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Eric Assous
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Eric Assous

List of works mentioned in Actes du Théâtre :
L'Illusion conjugale
La Femme du Michel Ange
Le Bonheur
Le Technicien
Les Belles-Soeurs
Les Conjoints
Secret de famille
Une journée ordinaire
[ print version ]


(Actes du Théâtre n° 63 February 2013)

Éric Assous was born in Tunis in 1956. He wrote over 80 radio plays for France Inter, starting in 1983. He subsequently wrote TV sketches, series, detective shows and comedies over a period of ten years. In 1997 director Philippe Harel helped Eric Assous transition from television to cinema with two films: La Femme défendue, France’s Official selection at Cannes, and Les Randonneurs, a big box-office hit. He has written fifteen screenplays, including Une hirondelle a fait le printemps co-written with Christian Carion and starring Michel Serrault and Mathilde Seigner; Moi César 10 ans et demi co-written with Richard Berry; La Boîte noire also co-written with Richard Berry and starring José Garcia. In 2009 he wrote Les Randonneurs à Saint-Tropez, directed by Philippe Harel; Deux jours à tuer and Nos 18 ans directed by Jean Becker and starring Michel Blanc; and Trésor directed by Claude Berri, starring Mathilde Seigner and Alain Chabat.
Eric Assous has directed two films, Les Gens en maillot de bain starring Gad El Maleh and Isabelle Gelinas, and Sexes très opposés starring Patrick Chesnais and Charlotte de Turckheim and Véronique Boulanger.
He has written eight stage plays, including Les acteurs sont fatigués (Comédie Caumartin) which ran for over 500 performances; Les Montagnes russes starring Alain Delon and Astrid Veillon (Marigny), Les Belles Soeurs (Théâtre Saint-Georges) which had over 250 performances, and Secret de famille starring Michel Sardou and his son Davy (Th. des Variétés). For the 2009-2010 season, in addition to L'Illusion conjugale, Jean-Luc Moreau has also staged Les hommes préfèrent mentir.
Eric Assous was awarded the 2010 Molière for Best French-language Playwright for L’Illusion conjugale.
He wrote Le Technicien for Roland Giraud and his wife (Théâtre du Palais-Royal) and Une journée ordinaire for Alain Delon and his daughter Anouchka (Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens).
Eric Assous had two new plays showing in September 2011: Les Conjoints (Théâtre Tristan Bernard) and Mon meilleur copain (Théâtre des Nouveautés).
In September 2012 he had two plays running simultaneously: Les Conjoints and Le Bonheur.
In early 2013 two of his plays are on the boards: Les Belles-Sœurs, and his most recent work, La Femme du Michel Ange.

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