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Ariane Mnouchkine

Ariane Mnouchkine

Director · Born 1939-03-03 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

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Biography

Ariane Mnouchkine (born 3 March 1939) is a French stage director. She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964. She wrote and directed 1789 (1974) and Molière (1978), and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse (1989). She holds a Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France, an Honorary Degree in Performing Arts from the University of Rome III, awarded in 2005 and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008. Ariane Mnouchkine is the daughter of Jewish Russian film producer Alexandre Mnouchkine and June Hannen (daughter of Nicholas Hannen). Mnouchkine's paternal grandparents, Alexandre and Bronislawa Mnouchkine, were both deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 17 December 1943, where they were both murdered. Ariane is the namesake of the production company Ariane Films that was founded by her father. Mnouchkine attended Sorbonne University in Paris, France, where she studied Literature. On a year abroad at Oxford University in England, studying English Literature, she joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and decided to return to her roots in theatre. She founded the ATEP (Association Théâtrale des Étudiants de Pa…

Directed

  1. Molière (1978) — Director
  2. 1789 (1974) — Director
  3. The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (2014) — Director
  4. The Flood Drummers (2003) — Director
  5. La nuit miraculeuse (1989) — Director
  6. Les Éphémères (2008) — Director
  7. Le dernier caravansérail (Odyssées) (2006) — Director
  8. Au Soleil même la nuit (2012) — Director
  9. The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (2014) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) — Self
  2. Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002) — Self (archive footage)
  3. Vers le Soleil (2021) — Self
  4. Au Soleil même la nuit (2012) — Self
  5. Kyiv Theater, An Island of Hope (2024) — Herself
  6. Resistencia Cultural (2021) — Self (archive footage)
  7. Ariane Mnouchkine - L'aventure du Théâtre du Soleil (2009) — Self
  8. Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi (2017) — Self
  9. Lepage au Soleil: The origin of Kanata (2019) — Self
  10. Les Aventures d'Adrien: L'Affaire Catalan (2013) — Self
  11. L'école en actes (2024)
  12. Ciné regards (1978) — Self