Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Amour / 24—Jikan no joji / UK: Hiroshima, My Love,
Alain Resnais, France / Japan; 1961 Par-dessus le Mur,
Jean-Paul Le Chanois; shot in 1959; L’Année dernière à
Marienbad / L’anno scorso a Marienbad / UK: Last Year
in Marienbad / USA: Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Resnais,
France / Italy; 1962 Les Amants de Teruel / USA:
The Lovers of Teruel, Raymond Rouleau; 1963 Muriel ou
Le Temps d’un Retour / Muriel, il tempo di un ritorno / UK
and USA: Muriel, or the Time of Return, Alain Resnais,
France / Italy; 1966 La Guerre est fi nie / Kriget ar slut /
USA: The War Is Over, Alain Resnais, France / Sweden;
1973 Le Train / Noi due senza domani / US DVD: The
Last Train, Pierre Granier-Deferre, France / Italy; 1974
Stavisky / Stavisky, il grande truffatore, Alain Resnais,
France / Italy; 1976 Lumière / Scena di un’amicizia tra
donne / USA: Lumiere, Jeanne Moreau, France / Italy;
1979 L’Adolescente / Mädchenjahre / USA: The Adolescent,
Jeanne Moreau, France / West Germany; West
Indies / West Indies ou les Nègres marrons en Liberté,
Med Hondo, France / Algeria / Mauritania; 1980 Mon
Oncle d’Amérique / UK and USA: My American Uncle,
Alain Resnais; 1983 La Vie est un Roman / USA: Life Is
a Bed of Roses, Alain Resnais; 1987 Les Exploits d’un
jeune Don Juan / L’iniziazione / USA: Exploits of a Young
Don Juan, Gianfranco Mingozzi, France / Italy). He cowrote
the dialogue of Chã Forte com Limão (Antonio
de Macedo, Portugal / France, 1993) and Adeus Princesa
/ Adios princesa / Adieu Princesse (Jorge Paixão da
Costa, Portugal / Spain / France, 1994).
Filmography
1964 Aimez-vous les Femmes? / USA: A Taste for
Women, also adapter)
LÉON, PIERRE (November 11, 1959, Moscow,
Russia–)
Having settled in France in 1975, he studied literature
and cinema at the University of Paris III, where he
met Mathieu Riboulet, with whom he began directing
movies. He also played in several movies (1989
Les Cinéphiles 1: Le Retour de Jean, Louis Skorecki; Les
Cinéphiles 2: Eric a disparu, Louis Skorecki; 1993 Chasse
gardée, Jean-Claude Biette, shot in 1990; 1996 Le Complexe
de Toulon, Jean-Claude Biette; 2001 Humphrey
Bogart et la Femme invisible, short, Anne Benhaïem;
2003 Toutes ces belles Promesses, Jean-Paul Civeyrac,
France / Belgium; 2004 Le Dieu Saturne, short, Jean-
Charles Fitoussi; Le Pont des Arts, Eugène Green; 2005
L’Etoile violette / TV: Jean-Jacques, short, Axel Robert;
2007 La France, Serge Bozon). Other credit (as sound
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engineer): 2006 Le Brahmane du kommintern (documentary,
Vladimir Léon). His brother, Vladimir Léon, is
also a director and actor.
Filmography
1994 Li per li (also screenwriter, actor)
1995 Le Lustre de Pittsburgh (also screenwriter)
1996 Le Dieu Mozart (also screenwriter, actor)
1997 Oncle Vania (also screenwriter)
1998 Le Dieu Mozart II (also screenwriter)
Histoire-Géographie (co-director with M. Riboulet;
also screenwriter)
2001 L’Adolescent (also co-screenwriter)
L’Etonnement (also screenwriter)
2004 Nissim dit Max (documentary; co-director
with Vladimir Léon; shot in 2002)
2006 Octobre (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer,
actor)
2007 Guillaume et les Sortilèges (also screenwriter)
2008 L’Idiot (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
LÉON, VLADIMIR (August 6, 1969, Moscow, Russia–)
In France since 1975, he studied cinema and aesthetics
at the Sorbonne, where he began shooting video
and Super-8 movies. He collaborated as an actor on
the underground fi lms directed by his elder brother
Pierre and some friends of his (1989 Les Cinéphiles
1: Le Retour de Jean, Louis Skorecki; Les Cinéphiles 2:
Eric a disparu, Louis Skorecki; 1994 Li per Li, Pierre
Léon; 1995 Le Lustre de Pittsburgh, Pierre Léon; 1996
Les Travaux de nos Jours, Mathieu Riboulet; 1997 Oncle
Vania, Pierre Léon; 1998 Le Dieu Mozart II, Pierre
Léon; 2001 Humphrey Bogart et la Femme invisible,
short, Anne Benhaïem; L’Etonnement de Léon, Pierre
Léon; 2002 Mods, short, Serge Bozon; 2003 Toutes ces
belles Promesses, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, France / Belgium;
2004 Triple Agent / Agente speciale / Triple agente / US
festival: Triple Agent, Eric Rohmer, France / Italy / Spain;
2005 Etoile Violette / TV: Jean-Jacques, short, Axelle
Ropert; 2006 Neige, ma Grimace, short, Antoine Fumat;
Octobre, Pierre Léon; Il faut aimer son Prochain,
les Autres sont trop loin, short, Arnold Pasquier; 2007
Guillaume et les Sortilèges, Pierre Léon; 2008 L’Idiot,
Pierre Léon).
Filmography
1989 Portrait au judas (short; also screenwriter)
1995 Atcha (co-director with Arnold Pasquier)