Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1995 Molom, Conte de Mongolie (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, co-producer; shot in 1993)
1999 La Projection (documentary; medium-length;
also screenwriter)
2003 Yônden (docu-fi ction)
2007 Tengri, le Bleu du Ciel (documentary; also
screenwriter; France / Germany)
Television Filmography
1985– Le Temps retrouvé (documentary)
1988 La Pilule de longue Vie (documentary)
Le Tibétains de l’Exil (documentary)
A la recherche de l’Eternité (documentary)
1989 Un Eté au Tibet (documentary)
Sept Femmes au Tibet sur les Traces d’Alexandra
David-Néel (documentary)
JAPRISOT, SÉBASTIEN (Jean-Baptiste Rossi / July
5, 1931, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France–March
4, 2003, Vichy, Allier, France)
Of Italian descent, he was educated by the Jesuits
and completed his studies at the Sorbonne University.
In 1950, when he was only eighteen years
old, he published a critically acclaimed fi rst novel,
Les Mal-Partis (Robert Laffont). Three years later, he
translated into French J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher
in the Rye. In the 1950s, he earned his living as an
advertising chief for two Parisian agencies. In 1960,
he met producer Pierre Braunberger, who fi nanced
his three shorts. Under the pseudonym of Sébastien
Japrisot (an anagram of his name), he published two
detective novels written in fi fteen days. They were
immediately adapted by himself and brought to the
screen by André Cayatte (1965 Piège pour Cendrillon
/ Non sono un’assassino / UK and USA: A Trap for
Cinderella, France / Italy) and Costa-Gavras (1965
Compartiment Tueurs / UK: The Sleeping Car Murder
/ USA: The Sleeping Car Murders). He became much
in demand as a screenwriter (1968 Adieu l’Ami / Due
sporche carogne / Tecnica di una rapina / USA: Farewell,
Friend / Honor Among Thieves, as screenwriter, coadapter,
dialogist, Jean Herman, France / Italy; 1969
Le Passager de la Pluie / L’uomo venuto dalla pioggia
/ USA: Rider on the Rain / US video, as author of
original novel, screenwriter, René Clément, France /
Italy; 1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
/ La Dame dans l’Auto avec des Lunettes et un Fusil, as
author of original novel, co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, Anatole Litvak, UK / France; 1972 La
Course du Lièvre à travers les Champs / La corsa della
lepre attraverso i campi / USA: And Hope to Die, as
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, René Clément, France
/ Italy; 1975 Histoire d’O / Die Geschichte der O. / USA:
The Story of O, as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Just
Jaeckin, France / West Germany; 1983 L’Eté meurtrier
/ USA: One Deadly Summer, as author of original novel,
as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Jean Becker; 1999
Les Enfants du Marais / UK: The Children of Marshland,
as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Jean Becker; 2001
Un Crime au Paradis / UK and USA: A Crime in Paradise,
as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Jean
Becker). After his death, Jean-Pierre Jeunet adapted
his novel Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles / USA: A Very
Long Engagement (2004, France / USA).
Filmography
1961 La Machine à parler d’Amour (as Jean-Baptiste
Rossi; short; also screenwriter, dialogist, voice)
1962 L’Idée fi xe (as Jean-Baptiste Rossi; short; also
screenwriter, monologue)
1964 L’Homme perdu dans son Journal (as Jean-
Baptiste Rossi; short; also screenwriter)
1976 Les Mal Partis (as Jean-Baptiste Rossi; also
original novel, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1988 Juillet en Septembre (also screenwriter, dialogist)
JAQUELUX (Lucien Jaquelux)
JARDIN, ALEXANDRE • 529
A set decorator and production designer from 1926
(Yasmina, André Hugon) to 1943 (Les Ailes blanches,
Robert Péguy), he directed or co-directed a few
fi lms in the 1930s. He also was occasionally an assistant
director (1928 La Venenosa, Roger Lion, also set
decorator) and co-screenwriter (1942 Chambre 13,
André Hugon).
Filmography
1930 Les Saltimbanques / I saltimbanchi / Gaukler
(co-director with Robert Land; France / Italy
/ West Germany)
1932 Le Picador
La casa es seria (USA)
1936 Le Malade imaginaire (co-director with Marc
Mérenda; shot in 1934)
JARDIN, ALEXANDRE (April 14, 1965, Paris,
France–)
The son of novelist and screenwriter Pascal Jardin
(1934–1980), he wrote his fi rst novel at age twentyone
and co-adapted it for the screen three years