Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Filmography
1995 Les Sables (short; also screenwriter, adapter)
1996 Les Amants de Saint-Jean (short; also coscreenwriter)
1998 Loin du Front (co-director with Vladimir Léon;
also co-screenwriter)
2003 More About the Condor (short; also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
2004 Something About Sydney Pollack (documentary;
also screenwriter)
Métro Lumière: Hou Hsiao-Hsien à la rencontre
de Yasujirô Ozu (documentary; also screenwriter,
executive producer)
MANOUSSI, JEAN (1879, Marseille, Bouches-du-
Rhône, France–December 23, 1929, Paris, France)
A playwright, he entered fi lms, authoring screenplays
(1909 Un Cambrioleur ingénieux, short, Anonymous;
1917 Aline ou La Double Vie, Edouard-Emile Violet;
L’Homme qui s’est vendu, three parts, Gaston Silvestre;
Le Jupon, Edouard-Emile Violet; Le Songe d’un Mois
d’Eté, Edouard-Emile Violet; 1918 Rita, Edouard-Emile
Violet; 1928 L’Evadée / Le Secret de Délia, also cinematographer,
Henri Ménessier) or co-writing screenplays
(1917 Aimer c’est souffrir, Charles Maudru; 1926
Knock, ou Le Triomphe de la Médecine, René Hervil).
Other credits (as assistant director): 1927 Croquette
ou une Histoire de Cirque / Le Môme du Cirque (Louis
Mercanton); (as co-author of original play): 1937 Monsieur
Breloque a disparu (Robert Péguy).
Filmography
1909 Le Mariage de la Cuisinière (short; co-director
with Gabriel Timmory)
1917 La Fugitive
1919 Fanny Lear (co-director with Robert
Boudrioz)
L’Homme bleu
1920 Illusions
1922 Le Grillon du Foyer (also screenwriter,
adapter)
1925 Le Mirage de Paris / Au Pied du Géant / German
version: Der Maler und sein Model (France /
Germany)
1926 Ma Maison de Saint-Cloud
Fedora (also screenwriter, adapter; Germany)
1927 Le Dernier des Capendu (shot in 1923)
MANTHOULIS, ROBERT • 677
MANTHOULIS, ROBERT (Roviros Manthoulis /
1929, Komotini, Greece–)
He made his secondary studies in Athens. At age
fourteen, he joined the Greek Resistance during
the occupation of France. After World War II, he
studied political science in Athens and stage and fi lm
directing in the USA as a grant holder of Syracuse
University, New York (1949–1953), and in England
as grant holder of the British Council. Having returned
to Greece, he worked for radio (mostly for
the Wednesday Theatre, 1956–1959) and stage (My
Heart’s in the Highlands, William Saroyan, 1958). In
1958, he organized the documentary department
in the Greek Ministry of Information. The same
year, he shot his fi rst movie, which also was the
fi rst Greek documentary. He taught cinema at the
Superior School of Cinema from 1956 to 1966 and
collaborated as a fi lm critic on the review Cinema
and Theatre. In 1960, he founded a movement, “the
Group of Five,” which helped to release shorts in
Greece (1960–1966). He edited I Zoi sti Mytillini
(Leon Loisios, Greece). On April 21, 1967, he presented
his movie Prosopo me prosopo at the Festival
du Jeune Cinéma in Hyères and had to stay in
France after having denounced the Greek colonels’
coup d’état, which happened the very same day. He
worked mostly for French TV and published several
books, including a novel, Lilly’s Story (1982). Other
credit (as actor): 1987 Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
(episode “Une Paix royale,” Gérard Gozlan).
Filmography
1958 Lefkada, to nisi ton poiiton (documentary; short;
Greece; also screenwriter, editor)
1960 Oikogeneia Papadopoulou / Voitheia . . . me
pantrevoune (as Roviros Manthoulis; also producer;
Greece)
I Kyria dimarhos (as Roviros Manthoulis;
Greece)
Akropolis ton Athinon (16-mm documentary;
short; also producer; Greece)
1963 Psila ta heria Hitler (as Roviros Manthoulis;
Greece)
I pio megali dynami (documentary; Greece)
1964 Des Hommes et des Dieux / US TV: Of Men and
Gods (documentary; short; Greece)
1965 Prasino hrysafi (documentary; short; codirector
with Fotis Mesthenaios, Iraklis Papadakis;
Greece)