Nicolas Vanier

Nicolas Vanier (born 5 May 1962) is a French adventurist, writer and director. His 2004 film The Last Trapper follows a trapper in Yukon, Canada. His film, Loup ("Wolf") was released at the end of 2009 and was presented at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Loup is about the life of the Evens tribe in North Eastern arctic Siberia, in the Verkhoïansk mountain range, who live by raising large herds of reindeer (caribou), which involves protecting them from attacks by wolves. In 2018, France Nature Environnement formally complained that a film crew overseen by Vanier had disturbed a colony of Greater Flamingoes, by repeatedly flying over them in an ultra-light aircraft, causing many - an estimated 11% of the total breeding population in France - to desert their nests and eggs. Source: Article "Nicolas Vanier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Belle and Sebastian (2013)

Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Félix Bossuet  •  Tchéky Karyo  •  Dimitri Storoge  •  Andreas Pietschmann

Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that has been killing their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Félix Bossuet  •  Tchéky Karyo  •  Dimitri Storoge  •  Andreas Pietschmann

The Last Trapper (2004)

Norman is not just an admirer of nature, he's a part of it. He survives the harshness of the climate and the wildlife by coexisting with it. With his wife Nebraska, they live almost entirely off the land, making money by selling their furs.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Norman Winther  •  May Loo  •  Alex Van Bibber  •  Ken Bolton

Norman is not just an admirer of nature, he's a part of it. He survives the harshness of the climate and the wildlife by coexisting with it. With his wife Nebraska, they live almost entirely off the land, making money by selling their furs.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Norman Winther  •  May Loo  •  Alex Van Bibber  •  Ken Bolton

L'Odyssée sauvage (2014)

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Loup (2009)

Sixteen year old Sergei is the son of Boris, the head of the Batagi clan of reindeer breeders. Awarded the title of herdsman, with the clan's largest herd, he joins the Evenk tribe for the first time as they begin their summer cattle drive across the pastures of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Nicolas Brioudes  •  Pom Klementieff  •  Min Man Ma  •  Vantha Talisman

Sixteen year old Sergei is the son of Boris, the head of the Batagi clan of reindeer breeders. Awarded the title of herdsman, with the clan's largest herd, he joins the Evenk tribe for the first time as they begin their summer cattle drive across the pastures of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Nicolas Brioudes  •  Pom Klementieff  •  Min Man Ma  •  Vantha Talisman

L'enfant des neiges (1995)

A couple and their two year old daughter live for several months in the far North.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Nicolas Vanier  •  Diane Vanier  •  Montaine Vanier  •  Julia Levy-Boeken

A couple and their two year old daughter live for several months in the far North.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Nicolas Vanier  •  Diane Vanier  •  Montaine Vanier  •  Julia Levy-Boeken

Le voyageur du froid (2003)

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School of Life (2017)

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  François Cluzet  •  Jean Scandel  •  Eric Elmosnino  •  François Berléand

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  François Cluzet  •  Jean Scandel  •  Eric Elmosnino  •  François Berléand

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Spread Your Wings (2019)

Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Jean-Paul Rouve  •  Mélanie Doutey  •  Frédéric Saurel  •  Louis Vazquez

Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Jean-Paul Rouve  •  Mélanie Doutey  •  Frédéric Saurel  •  Louis Vazquez

Caravane (1986)

Au Nord De L'Hiver (1993)

A cold odyssey over more than 8,000 km through contrasting territories, from the mountains of Mongolia to Lake Baikal, from the taiga to the Siberian tondra: this is the challenge that Nicolas Vanier has set himself. The adventure will last 18 months, 18 months ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Thomas Bounoure  •  Alain Brénichot  •  Jean-Christophe Celbert  •  Karl Gerin

A cold odyssey over more than 8,000 km through contrasting territories, from the mountains of Mongolia to Lake Baikal, from the taiga to the Siberian tondra: this is the challenge that Nicolas Vanier has set himself. The adventure will last 18 months, 18 months ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  Thomas Bounoure  •  Alain Brénichot  •  Jean-Christophe Celbert  •  Karl Gerin

Un hiver de chiens (1997)

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DIRECTION:  Alain Rastoin
CAST:  Nicolas Vanier

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DIRECTION:  Alain Rastoin
CAST:  Nicolas Vanier

L'odyssée blanche (1999)

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DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
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DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
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Yukon Quest (2003)

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DIRECTION:  Thomas Bounoure
CAST:  Nicolas Vanier  •  Patrick Martinez  •  Marc Brunet

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DIRECTION:  Thomas Bounoure
CAST:  Nicolas Vanier  •  Patrick Martinez  •  Marc Brunet

Siberian Odyssey (2006)

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L'odyssée sybérienne (2006)

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La Dernière Meute (2013)

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DIRECTION:  Emmanuel Réau
CAST:  Nicolas Vanier

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DIRECTION:  Emmanuel Réau
CAST:  Nicolas Vanier

Rivières ouvertes (1987)

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DIRECTION:  Alain Rastoin
CAST:  Louis Bavière  •  Alain Rastoin  •  Nicolas Vanier  •  Gérard Sawyer

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DIRECTION:  Alain Rastoin
CAST:  Louis Bavière  •  Alain Rastoin  •  Nicolas Vanier  •  Gérard Sawyer

Poly (2020)

The adventures of Shetland pony Poly in the South of France.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  François Cluzet  •  Julie Gayet  •  Patrick Timsit  •  Elisa de Lambert

The adventures of Shetland pony Poly in the South of France.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicolas Vanier
CAST:  François Cluzet  •  Julie Gayet  •  Patrick Timsit  •  Elisa de Lambert
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