Claude Ventura

Claude Ventura (born 4 July 1938) is a French film director.

Biography Background The son of Greek Sephardic Jews from Salonica, his mother was the daughter of a wealthy textile merchant from the upper town, while his father came from a very poor family. His father, a journalist and co-founder of the Federation of Greek Communist Youth, was appointed Paris correspondent for the daily Le Progrès de Salonique in the early 1930s. His mother ran a small hosiery shop on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine. The part of his family that remained in Salonica was deported by the Nazis and ultimately perished in Auschwitz. He escaped the roundup in the 11th arrondissement on August 20, 1941, by fleeing to Marseille, then to Montagnac-sur-Auvignon in the Lot-et-Garonne.

Career In Tous en scène (1968–1970), on the second channel, he filmed 'in a sort of concrete sail-shaped temple he caused a huge scandal with the episode 'the Scouts,' aired on Easter evening, that it reached the Chamber of Deputies — resulting in all of them being suspended for six months.

He collaborates to television shows as Italics, Cinéma, Cinémas, Panorama, La saga des Français, Bande à part, Un jour futur, Lancelot and a musical portrait of Liverpool in 1974. He was engaged with Gaëlle Royer for ten years, the mother of Emma de Caunes.

Later, a re-release of Cinéma, Cinémas encountered legal challenges related to film and music rights, nearly resulting in its cancellation in 2008 ."

Filmography Television 1968-1970 : Tous en scène 1972 : The Velvet Underground at Le Bataclan '72 1973 : Italics 1974 : Extraits du journal de J.-H. Lartigue 1970-1974 : Pop2 1975 : John Lewis 1982-1991 : Cinema Cinemas, magazine TV 1982 : Chorus 1981 : Sonny Rollins 1995 : Hank Williams, Vie et mot d'un cadillac cow-boy 1995 : Johnny Hallyday, All Access 1998 : Eddy Mitchell 1998 : Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Retour à Babylone 1999 : Gina, Sophia et moi 2002 : La Femme de papier 2005 : Guy Peellaert, l’art et la manière 2006 : Jacques Monory Documentary 1993 : Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède, on the set of À bout de souffle 1988 : À la recherche de la couleur perdue 2013 : Les Garçons de Rollin, 85 min 2016 : Fitzgerald - Hemingway, une question de taille, serie Duels Cinéma 2000 : En quête des Sœurs Papin