The Biography

Patrick Schulmann, born January 2, 1949 in Paris 20e, and died March 19, 2002 in Chesnay in Yvelines, is a French director, screenwriter, composer of original music, director of photography, actor, reporter. Abandoned by his father when he was only 3 years old, he was raised in the 19th arrondissement of Paris by his mother and his aunt, both survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. He was expelled from six middle and high schools but still managed to obtain his baccalaureate. He began by writing poems and songs for which he wanted to propose the texts to Serge Reggiani, but, received by his artistic director Jacques Bedos, the latter gave him suggests becoming the interpreter of his texts: this is how he sang, at the very beginning of the 1970s, Côté du coeur and Une petite fille qui s'ennuie. He was also an actor in the feature film La Foire aux cancres (1963) directed by Louis Daquin. Patrick Schulmann directed Axel and Zoé loving each other with tender love in 1971, then And what about tenderness? Mess ! with Jean-Luc Bideau and Bernard Giraudeau. After three failures, he found success with P.R.O.F.S (1985) with Patrick Bruel and Fabrice Luchini. After filming Les Oreilles entre les dents (1987), he became a television reporter for the show Envoyé spécial on France 2. He returned to cinema in 1998 with Comme une bête (1998). On March 19, 2002, Patrick Schulmann was the victim of a car accident around 4:20 p.m. on the RD 11 in Yvelines. He died at Mignot hospital in Chesnay shortly after 7 p.m. Patrick Schulmann is the father of screenwriter, director and documentary filmmaker Tristan Schulmann.