The director and playwright Xavier Durringer died at the age of 61

The screenwriter, director and playwright Xavier Durringer, who had noticed Conquest In 2011 about the rise to the power of Nicolas Sarkozy, he died at his home in isle-sur-la-surge on the outskirts of Avignon, we knew on Sunday, October 5 of his agent.

“Nothing could suggest this news that will devastate all the people who loved it,” reacted her Kamina Céline AFP agent. Xavier Durringer was 61 years old and succumbed to a heart attack, he said.

“Xavier was a great author, a man in life imprisonment, who always wanted to deepen his knowledge, his work,” he added.

Born in December 1963, he began taking drama classes at age 18. Then he decides to write and represents his first works in the 1980s, in a genre that describes as “a small punk, which pushed the institution.”

External competition at the Cannes Film Festival

Since the mid -1990s, he moved away from the theater to devote himself to writing and cinema. He directed his first film in 1992. India Swimming It offers an important first role to Karine Viard, who will obtain a César nomination for the best female hope.

In total, eight films, including Conquest On the rise to the power of Nicolas Sarkozy between 2003 and 2007 with Denis Podalydès in the role of former President of the Republic.

The film is presented in the preview at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, outside the competition. Writing by historian Patrick Rotman, he aroused huge attention from the media, Nicolas Sarkozy was still in power at that time.

An Emmy International Award

In 2017, he produced a television film for France 2 in the homeless entitled Don’t abandon me. Produced as educational content, it is projected in certain schools.

It is inspired by the trip of several young women who have gone to Syria and won an International Emmy award, a supreme award for a program produced elsewhere in the United States.

In 2019, during a master class in the Société des Authors (SACD), he said he was “admitted to this profession by the small door, the small steps.”

“Writing gave me a ticket for existence,” he said, while his mother died in bed at his birth.

Xavier Durringer also wrote a novel published in 2015. Sfumato The dizziness of rock’n’roll, the night, drugs and love in the 1980s, loved issues for its youth when it began as a playwright.