Christian Carion

Christian Carion

director, writer, actor

Christian Carion was born on Jan 04, 1963 in France. Christian Carion's big-screen debut came with The Girl from Paris directed by Christian Carion in 2001, strarring Man with portable. Christian Carion is known for Tell No One directed by Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet stars as Alexandre Beck and Marie-Josée Croze as Margot Beck. Christian Carion has got 5 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Christian Carion achieved is Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Christian Carion plays is My Son which will be released on Sep 15, 2021.

Christian Carion was born in a family of farmers in the North of France. Despite nursing a passion for films since he was 13, he travels a scientific path. After passing his baccalauréat, he joins an engineering school affiliated to the french ministry of agriculture, thus answering his family's wishes.Yet the movies were never far away, and at a point he no longer could hide his wishes to make films. He rented a camera and began shooting films he himself describes as « uninteresting ». At that moment he met Christophe Rossignon. Both men decide there and then to start making movies. Christian Carion will be the film-maker and Christophe Rossignon the producer. And sometimes an actor as in the short film Carion shoots in 1999: Monsieur le député.In 2001, Christian Carion directs his first feature film: Une hirondelle a fait le printemps (The girl from Paris), the story, an hommage to his upbringing, tells the meeting of a brooding farmer, Michel Serrault, and a parisian girl seeking the calm of the countryside, played by Mathilde Seigner. The movie is a hit, seducing over 2,4 millions of french moviegoers.The success allows Carion to move on to a more ambitious project, Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas). A movie he had in mind since 1993. Screened in Cannes for the film festival in 2005, this historic movie depicts the fraternizations of warriors on the eve of Christmas during World War I. The movie, a huge public success, was nominated numerous times in the french Cesar and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.Two years later, he filmed another historic movie ; L'affaire Farewell''(Farewell), with Emir Kusturica and Guillaume Canet. A spy movie set in Russia and based on true events.In 2014 he shot, on the roads of northern France, En mai, fais ce qu'il te plaît (Come what may). Another historical piece about the exodus of millions of people in may 1940, when France was falling apart and the inhabitants of northern France were fleeing the german troops. Written using numerous recollections from the northern people, the movie depicts the quest of a german dissident, looking for his son. The original music was composed by Enio Morricone.

  • Birthday

    Jan 04, 1963
  • Place of Birth

    Cambrai, Nord, France
  • Also known

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Awards

5 wins & 6 nominations

Santa Barbara International Film Festival
2006
Joyeux Noël (2005)
Winner - Audience Choice Award
Leeds International Film Festival
2005
Best Feature
Winner - Audience Award
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