Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

550 • KAMLER, PIOTR
co-adapter, co-dialogist, also actor, Pierre Richard;
1979 Bête mais discipline, Claude Zidi, as co-dialogist;
1980 Les Sous-Doués, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
Claude Zidi; 1982 Pour Cent Briques, t’as plus rien . . . ,
as author of original play, co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, Edouard Molinaro; Les Sous-Doués en
Vacances, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
also actor, Claude Zidi; 1983 Banzaï, as co-adapter,
co-dialogist, also actor; 1984 Les Ripoux / UK: Le Cop /
USA: My New Partner, as dialogist, Claude Zidi; J’ai rencontré
le Père Noël / UK and USA: Here Comes Santa
Claus, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
Christian Gion; Le Garde du Corps, as co-screenwriter,
dialogist, also actor, François Leterrier; 1985 Les Rois
du Gag, as screenwriter, dialogist, also actor, Claude
Zidi; 1986 I Love You, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, Marco Ferreri; Yiddish Connection, as
adapter, dialogist, Paul Boujenah; 1987 Association de
Malfaiteurs, as dialogist, also actor, Claude Zidi; 1990
Ripoux contre Ripoux / UK: Le Cop 2 / USA: My New
Partner II / My New Partner at the Races, as dialogist;
1991 La Totale!, as dialogist, Claude Zidi; 1993 Profi l
bas, as dialogist, also actor, Claude Zidi; 2001 La Boîte,
as dialogist, Claude Zidi; 2003 Ripoux 3, as co-dialogist,
Claude Zidi). A fi lm actor since 1969, he played mainly
supporting roles in comedies.
Filmography
1975 Trop, c’est trop / USA: Too Much Is Too Much
(also screenwriter, dialogist)
1987 Tant qu’il y aura des Femmes (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1989 Les Cigognes n’en font qu’à leur Tête (also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1990 Promotion Canapé (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1992 A quoi tu penses-tu? (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1996 Ma Femme me quitte / USA: My Woman Is Leaving
Me (also screenwriter, dialogist)
KAMLER, PIOTR (June 30, 1936, Warsaw, Poland–)
After studying painting at the Art Academy and shooting
some amateur fi lms, he went to Paris in 1959. He
joined the research department at the ORTF (French
TV at the time), for which he fi lmed animated shorts
with sound tracks composed by contemporary musicians
(Bayle, Malec, Xenakis). Since 1961, he has
worked mainly in cinema.
Filmography
1961 Lignes et Points (animated short)
1967 La Planète verte / Zielona planeta (animated
short; France / Poland)
L’Araignéléphant (animated short; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
1968 Le Trou (animated short)
1969 Le Labyrinthe (animated short)
1971 Délicieuse Catastrophe (animated short)
1973 Cœur de Secours (animated short)
1975 Le Pas (animated short)
1983 Chronopolis (animation; also screenwriter, producer,
production designer, cinematographer;
France / Poland; shot in 1977–1982)
Television Filmography
1960 Conte (animated short)
1961 Continu, discontinu (animated short)
Composition (animated short)
Structure (animated short)
Danse (animated short)
1993 Une Mission éphémère (animated short; also
screenwriter)
KANAPA, JÉRÔME (November 25, 1946, Neuillysur-Seine,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
He studied political science and law before entering
fi lms as an assistant director to Claude Berri (1967 Le
Vieil Homme et l’Enfant / UK: The Old Man and the Boy
/ USA: The Two of Us; 1969 Le Mariage / UK and USA:
Marry Me! Marry Me!; 1970 Le Pistonné / USA: The
Man with Connections) and Jean-Louis Richard (1969
Le Corps de Diane / Telo Diany, France / Czechoslovakia).
He worked as a production assistant (1971 Taking
Off, Milos Forman, USA, executive producer; 1974
Mai 68, documentary, Gudie Lawaetz; La Course en
Tête, Joël Santoni; La Grande Trouille, Pierre Grunstein;
1975 Il pleut toujours où c’est mouillé, Jean-Daniel Simon)
and production manager (1975 C’est dur pour
tout le Monde, Christian Gion; Un Sac de Billes, Jacques
Doillon; 1995 Etat des Lieux, Jean François Richet).
In the early 1970s, he was a delegate producer and
manager of Vicco Films, a company he co-created
with Gérard Brach and Jean-Pierre Rassam (1970
Des Bleuets dans la Tête, short, Gérard Brach; Le Vin,
short, Charles Matton; La Maison, Gérard Brach; 1971
La Maison sur l’Herbe / USA: The Boat on the Grass,
Gérard Brach). He also was an assistant director for
costumes, fi lm sets, and special effects (1972 Le Petit
Poucet) and co-wrote Na! (Jacques Martin, 1973),