Alain Tasma

Alain Tasma born February 26 1959 in Tunis is a French film director and screenwriter In 1981 he began his career as assistant director to François Truffaut on Truffauts film The Woman Next Door followed by Godards Passion in 1982 and Barbet Schroeders Tricheurs in 1984 Alain Tasma then began writing screenplays and directing Since the late 1980s he has directed films and series for television which have met with both public and critical acclaim He has twice won the Grand Prix for TV Film at the Cognac Crime Film Festival in 1994 for La Bavure The Slaughter with Clovis Cornillac and in 1999 for Les Duettistes Une Débête Mortel The Dummies A Deadly Debt Since then Alain Tasma has addressed numerous current affairs in documentaries and fiction such as Mata Hari la vraie histoire 2003 Nuit noire 17 octobre 1961 2005 Harkis 2006 and Opération turquoise 2007 He is also the author of an adaptation of Balzacs Rastignac ou les ambitious in which Father Goriot is played by Charles Aznavour Interested in historical and social issues he regularly works with historian and documentary filmmaker Patrick Rotman