Biography
Nicolas Altmayer was a French film producer. With his brother Éric Altmayer he co-founded the production company Mandarin Cinéma (later Mandarin & Compagnie) in 1996. He had previously studied at Université Paris-Dauphine and worked as financial director for producer Jean-François Lepetit.
The brothers produced around seventy feature films, including comedies such as Brice de Nice (2005) and the OSS 117 series (2006, 2009, 2021), as well as auteur films by François Ozon, Bertrand Bonello and others. Their work received multiple César nominations. Altmayer died in a road accident on 17 August 2026.
