows photographer Antoine d'Agata wherever he goes, to the edges of the world, in a discreet presence, camera in hand. He has been doing hours and hours of rushes, patiently, without hurrying or rushing, he wants this film as fair, as honest, and as long as it takes: it lasted six years.

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
0h 57m
Movie 2019

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.

D’où vient cet air lointain? Chronique d’une vie en cinéma
1h 28m
Movie 2018

D’où vient cet air lointain? Chronique d’une vie en cinéma

In the evening of her life, Yannick Bellon reflects on her past. She evokes her career as a film director, which began in the 1940s and the themes, sometimes controversial (rape, bisexuality, drugs, ecology) she chose to deal with. She also tells about her friendships, her loves, her leftist political commitment, which earned her many troubles with the censors.

Claude Chabrol's Eye
0h 57m
Movie 2018

Claude Chabrol's Eye

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
0h 58m
Movie 2016

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.

Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
1h 9m
Movie 2016

Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney

In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

Marin Karmitz, bande à part
Movie 2014

Marin Karmitz, bande à part

Biography

Marin Karmitz (born 7 October 1938) is a Romanian-French businessman whose career has spanned the French film industry, including director, producer, film distributor, and operator of a chain of cinemas. He comes from an assimilated Jewish-Romanian family and emigrated to France in 1948. Karmitz attended film school at IDHEC (renamed La Fémis) and worked as a director of photography after graduating. Karmitz founded MK2, a production company and movie theater chain, which has specialized in creating, distributing, and screening independent or "auteurist" cinema, including short films. In 2005, he turned over leadership of the MK2 company and its theaters to his son, Nathanaël.

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