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Sylvie Testud was born on January 17, 1971 in Lyon. Her parents separated when she was two years old. She spent her youth in the Lyon district of Croix-Rousse, raised by her mother, an accountant. In high school, she learned Chinese. Very early fascinated by the cinema, the young girl identifies in particular with the complexed teenager character embodied by Charlotte Gainsbourg in L'Effrontée. Having moved to Paris to study history, she soon embarked on acting by joining the free class at Cours Florent and then the Conservatory, where her teachers were Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel. She made her first screen appearance in 1994 in Couples et amants.
She decided to become an actress during her youth, after having admired actresses in films. She then took acting lessons in Lyon with the actor and director Christian Taponard. In 1989, she moved to Paris to study history, as well as drama lessons in free classes at Cours Florent, then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art for three years, with Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel for teachers.
In the early 1990s, she obtained her first small roles in the cinema, then in feature films such as The Story of the Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed by Philippe Harel (1994), Le Plus Bel Age..., by Didier Haudepin (1995) or even Love, etc. by Marion Vernoux (1996).
In 1997, Sylvie Testud experienced her first great success at the cinema in Germany with the film Beyond Silence by Caroline Link, for which she learned German, the clarinet and sign language. She is rewarded as best actress by the German Film Prize (the equivalent of the César for best actress). In 1998, she played her first major role in French cinema and enjoyed great success in France with the role of Béa in Karnaval, the first feature film by Thomas Vincent, for which she was nominated for the César for best female hope and received the Michael Simon Prize. She then began an important acting career with a preference for auteur cinema.
In 2000, her performance in La Captive by Chantal Akerman (adaptation of the novel La Prisonnière by Marcel Proust) earned her a nomination as best actress at the European Film Prize. In 2001, she obtained, for her second nomination, the César for best female hope for the remarkable interpretation of Christine Papin, one of the Papin sisters, in Les Blessures assassines by Jean-Pierre Denis, based on a news item from 1933.
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09 January 2017
A corpse is found in the Bay of Wilhelmshaven. It soon becomes clear that the dead man was an officer in the Dutch KFOR troops in Kosovo.
27 November 2019
Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French.
20 March 2002
Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France).
26 October 2018
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist.
27 March 2013
With their beloved mother only a few days to live, her children decide to give her a surprising parting gift: bring Dave, a lifelong fan, to her bedside in the Ardennes.
01 January 1998
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice.
22 December 2004
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
15 December 2022
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
08 April 2026
DNA tests before Alice and François's wedding reveal their fathers - an aristocrat and car dealer - aren't as French as they thought.
03 February 2021
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2.
24 March 2010
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old.
20 May 2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day.
18 April 2002
In Paris, a young Argentine screenwriter attempts to escape his daily routine through a fictional story set in Argentina.
14 February 2007
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love.
11 February 2026
At 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes when her 23-year-old daughter, Louise, moves back in with her after a professional and romantic failure.
20 May 2009
A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered.
09 September 2015
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child.
08 January 1994
Marie is an adolescent woman who lives in Prussia in 1813 with her mother, a countess. They live in a palace watching the path of history from a far point of view.
10 March 2010
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
23 March 2016
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution.
27 February 2009
Pierre, a French professor of quantum physics, inherits an inn from his aunt Jeanne in the Lac St-Jean region.
23 April 2014
Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel.
03 March 1999
Karnaval is set against a backdrop of intolerance and hostility in the gloomy Northern French city of Dunkirk.
12 September 2013
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passion for ornithology.
13 January 2016
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first.
07 February 2024
The Bouvier-Sauvages, a large aristocratic family, meet the much more modest Martin family when their children's wedding is announced.
30 September 1999
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants.
12 October 2022
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies.
30 April 2014
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
25 December 2019
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.
23 March 1994
Raoul is a 20 years old student in Paris. Girls are not interested in him, though he is good-looking.
19 October 2018
A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé.
26 October 2016
Tamara, 15, complexed with her curves, decided its entry into second to get rid of the label of "big".
26 April 2017
When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress.
06 July 2003
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.
14 June 2024
The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara.
21 October 2009
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
04 June 2014
A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children.
18 January 2013
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of.
11 March 1999
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house.
18 December 1996
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music.
04 December 2013
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
25 January 2002
Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale.
29 November 2000
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes.
06 March 2002
Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in.
16 December 2009
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother.
07 March 2019
Santiago de Cuba, January 19th, 1819. Coming from Lausanne, Enrique Faber, a Swiss doctor and surgeo�
13 March 2019
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths.
03 August 2017
Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.
24 October 2014
Dance drama playing on a dairy farm, starring two 19-year-old friends Syl and Frenzy who live for breakdancing.
26 May 2002
Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills.
11 November 2021
A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.
13 May 2001
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
14 November 2025
Eighteen-year-old Anna has been diagnosed with an incurable terminal illness and has chosen to end her life on her own terms.
02 May 2018
A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.
27 September 2000
Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she goes out, asks questions all the time, even in the most intimate moments.
09 September 2003
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders.
18 October 2022
Juliette discovers that her teenage son, whom she thought was flourishing, is in reality undermined by a deep malaise and that he has become dangerously dependent on drugs.
20 March 2013
Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Christansen offers her a transplant of two new hands.
