Christophe Barratier

Christophe Barratier drew on his own classical music education, gained at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, for his debut as a director. In 1991 producer Jacques Perrin convinced him to make movies for his production company Galatée Films, to devote himself to film. He made his first short film Les tombales (2001), inspired by a text by Guy de Maupassant, with Lambert Wilson and Carole Weiss in the leading roles. It was selected for the festival in Clermont-Ferrand. Barratier's feature film debut, Chorists, also originates as a Galatée Films production. In the course of writing and making the film the author was freely inspired by the classic French film A Cage of Nightingales (La cage aux rossignols, 1945, dir. by Jean Dréville); which links the two universal themes that have always interested him: childhood and music.

MFF Karlovy Vary