Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1978 Un Fou de Musique (16-mm medium-length
documentary; also screenwriter)
Symphonie pour une Préposée (16-mm documentary;
short; also screenwriter)
Les Haras nationaux (16-mm documentary;
short; also screenwriter)
Le Retour des Daltons (documentary; short;
also screenwriter)
1979 Inventaire (documentary; short; also screenwriter)
Donnez-nous aujourd’hui (documentary; short;
also screenwriter)
1980 Ils tissent le Temps (16-mm documentary;
short; also screenwriter)
Descente au Fond des Âges (documentary;
short; also screenwriter)
E.D.F. Patrimoine (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
1982 Petit Joseph (also adapter, producer)
1984 Moi un Lad (16-mm documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
Berger d’Abeilles (16-mm documentary; short;
also screenwriter)
1985 Duo pour une Soliste (16-mm short; also
screenwriter)
La Nuit des Starlettes (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1987 Histoire et Passion (6 60' documentary: Le
Moyen-Âge en Forez; Histoire autour de mon
Clocher; L’Immigration polonaise; La Sologne;
Guillaume le Conquérant; Les Communautés
famaliales agricoles; also co-producer)
1991 Une Femme résistante pour l’Honneur (2
52' documentary; also screenwriter, coproducer)
1992 Le Roi Tidalium (documentary; also screenwriter,
co-producer)
1994– Un Lycée pas comme les Autres (documentary;
1995 also screenwriter, co-producer)
1996 La Visite de la vieille Dame
1997 Tartuffe (captation)
1998 Fidalium Joly, le dernier Fils de Tidalium Pélo
(also screenwriter, producer)
1999 L’Arche de Noé (documentary; also screenwriter,
producer)
2000 Hanin cet Inconnu (documentary; also screenwriter,
producer)
2003 Les Gitans éternels Pèlerins (documentary;
also screenwriter, producer)
BARLATIER, PAUL • 55
Le Guerrier (documentary; also screenwriter,
producer
2004 Santo Pietro (documentary; short; also screenwriter,
producer)
2005 Une Soirée avec Manitas de Plata (documentary;
also screenwriter, producer)
BARKUS, ARNOLD (February 7, 1960, New York
City, New York, USA–)
After receiving a BA in philosophy from Yale University,
he made his fi lm debut as actor (1991 A
Little Stiff, Greg Watkins, Cavah Zahedi, USA; 1995
Cinq à sec, short, Jacky Katu; 1997 Sunday, Jonathan
Nossiter; 2001 I Am Joh Polonski’s Brother, Raphaël
Nadjari, France / USA; 2002 Les Naufragés de la D17,
Luc Moullet). His fi rst feature, shot in New York in
English, was seen on the art house and festival circuit
in 1992. Also a playwright (Bad Science), he co-wrote
Red Hook (Konstantin Bojanov, 2007).
Filmography
1992 Wadeck’s Mother’s Friend’s Son (also screenwriter,
dialogist, actor)
1997 Tempête dans un Verre d’Eau / USA: Tempest in
a Teapot (also screenwriter, dialogist)
BARLATIER, PAUL (1880, Marseille, Bouches-du-
Rhône, France–1940, Algiers, Algeria)
The manager of Lauréa Films, a fi lm company set in
the Studios de la Croix Rouge, he directed mostly
melodramas.
Filmography
1918 Le Petit Radjah (also screenwriter, adapter)
1919 Âmes corses (co-director with Gaston Mouru
de Lacotte; also screenwriter)
1920 Le Gage
1921 La Falaise (also screenwriter)
Tartarin sur les Alpes (co-director with Henry
Vorins)
Hors de la Boue (also screenwriter)
Fleur des Neiges (also screenwriter)
1922 L’Ampoule brisée (also screenwriter)
1923 Mes P’tits / Le Calvaire d’une Saltimbanque (codirector
with Charles Keppens)
1924 La Course à l’Amour (co-director with Charles
Keppens; also screenwriter)
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