Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

HABIB, RALPH (Raphaël Habib / June 29, 1912,
Paris, France–June 19, 1969, Paris, France)
He entered fi lms in 1933 as a stage coordinator at
Pathé Studios. He was a co-editor (1945 Fausse Alerte
/ USA: The French Way, Jacques de Baroncelli, shot in
1940), technical director (1947 Panique / USA: Panic,
Julien Duvivier), production manager (1947 Contre-
Enquête / USA: Counter Investigation, Jean Faurez; 1948
Neuf Garçons, un Cœur, Georges Freedland; Si Jeunesse
savait, André Cerf), and assistant director (1950 La
Belle que voilà, Jean-Paul Le Chanois; Le Grand Rendezvous,
Jean Dréville) before directing his fi rst feature
fi lm in 1951. In 1959, he supervised J’irai cracher sur
vos Tombes / USA: I Spit on Your Grave (Michel Gast).
Filmography
1951 Rue des Saussaies
1952 La Forêt de l’Adieu
1954 Les Compagnes de la Nuit / USA: Companions
of the Night
La Rage au Corps / USA: Tempest in the Flesh
Crainquebille
Secrets d’Alcôve / Il letto / USA: The Bed (segment
“Riviera Express”; France / Italy)
1955 Les Hommes en blanc / UK: Men in White /
USA: Doctors
1956 La Loi des Rues / USA: Law of the Streets (also
co-screenwriter)
Club de Femmes / Club di ragazze (also coadapter;
France / Italy)
1957 Escapade
1958 Le Passager clandestin / The Stowaway (also coadapter;
France / Australia)
1959 Geheimakten schwarze Kapelle / R.P.Z. appelle
Berlin / I sicari di Hitler / USA: The Black Chapel
(France / West Germany / Italy)
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1960 Au Voleur! / Affäre Nabob (France / West Germany)
1966 Le Solitaire passe à l’Attaque / El Solitario pasa al
ataque (France / Spain)
1967 Pension Clausewitz / Haus der Erotik (West
Germany)
Television Filmography
1970 Un Taxi dans les Nuages (13 26')
HADJADJ, BRUNO (Bruno Lévy Hadjadj / February
27, 1965, Sarcelles, Val-d’Oise, France–)
After studying applied arts at the ENSAAMA (Paris)
and decorative arts at the ENSAD (Paris) and spending
a short time at the Middlesex Polytechnic (London),
he joined fi lm decoration teams and worked as
a builder, painter, sculptor, prop master, assistant, set
designer, and art director. A plastic artist, he never
stopped exhibiting his works all over the world. In
the late 1990s, he lived in New York, where he associated
with many members of the local independent
cinema scene. These people created in him the desire
to make a movie, and it took fi ve years to complete it.
His production designer credits include Petite Copine
(short, Rodolphe Balaguer), 2001 Un Jeu d’Enfants
(Laurent Tuel), and 2003 K.O. (short, Raphaël Frydman)
and many commercials and music videos.
Filmography
2006 Bandidos (also screenwriter, dialogist; shot in
2001–2005)
HADMAR, HERVÉ (May 24, 1963, France–)
Having trained as a graphic designer, he also attended
the ESSEC, a commercial school, and worked as an
artistic manager for ten years. He wrote screenplays