Nicolas Altmayer, the prolific French producer behind the “OSS 117” franchise and films by François Ozon, Bertrand Bonello and Julia Ducournau, and his partner Mathilde Favier, a prominent Dior public relations executive, died Monday in a car accident in western France. Altmayer was 61 and Favier was 57.
\n\nThe couple were killed at around 4 p.m. on a departmental road in Airvault, in the Deux-Sèvres region, according to the Niort prosecutor’s office. Their vehicle “hit a heavy goods vehicle traveling in the opposite direction while they were overtaking another vehicle,” deputy prosecutor Nicolas Leclainche told AFP. An investigation for involuntary manslaughter by a driver has been opened to determine the circumstances of the crash.
\n\nLe Figaro reported that Altmayer and Favier were traveling from Cabourg to the Île de Ré, where Favier owned a home.
\n\nAltmayer was one of France’s most prominent independent producers. Together with his brother Éric Altmayer, he ran Mandarin & Compagnie, whose credits ranged from hit French comedies to films by some of the country’s leading auteurs.
\n\nAmong his best-known productions were Michel Hazanavicius’ “OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies” and “OSS 117: Lost in Rio,” both starring Jean Dujardin, as well as “Brice de Nice”…
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