Writing

Bernard-Marie Koltès

Born April 9, 1948 · Metz, Moselle, France

Died April 15, 1989 · aged 41

Bernard-Marie Koltès (9 April 1948 – 15 April 1989) was a French playwright and theatre director best known for his plays La Nuit juste avant les Forêts (The Night Just Before the Forests, 1976), Sallinger (1977) and Dans la Solitude des Champs de Coton (In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, 1986). A close friend and collaborator with the avant-garde director Patrice Chéreau, the two created groundbr…

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The Fence

The Fence · 2026

Horn is welcoming his partner Léone into the hut he shares with Cal, when a man called Alboury appears. He stays there until they return the body of his brother, who was killed on the site.

The Wounded Man

The Wounded Man · 1983

The Wounded Man

MovieRomanceCrime

A fleeting encounter in a train station draws a withdrawn young man into a shadowy world of desire and danger. As obsession deepens, innocence destroyed, and an irreversible transformation begins.

Roberto Zucco

Roberto Zucco · 2026

One night, Roberto Zucco escapes from the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of his father. Thus begins a dizzying escape, punctuated by encounters that illustrate a quest for identity.

The Night Just Before the Forests

The Night Just Before the Forests · 2017

The Night Just Before the Forests

Using all the words he can find, a man tries to get a stranger to stay around—a stranger he approached on a street corner, one night when he was alone. He tells him about his world. A suburb where it rains, where everyone is a stranger, where no one works anymore; a nocturnal world that he is passing through, to flee, without looking back; he tells him about everything and about love, things one never talks about, except to a stranger like this one, a child perhaps, silent and motionless.

Dans la solitude des champs de coton

Dans la solitude des champs de coton · 2017

Dans la solitude des champs de coton

A staging of Bernard-Marie Koltès' play "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Roland Auzet.

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The Fence

The Fence · 2026

Horn is welcoming his partner Léone into the hut he shares with Cal, when a man called Alboury appears. He stays there until they return the body of his brother, who was killed on the site.

Theatre Play

The Wounded Man

The Wounded Man · 1983

The Wounded Man

MovieRomanceCrime

A fleeting encounter in a train station draws a withdrawn young man into a shadowy world of desire and danger. As obsession deepens, innocence destroyed, and an irreversible transformation begins.

Boy at the Train Station

Roberto Zucco

Roberto Zucco · 2026

One night, Roberto Zucco escapes from the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of his father. Thus begins a dizzying escape, punctuated by encounters that illustrate a quest for identity.

Writer

The Night Just Before the Forests

The Night Just Before the Forests · 2017

The Night Just Before the Forests

Using all the words he can find, a man tries to get a stranger to stay around—a stranger he approached on a street corner, one night when he was alone. He tells him about his world. A suburb where it rains, where everyone is a stranger, where no one works anymore; a nocturnal world that he is passing through, to flee, without looking back; he tells him about everything and about love, things one never talks about, except to a stranger like this one, a child perhaps, silent and motionless.

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Dans la solitude des champs de coton

Dans la solitude des champs de coton · 2017

Dans la solitude des champs de coton

A staging of Bernard-Marie Koltès' play "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Roland Auzet.

Theatre Play