Ariane Mnouchkine

Ariane Mnouchkine

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 Paris or Parisian Students’ Theatrical Association) in 1959 when she returned to the Sorbonne. She continued theatre studies at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where in 1964 she founded Théâtre du Soleil (Theatre of the Sun) with her fellow students. The theatre collective still continues to create social and political critiques of local and world cultures. Théâtre du Soleil's productions are often performed in found spaces like barns or gymnasiums because Mnouchkine does not like being confined to a typical stage. Similarly, she feels theatre cannot be restricted with the "fourth wall". When audiences enter a Mnouchkine production, they will often find the actors preparing (putting on makeup, getting into costume) right before their eyes. In 1971, Mnouchkine signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly announcing she had an illegal abortion. Mnouchkine has developed her own works, like the political-themed 1789, as well as numerous classical texts like Molière's Don Juan or Tartuffe. Between 1981 and 1984, she translated and directed a series of William Shakespeare plays: Richard II, Twelfth Night, and Henry IV, Part 1. While she developed the shows one at a time, when she finished Henry IV, she toured the three together as a cycle of plays. Similarly, she developed Iphigenia by Euripides and the Oresteia (Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides) by Aeschylus between 1990–92. ... Source: Article "Ariane Mnouchkine" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Ariane Mnouchkine
  • Popularity: 1.518
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1939-03-03
  • Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
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Ariane Mnouchkine Movies

  • 2021
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    Vers le Soleil

    Vers le Soleil

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2012
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    Au Soleil même la nuit

    Au Soleil même la nuit

    1 2012 HD

    This is a film about the rehearsing of Molière's 'Tartuffe' in 1995. Working handheld or with a stand for up to 12 hours a day, cameraman Eric...

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  • 2024
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    Kyiv Theater, An Island of Hope

    Kyiv Theater, An Island of Hope

    1 2024 HD

    February 2022. Russia invades Ukraine, a war that brings back dark memories and tragic lessons from World War II. Ariane Mnouchkine, the founder of...

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  • 2021
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    Resistencia Cultural

    Resistencia Cultural

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2009
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    Ariane Mnouchkine - L'aventure du Théâtre du Soleil

    Ariane Mnouchkine - L'aventure du Théâtre du Soleil

    1 2009 HD

    In this film, Catherine Vilpoux recounts Ariane Mnouchkine’s iconic artistic journey: her inspirations, her dreams for the theatre, her love of...

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  • 2019
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    Lepage au Soleil: The origin of Kanata

    Lepage au Soleil: The origin of Kanata

    1 2019 HD

    In the spring of 2016, for the first time in 54 years, Ariane Mnouchkine entrusts her troupe, the Théâtre du Soleil, to another...

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  • 2017
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    Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi

    Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi

    1 2017 HD

    An eulogy to Giorgio Strehler, the first real director in the italian theatre. He was a master, knowing all aspects of the show, from the set...

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  • 2013
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    Les Aventures d'Adrien: L'Affaire Catalan

    Les Aventures d'Adrien: L'Affaire Catalan

    1 2013 HD

    Interviews with crew and cast from "That Man from Rio".

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  • 2024
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    L'école en actes

    L'école en actes

    1 2024 HD

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  • 1964
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    That Man from Rio

    That Man from Rio

    7.5 1964 HD

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  • 1978
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    Molière

    Molière

    5.9 1978 HD

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  • 1962
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    My Son, the Hero

    My Son, the Hero

    5.7 1962 HD

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  • 2014
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    The Castaways of the Fol Espoir

    The Castaways of the Fol Espoir

    6 2014 HD

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  • 2008
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    Les Éphémères

    Les Éphémères

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Flood Drummers

    The Flood Drummers

    10 2003 HD

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  • 1974
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    1789

    1789

    6.7 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    1789

    1789

    6.7 1974 HD

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  • 2006
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    Le dernier caravansérail (Odyssées)

    Le dernier caravansérail (Odyssées)

    1 2006 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Flood Drummers

    The Flood Drummers

    10 2003 HD

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  • 1978
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    Molière

    Molière

    5.9 1978 HD

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  • 1989
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    La nuit miraculeuse

    La nuit miraculeuse

    1 1989 HD

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  • 2012
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    Au Soleil même la nuit

    Au Soleil même la nuit

    1 2012 HD

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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  • 2002
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    Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

    Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

    1 2002 HD

    "The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the...

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