Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

634 • LESTRADE, JEAN-XAVIER DE
1978 Attention, les Enfants regardent (also co-screenwriter)
1982 Légitime Violence (also co-adapter, actor)
1983 L’Indic (also co-screenwriter)
1985 Le 4ème Pouvoir (also co-author of original
story)
1988 Contrainte par Corps (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1993 Taxi de Nuit (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1965 Seul à Seul (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1981 Les Héritiers (episode “La Propriété”)
Pause-Café (six episodes)
1985 Double Face
1989 Une Saison de Feuilles (also co-screenwriter;
France / Canada / Switzerland)
1990 Navarro (episode “Mauvaises Actions”)
1991 Les Cahiers bleus
Navarro (episode “Samouraï”)
1992 Maigret chez les Flamands (also screenwriter,
dialogist; France / Belgium / Switzerland)
1993 Alice Nevers: Le Juge est une Femme (episode
“Aux Marches du Palais”; also actor)
1994 Maigret et le Corps sans Tête (also screenwriter,
dialogist; France / Switzerland / Belgium)
LESTRADE, JEAN-XAVIER DE (July 1, 1963,
Mirande, Gers, France–)
After completing his studies in journalism and law
in Paris, in 1987 he created his fi rst production
company, Tribulations, which fi nanced documentaries
for European television. In 1995, he co-founded with
Denis Poncet a new society, Maha Productions. His
movie Un Coupable idéal earned him a Hollywood
Academy Award for best documentary in 2002.
Filmography
2001 Le Coupable idéal / Murder on a Sunday Morning
(documentary; France / USA)
Television Filmography
1995 Un Cavale des Innocents (documentary, mediumlength)
1998 Une Australie blanche et pure (documentary;
medium-length)
La Vie jusqu’au Bout (documentary)
Des Enfants plein d’Espoir (documentary)
1999 D’un Amour à l’Autre (documentary)
2001 La Justice des Hommes (documentary; also
executive producer)
2004 Soupçons / UK: Death on the Staircase / USA:
The Staircase (8 45' documentary; also
screenwriter)
2008 Sur ta Joue ennemie (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
LETERRIER, FRANÇOIS (May 26, 1929, Margnylès-Compiègne,
Oise, France–)
He was a student in literature and philosophy when
Robert Bresson chose him to play the main character
in Un Condamné à Mort s’est échappé ou Le Vent souffl e
où il veut / USA: A Man Escaped / A Man Escaped or: The
Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth, 1956). After being briefl y
an assistant director (1958 Chronique provinciale, short,
Jean-Paul Rappeneau; Ascenseur pour l’Echafaud / UK:
Lift to the Scaffold / USA: Frantic, Louis Malle; Les Amants
/ UK and USA: The Lovers, Louis Malle; 1959 Bobosse,
Etienne Périer; Les Affreux, Marc Allégret; 1960 Chien de
Pique, Yves Allégret), he performed a small part in Alain
Resnais’s Stavisky / Stavisky, il grande truffatore (France /
Italy, 1974) and appeared as himself in TV documentaries
(1978 Portrait de Jacques Dufi lho, François Chatel;
2004 Le Cinéma de Jean Giono). His wife, Catherine
Leterrier, is a costume designer. Their son, Louis Leterrier,
is a fi lm director.
Filmography
1961 Les Mauvais Coups / UK and USA: Naked Autumn
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1963 Un Roi sans Divertissement
1968 La Chasse royale / Kralovska polovacka (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; released on
French TV in 1972; France / Czechoslovakia)
1973 Projection privée / UK: Private Screening / USA:
Private Projection (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1978 Va voir Maman, Papa travaille / UK and USA:
Your Turn, My Turn (also co-adapter)
Goodbye, Emmanuelle / USA: Emmanuelle 3 /
Goodbye, Emmanuelle (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1980 Je vais craquer!!! (also co-screenwriter)
1981 Quand tu seras débloqué . . . fais-moi signe! / Les
Babas Cool (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1984 Le Garde du Corps (also co-screenwriter)
1985 Tranches de Vie (also co-adapter)
1992 Le Fils du Mékong
Television Filmography
1965 La Guêpe
1976 Milady