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Simon Abkarian

Simon Abkarian

French-Armenian actor
March 5, 1962 (62 years old)
Fr. 2025. Biography by Antonin Baudry with Simon Abkarian, Niels Schneider, Simon Russell Beale. The exploits of General Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War.
Fr. 2025. History by Antonin Baudry with Simon Abkarian, Niels Schneider, Thierry Lhermitte. The political life of Charles De Gaulle, hero of the Liberation and founder of the French Fifth Republic.
Fr. 2021. Thriller by Laurent Herbiet with Emmanuelle Devos, Éric Caravaca, Simon Abkarian. The life of a couple in their fifties takes an unexpected turn, when an old friend reappears to offer them a fortune to share.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Cédric Klapisch with François Civil, Ana Girardot, Camille Cottin. Neighbors, a researcher in a pharmaceutical laboratory and a customer service agent for an online retailer never meet while their loneliness overlaps.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2019. Police comedy by Allan Mauduit with Cécile de France, Yolande Moreau, Audrey Lamy. After disposing of the corpse of their abusive foreman, three cannery employees seize the bag full of money that he was carrying, which was destined for Belgian traffickers.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 2019. Animation by Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec. Under the Taliban regime in Kabul, a female prison guard comes to the aid of a young painter who is about to be executed for the accidental murder of her husband.
Runtime: 81 min.

Sonata

V.O.: The Sonata
Fr. 2018. Horror by Andrew Desmond with Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner. After the mysterious death of her composer father, a musician deciphers in his latest piece symbols linked to an evil secret.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2018. Comedy by Alexis Michalik with Thomas Solivéres, Olivier Gourmet, Lucie Boujenah. In December 1897, at the request of an actor who was making a comeback, the young Edmond Rostand began writing his most famous play, “Cyrano de Bergerac.“
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2017. Thriller by Antonio Negret with Scott Eastwood, Freddie Thorp, Ana de Armas. Caught in the act of stealing a Marseilles mafioso’s car, two half-brothers are forced by the latter to take the car belonging to his German rival.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2016. Spy drama by Thomas Kruithof with François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila. An unemployed man in his fifties accepts a mysterious job from an enigmatic business person, which leads him into the heart of a plot involving the French secret service.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 2015. Drama by Robert Guédiguian with Syrus Shahidi, Ariane Ascaride, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. The casualty of a terrorist attack, who tries to understand the motivations of his perpetrator, learns about the struggle of Armenians to avenge their genocide.
Runtime: 140 min.
Isr. 2014. Social drama by Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz with Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Menashe Noy. An Israeli hairdresser living apart from her husband tries to convince three rabbinical judges to force him to grant her a divorce.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2014. Thriller by Fabrice Du Welz with Ymanol Perset, Gérard Lanvin, JoeyStarr . After killing a man in self-defense, a young sniper cop is tricked by a colleague into a spiral of lies and violence.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2013. Adventures by Ariel Zeïtoun with Nora Arnezeder, Gérard Lanvin, Tomer Sisley. In the seventeenth century, during the reign of Louis XIV, a young rebel is forced to marry a rich, powerful and ugly count, whom his enemies try to compromise.
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 2012. Biography by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe with Nicolas Rompteaux, Simon Abkarian, Françoise Gillard. From the age of 8 to 18, the young Michel Drucker, a poor student at school, worries his parents who fear that he will fail in life.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2011. Thriller by Jean-Christophe Delpias with Robinson Stévenin, Simon Abkarian, Jennifer Decker. A man who is convinced that his wife is cheating on him becomes paranoid, even killing the man he suspects is his rival.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2011. Animation by Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie. In 1827, a young Sudanese man has a host of adventures while accompanying a giraffe to Paris.
Runtime: 78 min.

The Army of Crime

V.O.: L'Armée du crime
Fr. 2009. History by Robert Guédiguian with Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin. In 1941 in Paris, a group of young resistance fighters of various nationalities, led by a poet of Armenian origin, tries to destabilize the occupying Germans.
Runtime: 149 min.
Fr. 2009. Social drama by Pascal Elbé with Roschdy Zem, Samir Makhlouf, Ronit Elkabetz. During a police raid in an underprivileged French suburb, a teenager makes a rash move that will have dramatic consequences.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Wedding Song

V.O.: Le Chant des mariées
Fr. 2008. Mores drama by Karin Albou with Lizzie Brocheré, Olympe Borval, Najib Oudghiri. In 1942, in German-occupied Tunis, two teenage girls, one Muslim and the other Jewish, find their friendship compromised as their respective weddings approach.
Runtime: 100 min.

State Secret

V.O.: Secret défense
Fr. 2008. Spy drama by Philippe Haïm with Vahina Giocante, Gérard Lanvin, Nicolas Duvauchelle. A student, an occasional prostitute, is recruited by the French secret service to infiltrate a network of Islamic terrorists.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2007. Animation by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud. From 1978 to today, the experiences of a young Iranian woman with a rebellious temperament.
Runtime: 95 min.

L'Affaire Ben Barka - 1ère partie

V.O.: L'Affaire Ben Barka
Fr. 2007. History by Jean-Pierre Sinapi with Atmen Kelif, Simon Abkarian, Olivier Gourmet. In the 1960s, the nebulous circumstances surrounding the kidnapping in Paris and murder of an opponent of King Hassan II of Morocco.
Runtime: 180 min.
Fr. 2006. Thriller by Éric Barbier with Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac, Pierre Richard. A photographer in the midst of a divorce becomes the target of a mysterious revenge plot by a former classmate.
Runtime: 119 min.
G.-B. 2006. Spy drama by Martin Campbell with Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen. Secret agent James Bond seeks to dismantle an international terrorist organization financed by a wealthy poker player.
Runtime: 144 min.
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Armenia

V.O.: Le Voyage en Arménie
Fr. 2006. Psychological drama by Robert Guédiguian with Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Chorik Grigorian. A cardiologist from Marseilles arrives in Armenia in search of her sick father and is transformed by the encounters she has.
Runtime: 120 min.

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

V.O.: J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka
Fr. 2005. History by Serge Le Péron, Saïd Smihi with Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko. In 1966 in Paris, the production of a documentary on decolonization is compromised by the kidnapping of a Moroccan leader involved in the shooting.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2005. Comedy by Marie-Pascale Osterrieth with Michèle Bernier, Simon Abkarian, Mathis Arguillère. A forty-something comedian is inspired by her setbacks after her husband leaves her for a younger woman to create a one-woman comedy show.

Zaïna, Rider of the Atlas

V.O.: Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas
Fr. 2005. Adventures by Bourlem Guerdjou with Sami Bouajila, Aziza Nadir, Simon Abkarian. To escape her powerful guardian, a young girl runs away with her father whom she never knew, a horse breeder on his way to an important race in Marrakech.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2005. Drama by Karim Dridi with Clovis Cornillac, Simon Abkarian, Serge Riaboukine. After sustaining a knee injury climbing an alpine foothill, an Arabic man is rescued by a hermit with healer

SAC - Des hommes dans l'ombre

V.O.: SAC - Des hommes dans l'ombre
Fr. 2005. History by Thomas Vincent with Tcheky Karyo, Simon Abkarian, Bernard Le Coq. In 1981, the murder of an inspector and his family by men of the Service d'Action Civique provoked the dissolution of this parallel police force of the Gaullist regime.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 2004. Mores drama by Sally Potter with Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill. In London, a biologist married to an unfaithful politician becomes involved in a passionate affair with a Lebanese-born cook.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 2002. Drama by Atom Egoyan with David Alpay, Arsinée Khanjian, Christopher Plummer. In Toronto, the filming of a movie about the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Turks in 1915 impacts the lives of many people.
Runtime: 110 min.

Not for or Against...

V.O.: Ni pour ni contre (bien au contraire)
Fr. 2002. Thriller by Cédric Klapisch with Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Simon Abkarian. A young cameraman is lured by four small-time thugs who plan to use her to pull off a major robbery.
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 2002. Mores drama by Michel Deville with Simon Abkarian, Lubna Azabal, Zabou Breitman. In 1946, the employees of a small garment factory in the Jewish quarter of Paris are struggling to resume a normal life after the war.
Runtime: 94 min.

When the Cat's Away

V.O.: Chacun cherche son chat
Fr. 1996. Dramatic comedy by Cédric Klapisch with Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem, Renée Le Calm.
Runtime: 87 min.

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