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Yann Samuell (born 7 June 1975) is a French film director and screenwriter.
His second film was the romantic comedy My Sassy Girl (2008). Additional works include L'âge de raison (2010).
Samuell was screenwriter and director of a 2011 adaptation of Louis Pergaud's popular novel, La guerre des boutons. This adaptation is set in the 1960s, with the Algerian War as a backdrop. It is produced by Marc du Pontavice. Tobias Grey, "Waging War(s) of the Buttons in France", Wall Street Journal, 15 September 2011, accessed 2 November 2012 "Affinity International gets into Cannes spirit with The Great Ghost Rescue"
An alternate film adaptation of Pergaud's novel was directed by Christophe Barratier as La novelle guerre des boutons (2011), set during World War II in Occupied France. Both films were released in France in September 2011. In the end Yann Samuell's version was a lot more successful and won prizes at international film festvals.
Samuell also directed the film adaption of the Gothic children's novel The Great Ghost Rescue (1975) by Eva Ibbotson. It was released in 2011.
| 1986 | Aube | Short film | |||
| 1994 | Mano a mano | Short film | |||
| 1997 | Cata-clysm | Short film | |||
| 1998 | Teddy | Short film | |||
| 2003 | Love Me If You Dare | Yokohama Film Festival | |||
| 2008 | My Sassy Girl | ||||
| 2010 | With Love... from the Age of Reason | ||||
| 2011 | War of the Buttons | ||||
| 2011 | The Great Ghost Rescue | ||||
| 2016 | The Canterville Ghost | Also editor | |||
| 2018 | My Mother, The Crab and Me | ||||
| 2019 | Never without Louna | ||||
| 2020 | Grand Hôtel | ||||
| 2021 | Sauver Lisa | ||||
| 2023 | The Lulus |
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