The next ceremony of the César awards, the annual French cinema, will be dedicated to great French-Armenian Chansonnier Charles Aznavour, who died Monday at the age of 94 years, the Academy of Caesar announced on Thursday, according to the report by The Siver Telegram.
As the source reports, Charles Aznavour has also been an actor in sixty movies, in François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Volker Schlöndorff, or Atom Egoyan.
He has played in “Shoot the piano player” by François Truffaut, “The Testament of Orpheus” of Jean Cocteau, “Taxi for Tobruk” of Dionysius of the Patellière, “The tin Drum” by Volker Schlöndorff, or “Ararat” of Atom Egoyan.
“Charles Aznavour was an absolute artist! Singer, songwriter for the songs and for movies… It was also a tremendous actor who wrote scenarios or dialogues… His career in movies was admirable,” said the president of the Academy of the arts and techniques of cinema, Alain Terzian, in a press release. “The 44th annual ceremony of Caesar him an homage”, he added.