Éric Rochat

Éric Rochat October 18 1936 in Paris October 5 2003 in Rio de Janeiro was a French film producer director and scriptwriter He is mostly known for his success in producing erotic films He started his cinematographic career as a producer with François Reichenbach portraying musicians such as Arthur Rubinstein in 1969 and Yehudi Menuhin in 1971 In 1972 Rochat partnered with Claude Giroux to produce his first feature film The Killer starring Jean Gabin as the chief of police Le Guen The movie casting also gave Gerard Depardieu his first movie role In 1973 they produced The Dominici Affair starring Jean Gabin as Gaston Dominici In 1975 after buying the rights of Story of O a book written by Pauline Reage from his partner Claude Giroux Rochat produced the erotic cult film Story of O directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Corinne Clery In 1976 Rochat produced Sex OClock USA a French nonfiction feature documentary directed by François Reichenbach The feature film reviews the hidden sexuality of a highly puritanical US society Then in 1980 Rochat produced Tusk directed by surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky and based on the novel Poo Lorn of the Elephants by Reginald Campbell In 1981 the story of the icon of the times Coco Chanel was brought to the screen in Chanel Solitaire directed by George Kaczender starring MarieFrance Pisier Lambert Wilson and Timothy Dalton In 1984 Rochat wrote produced and directed the Story of O sequel Story of O Chapter 2 starring Sandra Wey In 1987 Rochat wrote and directed in Japan the feature film Too Much produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus This futuristic feature film for kids uses Japanese technology to tell a story between a little girl and a robot In 1990 Rochat produced The 5th Monkey This feature film starring Ben Kingsley is an adaptation from the eponymous novel by Jacques Zibi who cowrote the script with Rochat In 1992 the tenhour series Story of O The Series was written produced and directed by Rochat Its DVD box received great commercial success In 2002 Rochat wrote produced and codirected Living O with his spouse Chrystianne Rochat This TV feature film tells the story of a movie producer who desires to live the experiences of Os Sir Stephen The film was shot in Rio de Janeiro Source Article Éric Rochat from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30