C%C3%A9dric Klapisch

Cdric Klapisch is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.

Klapisch was born in NeuillysurSeine, HautsdeSeine. He is from a Jewish family his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII. He was rejected on two occasions by the prestigious French film school IDHEC , now known as La fmis. He later attended the film school at New York University from 1983 to 1985. During the 1980s, he started to shoot short films such as In transit or Ce qui me meut. He subsequently worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for feature films. He has also directed a nature documentary for French television.

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