Paris (AFP)
Eric Assous, author and screenwriter of many plays and films including "The Russian Mountains" with Alain Delon and Bernard Tapie, died Monday in Paris at the age of 64 after a long illness, told AFP the producer and director Philippe Hersen, friend of the family.
Rewarded by two Molières from the French-speaking author in 2010 and 2015 for the plays "L'Illusion conjugale" and "On ne se mentira Never", Eric Assous was also honored in 2014 by the Grand Prix du théâtre of the Académie française for all of his dramatic work.
"Eric Assous was a prolific and talented author. We put together several pieces with Alain Delon and Bernard Tapie. He was an exceptional author and dialogue writer, specialist in married life", said Philippe Hersen who had also confided to him the adaptation for Bernard Tapie of the play "Oscar" by Pierre Mondy, brought to the screen in 1967, with Louis de Funès.
Eric Assous who has also been the author of dozens of radio plays for France Inter, has also written scripts for television series including "Nestor Burma".
He had directed several films including "People in bathing suits are not (necessarily) superficial" (2001) and then "Very opposite sexes".
At the theater, Eric Assous has also signed many boulevard plays including "Les Belles-soeurs" (2007) directed by Jean-Luc Moreau, "Secret de famille" with Michel Sardou, "Une Journée normale" (2011 ) with Alain Delon and his daughter Anouchka, "Nos Femmes" (2013) in a staging by Richard Berry with Daniel Auteuil and "Inavouable" (2018) with Michel Leeb.
"Vaudeville is an extremely difficult art. These are mathematical equations to implement. Both literature, mathematics and observation," Eric Assous explained to Le Figaro in 2018.
For the cinema, he was the screenwriter in particular of "Un Adultery" (2018) by Philippe Harel, "Deux jours à rire" (2008) by Jean Becker "and" Une Hirondelle a fait le Printemps "(2001) by Christian Carion.
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