Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

694 • MAYRARGUE, LUCIEN
El tulipan negro / UK: The Black Tulip, Christian-Jaque,
France / Italy / Spain; 1969 Castle Keep, Sydney Pollack,
USA). He also worked as a technical adviser (1955
Le Rendez-vous des Quais, Paul Carpita), screenwriter
(1967 L’Affaire Lourdes, TV movie, Marcel Bluwal),
production manager (1964 Chasse à l’Homme / Caccia
al maschio / UK: The Gentle Art of Seduction / USA:
Male Hunt, Edouard Molinaro, France / Italy; 1967 The
Sailor from Gibraltar, Tony Richardson, UK; 1968 The
Immortal Story / Une Histoire immortelle, Orson Welles,
shot in 1966; 1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and
a Gun / La Dame dans l’Auto avec des Lunettes et un Fusil,
Anatole Litvak, UK / France; 1976 Le Locataire / The
Tenant, Roman Polanski, France / USA; 1978 Ne pleure
pas, originally shot for TV, Jacques Ertaud; 1981 La
pelle / La Peau / UK and USA: The Skin, Liliana Cavani,
Italy / France; 1984 Un Amour de Swann / Eine Liebe von
Swann / UK and USA: A Love of Swann / Swann in Love,
Volker Schlöndorff, France / West Germany; 1988 Le
Grand Bleu / UK and USA: The Big Blue, Luc Besson),
production supervisor (1969 Staircase / L’Escalier,
Stanley Donen, USA / France), producer (1977 Le
Diable probablement / UK and USA: The Devil Probably,
Robert Bresson), and actor (1991 Les Amants du Pont-
Neuf / USA: The Lovers on the Bridge / Australian video:
Lovers on the Ninth Bridge / Australian cable TV: Lovers
on the Pont Neuf, Leos Carax, shot in 1988–1990). He
appeared as himself in two TV documentaries (1974
Une Légende, une Vie: Citizen Welles, Maurice Frydland;
1993 Jean Renoir: Part One—From La Belle Epoque to
World War II, David Thompson, USA).
Filmography
1947 Dernier refuge (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1949 Alice in Wonderland / Alice au Pays des Merveilles
(also co-producer; co-director with Lou Bonin;
UK / France)
1957 Citadela sfarîmata (co-director with Haralambie
Boros; Romania)
MAYRARGUE, LUCIEN (1877, Nice, Alpes-
Maritimes, France–August 3, 1946, Paris, France)
At the beginning of the twentieth century, he was the
administrator of the Théâtre Michel and then of the
Comédie Royale, which became in 1919 La Comédie
Caumartin. He was a playwright (Le Joug; La Garçonnière;
Le Chien du Jardinier; Nuit sicilienne; En Beauté)
and also worked as a translator for the movie magazine
Mon Ciné. He had a brief directing career.
Filmography
1929 Illusions
1931 Pour la voir de plus près (short)
Un Monsieur qui suit les Femmes (short)
1932 En Vadrouille (short)
1934 Nous marions Solange (short)
1937 Neuf de Trèfl e
MAZARS, ALAIN (April 15, 1955, Paris, France–)
Having graduated with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics
and psychology, he studied Chinese. He
taught for two years in China (1978–1979) and then
directed several shorts. A member of the “Casa
Velazquez” in Madrid from 1984 to 1986, he shot
three medium-length fi lms there. Since 1979, most
of his fi lms (fi ction and documentaries) have been
fi lmed in Asia. He co-founded the A.C.I.D. (Agence du
Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion / Independent
Cinema Agency for Its Release).
Filmography
1977 Rouges Silences (short)
1981 Souvenirs de Printemps dans le Liao-Ning (documentary;
short)
1982 Le Jardin des Âges (short)
1983 Visages perdus (short)
1984 Actus (short)
1985 Lhassa (short)
1987 L’Enfant du Lac Quinghai (short)
Au-delà du Souvenir (also producer, cinematographer,
editor)
1989 Liu (short)
1990 Printemps perdu (also co-screenwriter, editor)
1994 Ma Soeur chinoise (also screenwriter, editor)
2001 La Moitié du Ciel (also co-screenwriter; shot
in 1999)
2006 Phipop, une Histoire laotienne (also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
Television Filmography
1988 Le pavillon aux Pivoines (short)
2003 L’Ecole de la Forêt (documentary)
MAZOYER, ROBERT (September 5, 1929, Aiguilhe,
Haute-Loire, France–December 13, 1999,
Paris, France)
He grew up and made his primary and secondary studies
at Saint-Etienne. Having graduated from the IDHEC
in 1953, he was mobilized during the Algerian War
(1954–1955). Having returned to civilian life, he was a