Stéphane Tchalgadjieff

Stéphane Tchalgadjieff is a French film producer and director of Armenian descent, who was born on 9 August 1942 in Bulgaria. He founded several motion picture companies: Sunchild productions (1971–1981), Sunshine (1995) and the Solaris (2002–present).

Born in Bulgaria to an Armenian family, Tchalgadjieff came to live in France as a child and became a French citizen in 1953. He studied anthropology at Columbia University and New York University. He produced movies for, among others, Robert Bresson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jacques Rivette and Marguerite Duras. He worked with a line producer: Danièle Gégauff, former actress for Claude Chabrol.