Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1984 Le Sang ou Le Testament d’un vieux Fou (animated
short; pilot for Le Passage)
1986 Le Passage / USA: The Passage (also co-screenwriter,
actor)
1990 36.15 Code Père Noël (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1997 Un Amour de Sorcière (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2003 Dédales (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer,
actor, editor; France / Belgium)
Television Filmography
1988 Sueurs froides (episodes “La Sublime Aventure,”
“La Belle Ouvrage”; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1990 The Window (short; USA)
1991 The Hitchhiker / Le Voyageur / UK: Deadly Nightmares
(episodes “Windows,” “Made in Paris”;
Canada / France / USA)
1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (episode
“Verdun, September 1916”; USA)
1993 Red Shoe diaries (episode “Night of Abandon”;
USA)
Highlander / Highlander: The Series (episode
“Band of Brothers”; Canada / France)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (episode
“Paris, September 1908”; Canada / France)
1994 Warrior Spirit (Canada)
1995 Aventures dans le Grand Nord (episodes “Les
Légendes du Grand Nord,” “Chasseurs de
Loups,” “Chasseurs d’Or”; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; Canada / France)
1998 Highlander: The Raven / L’Immortel (episode
“Cloak and Dagger”; Canada / France)
2001 Les Redoutables (episode “Confession”)
2006 Alex Santana, Négociateur (episodes “La
Cible,” “Le Prédateur”; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2007 Soeur Thérèse.com (episode “Une Affaire de
Coeur”)
Le Juge est une Femme (episodes “Cas d’Ecole,
Liquidaton totale,” “Le Diamant du Palais,” “Le
Prix de la Vie”)
Alex Santana, Négociateur (episode “Accident”)
2008 Le Juge est une Femme (episodes “Une Vie dans
l’Ombre,” “Le Prix de la Vie,” “Le Diamant du
Palais,” “A Cœur et à Sang,” “Princesse”; also
co-screenwriter)
MARBOEUF, JEAN • 679
MARAVAL, PIERRE (1950, Castres, Tarn, France–)
A former fi lm critic at Cinématographe in the 1970s,
he settled in New York, where he lived (and began
painting) until 1980. Having returned to Paris, he
founded with three friends an alternative group, Beau
Lézard, which promoted young painters. In 1982, he
exhibited his works at the New York Atlantide Gallery.
Parallel with his research in plastics, he directed
a feature fi lm and several documentaries.
Filmography
2003 Black (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; shot
in 1999–2002; France / Switzerland)
Television Filmography
1996 Tremblèque (documentary; short)
2002 Fall / Winter 2002–2003 (documentary;
short)
2003 Invincible Harley (documentary; short; co-director
with José Goitia)
MARBOEUF, JEAN (September 26, 1942, Montluçon,
Allier, France–)
The son of a Dunlop worker father and a shop assistant
mother, he received a vocational training certifi
cate as a salesman and window dresser. He earned
a living successively working as a shop assistant in
a large store, traveling salesman, driver, packer, barman,
and extra. In 1968–1969, he was a secretary for
writers Daniel Guérin and Roger Stéphane and met
Jean-Luc Godard. He used his knowledge of sports
to write comic strip screenplays for the magazines
Pilote and Tintin. After vainly trying to serve as an assistant
director, he entered fi lms shooting shorts. He
also was a technical consultant: 1987 Accroche-Cœur
(Chantal Picault, shot in 1985) and played in a TV
movie (1989 Une Saison de Feuilles, Serge Leroy).
Filmography
1969 Mon Nom, Super Man (short)
1970 Requiem pour un pauvre Mec (short)
1971 Kakicity (short)
1973 Bel Ordure (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1975 Monsieur Balboss (also screewriter, dialogist)
1977 Genre masculin (unreleased)
1979 La Ville des Silences (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1983 T’es heureuse? . . . Moi, toujours . . . (also screenwriter,
dialogist)