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Born in 1941 in Chambéry, in France’s Savoy region, Daniel Toscan du Plantier began his career in the press. He was appointed Advertising Director at France Soir in 1969, then went on to become General Manager at Régie Presse. In 1975 he joined the management of Gaumont, alongside Nicolas Seydoux. In ten years he initiated more than one hundred films, as diverse as "Cousin, Cousine" by Jean-Charles Tachella (1975), "Don Giovanni" by Joseph Losey (1979), "City of Women" by Federico Fellini (1980), "Danton" by Andrzej Wajda (1983), "Fanny and Alexander" by Ingmar Bergman (1983), "Carmen" by Francesco Rosi (1984) and "Loulou"(1980), "To Our Loves" (1983), "Under Satan’s Sun" (1987) and "Van Gogh" (1991), by Maurice Pialat, among others. President of Unifrance (the French association responsible for promoting French films abroad) from 1988, Vice President of the Supervisory Board of the television channel Arte from 1991, President of the "Académie des Césars du Cinéma" from 1992, President...