| Coco Chanel | |
|---|---|
Promotional poster | |
| Genre | Biographical Drama |
| Written by | Jeffrey Hatcher Enrico Medioli Lea Tafuri |
| Screenplay by | James Carrington Carla Giulia Casalini |
| Directed by | Christian Duguay |
| Starring | Shirley MacLaine Malcolm McDowell |
| Theme music composer | Andrea Guerra |
| Country of origin | Italy France United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Luca Bernabei Matilde Bernabei Nicolas Traube |
| Cinematography | Fabrizio Lucci |
| Editor | Alessandro Lucidi |
| Running time | 139 minutes |
| Production companies | Lux Vide Rai Fiction Pampa Production Alchemy Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | Lifetime |
| Release | 13 September 2008 (2008-09-13) |
Coco Chanel is a 2008biographicaldramatelevision film directed byChristian Duguay and written by Ron Hutchinson, Enrico Medioli and Lea Tafuri. It starsShirley MacLaine as (the older)Coco Chanel, the pioneering French fashion designer. MacLaine was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work in the film.
Although an Italian-French-British production backed byRai Uno andFrance 2,Coco Chanel was primarily intended for the US market,[1] and was first broadcast in the United States on 13 September 2008 by cable channelLifetime. It premiered in Italy on 5 October 2008 and in France on 29 December 2008.[citation needed] In the United Kingdom, it was first released on DVD, on 6 June 2011.[2] Its first British TV broadcast was onTrue Entertainment on 7 April 2014.[3]
On 7 July 2009,Coco Chanel was released onDVD in theRegion 1 (US) format.