Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Maurice Kéroul; also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
Autour d’un Berceau / La Raison de vivre / Cheveux
blancs, Boucles blondes (co-director with
Maurice Kéroul)
1926 Le Chemineau (co-director with Maurice
Kéroul; also co-screenwriter)
1928 Miss Helyett (co-director with Maurice
Kéroul)
1929 Les Fourchambault (also co-screenwriter)
1930 La Cloche et Cie / La Cloche et Compagnie
(short)
1931 La Chanson du Lin
1933 La Roche aux Mouettes
1935 Une Nuit de Noces (co-director with Maurice
Kéroul)
1936 Trois Jours de Perm’ (co-director with Maurice
Kéroul)
1937 Le Choc en Retour (co-director with Maurice
Kéroul; also co-screenwriter)
MONCORGÉ-GABIN, FLORENCE (November
28, 1949, Paris, France–)
The daughter of actor Jean Gabin (1904–1976), she
was briefl y a model in 1971 and appeared the same
year as an actress in Sergio Gobbi’s Les Galets d’Etretat
/ Improvvisamente una sera, un amore / US TV: Cobblestones
(France / Italy). After being a script supervisor
trainee (1970 La Horse / Il clan degli uomini violenti / Der
Erbarmungslose, Pierre Granier-Deferre, France / Italy /
West Germany; Le Mur de l’Atlantique / Un elmetto pieno
di . . . fi fa, Marcel Camus, France / Italy; 1971 L’Alliance,
Christian de Chalonge; Max et les Ferrailleurs / Il commissario
Pelissier, Claude Sautet, France / Italy; Le Casse
/ Gli scassinatori / USA: The Burglars, Henri Verneuil,
France / Italy; Où est passé Tom?, José Giovanni) and
trainee editor (1971 Le Chat / Le Chat—L’implacabile
uomo di Saint-Germain / UK and USA: The Cat, Pierre
Granier-Deferre, France / Italy), she worked as a script
supervisor on about thirty movies (from 1972 Elle
cause plus, elle fl ingue / Rosamunda non parla, Michel
Audiard, France / Italy, to 1990 L’Autrichienne, Pierre
Granier-Deferre). She authored a book on her father
(2004 Gabin Hors Champ, co-written by Mathias Gabin,
Editions Michel Lafon) and an autobiography (2004
Quitte à avoir un Père autant qu’il s’appelle Gabin, Le
Cherche-Midi Editeur). Other credit (as second assistant
director): 1974 La Gifl e / UK and USA: The Slap
(Claude Pinoteau, France / Italy).
MONGRÉDIEN, JEAN-MICHEL • 741
Filmography
1986 Les Pros (short; also screenwriter; dialogist)
2006 Le Passager de l’Eté (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
MONDY, PIERRE (Pierre Cuq / February 10, 1925,
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
After completing his secondary studies, he attended
René Simon’s dramatic art courses. A stage and fi lm
actor (about 100 movies from 1949 Rendez-vous
de Juillet, Jacques Becker, to 2008 Un Homme et son
Chien, Francis Huster), he directed a comedy written
by Francis Veber. Autobiography: 2006 La Cage aux
Souvenirs (Editions Plon).
Filmography
1969 Appelez-moi Mathilde (also actor)
MONFILS, NADINE
A Belgian-born writer, she taught moral philosophy
and collaborated as a fi lm critic for the review Tels
Quels and the Belgian satirical newspaper Père Ubu
for ten years. Since the early 1980s, she has authored
poems, plays, and fantastic and detective novels and
tales. She notably created the character of the Commissaire
Léon, a cop who knits (a dozen novels since
1999, Editions Vauvenargues) and appeared in the two
movies she directed. Director Walerian Borowczyk
and producer Louis Duchesne planned to bring to
the screen her book Contes pour petites Filles criminelles
(Editions Blanches, 1997).
Filmography
1999 Un Noël de Chien (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2004 Madame Edouard (also screenwriter, dialogist)
MONGRÉDIEN, JEAN-MICHEL (January 29,
1950, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France–)
He began his studies in electronics but never completed
them. From 1970 to 1980, he held several jobs
to earn a living. Then he shot about fi fty commercials
and institutional fi lms for Imédia Films Productions
(1983–1987). He created the Nordic Film Festival in
1988 and ran two movie theaters (the Cinéma Ariel
from 1982 to 2002 and Le Melville since 1990) and a
production and release company, Alonso Films (since