Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1973 Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche / USA: The House
on Chelouche Street (also co-screenwriter;
Israel)
Abu el Banat / USA: Daughters, Daughters (also
co-screenwriter; Israel)
1974 Ish Rachel / Rachel’s Man (also co-screenwriter;
Israel)
1977 La Vie devant soi / UK: A Life Ahead / USA:
Madame Rosa (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1980 Chère Inconnue / UK and USA: I Sent a Letter
to My Love (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1981 La Vie continue (also screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1983 Une Jeunesse (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter;
shot in 1981–1982)
1985 War and Love / The Children’s War (Israel /
USA)
1986 Every Time We Say Goodbye (also original story,
co-screenwriter; Israel / USA)
1988 Mangeclous (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1996 Nashim / Women (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
Television Filmography
1969 Laure (20 13')
1992 Warburg: A Man of Infl uence / Warburg, le
Banquier des Princes (3 90'; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
MNOUCHKINE, ARIANE (March 3, 1939,
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
The daughter of French producer Alexandre
Mnouchkine (1908–1993), she dedicated her life to
theater. In 1964, she founded the Théâtre du Soleil
(situated at the Montparnasse Circus fi rst and then at
the Cartoucherie de Vincennes) and notably directed
Shakespeare’s plays (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard
II, Henry IV, Twelfth Night). In 1974, she brought
to the screen one of her most successful shows
(1789). She had choreographed some action scenes
of Duccio Tessari’s Arrivano i Titani / Les Titans / UK:
Sons of Thunder / USA: My Son, the Hero / The Titans
(Italy / France, 1962) and co-written and co-adapted
Philippe de Broca’s L’Homme de Rio / L’uomo di Rio /
UK and USA: That Man from Rio (France / Italy, 1964).
Her maternal grandfather was British stage actor
Nicholas Hannen.
MOATI, SERGE • 729
Filmography
1974 1789 (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1978 Molière (also screenwriter, dialogist; France /
Italy; shot in 1976–1977)
Television Filmography
1981 Molière, ou la Vie d’un honnête Homme / USA:
Molière (5 55'; also screenwriter, dialogist;
France / Italy)
1989 La Nuit miraculeuse
2003 Tambours sur la Digue (also stage director)
2006 Le Dernier Caravansérail (2 134')
MOATI, SERGE (Serge-Henri Moati / August 17,
1946, Tunis, Tunisia–)
He grew up in Tunisia and was an orphan at age
eleven. Having settled in Paris with his elder sister,
he started shooting 16-mm and 8-mm amateur
shorts in his childhood. At age twelve, he played in
François Truffaut’s Les Quatre Cents Coups / UK and
USA: The Four Hundred Blows / USA: The 400 Blows
(1959). In 1964, he went to Africa, where he stayed
for four years and shot two feature fi lms and three
shorts for the “Télévision Scolaire” and the Ministry
of Cooperation. Having returned to Paris in 1968,
he was hired by Pierre Dumayet and fi lmed reports
for the prestigious news TV program Cinq Colonnes
à la Une and then for Au-delà de l’Ecran, Les Femmes
aussi, and Les Cent Livres des Hommes. In 1972, he
directed his fi rst TV movie (Le Sagouin). He played
supporting roles in fi lms (1981 Allons z’Enfants, Yves
Boisset; 1986 Etats d’Âme, Jacques Fansten; 2005
Le Courage d’aimer, Claude Lelouch) and TV movies
(1979 Cet Homme-là, Gérard Poitou-Weber;
1981 Au Bout du Chemin, Daniel Martineau; 1994 Le
Garçon qui ne dormait pas, Michaël Perrotta; 1999
La Petite Fille en Costume marin, Marc Rivière; 2001
Quatre Copains, Stéphane Kurc; 2002 Ca s’appelle
grandir, Alain Tasma; 2004 Central Nuit, episode
“Vol à la Poussette,” Franck Vestil) and appeared
as himself in a documentary (1974 L’Atelier, Patrick
de Mervelec). From 1992 (Soleil d’Automne, Jacques
Ertaud) to 2008 (Adieu de Gaulle, Laurent Herbiet),
he produced more than thirty TV movies and a few
feature fi lms (1998 L’Amazone, documentary, Simon
Brook; 2008 Plus tard, Amos Gitai). He authored two
novels: 2003 Villa Jasmin (Editions Fayard, brought to
the small screen by Férid Boughedir in 2008); 2006
Du Côté des Vivants (Edition Fayard). Since 1999, he
has hosted and produced a TV talk show, Ripastes.