Steve Suissa

{{short description|French film director}}

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| image = Steve SUISSA.png

| caption = Suissa in 2019.

| name = Steve Suissa

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|12|7|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date =

| death_place =

| othername =

| occupation = Stage & film director, actor

| yearsactive = 1990-present

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Steve Suissa (born 7 December 1970) is a French stage and film director and actor. His 2000 film Taking Wing was entered into the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival where he won the award for Best Director.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2000 |title=22nd Moscow International Film Festival (2000) |access-date=2013-03-27 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328142219/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2000 |archive-date=28 March 2013 }}

Theater

= As actor =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Writer

! Director

rowspan=2| 1991

| Summer and Smoke

| Tennessee Williams

| Gilles Gleizes

Les Nuits de Terayama

| Shūji Terayama

| Nicolas Bataille

1992-93

| Sabato, domenica e lunedi

| Eduardo De Filippo

| Françoise Petit

1993

| The Seagull

| Anton Chekhov

| Isabelle Nanty

1995

| Orpheus Descending

| Tennessee Williams

| Jacques Mornas

rowspan=2| 1998

| The Widow's Blind Date

| Israel Horovitz

| Pierre-Olivier Mornas

27 Wagons Full of Cotton

| Tennessee Williams

| Henri Lazarini

2015-16

| Une folie

| Sacha Guitry

| Francis Huster

= As director =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Writer

2005

| Barefoot in the Park

| Neil Simon

rowspan=2| 2007

| Money

| Alain Schwarzstein

Une liaison pornographique

| Philippe Blasband

2007-08

| La Femme rompue

| Simone de Beauvoir

2008

| Ma femme s'appelle Maurice

| Raffy Shart

rowspan=2| 2012-13

| A Bronx Tale

| Chazz Palminteri

The Diary of a Young Girl

| Anne Frank

2013

| The Magic Flute

| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2013-14

| The Guitrys

| Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

2013-15

| Mass Appeal

| Bill C. Davis

2013-18

| Miss Carpenter

| Marianne James & Sébastien Marnier

rowspan=2| 2014

| Si on recommençait

| Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

La Trahison d’Einstein

| Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

rowspan=2| 2014-16

| The Royal Game

| Stefan Zweig

Georges et Georges

| Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

rowspan=2| 2015

| Hibernatus

| Jean Bernard-Luc

Oscar et la Dame rose

| Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

2015-16

| L’Élixir d’amour

| Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

rowspan=2| 2015-17

| Avanti !

| Samuel A. Taylor

24h de la vie d’une femme

| Stefan Zweig

2016

| Le Mystère Bizet

| Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

2016-17

| Amok

| Stefan Zweig

rowspan=2| 2016-18

| À droite à gauche

| Laurent Ruquier

Michel Drucker - Seul... avec vous

| Michel Drucker

rowspan=3| 2017-19

| Samia

| Gilbert Ponté

Horowitz

| Francis Huster

Le Théâtre, ma vie

| Francis Huster

2018

| Passionnément Toscanini

| Francis Huster

2018-19

| Pourvu qu’il soit heureux

| Laurent Ruquier

2018-20

| Ich bin Charlotte

| Doug Wright

2019

| Le Plus Beau dans tout ça

| Laurent Ruquier

rowspan=2| 2019-20

| A Bronx Tale

| Chazz Palminteri

The Sunflower

| Simon Wiesenthal

2020

| Transmission

| Bill C. Davis

rowspan=2| 2022

| Ich bin Charlotte

| Doug Wright

Moi aussi j’ai vécu

| Hélios Azoulay

2022-23

| The Sunflower

| Simon Wiesenthal

2022-24

| Sélectionné

| Marc Élya

Filmography

= As actor =

class="wikitable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! Notes

1990

| Nouvelle Vague

| The waiter

| Jean-Luc Godard

|

1991

| La tribu

| An intern

| Yves Boisset

|

rowspan=3| 1994

| Neuf mois

| Ambulance man

| Patrick Braoudé

|

Les Cordier, juge et flic

| Jacky

| Alain Bonnot

| TV series (1 episode)

Van Loc: un grand flic de Marseille

| Dany

| Claude Barrois

| TV series (1 episode)

1995

| L'affaire Dreyfus

| The camp's helper

| Yves Boisset

| TV movie

rowspan=2| 1996

| Nous sommes tous des anges

| An Italian

| Simon Lelouch

| Short

Commandant Nerval

| The Lock

| Henri Helman

| TV series (1 episode)

rowspan=4| 1997

| Amour et confusions

| Guard

| Patrick Braoudé

|

Clueur

| Clueur

| Nicolas Bazz

| Short

Le juste

| Nicola Carbini

| Franck Apprederis

| TV series (1 episode)

Maître Da Costa

| Alex Patche

| Nicolas Ribowski

| TV series (1 episode)

1997-98

| Navarro

| Xavier / Delcourt

| Nicolas Ribowski

| TV series (2 episodes)

1998

| Ronin

| Waiter in Nice

| John Frankenheimer

|

rowspan=2| 1999

| Le roi en son moulin

| Aupestre

| Jacob Berger

| TV movie

P.J.

| Pascal

| Frédéric Krivine

| TV series (1 episode)

2000

| Taking Wing

| Joseph

| Steve Suissa

|

2002

| Vertiges

| Julien

| Steve Suissa

| TV series (1 episode)

rowspan=5| 2003

| Une employée modèle

| The rocker

| Jacques Otmezguine

|

Comme si de rien n'était

| Benoit

| Pierre-Olivier Mornas

|

Le bison (et sa voisine Dorine)

| Sitcom actor

| Isabelle Nanty

|

De soie et de cendre

| Roberto

| Jacques Otmezguine

| TV movie

Blague à part

| Dr. Roméo

| Olivier Barma

| TV series (1 episode)

2004

| Le grand rôle

| Doron

| Steve Suissa

|

rowspan=4| 2005

| Edy

| Bar client

| Stéphan Guérin-Tillié

|

Cavalcade

| Antoine

| Steve Suissa

|

Trois couples en quête d'orages

| Cances

| Jacques Otmezguine

|

Zooloo

| Nemo

| Nicolas Bazz

| Short

2008

| A Man and His Dog

| The patient's son

| Francis Huster

|

2009

| Mensch

| Joseph Hazak

| Steve Suissa

|

2010

| Enquêtes réservées

| Launay

| Bruno Garcia

| TV series (1 episode)

2013

| Victor Young Perez

| Benjamin Perez

| Jacques Ouaniche

|

2014

| Léo Matteï, brigade des mineurs

| Christophe Fabre

| David Morley

| TV series (1 episode)

2023

| Croisement Gaza Bd St Germain

| Patrick Mendes

| Jacques Ouaniche

| TV mini-series

= As filmmaker =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2000

| Taking Wing

| Moscow International Film Festival - Best Director
Moscow International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention
Nominated - Moscow International Film Festival - Golden St. George

2001

| Elle pleure pas

| Short

2002

| Vertiges

| TV series (1 episode)

2003

| Carnets d'ado

| TV series (1 episode)

2004

| Le grand rôle

| Nominated - Festival du Film de Paris - Grand Prix

2005

| Cavalcade

|

2009

| Mensch

|

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