You don't have to be a fan of French cinema to have heard film music by ?ric Serra. Anyone who has ever seen James Bond's Golden Eye still has the sounds of the award-winning composer in their ears. His work with director Luc Besson, for example in "The Fifth Element" (1997), one of the most successful European films to date. Serra began his career in the mid-1970s as a guitarist and bassist in various bands. Later he accompanied Jacques Higelin, one of the greatest rock stars of his country. At the beginning of the 1980s he met Besson and composed the music for his films such as "Der letzte Kampf" (1983), "Subway" (1985), "Nikita" (1990), "Johanna von Orleans" (1999) or "Arthur und die Minimoys" (2006). In 1989 Serra won a C?sar, the most prestigious French film award, for his soundtrack to "The Big Blue", which was released the year before. The dramatic underwater epic became the cult film of the late 1980s with its extraordinary photography, fairy-tale history and ?ric Serra's popular synthesizer music.
