Dobrila Diamantis
Born on May 9, 1938, Dobrila Diamantis is Executive Director of Cinema Saint Andre des Arts, which was created in 1992. She runs one of the temples of Parisian cinema: Saint-André des Arts, created in the 70s by her husband Roger Diamantis. The Saint-André des Arts, forever linked to Roger Diamantis. "A film enthusiast who did not go out of the cinema of art & essay and spent the Champo and Studio 28 days and nights, fondly remembers his wife, Dobrila Diamantis. It was in 1971 that Roger Diamantis bought a disused hotel in the middle of the Latin Quarter and transformed it little by little into a cinema. A precursor and emblematic cinema that adopts the name of the street where it lives. Diamantis aims to show films that other venues then sulk like "The Salamander" by Alain Tanner. It opens the two cinemas on October 27, 1971 and is scheduled for three years. Then comes the projection of "The Empire of the senses" by Nagisa Oshima that makes Diamantis the first Parisian programmer to give a chance to the sulfurous film of Oshima. "Showing something else, staying innovative and keeping the notion of transmission in mind is the mission of Saint-André," Dobrila Diamantis proudly recalls.