Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

678 • MANUEL, JACQUES
Fragma 11 (documentary; short; co-director
with Fotis Mesthenaios, Iraklis Papadakis;
Greece)
1966 Prosopo me prosopo (as Roviros Manthoulis;
also co-screenwriter, producer; Greece)
1967 Kalyteri organosi, ligoteros kopos, perissotero eisodima
(documentary; short; co-director with
Iraklis Papadakis; Greece)
Gia ena kalytero noikokyrio (documentary; short;
co-director with Iraklis Papadakis; Greece)
1973 Le Blues entre les Dents (documentary; also coscreenwriter,
producer)
2002 Lilly’s Story / Lilijina zgodba / I istoria tis Lilly
(also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Greece
/ Slovenia)
Television Filmography
1973 En remontant le Mississippi / US TV: Going Up
the Missisippi River (documentary; also screenwriter,
producer; France / West Germany)
1974 Un Pays, une Musique (7 52' documentary)
La Grèce: Le Cri du Silence (documentary;
medium-length)
1976 Les Gauchos de Guemes (documentary;
medium-length)
Le Tango au Lever du Jour (documentary;
medium-length)
La France des Années 30 / US and Canadian TV:
France in the Thirties (documentary)
1977 La Grèce: Les Rescapés de l’Histoire (documentary;
medium-length)
1978 The Out-back (documentary; medium-length)
1979 Rue des Archives (documentary; medium-length;
episode “La Vie est un Spectacle”)
Le Brésil, Terre en Transe (documentary;
medium-length)
1980 Les Bruits du Monde (3 52' documentary; episodes
“Cris de Solitude,” “Rêves d’Amérique,”
“Le Retour aux Sources”)
1985 Akyvernites politeies / Cités à la Dérive (14
45', also co-screenwriter Greece / Israel /
France)
1990 Les Gitans (2 55' documentary)
1997 La Guerre civile grecque (documentary)
1998 Diktatoria ton Sintagmatarhon (documentary;
also co-screenwriter, producer; Greece)
1999 Vies parallèles de la Guerre civile (6 52' documentary;
Greece)
2001 Jaffa la mienne (documentary; mediumlength)
MANUEL, JACQUES (September 3, 1897, Paris,
France–April 21, 1968, Paris, France)
He made his fi lm debut as a costume designer (1927
Le Vertige, Marcel L’Herbier; 1928 L’Argent / Jazz Bank,
Marcel L’Herbier; 1930 L’Enfant de l’Amour, Marcel
L’Herbier; 1931 Le Parfum de la Dame en noir Marcel
L’Herbier; 1933 L’Epervier, Marcel L’Herbier; 1934
L’Aventurier, Marcel L’Herbier; Le Bonheur, also editor,
Marcel L’Herbier; 1935 Veille d’Armes / UK: Sacrifi ce of
Honor / USA: Sacrifi ce d’Honneur, Marcel L’Herbier; 1936
Les Hommes nouveaux, also editor, Marcel L’Herbier;
La Porte du Large / USA: The Great Temptation, Marcel
L’Herbier; 1937 Trois . . . Six . . . Neuf, Raymond Rouleau;
La Citadelle du Silence / USA: The Citadel of Silence, Marcel
L’Herbier; La Dame de Malacca / UK and USA: Woman
of Malacca, Marc Allégret; 1938 Adrienne Lecouvreur,
Marcel L’Herbier; Les Trois Valses / USA: Three Waltzes,
Ludwig Berger; 1939 L’Esclave blanche / USA: Pasha’s
Wifes, Marc Sorkin; Jeunes Filles en Détresse, Georg Wilhelm
Pabst; 1944 Vautrin / USA: Vautrin the Thief, Pierre
Billon; 1945 Le Père Goriot, Robert Vernay; 1946 Le Capitan
(two parts: “Flamberge au Vent,” “Le Chevalier du
Roi,” Robert Vernay). Other credits (as editor): 1933 Le
Martyre de l’Obèse (Pierre Chenal); 1939 Terre de Feu /
Terra di fuoco (Marcel L’Herbier, France / Italy); 1940 La
Comédie du Bonheur (Marcel L’Herbier).
Filmography
1948 Une Grande Fille toute simple / USA: Just a Big
Simple Girl (supervised by Marcel L’Herbier)
1950 Julie de Carneilhan (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
MANZOR, RENÉ (René Lalanne / August 4, 1959,
Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France–)
The son of a Basque ONU servant father and a Lebanese
mother, he grew up in Uruguay and in Marseille.
Besides his own movies, he co-wrote the screenplay
and the dialogue of Monsieur N. (Antoine de Caunes,
2003). Other credit (as uncredited co-screenwriter):
1994 Highlander III: The Sorcerer / Highlander III (Andrew
Morahan; Canada / France / UK). His brothers
are composer and singer Francis Lalanne (b. 1958)
and musician Jean-Félix Lalanne (b. 1962).
Filmography
1981 Synapses (short; also screenwriter)
1983 Le Suicide de Frank Einstein (short; also screenwriter)