Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

726 • MISTLER, ERIC
Nusrat Fath, le dernier Prophète (documentary;
also screenwriter, cinematographer)
1997 La Saga de Massey Ferguson (documentary;
also co-screenwriter, cinematographer)
1998 Refl ections NY / Paris (documentary; co-director
only; also co-screenwriter, cinematographer)
Sur les Rives de l’Etang de Berre (documentary;
also co-screenwriter, cinematographer)
2000 Laurent Terzieff (documentary; also cinematographer)
2002 Zone Reptile (also screenwriter)
La Revue John Malkovich (documentary; also
screenwriter, cinematographer)
Edna O’Brien (documentary; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
Prague (documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer)
2003 Tycocin (documentary; also co-screenwriter,
cinematographer)
Chaplin Today: A King in New York (documentary;
short; also cinematographer)
Fred, derrière le Miroir (documentary; also
screenwriter, cinematographer)
Conjuré (documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer)
2004 Ronan et Erwan Bourollec (documentary; also
screenwriter, cinematographer)
Four Walls (documentary; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
Les Secrets d’Astérix (documentary; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
2005 Exhibition-La Télévision (documentary; also
screenwriter, cinematographer)
Yohimbe Brothers (documentary; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
2006 Another Side of David Bailey (documentary; also
screenwriter, cinematographer)
2007 La Cigogne et l’Eprouvette (High-Tech Babies)
(documentary; also co-screenwriter, cinematographer)
MISTLER, ERIC (1950, France–)
After shooting his fi rst feature fi lm, a documentary
on the rock band AC / DC, he worked mostly as
an executive producer (1992 Versailles-Rive-Gauche,
short, Bruno Podalydès; 1994 Voilà, short, Bruno
Podalydès), delegate producer (1995 La Partie, short,
Gilles Podesta; 2004 Je suis comédienne et tout le
Monde s’en fout, short, Géraldine Brezault), and coproducer
(1999 Et tu récolteras ce que tu as semé,
short, Ramon Pipin) through his production company
Flagrant Délit Productions.
Filmography
1980 AC / DC the Film, Let There Be Rock (documentary;
co-director with Eric Dionysius; also
co-producer)
1982 L’Amour à la Grimace (short; also screenwriter,
delegate producer)
Mammy Rock (short, also screenwriter, delegate
producer)
Appelez-moi Eugène (documentary; mediumlength;
also co-cinematographer, producer)
1997 Marc Thiercelin J-8 (documentary; short; also
producer)
1999 La Face cachée de la Une (documentary; short;
also producer)
2000 Stade de France: 1, 2, 3 Coulisses (documentary;
medium-length; also producer)
2002 Paris à l’Heure du Foot en 32 Restos (documentary;
medium-length; also producer, cinematographer,
editor)
2004 Le Vendée Globe (documentary; medium-length;
also producer, co-cinematographer)
2008 Komencéfé, les Coulisses de Cinématoc (documentary;
short; also cinematographer, producer,
editor)
MITRANI, MICHEL (April 14, 1930, Varna, Bulgaria–November
9, 1996, Paris, France)
Born in Bulgaria to a French father who managed a
fi rm, he went to France to study literature and law.
He fi nally chose to enroll in the IDHEC and entered
fi lms as an assistant director (1957 A la Jamaïque /
USA: Love in Jamaica, André Berthomieu; Printemps à
Paris, Jean-Claude Roy; 1958 Du Côté de la Côte, short,
Agnès Varda) and collaborator with producer Anatole
Dauman at Argos Film. In 1955, he joined French
TV as an assistant director before working on such
prestigious programs as Plaisir des Arts (1958–1959)
and Cinq Colonnes à la Une (1959–1965). Other credit
(as actor): 1976 Le plein de Super (Alain Cavalier).
Filmography
1971 La Cavale
1972 La Nuit bulgare (also co-screenwriter, shot in
1969–1970)
1974 Les Guichets du Louvre / USA: Black Thursday
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)