Jean-Marc Henchoz
Know for: Production
Born: 1942-01-01
Place of birth: Rossinière, Vaud, Switzerland
Also know as:
French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye,...
La Grotte aux loups (1980)
A postman in a small mountain village finds a woman and her son both dead in the "grotte aux loups" (cave of wolves). He soon begins to realize than...
The Beggars (1988)
This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...
Le pays des enfants perdus (2004)
In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant.
My Russian Uncle (2006)
Officially declared missing in 1945, Gaston Boissac suddenly comes back at 70 years old in his home village.
Jenatsch (1987)
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who...
The Little Coquette (1987)
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for...
No Man's Land (1985)
Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living...
The Beggars (1988)
This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...
Exit: The Right to Die (2006)
Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The Right to Die profiles that nation's EXIT...
The Little Coquette (1987)
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for...
Les métiers du bois (1992)
A collection of woodworkers' portraits, among them carvers and coopers, roof tilers and toymakers.
Celui au pasteur (2000)
A film in the first person, in which the son casts a both tender and cruel gaze on his father, a minister in the canton of Vaud at the end of the...
Polenta (1980)
Two men and a young girl meet at the end of the world
Microcosmos (1996)
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting...
The Bapst Brothers, Carriers (1988)
The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (produced in 1990) – are peasants and...
Les Sacrifiés (1983)
In 1955, a year after the birth of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities who feared his...
L'Argent (1983)
A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for...
Black for Remembrance (1995)
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the...
Winged Migration (2001)
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of...
The Promise (1995)
East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The...
Derborence (1985)
Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after...
As Luck Would Have It (2002)
Jean-Pierre is a literature professor in Switzerland. Due to the vagarities of Swiss law, he is selected, basically at random, to be the guardian of...
Beautiful Minds (2022)
Two men, with vastly different life stories and personalities, embark on a hearse heading to the South of France. During their journey they realize...
Le Lit (1982)
Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his...