Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Le Mioche / USA: 40 Girls and a Baby / Forty
Little Mothers (also co-adapter)
1938 Prison sans Barreaux (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
Confl it / USA: Affair Lafont / Confl ict (also coscreenwriter)
1939 Je t’attendrai / Le Déserteur / USA: Three Hours
1941 L’Empreinte du Dieu / USA: Two Women (shot
in 1939–1940)
1943 Paris After Dark (USA)
1944 Action in Arabia (USA)
1946 Whistle Stop (USA)
1947 Bethsabée
1950 Domani è troppo tardi / USA: Tomorrow Is Too
Late (also co-screenwriter; Italy)
1951 Domani è un altro giorno (also co-screenwriter;
Italy)
1953 Les Enfants de l’Amour / USA: Children of Love
(also co-author of original novel, co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist)
1956 Le Long des Trottoirs / Lungo i marciapiedi / USA:
Diary of a Bad Girl (also screenwriter; France
/ Italy)
1957 Donnez-moi ma Chance (also screenwriter,
producer, uncredited actor)
1961 Les Hommes veulent vivre / Gli uomini vogliono
vivere (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer;
with Guy Lefranc as technical adviser; France
/ Italy)
MOIX, YANN (March 31, 1968, Nevers, Nièvre,
France–)
He was raised in Orléans and studied mathematics
before moving to Reims, where he enrolled in the
Superior Business School (1992) and attended philosophy
courses at the University of Reims. A radio
and newspapers journalist, he notably collaborated
on L’Express, L’Evènement du Jeudi, Madame Figaro, Le
Figaro Magazine, Max (1994–1998), Marianne, and Le
Figaro (since 1999). He authored novels (1996 Jubilations
vers le Soleil; 1997 Les Cimetières sont des Champs
de Fleurs; 2000 Anissa Corto; 2002 Podium; 2004 Partouz;
2006 Panthéon; 2008 Mort et Vie d’Edith Stein) and
a collection of poems (2004 Transfusion). All his books
were published by Grasset. Other credit (as actor):
2006 Le Bénévole (Jean-Pierre Mocky).
Filmography
2000 Grand Oral (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
MOLINARO, EDOUARD • 733
2004 Podium (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
France / Belgium)
2009 Cineman (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
MOKNÈCHE, NADIR (1965, Paris, France–)
Of Algerian descent, he was born in Paris but was
raised in Algeria. After briefl y studying law in Paris, he
spent a year in London. Having returned to France in
1988, he frequented the Théâtre National de Chaillot
school and directed Sophocles’ Electra onstage. Then
he attended cinema courses at the New York New
School for Social Research, where he directed two
shorts. He studied art for three years at the University
of Perugia before shooting his fi rst feature fi lm.
Filmography
1994 Hanifa (short; also screenwriter)
1995 Jardin (short; also screenwriter)
2000 Le Harem de Mme Osmane (also screenwriter,
dialogist; France / Spain / Morocco)
2004 Viva Laldjérie! (also screenwriter, dialogist;
France / Algeria / Belgium)
2007 Délice Paloma (also screenwriter, dialogist;
France / Algeria)
MOLINARO, EDOUARD (May 31, 1928, Bordeaux,
Gironde, France–)
He fi lmed 16-mm amateur shorts in his adolescence.
In 1949, he went to to Paris and entered fi lms, serving
as an assistant director to André Berthomieu,
Maurice de Canonge, and Jean Laviron. He made
his directing debut shooting documentaries and
industrial shorts. Other credits (as co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist): 1958 Le Tombeur (also co-adapter, René
Delacroix); (as co-adapter): 1984 La Tête dans le Sac
(Gérard Lauzier); 1989 Mary de Cork (TV movie,
Robin Davis); (as actor): 1960 Le Petit Jour (short,
Jackie Pierre); 1961 La Morte Saison des Amours /
USA: The Season of Love (Pierre Kast); 1963 Vacances
portugaises / Les Egarements / Os sorrisos do destino
(Pierre Kast, France / Portugal); 1992 Méchant Garçon
(Charles Gassot); 2007 Mariage Surprise (TV movie,
Arnaud Sélignac, France / Belgium). He also appeared
as himself in TV documentaries (1974 Histoire du
Cinéma français par ceux qui l’ont fait, Armand Panigel;
2002 Michel Audiard et Le Mystère du Triangle des Bermudes,
François-Régis Jeanne, Stéphane Roux; 2003
Louis de Funès, la Comédie humaine, Philippe Azoulay;
2006 Publicité et Cinéma: Une Histoire de Famille, short,
Etienne Labroue).