Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

714 • MEREGNY, MATHIAS R.
Regain / USA: Harvest, Marcel Pagnol), camera operator
(1942 Macao, l’Enfer du Jeu / USA: Gambling Hell /
Mask of Korea, Jean Delannoy, shot in 1939), cinematographer
(1938 Le Paradis de Satan / USA: Satan’s
Paradise, Félix Gandéra; 1939 Métropolitain, Maurice
Cam; Rappel immédiat, Léon Mathot; L’Etrange Nuit de
Noël, Yvan Noé), assistant director (1949 Le Trésor des
Pieds-Nickelés, also actor, Marcel Aboulker), and coadapter
(1948 Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés, Marcel
Aboulker).
Filmography
1950 La Nuit s’achève (also dialogist)
1952 Fortuné de Marseille (co-director with Henry
Lepage; also co-screenwriter)
1954 Crime au Concert Mayol / USA: Palace of Nudes
/ Palace of Shames
1956 Impasse des Vertus / UK and USA: Love at
Night
MEREGNY, MATHIAS R. (Maté Rabinovsky /
1934, Paris, France–)
Filmography
1968 Ton Visage (short; as Maté Rabinovski)
1971 Galaxie (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1975 Nikita, Chanteur d’Opéra
1976 Jazz à Juan
Salomé
1981 La Force du Destin
1985 Simon Boccanegra
1990 Jeudi Cinq Heures
MÉRÉJKOWSKY, PIERRE
He composed radio reports for France Culture and
published works in such literary reviews as L’Armateur,
Cargo, Bord de l’Eau, Art’Rose, and Région Centre. He cofounded
an association of independent fi lmmakers,
Les Films du Crime et du Châtiment.
Filmography
1976 L’Affaire Huriez (16-mm documentary; short)
1977 Scène de Ménage chez les Gauchistes (16-mm
short)
1987 Igrok (16-mm short)
1992 Film (16-mm short)
C.O.M.E.D.I.E. (16-mm short)
Myriam ou Un Reportage vérité au Coeur de la
Sainte Russie (short)
1993 Pool (16-mm short)
1994 C’est Dimanche (documentary; short)
1995 Nous voulons du Chômage (16-mm short)
De l’Air, de l’Air (short)
Le Choix du Peintre (documentary; short)
1996 Le Cinéaste, le Village et l’Utopie (video documentary;
short)
2002 A propos d’Eric P. (short; documentary; also actor
as himself; shot in 2001)
2004 Insurrection / Résurrection (also screenwriter
actor, composer)
MERENDA, VICTOR (August 31, 1923, Cannes,
Alpes-Maritimes, France–January 17, 1968, Arles,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France)
A former actor (1951 Coupable?, Yvan Noé; 1952 Dans
la Vie tout s’arrange / US version: Pardon My French / UK:
The Lady from Boston, Marcel Cravenne, US version directed
by Bernard Vorhaus, France / USA, shot in 1949),
he turned an assistant director (1953 Les Vacances fi nissent
Demain, Yvan Noé, shot in 1950). He directed
several thrillers for Eurociné. Other credits (as second
unit director): 1964 La Tulipe noire / Il Tulipano nero /
El Tulipan negro / UK: The Black Tulip (Christian-Jaque,
France / Italy / Spain); (production manager, France):
1968 The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, UK).
Filmography
1959 Sursis pour un Vivant / Il mistero della pensione
Endelweiss / Pensione Edelweiss / Morte per
procura (nella pensione Edelweiss) (France /
Italy)
1960 La Nuit des Suspectes (shot in 1957)
1963 Le Cave est piégé / No temas a la ley (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France / Spain;
shot in 1960)
MERGAULT, ISABELLE (May 11, 1958, Paris,
France–)
A stage, TV, and fi lm actress (about thirty movies
from 1979 La Dérobade / UK: The Getaway / The Life
/ USA: Memoirs of a French Whore, Daniel Duval, to
2005 Je vous trouve très beau, Isabelle Mergault), she
collaborated on many pictures and TV productions as
a co-screenwriter (1987 La Lettre perdue, TV movie,
Julie Bertucelli; Souris noire, 13 20' TV series; 1991
Aujourd’hui peut-être . . . , Jean-Louis Bertucelli, France
/ Italy, shot in 1990; 1992 Voyage à Rome, also dialogist,
Michel Lengliney; 1993 Classe Mannequin, episodes
“Les Fiançailles de Coton,” “Le Silence des Ados,”