Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Passe-Muraille / UK and USA: Mr. Peek-a-Boo, Jean
Boyer; Boîte de Nuit / USA: Hotbed of Sin, Alfred Rode;
Nous irons à Monte Carlo, Jean Boyer; 1952 Le Trou
normand / USA: Crazy for Love, Jean Boyer; 1953 Cent
Francs par Seconde, Jean Boyer; Femmes de Paris, Jean
Boyer; 1954 C’est la Vie parisienne, Alfred Rode; J’avais
sept Filles / I sette peccati di papà / UK: I Had Seven
Daughters / USA: My Seven Little Sins, Jean Boyer,
France / Italy; 1956 Le Couturier de ces Dames / USA:
Fernandel the Dressmaker, Jean Boyer; Sous le Ciel de
Provence / Quatre Pas dans les Nuages / Era di venerdi
17 / USA: The Virtuous Bigamist, Mario Soldati, France
/ Italy), he made his directing debut shooting shorts.
He also was technical adviser (1961 A Rebrousse-Poil,
Pierre Armand, shot in 1959; 1966 Les Mordus de
Paris, Pierre Armand, shot in 1964) and production
manager (1977 Moi, Fleur bleue / Stop Calling Me Baby!,
Eric Le Hung; 1978 Ca va pas la Tête, Raphaël Delpard;
1979 Tapage nocturne, Catherine Breillat; 1982
Salut . . . j’arrive! / Sensucht nach dem rosaroten Chaos,
Gérard Poteau, France / West Germany; Le Crime
d’Amour, Guy Gilles; 1984 Clash, Raphaël Delpard,
France / Yugoslavia).
Filmography
1946 Nuits de Paris (short)
1949 Barrages au Maroc (documentary; short)
1953 Kandahar (documentary; short)
1957 Nous autres à Champignol (also co-dialogist)
1958 Les Aventuriers du Mékong / USA: Adventures in
Indochina (also co-adapter)
1959 Le Gendarme de Champignol (also co-adapter)
1960 Certains l’aiment froide (also adapter)
Les Tortillards (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
1961 Dynamite Jack / Dinamite Jack (also co-adapter;
France / Italy)
1966 Le Caïd de Champignol (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1967 Réseau secret (also co-adapter; X-rated version:
Les Espionnes du Diable)
1974 Et mourir de Désir
1975 Les Heures brûlantes du Plaisir
BASTID, JEAN-PIERRE (February 4, 1937,
Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France–)
Having graduated with a bachelor’s degree in literature,
he studied cinema at IDHEC and then worked
as assistant director (1960 Le Testament d’Orphée ou
Ne me demandez pas pourquoi / USA: The Testament
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of Orpheus, Jean Cocteau) and co-screenwriter (1969
La Main noire / La mano nera, also co-adapter, codialogist,
Max Pécas, France / Italy; 1972 L’Attentat /
L’attentato / Das Attentat / German video: Die Tödliche
Falle (Die Affäre Sadiel) / UK: Plot / USA: The French
Conspiracy / The Assassination, Yves Boisset, France /
Italy / West Germany; 1973 Lo Païs, Gérard Guérin,
shot in 1971; 1974 Sous le Signe du Vaudou, Pascal
Abikanlou, Dahomey; 1975 Dupont-Lajoie / UK: Rape
of Innocence / USA: The Common Man, Yves Boisset;
1983 La Bête noire, Patrick Chaput; 1984 L’Addition
/ USA: The Bill / The Caged Heart / The Patsy, Denis
Amar; 2001 Bandits d’Amour, as co-screenwriter,
Pierre Le Bret, shot in 1999). Also a novelist, several
of his books were brought to the screen (1986 Série
noire, episode Adieu la vie, Maurice Dugowson; 1996
Les Faux Médicaments, also co-dialogist, Alain-Michel
Blanc). In 1961, he published an essay on Nicholas
Ray (Un Etranger ici-bas, Nicholas Ray, Editions Lettres
Modernes / Etudes cinématographiques).
Filmography
1966 Massacre pour une Orgie / Massacre de Plaisir /
UK: Massacre of Pleasure / USA: Massacre for
an Orgy (as Jean-Loup Grosdard; also adapter;
Luxembourg)
1967 Salut les Copines (as Jean-Loup Grosdard; also
co-screenwriter)
Pas de Chrysanthèmes pour la Gluglu (short;
also screenwriter)
Teenagers (documentary; co-director with
Pierre Roustang)
1968 La Belle au Bois mourant
1969 Hallucinations sadiques / UK: Sadistic Hallucinations
(as Roy Kormon)
Bartleby (short; also screenwriter)
1970 Les Petits Enfants d’Attila (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1991 Le Pénitent (also co-screenwriter)
1998 Irak, une autre Façon de faire la Guerre (documentary;
short)
Television Filmography
1968 Dim Dam Dom (documentary; short; episode
“Le Marais aujourd’hui”)
1977 Bruits en Fête et Sons de Plaisir (documentary;
episode “Faire du Sentiment, faire du Bois”)
1981 Etouffe Grand-Mère (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
Caen, la Ville qui chante (documentary)
1982 Les Folies bourgeoises / Paris sur Mer