Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1983 Le Dernier Civil
1985 Série noire (episode “Meurtres pour Mémoire”;
also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1988 Médecins des Hommes (episode “La Naissance:
Le Pays du Soleil levant”; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1989 Ceux de la Soif (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
Série noire (episode “Main pleine”)
1992 La Place du Père (also co-screenwriter)
1994 Cognacq-Jay
1995 Chercheurs d’Héritiers (episode “Les Gens de
Faillac”)
L’Instit (episode “L’Angélus du Corbeau”)
1996 Cœur de Cible
J’ai rendez-vous avec vous
Le Retour du Chat
1998 Deux Flics (episodes “Les Revenants,” “Le
Quatrième Homme”)
1999 Véga (episodes “Anouchka,” “Julien”)
2001 La Porteuse de Valise
2002 Le Malade imaginaire
2003 Maigret (episodes “Maigret et la Princesse”
/ USA: “Maigret and the Princess,” “L’Ami
d’Enfance de Maigret”; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Belgium / Switzerland)
2004 Maigret (episodes “Maigret et le Clochard,
Maigret en Meublé”; France / Belgium / Switzerland)
Quand la Mer se retire
2007 René Bousquet ou Le Grand Arrangement
Chez Maupassant (episode “L’Héritage”; also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)
2008 Chez Maupassant (episode “Ce Cochon de
Morin”)
La Mort n’oublie personne (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
HIRTE, ANCA
Filmography
2004 Voyage dans l’Irréalité immédiate (documentary;
co-director with Jean Lefaux)
HODGSON, PIERRE
Of English descent, he was a fi rst assistant director
to Raúl Ruiz (1994 L’Île au Trésor / Treasure Island,
France / UK / USA / Portugal, shot in 1985) before
collaborating as a co-screenwriter on several fi lms
(1995 Schizophrenia, short, Nuno Leonel, Portugal;
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1998 Sapatos pretos / Chaussures noires, João Canijo,
Portugal / France; 1999 Sombre, Philippe Grandrieux;
2000 La Mécanique des Femmes, Jérôme de Missolz;
2001 Ganhar a Vida, João Canijo, Portugal; 2002 Zone
reptile, TV, Jérôme de Missolz; 2004 Noite escura, João
Canijo, Portugal; 2005 Paradise Now, Hany Abu-Assad,
France / Germany / Netherlands / Israel).
Filmography
2005 Daddy, Daddy USA (documentary; also screenwriter)
HOFFENBERG, ESTHER (1950, Paris, France–)
She made her directing debut in 1980. In 1984 and
1985, she produced radio programs for Les Nuits
magnétiques (France-Culture). In 1989, she created
a production company, Lapsus, which fi nanced documentaries
(1994 Nous les Enfants du XXe Siècle, Vitali
Kanevsky, France / Russia; 2000 La Devinière, documentary,
Benoît Dervaux, France / Belgium; 2003 La
Raison du plus fort, documentary, Patric Jean, France /
Belgium).
Filmography
1980 Comme si c’était Hier (documentary; co-director
with Myriam Abramowicz; Belgium)
1982 La Sorcière (co-director with Myriam Abramowicz,
Yvan Beeckaert)
2005 Les Deux Vies d’Eva (documentary; also screenwriter,
co-producer)
HONDO, MED (Abid Mohamed Medoun Hondo /
May 4, 1936, Ai N Ouled Beni Mathar, Mauritania–)
He learned cooking at the International Hotel School
of Rabat, Morocco. Having settled in France in 1959,
he worked as a longshoreman and a cook in Marseille
before moving to Paris, where he attended Françoise
Rosay’s acting courses. He performed many classic
plays and took part in the creation of the Comité
africain des Cinéastes. In 1966, he founded his own
theatrical group, Griotshango. Seen as an actor in
several movies (1967 Un Homme de trop / Il 13° uomo
/ UK and USA: Shock Troops, Costa-Gavras, France /
Italy; 1968 Tante Zita / USA: Zita, Robert Enrico; 1969
A Walk with Love and Death, John Huston, USA), he
made his directing debut in 1967. His voice is probably
more familiar to French audiences than his face.
He dubbed most of the black American actors of the
1970s and 1980s (Gregg Morris, Fred Williamson,