Tacchella, Jean-Charles

(September 23, 1925, Cherbourg, Manche, France - )

   Knowing director Jacques Becker, he went to Paris with the desire to make movies. He started as a film critic, published articles in L'Ecran Français (1945-1953), and co-founded with Alexandre Astruc, André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast a new review, Objectif 49. In 1949, producer Pierre Braunberger hired him as a gagman for Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés (Marcel Aboulker). He wrote for movies (1950 Demain il sera trop tard / Domani è troppo tardi, uncredited, as co-screenwriter, Léonide Moguy, France / Italy; 1955 Les Héros sont fatigués / Die Helden sind mude / UK: The Heroes Are Tired / USA: Heroes and Sinners, as adapter, Yves Ciampi, France / West Germany; 1957 Typhon sur Nagasaki / Wasurenu bojo / USA: Typhoon over Nagasaki, as screenwriter, co-adapter, Yves Ciampi, France / Japan; 1958 La Loi c'est la Loi / La legge é legge / USA: The Law Is the Law, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Christian-Jaque, France / Italy; 1959 Le Vent se lève / Il vento si alza / UK: Operation Time Bomb / USA: Time Bomb, as screenwriter, Yves Ciampi, France / Italy; Croquemitoufle / Les Femmes des Autres, as co-screenwriter, Claude Barma; Voulez-vous danser avec moi? / Sexy Girl / UK and USA: Come Dance with Me!, as co-screenwriter, adapter, Michel Boisrond, France / Italy; 1960 La Main chaude / La mano calda, as co-screenwriter, Gérard Oury, France / Italy; 1962 Les Honneurs de la Guerre, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Jean Dewever; Liberté /, as co-adapter, France / Senegal; Le Crime ne paie pas / Il delitto non paga / UK: Gentle Art of Murder / USA: Crime Does Not Pay, as co-screenwriter, Gérard Oury, France / Italy; 1964 Le Gros Coup / Il triangolo del delitto, as adapter, Jean Valère, France / Italy; 1965 Le Voleur de Tibidabo / La vida es magnifica, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Maurice Ronet, France / Spain; 1966 La Longue Marche, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Alex­andre Astruc; 1971 César Grandblaise / Les Jambes en l'Air, as screenwriter, co-dialogist, shot in 1969-1970) and TV (1966-1970 Vive la Vie!, 146 X 13', as co-screenwriter, dialogist, Joseph Drimal; 1967 Allô Police, 36 X 55', as co-screenwriter, dialogist, Jean Dewever, Pierre Goutas, Robert Guez, Ado Kyrou, Daniel Lecomte; Le Monde parallèle / La Vérité sur l'Espionnage, 56 X 13'; as co-screenwriter, Michael Braun, Paul Cammermans, Louis-Georges Carrier, Yves Ciampi, Jean Dewever, Hajime Tsuburaya, Canada / France / Netherlands / West Germany / Japan; 2007 Chez Mau­passant, episode "Deux Amis", as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; episode "Hautot Père et Fils", Marc Rivière, as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; 2008 Chez Maupassant, episode "Au Bord du Lit", as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe). He was forty-eight years old when he directed his first feature. Two years later, his film Cousin, Cousine conquered American audiences and was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign picture. It received the Louis Delluc Prize in France in 1975, and Joel Schumacher shot a remake of it in 1988 (Cousins). He appeared as himself in a few documentaries (1989 Cinématon, Gérad Courant; 2000 In the Shadow of Hol­lywood / A l'Ombre d'Hollywood, documentary, Sylvie Groulx, Canada; 2004 Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois / USA: Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque, documentary, Jacques Richard).

 Filmography

1970 ◘ Les Derniers Hivers (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1973 ◘ Une Belle Journée (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Voyage en Grande Tartarie / USA: Voyage to Grand Tartarie (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Cousin, Cousine (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Le Pays bleu / UK and USA: Blue Country (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1979 ◘ Il y a longtemps que je t'aime / USA: It's a Long Time I Love You (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1981 ◘ Croque la Vie (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1985 ◘ Escalier C / UK and USA: Staircase C (also co-screenwriter, dialogist)

1987 ◘ Travelling avant (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1990 ◘ Dames galantes / Donne di piacere / Romantic Ladies / UK and USA: Gallant Ladies (also co-screenwriter, dialogist; France / Italy / Canada)

1992 ◘ L'Homme de ma Vie / UK and USA: The Man of My Life (also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Canada)

1995 ◘ Tous les Jours Dimanche / Tutti i giorni è domenica / USA: Seven Sundays (also screenwriter, dialo­gist; France / Italy; shot in 1993)

2000 ◘ Les Gens qui s'aiment / Los que se aman / People Who Love Each Other (also screenwriter, dialo­gist; France / Belgium / Luxembourg / Spain; shot in 1998)

 Television Filmography

1987 ◘ L'Heure Simenon (episode "Cour d'Assises"; also adapter, dialogist; France / Switzerland / West Germany / Austria / Netherlands)