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name: "Jean-François Lepetit"
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born: "12 September 1953"
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# Jean-François Lepetit

## Identity

Jean-François Lepetit

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-francois-lepetit
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-francois-lepetit
- **IMDb ID:** nm0503276
- **TMDB ID:** 7695
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3165740
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3165740, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503276/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7695

Producer. Born 12 September 1953 in Caudéran, Bordeaux, Gironde, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 12 September 1953, Caudéran, Bordeaux, Gironde, France
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3165740, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503276/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7695

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Fat Girl*](https://film.one/film/fat-girl.md) (74)

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## Biography

Jean-François Lepetit is a French film producer and founder of the production company Flach Film. Born on 12 September 1953 in Caudéran, Bordeaux, he studied sociology at the Université de Bordeaux III after completing a baccalauréat littéraire and an IUT in social careers. At age 15 he founded a cine-club in Bordeaux and later managed the regional film library for the Ligue de l'Enseignement, organising cinema events in Aquitaine.

He moved to Paris in 1982 to work in distribution at Films Molière and Twentieth Century Fox before establishing Flach Film in 1983. Lepetit produced Coline Serreau's *Three Men and a Cradle* (1985) and served as executive producer on its Hollywood remakes *3 Men and a Baby* (1987) and *3 Men and a Little Lady* (1990). He has maintained a long collaboration with Catherine Breillat, producing or co-producing *Romance* (1999), *Fat Girl* (2001), *Anatomy of Hell* (2004) and *Abuse of Weakness* (2013), among other films.

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, allocine.fr, pro.imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fat Girl* (2001), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/fat-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (58)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Les Mystères de la Marée* (2023), Producer
- *The Mysteries of the Duchess* (2022), Producer
- *La Ligne Bleue* (2020), series, Producer
- *Murder In Rochefort* (2019), Producer
- *Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail* (2019), Producer
- *Sextape* (2018), Co-Producer
- *Murder on Aix Island* (2017), Producer
- *Underground Time* (2015), Producer
- *Arletty: A Guilty Passion* (2015), Producer
- *Pif, Behind the gimmicks* (2015), Producer
- *Des roses en hiver* (2014), Producer
- *Abuse of Weakness* (2013), as Jean-Paul · Producer
- *I'm Going Home To Mum* (2012), Producer
- *Just Like Home* (2011), Producer
- *The Sleeping Beauty* (2010), Producer
- *Bluebeard* (2010), Producer
- *Dolls and Angels* (2008), Producer
- *The Capture* (2007), Producer
- *The Last Mistress* (2007), Producer
- *Infrarouge* (2006), series, Producer
- *La vie est à nous !* (2005), Producer
- *Le pays des enfants perdus* (2004), Producer
- *La tresse d'Aminata* (2004), Producer
- *Anatomy of Hell* (2004), Producer
- *As Luck Would Have It* (2002), Producer
- *Sex Is Comedy* (2002), Producer
- *Fat Girl* (2001), Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/fat-girl.md)
- *Poetical Refugee* (2001), as Doctor · Producer
- *Romance* (1999), Producer
- *Foolish Heart* (1998), Co-Producer
- *TGV* (1998), Producer
- *Marthe* (1997), Producer
- *Bandits* (1997), Co-Producer
- *Tonka* (1997), Producer
- *Secrets Shared with a Stranger* (1996), Producer
- *Jane Eyre* (1996), Co-Producer
- *Unpredictable Nature of the River* (1996), Producer
- *Pin-up models, a century of fantasies* (1995), Delegated Producer
- *Death and the Maiden* (1994), Co-Producer
- *La nuit sacrée* (1993), Producer
- *Léolo* (1992), Co-Producer
- *Dien Bien Phu* (1992), Producer
- *Isabelle Eberhardt* (1991), Co-Producer
- *Paradise* (1991), Executive Producer
- *The Cocottes* (1991), Producer
- *3 Men and a Little Lady* (1990), Executive Producer
- *The Madonna and the Dragon* (1990), Producer
- *Separate Bedrooms* (1989), Producer
- *J'écris dans l'espace* (1989), Production Executive
- *3 Men and a Baby* (1987), Executive Producer
- *The Cruel Embrace* (1987), Producer
- *The Grand Highway* (1987), Producer
- *Sale Destin* (1987), Producer
- *The Secret Wife* (1986), Producer
- *Three Men and a Cradle* (1985), Executive Producer
- *Dust* (1985), Producer
- *Family Life* (1985), Producer
- *A Real Young Girl* (1976), Thanks

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Officer of Arts and Letters 2015: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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