Director
Nelly Kaplan
95 years · Buenos Aires, Argentina · 21 films
Born in Argentina to a Russian Jewish family, Nelly Kaplan relocated to Paris at age seventeen, where she became an assistant to legendary director Abel Gance before directing her first feature, the caustic revenge comedy A Very Curious Girl. Transgressive, satirical, and surreal, Kaplan's films are defined by their proactive female protagonists.
Best known for
Filmography 21
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Honorin et l'enfant prodigue
1994 · Writer
Polly West est de retour
1993 · Salomé von Jung
The Pleasure of Love
1991 · Director, Screenplay
The Cocottes
1991 · Belen, la voyante, Writer
Velvet Paws
1987 · Director, Writer
Abel Gance et son Napoléon
1984 · Director
Charles and Lucie
1979 · Nostradama, Director
Nea
1976 · Director, Writer
One Must Live Dangerously
1975 · Actor, Writer
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971 · Lady with her Saint-Bernard, Director
A Very Curious Girl
1969 · Director, Writer
The Picasso Look
1967 · Director
Les Années 25
1966 · Director
La prima donna
1964 · La Pasta
Abel Gance, Yesterday and Tomorrow
1963 · Self, Director
Gustave Moreau
1962 · Director
Austerlitz
1960 · Madame Récamier, Writer
Magirama
1958 · Director
I Accuse! [Magirama]
1956 · Director
Tower of Lust
1955 · Alice