Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

UK: By a Tether / UK and USA: Breathless, Jean-Luc
Godard; 1962 Le Signe du Lion / UK and USA: The
Sign of Leo, Eric Rohmer, shot in 1959; 1963 Landru
/ Landrù / USA: Bluebeard, Claude Chabrol, France /
Italy). He died of a heart attack at age fi fty-fi ve. In
2002, Neil Jordan fi lmed a remake of his movie Bob
le Flambeur (2002 The Good Thief / L’Homme de la
Riviera / Le Dernier Coup de Mr. Bob, Neil Jordan, USA
/ France / UK / Canada).
Filmography
1945 Vingt-quatre Heures de la Vie d’un Clown (short;
also screenwriter, producer)
1949 Le Silence de la Mer (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist, producer; shot in 1947)
1950 Les Enfants terribles / UK and USA: The Strange
Ones (also co-screenwriter, producer, production
manager)
1953 Quand tu liras cette Lettre / Labbra proibite (also
producer; France / Italy)
1956 Bob le Flambeur / UK: Bob the Gambler / USA:
Fever Heat (also screenwriter, co-adapter, author
of commentary, narrator, producer)
1958 L’A.F.P. nous communique (unfi nished)
1959 Deux Hommes dans Manhattan (also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer, co-cinematographer,
actor)
1961 Léon Morin, Prêtre / Leon Morin prete / UK:
Leon Morin, Priest / USA: The Forgiven Sinner
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist;
France / Italy)
1963 Le Doulos / Los spione / UK: The Finger Man /
USA: Doulos—The Finger Man (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, co-editor; France /
Italy)
L’Aîné des Ferchaux / Lo sciacallo / UK: Magnet
of Doom / US TV: An Honorable Young Man
(also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France
/ Italy)
1966 Le Deuxième Souffl e / UK and USA: Second
Breath (also screenwriter, adapter, co-dialogist,
voice)
1967 Le Samouraï / Frank Costello, faccia d’angelo /
USA: The Godson (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist; France / Italy)
1969 L’Armée des Ombres / L’armata degli eroi / UK:
Army in the Shadows / The Shadow Army / USA:
Army of Shadows (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist; France / Italy)
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1970 Le Cercle rouge / I senza nome / UK and USA:
The Red Circle (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
editor; France / Italy)
1972 Un Flic / Notte sulla città / USA: Dirty Money /
US DVD: A Cop (also screenwriter, dialogist;
France / Italy)
MÉNÉGOZ, ROBERT (June 17, 1926, Saint-
Contest, Calvados, France–)
A former student at the Beaux-Arts school, he was
trained at the IDHEC (1947–1949) before serving as
an assistant to production designer Max Douy and as
an assistant director (1957 Les Espions / Le spie / UK
and USA: The Spies, Henri-Georges Clouzot, France /
Italy; Les Fanatiques / I fanatici / UK: The Fanatics / USA:
A Bomb for a Dictator, Alex Joffé, France / Italy; 1968 La
Prisonnière / La prigioniera / UK: Female Prisoner / USA:
Woman in Chains, Henri-Georges Clouzot, France /
Italy). He also worked in Germany as a stunt coordinator
(1985 Zielscheiben, Volker Vogeler, France / Italy;
1987 Zabou, Hajo Gies, West Germany), action scene
supervisor (1984 Didi—Der Doppelgänger, Reinhard
Schwabenitzky, West Germany), and action scene
director (1986 Didi auf vollen touren, Wigbert Wicker,
West Germany).
Filmography
1951 La Commune de Paris (documentary; short)
1953 La Commune (documentary; short; also coscreenwriter)
1954 Das Lied der Ströme (documentary; co-director
with Joop Huisken, Joris Ivens, Ruy Santos; East
Germany)
1960 La Millième Fenêtre (also co-screenwriter)
La Fin d’un Désert (short)
1961 Contrastes (documentary; short; co-director
with Jean Dewever)
1963 Dix Grammes d’Arc-en-Ciel (documentary;
short)
Le Mur Paysage (documentary; short; also author
of commentary)
Route sans Sillage (documentary; short; also
author of commentary)
1967 Herr Kekulé, ich kenne Sie nicht (short; codirector
with Wolfgang Urchs; West Germany)
1970 Time Is Running Out (short; documentary; also
producer; West Germany)
1979 Laisse-moi rêver / Drôles de Diam’s