Biography
Anatole Dauman (7 February 1925 – 8 April 1998) was a French film producer. Born in Warsaw, he emigrated to France and in 1951 co-founded the production company Argos Films with Philippe Lifchitz.
Through Argos Films he produced many works associated with the Left Bank filmmakers of the French New Wave and later international projects. His credits include Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (1956) and Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin Féminin (1966), Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum (1979), Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987), and Nagisa Ōshima’s In the Realm of the Senses (1976).
Dauman also produced Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice (1986) and Chris Marker’s Level Five (1997). He received several awards and nominations, including a European Cinema Society Special Award in 1989.
