Xavier Durringer

{{Short description|French playwright, screenwriter, director and novelist (1963–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Xavier Durringer | image = Xavier Durringer 29935.jpg | image_size = | caption = Durringer in 2017 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1963|12|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Montigny-lès-Cormeilles, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|10|04|1963|12|01|df=y}} | death_place = L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France | resting_place = | occupation = Writer, playwright, screenwriter, director | alma_mater = }}

'''Xavier Durringer''' (1 December 1963 – 4 October 2025) was a French playwright, screenwriter, writer and director.

==Life and career== Born in Paris on 1 December 1963<ref name=Durringer>{{Cite news |author=Paul Cardoso |title=Xavier Durringer Biography |url=https://www.naijanews.com/buzz/people/xavier-durringer-biography/ |access-date=6 October 2025 |newspaper=Naija News|date=9 November 2023}}</ref> he began by taking drama classes aged 18.<ref name=Xavier/> At the end of the 1980s he created a theatre company called La Lézarde.<ref name=Durringer/>

Durringer died from a heart attack at his home in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, on 4 October 2025, at the age of 61.<ref name=Xavier>{{Cite news |author=AFP |title=Décès du scénariste, réalisateur et dramaturge Xavier Durringer à 61 ans |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/deces-du-scenariste-realisateur-et-dramaturge-xavier-durringer-a-61-ans-20251005 |access-date=6 October 2025 |website=Le Figaro |date=5 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=Yves Jaeglé |title=Xavier Durringer, le cinéaste de « La Conquête », est mort à 61 ans |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/cinema/xavier-durringer-le-cineaste-de-la-conquete-est-mort-a-61-ans-05-10-2025-N6E65A2YJZANDH3F2N3WKMXDMM.php |access-date=6 October 2025 |website=leparisien.fr |date=5 October 2025}}</ref>

==Partial filmography== {{Div col}} * 1993: ''La Nage indienne'' * 1997: ''J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici'' * 2005: ''Chok-Dee'' * 2011: ''La Conquête''<ref>{{Cite news |author=Rebecca Leffler |title=CANNES Q&A: ‘The Conquest’ Director Xavier Durringer |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-qa-conquest-director-xavier-188565/ |access-date=6 October 2025 |website=hollywoodreporter.com |date=16 May 2011}}</ref> * 2013: ''La Source'' * 2015: ''Rappelle-toi'' * 2016: ''Ne m'abandonne pas'' * 2019: ''Paradise Beach'' * 2022: ''L'Homme parfait'' {{div col end}}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0244378}} * [https://www.unifrance.org/annuaires/personne/122158/xavier-durringer Xavier Durringer] at Unifrance

{{DEFAULTSORT:Durringer, Xavier}} Category:1963 births Category:2025 deaths Category:French film directors Category:20th-century French dramatists and playwrights Category:21st-century French dramatists and playwrights Category:Films directed by Xavier Durringer