ERIC ROHMER - Director & Screenwriter


Eric Rohmer (1920) has been a film maker since the 1950's and was editor for
Cahiers du Cinema from 1953 to 1963. Now aged over 80, the reclusive former
schoolteacher has made more than 22 films and has a list of international awards
including: two Oscar nominations (‘Claire’s Knee’ 1970); the prestigious French
Prix Louis Delluc for ‘Claire’s Knee’; the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, 1975, for
‘Die Marquise von O’; the Berlin Silver Bear for ‘Pauline at the Beach’, in 1983; the
Golden Lion at Venice, 1986, for ‘The Green Ray’; and
AN AUTUMN TALE winning
the Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival 1998.







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