Gérard Brach (23 July 1927 – 9 September 2006) was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud. At the beginning of the 70s he twice tried his hand at directing, but neither film achieved commercial success. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gérard Brach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.