Rose Bosch

Roselyne-Rose Bosch was born in Avignon to a Catalan father and an Italian/French mother. Her father, who fled the franquist regime, transmits his passion for History - every Sunday, the main square of the Provençal city fills up with book traders. Every summer, the city of Avignon houses the largest European Theater Festival. Rose Bosch studies semiology in Aix-en-Provence, then moves on. She works for Le Point magazine in Paris (equivalent to Tima Magazine), as senior writer and a reporter, covering subjects such as portraits of Stephen Hawking, Basque terrorism, baby smuggling in Sri Lanka, famine in Nordeste Brasil... In 1991, she is finalist to the Albert Londres prize, equivalent to the Pulitzer. In 1990, while working on a subject in Seville, she discovers Columbus' correspondence. Her first spec screenplay, « 1492, Conquest of Paradise », will be directed by Ridley Scott, staring Gerard Depardieu. The film is released on October 12, 1992, to match the 500th anniversary. In France, it is distributed by Gaumont, a company which remains to this date partners with Bosch and Ilan Alain Goldman, who created « Legende Films » for the occasion. Caravels are built in Bristol England, cross the Atlantic and the Panama Canal, to their film location in Costa Rica. A 14th century city set is recreated in the jungle. In Spain, R.Scott shoots in Seville and Salamanca, where Columbus lived. The film is entirely financed independently. In the late 90's, Ilan-Alain Goldman and Bosch get married. Their twin sons are born in 2000. While Legende continues to produce films both in French and in English language (Crimson Rivers, Vatel, Casino, La Vie en Rose), Bosch continues to write. Animal released in 2006, is Bosch's directing debut. The film, shot in English with a British cast (Ed Stoppard, Andreas Wilson...) deals with the biochemistry of aggressiveness. In 2009, Bosch and Goldman launch a long time project, The Round Up, about the largest European round up of Jews in WWII. (13 000 people in less than 48 hours, including 5000 children). The film focuses especially on them and is historically accurate to the smallest facts. A surprise hit at the box office, with 3 millions admissions, The Round Up tops films like Schindler's List or The Pianist at the French box office, and triggers a nationwide political debate about French collaboration. The CNC, (Center for French Cinematography) awarded Bosch with Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Melanie Laurent plays « Annette Monnot », a real life medical nurse who tried to protect the Jewish children before their deportation to Auschwitz. Jean Reno plays one of the three doctors working in the Velodrome. Adèle Exarchopoulos, then a debutante of 15, plays « Anna » Traube, real life survivor, (now 90) whom the young actress meets in Montmartre on the set. Cast also includes Gad El Maleh, Sylvie Testud, and Anne Brochet. Twin boys age 5 at the time, share the role of « Nono », Melanie Laurent's protégé. One quarter of the real Velodrome is rebuilt in Hungary by the late Olivier Raoux (« La Vie en Rose »). In 2014, Rose Bosch films a comedy, « My Summer In Provence » to be released in the States in 2015. The film who tells of her childhood in Provence. It is her second collaboration with Jean Reno. Cast also includes a deaf actor age 7, Lukas Pélissier, who plays Reno's grandson. Bosch is presently working on two English language projects.