Olivier Nakache

Olivier Nakache (b. 1973, Suresnes, France) and Éric Toledano (b. 1971, Paris), a French writer-director duo who are quite at home in comedy, have been working together since the mid-1990s. They started out creating short films: Le jour et la nuit (1995), Les petits souliers (1999), La part de l'ombre (1999, dir. Olivier Nakache) and Ces jours heureux (2002).

They managed to cast Gérard Depardieu and Annie Girardot for their feature film debut Let's Be Friends (2005). After Those Happy Days (2006) and Tellement proches (2009) they turned in what has proved to be their most successful comedy by far, The Intouchables (2011), which, after its premiere at the San Sebastián IFF, became a festival and distribution smash in various countries and to date enjoys French cinema's third-highest viewing figures of all time. The pair's most recent collaboration is the romantic comedy Samba (2014).

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