Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Filmography
1985 Coup de Chaleur (short)
1996 La Mémoire est-elle soluble dans l’Eau? (documentary;
also screenwriter)
1999 Les Illuminations de Mme Nerval (documentary;
also co-screenwriter)
2003 Royal Bonbon (also screenwriter; France /
Canada)
2004 Haïti: La Fin des Chimères (documentary; France
/ Haiti)
NAKACHE, OLIVIER (April 15, 1973, Suresnes,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–) and TOLEDANO, ERIC
(July 3, 1971, Paris, France–)
They met at a vacation camp in the late 1980s. Eric
Toledano graduated with a bachelor’s degree in
cinema and a master’s degree in political science at
the Sorbonne. They co-wrote a short, La Dette (Pascal
Chaumeil, 2002), and appeared as actors in a TV
movie (2005 Mer belle à agitée, Pascal Chaumeil).
Filmography
1997 Le Jour et la Nuit (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1999 Les Petits Souliers (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2002 Ces Jours heureux (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2005 Je préfère qu’on reste Amis (also co-screenwriter)
2006 Nos Jours heureux (also co-screenwriter)
NALPAS, MARIO
A versatile personality of French silent fi lms, he was
an editor (1921 Mathias Sandorf, Henri Fescourt; 1934
Rapt / USA: The Kidnapping, Dimitri Kirsanoff), assistant
director (1927 Napoléon / Napoléon Bonaparte
/ Napléon vu par Abel Gance / USA: Napoleon / Abel
Gance’s Napoleon, Abel Gance; 1932 Coups de Roulis,
Jean de La Cour), cinematographer (1930 Donna di
una notte, Marcel L’Herbier, Italy), art director (1930 La
Bodega, Benito Perojo, Spain / France), producer (1930
La Femme d’une Nuit, Marcel L’Herbier), and director.
Filmography
1924 Il ne faut pas jouer avec le Feu
1926 La Fin de Monte-Carlo (co-director with Henri
Etiévant)
1927 La Sirène des Tropiques (co-director with Henri
Etiévant)
1928 La Symphonie pathétique (co-director with
Henri Etiévant)
Montecarlo
NAMIAND, GILBERT
NATANSON, JACQUES • 765
A documentary director, he specialized in musical
fi lms on French rockers.
Filmography
1979 Hexagonal’s Rockers / New Wave French Connection
(documentary)
1992 Johnny Hallyday, une Star dans l’Histoire (documentary;
co-director with Bernard Schmitt)
Television Filmography
1995 Aphrodisia / Secrets de Femmes (episode “Les
Mots et la Chose”)
Videos
1998 Jean-Jacques Goldman—Tournée 98 en passant
2000 Zazie: Made in Live
Jean-Marie Bigard met le Paquet
2001 Bigard bourre Bercy
NATAF, OREN (June 30, 1972, Tel Aviv, Israel–)
Having graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-
Arts (painting department), he worked in 1996 as a
cinematographer on many 16-mm fi lms shot for the
San Francisco Art Institute. An occasional editor (2001
Le Clou, short, Alexandre Messina; Carte postale, short,
Patrick Chamare) and assistant director (2003 Le Festin
de la Mante, Marc Levie, Belgium), he directed several
documentaries (shorts and feature-length fi lms).
Filmography
1997 Les Coulisses de l’Âme (short)
1998 Le Royaume des Chats (short)
2002 Sibérie, la dernière Nuit (documentary; also
cinematographer, sound engineer)
2004 Ne faites pas de Cinéma! (documentary; also
screenwriter; France / Belgium)
NATANSON, JACQUES (May 15, 1901, Asnièressur-Seine,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–May 19, 1975, Le
Bugne, Dordogne, France)
A playwright since his teenage years, he won huge
fame thanks to his plays L’Âge heureux and Le Greluchon
délicat (1926). His theatrical successes opened doors
to cinema. He was successively an art director (1926
La Fin de Monte-Carlo, Henri Etiévant, Mario Nalpas;