Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 28 March 1960) is a Franco–Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's parents were teachers of physical education and sport, and his father later became a physiotherapist and masseur in paediatric hospitals. He was also a French boxing champion while his mother was a medal-winning runner. His grandfather was an artisan jeweller. The "Classiques & Contemporains" edition of La Nuit de Valognes (Don Juan on Trial) claims that Schmitt depicts himself as a rebellious teenager who detested received wisdom and was sometimes prone to violent outbursts. According to Schmitt, however, it was philosophy that saved him and taught him to be himself and to feel that he was free. One day, his mother took him to the Théâtre des Célestins to see a performance of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac starring Jean Marais. Her son was moved to tears and the seeds of his passion for the theatre were sown. After the show, he told his mother that he wanted to "be like the man on the poster"; his mother thought he meant the actor, Jean Marais, but he replied: "No!" and read out the name on the poster "Edmond Rostand". He then began to write. Later, he would say: "At sixteen, I realised (or decided) that I was a writer, and I wrote, produced and acted in my first plays at high school." To improve his style, he threw himself with frenzied zeal into exercises of pastiche and re-writing, especially Molière. After preparatory classes at the Lycée du Parc for France's elite universities, Schmitt passed the entrance exam to the École normale supérieure. He was a student there between 1980 and 1985, leaving with the top French teaching qualification in philosophy (agrégé de philosophie). In 1987, he was awarded the degree of PhD for his thesis "Diderot and Metaphysics" at the Paris-Sorbonne University, which was published in 1997 with the title "Diderot or the Philosophy of Seduction". He has lived in Brussels since 2002 and obtained Belgian citizenship in 2008. Schmitt spent his military service teaching at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, afterwards spending two years as a student teaching assistant at the University of Besançon. He went on to teach at the high school in Cherbourg before being appointed lecturer at the University of Chambéry, where he taught for four years. On the night of 4 February 1989, he became separated from his companions during an expedition to the Ahaggar Desert and, in the vast expanses of the Sahara, he underwent a spiritual experience that was nothing short of a divine revelation. In that instant, he says that his mind was filled with the words "Everything is justified". Schmitt believes that it was that extraordinary experience that enabled him to break into writing. He describes it in his novel Night of Fire (La Nuit de Feu), published in September 2015. ... Source: Article "Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  • Popularity: 2.135
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1960-03-28
  • Place of Birth: Lyon, Rhône, France
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Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Movies

  • 2020
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    Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran

    Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2013
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    La Dernière Campagne

    La Dernière Campagne

    4.5 2013 HD

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  • 2023
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    Les Scandales de « La Religieuse »

    Les Scandales de « La Religieuse »

    8 2023 HD

    Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary,...

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  • 2003
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    Monsieur Ibrahim

    Monsieur Ibrahim

    7.1 2003 HD

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  • 2007
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    Odette Toulemonde

    Odette Toulemonde

    5.689 2007 HD

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  • 2007
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    Odette Toulemonde

    Odette Toulemonde

    5.689 2007 HD

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  • 2003
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    Aurélien

    Aurélien

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2009
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    Oscar and the Lady in Pink

    Oscar and the Lady in Pink

    6.513 2009 HD

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  • 2000
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    The Libertine

    The Libertine

    5.7 2000 HD

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  • 2000
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    The Libertine

    The Libertine

    5.7 2000 HD

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  • 2015
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    Hibernatus

    Hibernatus

    1 2015 HD

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  • 1996
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    Heavy Weather

    Heavy Weather

    3.5 1996 HD

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  • 2017
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    Piccoli crimini coniugali

    Piccoli crimini coniugali

    5.5 2017 HD

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  • 2004
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    Volpone

    Volpone

    6.5 2004 HD

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  • 2004
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    Milady

    Milady

    3.3 2004 HD

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  • 2024
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    Bungalow 21

    Bungalow 21

    7 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    Bungalow 21

    Bungalow 21

    7 2024 HD

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  • 2003
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    Sarah

    Sarah

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2002
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    Hôtel des deux mondes

    Hôtel des deux mondes

    7 2002 HD

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  • 2007
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    Oscar et la dame Rose

    Oscar et la dame Rose

    1 2007 HD

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  • 2023
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    Kleine Eheverbrechen

    Kleine Eheverbrechen

    5 2023 HD

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  • 1995
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    Jamaica Inn

    Jamaica Inn

    1 1995 HD

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  • 2005
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    L’Évangile selon Pilate

    L’Évangile selon Pilate

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2009
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    Oscar and the Lady in Pink

    Oscar and the Lady in Pink

    6.513 2009 HD

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  • 1994
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    Le droit à l'oubli

    Le droit à l'oubli

    7 1994 HD

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  • 1985
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    Télématin

    Télématin

    4.5 1985 HD

    Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan...

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  • 2012
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    La Parenthèse inattendue

    La Parenthèse inattendue

    8.5 2012 HD

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  • 2018
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    Cette année-là

    Cette année-là

    1 2018 HD

    A culture show set hosted by Marc Labrèche and his collaborators, Simon Boulerice, Émilie Perreault and Fred Savard. Each week, based...

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  • 2018
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    Pour emporter

    Pour emporter

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2022
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    Un dimanche à la campagne

    Un dimanche à la campagne

    9 2022 HD

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  • 2019
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    Bonsoir bonsoir!

    Bonsoir bonsoir!

    4 2019 HD

    Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His interviews focus on their newsworthy achievements but...

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 1976
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    30 millions d'amis

    30 millions d'amis

    5.8 1976 HD

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  • 2009
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    C Politique

    C Politique

    2.5 2009 HD

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  • 1970
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    C Politique

    C Politique

    6 1970 HD

    Updated adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge set in the modern 1960s world of Parisian...

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