Zerbib, Christian

(May 20, 1953, Le Coteau, Loire, France - )

   Despite a wonderful cast (Bernard Blier, Michel Bouquet, Laura Betti), his excellent first feature film, poorly released three years after the shooting, was a commercial failure. From the mid-1980s, he worked as mainly as a TV screenwriter (1984 A Titre Posthume, Paul Vecchiali; 1987 L'Heure Simenon: Un Nouveau dans la Ville, Fabrice Cazeneuve, France / Germany / Swit­zerland / Austria / Netherlands; 2002 Un Grand Patron, episode "Le Froid qui sauve", Emmanuel Gust; 2003 Un Grand Patron, episode "Quarantaine", Christian Bon­net). In 1991, he co-wrote the screenplay and dialogue of Cheb (Rachid Bouchareb, also technical adviser).

 Filmography

1976 ◘ Les Noces dérobées (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1983 ◘ La Fuite en avant (also screenwriter, co-producer; shot in 1980)

1992 ◘ La Cocada (short)

1994 ◘ Dernier Stade / Ziegelrade (also screenwriter; Belgium / France / Switzerland / Germany)