Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

672 • MAKOVSKI, CLAUDE
short, Lionel Bailliu; 2003 Dissonances, as executive
producer, Jérôme Cornuau).
Filmography
1994 Killer Kid (also co-screenwriter, associate producer)
2002 Féroce (also co-adapter, producer; shot in
1999–2000)
2007 Le Premier Cri (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1990 J’ai Douze Ans et je fais la Guerre (documentary)
1993 A qui profi te la Cocaïne? (documentary; codirector
with Mylène Sauloy)
1999 Sans Domicile fi xe (documentary)
Banlieue (documentary)
2005 Urgence Enfants (documentary)
2007 Les Chirurgiens de l’Espoir (documentary)
MAKOVSKI, CLAUDE (July 31, 1936, Paris,
France–)
He abandoned his studies in letters to direct a puppet
fi lm on the theme of the Roman de Renart. In
1960, he co-founded the Mac Mahon circle (the Mac
Mahon is a Parisian movie theater), which defended
and released the works of underrated (at the time)
American directors Joseph Losey and Raoul Walsh or
almost-forgotten fi lmmakers, such as Fritz Lang. The
same year, he created his own production company,
Cythère Films. In 1962, he became general secretary
of Les Cahiers du Cinéma with Jacques Rivette and
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. He ran two movie theaters,
Le Passy (1962) and the art house Le Dragon (1963).
In 1964, fi lmmaker Nelly Kaplan joined Cythère
Films, which fi nanced some of her documentary
shorts (1963 La Nouvelle Orangerie; 1966 Dessins et
Merveilles; Les Années 25; A la Source, la Femme aimée).
After working as a press attaché, he dedicated himself
to fi lm production (1967 Le Regard Picasso, mediumlength,
documentary, Nelly Kaplan; 1969 La Fiancée
du Pirate / UK: Dirty Mary / USA: A Very Curious Girl,
also co-screenwriter, actor, Nelly Kaplan; 1971 Papa,
les petits Bateaux, also co-screenwriter, actor as Iks
Vokam, Nelly Kaplan; 1979 Charles et Lucie / USA:
Charles and Lucie, also co-screenwriter, Nelly Kaplan;
1991 Plaisir d’Amour, Nelly Kaplan). He occasionally
served as an assistant director (1968 Treize Jours en
France / UK: Challenge in the Snow / USA: Grenoble,
documentary, Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach,
Guy Gilles) and appeared as an actor in fi lms
(1964 Bande à Part / UK: The Outsiders / USA: Band
of Outsiders, Jean-Luc Godard; 1977 Néa / Nea—Ein
Mädchen entdenckt die Liebe / UK: A Young Emmanuelle,
Nelly Kaplan, France / West Germany; 1990 Lacenaire
/ L’Elegant Criminel / US video: The Elegant Criminal,
Francis Girod) and TV movies (1982 Ce fut un bel
Eté, Jean Chapot; 1987 Pattes de Velours, Nelly Kaplan;
1990 Les Mouettes, Jean Chapot; 1993 Polly West est de
retour, Jean Chapot; 1994 Honorin et l’Enfant prodigue,
Jean Chapot). He authored as Claude Makowski a
monograph titled Albrecht Dürer, le Songe du Docteur
et de la Sorcière: Nouvelle Approche iconographique (Editions
Slatkine / La Différence, 1999; reedited in 2002
by Jacqueline Chambon).
Filmography
1964 La Nouvelle Orangerie (short; documentary)
Les Années 25 (short; documentary)
1967 Le Regard Picasso (short; documentary)
1970 Au Verre de l’Amitié (short)
1975 Il faut vivre dangereusement (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
MALAKIAN, PATRICK (August 27, 1963, Boulogne-Billancourt,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
The son of director Henri Verneuil, he graduated
from the Management French-American Institute in
1984. After completing his studies in the USA and his
military service, he began working as a fi rst assistant
director (1989 Cinq Jours en Juin, Michel Legrand; Vanille
Fraise, Gérard Oury; 1992 Mayrig, Henri Verneuil;
588, Rue Paradis / USA: Mother, Henri Verneuil; 1993
La Treizième Voiture / Das Geheimnis des 13. Wagen
/ The Secret of Coach 13, TV movie, Alain Bonnot,
France / UK / Germany; 1998 Michael kael contre la
worlds Company, Christophe Smith). Besides his directing
career, he had various other activities: actor
(1998 Commissaire Moulin, episode “Silence Radio”),
still photographer (2003 Dead End, Jean-Baptiste
Andrea, Fabrice Canepa), cinematographer (2004
Stuck on This Bloody Road, documentary, short, Antoine
Chuzeville), delegate producer (1999 Hap, le Céleste,
short, Laurent Germain Maury; 2004 La Mécanique
de l’Âge, short, Maurad Kara), and executive producer
(2007 Hellphone, James Huth). He also created his
own production company, Pakian Productions.
Filmography
1991 La Dernière Tentation de Chris (short; also
screenwriter)