Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

686 • MARODON, PIERRE
1971 On vous parle de Prague: le Deuxième Procès
d’Arthur London (documentary; short)
Le Train en Marche (documentary; short)
La Bataille des Dix Millions / Cuba, la Bataille
des Dix Millions (documentary; medium-length;
also co-editor; France / Cuba)
1972 Vive la Baleine (documentary; short; co-director
with Mario Ruspoli; also cinematographer, editor,
sound)
1973 L’Ambassade / Film 8mm trouvé dans une Ambassade
/ Embassy (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
Puisqu’on vous dit que c’est possible (documentary;
short)
On vous parle du Chili (documentary; short)
1974 La Solitude du Chanteur de Fond (documentary;
also actor as himself, co-editor)
1977 Le Fond de l’Air est rouge / USA: Grin Without
a Cat (two-part compilation documentary:
“Les Mains fragiles,” “Les Mains coupées”; also
screenwriter, editor)
1981 Junkopia (documentary; short; co-director
with John Chapman, Frank Simeone; also
screenwriter)
1983 Sans Soleil / Bez sointsa Sunless Sans Soleil
(documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
editor)
1984 2084 / 2084: Video Clip pour une Réfl exion syndicale
(documentary; short; also editor)
1985 From Chris to Christo (documentary; short)
A.K. / Kurosawa Akira (documentary; also
screenwriter, actor as himself, editor; France
/ Japan)
1986 Mémoires pour Simone (documentary; also
screenwriter)
1992 Le Tombeau d’Alexandre / USA: The Last Bolshevik
(documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
editor)
1993 Le 20 Heures dans les Camps (documentary;
short; also cinematographer)
1995 Casque bleu (documentary; short; also screenwriter)
1997 Level Five (documentary; also voice, screenwriter,
voice, co-cinematographer)
2000 Un Maire au Kosovo (documentary; short)
2001 Souvenir d’un Avenir / USA: Remembrance of
Things to Come (video documentary; codirector
with Yannick Bellon)
Television Filmography
1989 L’Héritage de la Chouette / I Klironomia tis koukouvagias
(TV miniseries; documentary; also
screenwriter; France / Greece)
1990 Berliner Ballade (documentary; short)
1992 Le Facteur sonne toujours Cheval (documentary;
medium-length)
2000 Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; short;
episode “Une Journée d’Andrei Arsenevitch”;
also voice, cinematographer, editor)
2004 Chats perchés / USA: The Case of the Grinning
Cat (documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
editor)
MARODON, PIERRE (May 2, 1873, Paris, France–
April 5, 1949, Ain Temouchent, Algeria)
Born into an artistic family (his father was an architect
and his brother a painter), he earned a living as
a traveling salesman in Algeria in the last years of the
nineteenth century before becoming a parliamentary
journalist and a polemist in 1911. Also a novelist, he
turned a fi lm director after World War II, notably
adapting Michel Zévaco’s popular novels and classics
of French literature. He gave up cinema in 1927 to
dedicate himself to writing (1930 Fille du Diable, un
Roman d’Amour inédit). In 1934, he settled in Algeria,
where he worked as a journalist and died at age seventy-fi
ve. He was formerly married to actress Germaine
Rouer (1897–1994). Their daughter was stage
performer Thérèse Marney (1927–1968).
Filmography
1918 La Femme des Autres
Mascamor (fourteen episodes: “Trois Evènements
mystérieux,” “Jetée aux Lions,” “Le
Double Billet,” “Un Chèque d’un Million,” “La
Boîte mystérieuse,” “Le Masque changeant,”
“L’Anthropophage,” “Trahison,” “La Femme
mystérieuse,” “Les Deux Sœurs,” “La Chanson
de la Mort,” “La Note de Violoncelle,” “Le Destin,”
“Le Boomerang”; also screenwriter, actor)
1919 Qui a tué? (also screenwriter, producer)
Les Trois Gants de la Dame en noir
1920 La Femme des Autres
La Femme aux Deux Visages (also screenwriter,
producer)
La Fée des Neiges / UK: The Snow Fairy