Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

“Les Fiançailles tragiques,” “Un Cœur de Héros,” “La
Chasse à l’Homme,” “La Lettre à Bonaparte,” “La
Morsure du Serpent,” “La Réponse de Bonaparte,”
Luitz Morat; Les Misérables, four parts: “Prologue et
Fantine,” “Cosette,” “Marius,” “L’Epopée Rue Saint-
Denis,” Henri Fescourt). A fi lm director since 1927,
he also was production designer (1936 Les Petites
Alliées, Jean Dréville) and adapter (1930 Un hombre de
suerte, Spanish-language version of René Barberis’s Un
Trou dans le Mur, Benito Perojo).
Filmography
1927 Les Larmes de Colette
1928 La Veine
1929 La Merveilleuse Journée (also adapter)
Le Danseur inconnu
La Tentation (co-director with René Leprince)
1930 Un Trou dans le Mur (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1931 Une Fameuse Idée (medium-length; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Romance à l’Inconnue
1932 Le Casque de Fer (short; also adapter)
Le Mystère du Château d’If (short)
1934 Casanova / Les Amours de Casanova
1938 Ramuntcho (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1939 Coups de Feu
1943 La Chèvre d’Or (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
BARBERO, GUY (1952, France–)
Trained as an assistant director (1972 What a Flash!,
Jean-Michel Barjol), he directed a movie on the living
conditions of Maghrebian workers in France. He is
also a fi lm editor (1993 Les Joints des Mines sont plus
étanches que les Chambres à Air de nos Vélos, documentary,
Isabelle Quignaux).
Filmography
1976 France, Mère Patrie
BARBIER, BENOÎT
A photographer for the fi lm magazine Première
(1978–1984), he became a still photographer (1988
Camille Claudel, Bruno Nuytten; 1990 Le Mari de la
Coiffeuse / UK and USA: The Hairdresser’s Husband,
Patrice Leconte; Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean-Paul Rappeneau;
1991 Tous les Matins du Monde / UK and USA: All
the Mornings of the World / Every Morning of the World,
Alain Corneau; 1992 L’Amant / The Lover, Jean-Jacques
Annaud, France / UK / Vietnam; 1993 Germinal, Claude
Berri, France / Belgium / Italy; 1994 Le Colonel Chabert
/ USA: Colonel Chabert, Yves Angelo).
Filmography
1995 L’Amour conjugal
BARBIER, ERIC (June 29, 1960, Aix-en-Provence,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
He studied cinema at IDHEC (1979–1982), where he
fi lmed three shorts (Shangaï; Who Is in the Rain Coat?; La
Malédiction de Saint-Merri). He directed video clips, industrial
fi lms, and shorts. His fi rst feature fi lm, Le Brasier,
received the Jean Vigo Prize. Other credit (as actor):
1995 Le Péril jeune (Cédric Klapisch, shot in 1993).
Filmography
1984 La Face perdue (short)
1991 Le Brasier (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist; shot in 1989–1990)
2000 Toreros / La hora del torero (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Spain;
shot in 1997)
2006 Le Serpent / UK: The Serpent (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1992 Les Années Lycée: Un Air de Liberté
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BARCO, OLIAS (February 3, 1969, Neuilly-sur-
Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
A stage director at Nice; then at Washington, DC,
USA (French embassy); and fi nally at Paris, where he
met cinematographer Thierry Arbogast, who photographed
his fi rst short, he directed several video
clips, including the last Ray Charles musical video (Say
No More) and created his own production company,
OXB Productions.
Filmography
1992 Clin d’œil (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
editor)
1994 Toilettes (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer)
Poubelles (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer)
1998 Chapacan (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer)
3 Petits Points la Lune (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer)