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name: "Paul Vecchiali"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-vecchiali"
fi1m_id: "paul-vecchiali"
imdb_id: "nm0891580"
tmdb_id: 236535
wikidata_id: "Q3372362"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "28 April 1930"
died: "18 January 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:57:18.562877+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Paul Vecchiali

## Identity

Paul Vecchiali

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-vecchiali
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-vecchiali
- **IMDb ID:** nm0891580
- **TMDB ID:** 236535
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3372362
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vecchiali, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372362, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/236535

Producer. Born 28 April 1930 in Ajaccio, Corse-du-Sud, France. Died 18 January 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 28 April 1930, Ajaccio, Corse-du-Sud, France
- **Died:** 18 January 2023
- **Also known as:** 폴 베키알리, 폴 베시알리
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vecchiali, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372362, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/236535

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles*](https://film.one/film/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Paul Vecchiali (28 April 1930 – 18 January 2023) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer and author. Born in Ajaccio, Corsica, he grew up in Toulon and studied at the École Polytechnique. He began writing film criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1960s and made his first feature, Les Petits Drames, in 1961.

Vecchiali produced Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). In 1976 he founded the production company Diagonale, which supported independent filmmakers including Jean-Claude Biette and Marie-Claude Treilhou. His own films include Femmes Femmes (1974), La Machine (1977) and Encore (1988). He directed more than fifty films for cinema and television.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, cnc.fr, allocine.fr.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles* (1976), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles.md)

## Complete filmography (78)

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

- *Bonjour la langue* (2025), Writer, Director
- *Pas... de quartier* (2022), Director, Writer
- *Un soupçon d'amour* (2020), as L'homme qui danse avec Isabelle (uncredited) · Producer, Writer, Director
- *Train de vies* (2018), as Henri Lemoine · Writer, Director
- *The Seven Deserters Or The Never Ending War* (2017), Director, Writer
- *The Dunce* (2016), as Rodolphe · Director, Editor, Producer, Screenplay
- *It's Love* (2016), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Trois mots en passant* (2015), Director
- *White Nights on the Pier* (2014), as Le vieux · Director, Writer, Editor, Production Design, Costume Design, Producer
- *Wrong Harmonies* (2014), Writer, Director
- *The Ceremony* (2014), as Father · Director, Writer, Editor
- *L'autographe* (2013), Actor
- *Retour à Mayerling* (2011), Director
- *L'Imprésario* (2010), as Reader
- *Les gens d'en-bas* (2010), Director, Writer
- *Humeurs et rumeurs* (2009), Director
- *...Et tremble d'être heureux* (2007), Director
- *Être ou ne pas être* (2007), Director
- *Bareback ou la Guerre des sens* (2006), as Patrick Séraud · Director
- *Et + si @ff* (2006), Director, Writer
- *À vot' bon cœur* (2005), as Monsieur Paul · Director
- *Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition* (1998), Director
- *Love Reinvented* (1997), Writer, Director, Editor
- *Zone franche* (1996), Director
- *The Tears of AIDS* (1996), Director, Adaptation
- *Love Reinvented* (1996), series, Director, Adaptation
- *Les Boulingrin* (1995), Director
- *Wonderboy* (1994), Director, Scenario Writer, Screenplay, Editor
- *The Earth for the Living* (1994), Director, Writer
- *Point d'orgue* (1993), Director
- *The Marked Woman* (1992), series, Director, Writer
- *Fugue en sol mineur* (1992), Line Producer, Director
- *La Fille du magicien* (1990), Writer, Editor, Producer
- *La tendresse de l'araignée* (1990), Writer, Director
- *Guys in the Cafe* (1989), Director, Editor, Producer
- *Les jurés de l'ombre* (1989), series, Director
- *Imogène* (1989), Director
- *Once More* (1988), Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
- *With Feeling* (1987), Director
- *Soft qui peut* (1986), Writer, Director
- *À titre posthume* (1986), Director
- *Qui trop embrasse...* (1986), Editor
- *Le Tiers providentiel* (1986), Editor, Producer
- *Rosa la rose, fille publique* (1986), Director, Editor, Writer
- *Trous de mémoire* (1985), as The man · Writer, Editor, Director
- *Cœur de hareng* (1984), Director
- *Lettre d'un cinéaste* (1983), Director
- *At the Top of the Stairs* (1983), Director, Editor, Writer
- *Archipelago of Love* (1983), Director
- *Pornoscopie* (1983), Editor, Executive Producer
- *Une journée ordinaire* (1983), Director
- *La Visiteuse* (1981), Editor
- *C'est la vie !* (1981), Director, Writer
- *Lourdes l'hiver* (1981), Editor
- *Nightmare* (1980), Producer
- *Versailles* (1980), Director
- *Simone Barbès or Virtue* (1980), Editor, Producer
- *Drugstore Romance* (1979), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Fine Manners* (1978), Producer, Editor
- *Maladie* (1978), Director
- *The Theatre of the Matters* (1977), Executive Producer
- *La Machine* (1977), as Maître Altiani · Director, Producer, Scenario Writer, Editor
- *Tomorrow's Children* (1976), Producer
- *Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles* (1976), Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles.md)
- *Don't Change Hands* (1975), Writer, Dialogue, Director, Editor
- *Aloïse* (1975), Producer
- *Femmes femmes* (1974), Screenplay, Director, Editor, Producer
- *Albert Camus* (1974), Director
- *Témoignages : Prenez garde aux moroses* (1973), Director
- *Les jonquilles* (1972), Director, Editor, Writer
- *The Strangler* (1971), Director, Writer
- *The Devil's Tricks* (1966), Director, Writer
- *Nick Carter and Red Club* (1965), Dialogue
- *Happiness* (1965), as Paul
- *The Story of Rebecca* (1964), Director, Writer
- *Les Roses de la vie* (1962), Director, Script
- *The Evening* (1961), Actor
- *Paul a Mayerling, un ritratto*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Paul Vecchiali présentant son film "L'Étrangleur" dans la salle en son nom au cinéma Grand Action. (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/3919789/gallery-b1f1b89f1b44.jpg) Paul Vecchiali présentant son film "L'Étrangleur" dans la salle en son nom au cinéma Grand Action. (2022) — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Paul_Vecchiali_Grand_Action.jpg/1280px-Paul_Vecchiali_Grand_Action.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Paul Vecchiali](https://film.one/media/person/3919789/gallery-9495da9924ca.jpg) Paul Vecchiali — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Paul_Vecchiali_Cannes_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Paul Vecchiali présentant son film "L'Étrangleur" dans la salle en son nom au cinéma Grand Action. (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/3919789/gallery-875ab9c99f6f.jpg) Paul Vecchiali présentant son film "L'Étrangleur" dans la salle en son nom au cinéma Grand Action. (2022) — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Paul_Vecchiali_2022.jpg/1280px-Paul_Vecchiali_2022.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Paul Vecchiali](https://film.one/media/person/3919789/gallery-b534057a2215.jpg) Paul Vecchiali — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Officer of Arts and Letters 2019: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)

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

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