Michel Such

Michel Such born in 1944 in Algiers is a French actor screenwriter and director Michel Such entered the film industry somewhat by chance I was working in a bistro the Santa Cruz on rue SaintAndrédesArts in Paris near a film school I met people behind the bar who allowed me to get a foot in the door in the profession he explains Michel Such went on stage and made his mark there One day while he was working on a mediumlength film by director Luc Béraud the latters assistant fell ill I gave him a helping hand and he never left me He was the one who introduced me to Claude Miller Patrice Leconte and the others Claude and Annie Miller were particularly important to him They followed me and helped me when I moved on to directing Michel Such becomes one of the essential supporting actors of French cinema with very popular films like The Best Way to Walk Les Bronzés or even Come to My Place I Live with a Copine Subscribed to supporting roles silhouettes and appearances everyone has already seen him at least once He is the one who takes the scrabble on the face in Les Bronzés font du ski the one who goes underwater on water skis in Les Bronzés the killer in Garde à vue a policeman in Mes meilleurs copains a patient in Chouchou with Gad Elmaleh the man with the briefcase in Mortal hike or the shoe salesman in Police Python 357 by Alain Corneau Michel who was assistant director to Luc Béraud Claude Miller Patrice Leconte Gérard Vergez JeanMarie Poiré JeanLouis Leconte James Cellan Jones etc will direct three short films Elli Fat Mat 1990 Vagues À LÂme 1992 and VingtTrois Rue Des Francs Bourgeois 1995 and a feature Oranges Amères released in theaters in 1997 The story of Angèle a piednoir who falls in love with Saïd an Algerian after the Second World War The film received the SACD Beaumarchais Prize for the screenplay 1996 as well as the Audience Award at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in 1996 Michel Such has been directing the amateur theatre troupe Saujon Comédia in Saujon in CharenteMaritime since the end of the 1990s