---
name: "René Cleitman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rene-cleitman"
fi1m_id: "rene-cleitman"
imdb_id: "nm0165983"
tmdb_id: 34906
wikidata_id: "Q3426014"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "22 May 1940"
died: "14 December 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:46:27.439014+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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# René Cleitman

## Identity

René Cleitman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rene-cleitman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rene-cleitman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0165983
- **TMDB ID:** 34906
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3426014
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3426014, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165983/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34906

Producer. Born 22 May 1940 in Paris, France. Died 14 December 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 22 May 1940, Paris, France
- **Died:** 14 December 2004
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3426014, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165983/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34906

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Cyrano de Bergerac*](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md) (88)

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## Biography

René Cleitman was a French film producer. Born on 22 May 1940 in Paris, he began his career in radio advertising at Europe 1 before becoming director of programmes. In 1981 he founded Hachette Première, a subsidiary of the Hachette publishing group, through which he produced more than twenty features.

His credits include *Tenue de soirée* (1986), *Tandem* (1987), *Monsieur Hire* (1989) and *Tango* (1993) directed by Patrice Leconte, and two films by Jean-Paul Rappeneau: *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990) and *The Horseman on the Roof* (1995). He also produced *Life and Nothing But* (1989), *Fresh Bait* (1995) and, with Gérard Depardieu, several American independent films. Cleitman later worked with EuropaCorp and founded Theus Productions. He died on 14 December 2004.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *The Clear Eyes* (2005), Producer
- *The Chops* (2003), Producer
- *The War in Paris* (2002), Producer
- *Quasimodo d'el Paris* (1999), Producer
- *She's So Lovely* (1997), Producer
- *Unhook the Stars* (1996), Producer
- *The Horseman on the Roof* (1995), Delegated Producer
- *Fresh Bait* (1995), Producer
- *The Machine* (1994), Producer
- *Ivan & Abraham* (1993), Producer
- *Tango* (1993), Producer
- *Close to Eden* (1991), Associate Producer
- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)
- *Life and Nothing But* (1989), Producer
- *Monsieur Hire* (1989), Producer
- *The Veiled Man* (1987), Producer
- *Tandem* (1987), Producer
- *Ménage* (1986), Producer
- *La Galette du roi* (1986), Producer
- *One Woman or Two* (1985), Producer
- *The Bay Boy* (1984), Co-Producer
- *The Public Woman* (1984), Producer

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Film 1990: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Cyrano de Bergerac*

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

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