Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

756 • MOURRE, ANTOINE
1994 Vivre l’Interprétation avec Jeffrey Tate (documentary;
medium-length)
1996 Shakespeare, des Rois dans la Tempête (documentary;
medium-length)
1997 Une Danse le Temps d’une Chanson (7 5'; codirector
only; Belgium / France)
Vivre l’Interprétation avec Hélène Grimaud (documentary;
medium-length)
1998 Chercher sa Voix (documentary; mediumlength)
1999 De Petits Riens (documentary; medium-length)
2005 Chaghcharan, un Hôpital afghan (5 26' documentary)
Le Voyage des Femmes de Zartalé (documentary)
MOURRE, ANTOINE
Filmography
1929 Ca aussi! . . . C’est Paris (short)
1931 Le Roi du camembert
1938 Les Pauvres Gens (short)
MOURU DE LACOTTE, GASTON
Filmography
1922 Destinée (co-director with Armand du Plessy)
Fleur du Mal
1923 Âmes corses (co-director with Paul Barlatier;
shot in 1921)
1929 Lendemains d’Amour
1930 Sa Maman (also screenwriter)
MOUSSELLE, JEAN (November 15, 1918, Verberie,
Oise, France–)
He made his fi lm debut as a camera operator (1946
Jericho, Henri Calef; Le Père tranquille / USA: Mr. Orchid,
René Clément; 1949 Jour de Fête, Jacques Tati,
shot in 1947) and then worked as a cinematographer
(1945 Cagnes, short; Deux Petits Anges, short; 1948 Au
Cœur de l’Orage, documentary, as co-cinematographer,
Jean-Paul Le Chanois, shot in 1944; 1949 L’Aventure
est au Coin du Bois, short; 1951 Sud, short, as cocinematographer;
La Grande Île au Cœur des Grandes
Eaux, as cinematographer; Réalités malgaches, short, as
cinematographer; Cheveux noirs, Capes grises, short, as
cinematographer; 1953 Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
/ UK: Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday / USA: Mr. Hulot’s Holiday,
as co-cinematographer, Jacques Tati, shot in 1951–
1952; Le Chemin de l’Etoile, short, as cinematographer;
Prestige de la Qualité, short, as cinematographer; Paris
présente: le Mime Marceau, short, as cinematographer;
1955 Normandie, short, as cinematographer) before
directing his only feature fi lm.
Filmography
1945 Toulon 45 (short; also cinematographer)
1948 Ventes aux Enchères (short; also cinematographer)
1952 La Conquête de l’Eau (short)
1955 Le Pain vivant (also co-adapter)
1960 Saint-Augustin (short)
1962 Le Guérisseur (short)
1966 Benjamin des Antilles (short)
MOUSSY, MARCEL (May 7, 1924, Algiers, Algeria–August
10, 1995, Caen, Calvados, France)
He discovered his interest for writing when still a
teenager and was only eighteen years old when one
of his plays was performed at the Opera of Algiers.
An English teacher, he decided to quit his job to
dedicate himself to authoring novels (1952 Le Sang
chaud, Gallimard; 1953 Arcole ou La Terre promise, La
Table Ronde; 1955 Les Mauvais Sentiments, Méditerranée
France; 1960 Babylonia, Editions du Seuil). In
1957, he started writing for fi lms (1959 Les Quatre
Cents Coups / UK and USA: The Four Hundred Blows /
USA: The 400 Blows, as co-adapter, dialogist, François
Truffaut; La Sentence, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
dialogist, Jean Valère; 1960 Tirez sur le Pianiste / UK:
Shoot the Pianist / USA and Canada: Shoot the Piano
Player, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, François Truffaut;
1962 Liberté 1, as dialogist, Yves Ciampi, France
/ Senegal; 1963 Ballade pour un Voyou / USA: Ballad
for a Hoodlum, as dialogist, Claude-Jean Bonnardot;
Le Journal d’un Fou, Roger Coggio; 1966 Paris brûlet-il?
/ Is Paris Burning?, as co-adapter, co-dialogist,
René Clément, France / USA; 1968 La Prisonnière /
La prigioniera / UK: Female Prisoner / USA: Woman in
Chains, as co-screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France / Italy) and TV (1957 L’Alchimiste, as screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, Jean Prat; 1962 L’Inspecteur
Leclerc enquête / L’Inspecteur enquête, as screenwriter,
TV series; 1964 Le Théâtre de la Jeunesse, as screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, episode “Les Indes noires,”
Marcel Bluwal; 1966 Beaumarchais ou 60000 Fusils, as
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Marcel Bluwal; 1970
Le Service des Affaires classées, France / Canada; 1977
Le Confessional des Pénitents noirs, as screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, Alain Boudet).