Bertrand Tavernier passed away this Thursday in Sainte-Maxime in the Var. 

The filmmaker, director, producer from Lyon Bertrand Tavernier died Thursday, at the age of 79, in Sainte-Maxime in the Var.

A figure of French cinema, he was notably president of the Institut Lumière since 1982.

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