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Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Haults-de-Seine, France; brother of composer Phillipe Sarde. Producer who entered French film in the mid-1970s as an associate producer for TOUCHE PAS À LA FEMME BLANCHE / DON'T TOUCH THE WHITE WOMAN (1974). Other notable credits in his prolific career (which encompasses almost 150 films) include L'ÉTOILE DU NORD / THE NORTH STAR (1982), PRÉNOM CARMEN / FIRST NAME: CARMEN (1983), HAREM (1985), DE GUERRE LASSE / ENGAGEMENTS OF THE HEART (1987), BITTER MOON (1992), MA SAISON PRÉFÉRÉ / MY FAVORITE SEASON (1993), ROSINE (1994), FOR EVER MOZART (1996), LOVE ME (2000), AMAZON (also 2000), MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001), ALL OR NOTHING and THE PIANIST (both 2002), NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP (2003), CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES / INTIMATE STRANGERS, ZIVOT JE CUDO / HUNGRY HEART, GENESIS, NOTRE MUSIQUE / OUR MUSIC and VERA DRAKE (all 2004), OLIVER TWIST (2005), and POMPEII (scheduled for release in 2009).  Nominated for Best Picture of the Year 2002: THE PIANIST - Producer (w. Roman Polanski and Robert Benmussa) 1 nomination