Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

766 • NATSIS, COSTA
1927 La Sirène des Tropiques, Henri Etiévant, Mario
Nalpas; 1928 La Symphonie pathétique, Henri Etiévant,
Mario Nalpas; 1931 Pas sur la Bouche, Nicolas Evreinoff,
Nicolas Rimsky), producer (1933 Pour être aimé,
Maurice Tourneur; Cette Nuit-là, Georg Wilhelm Pabst,
Marc Sorkin), and production manager (1932 Ma
Femme . . . Homme d’Affaires, Max de Vaucorbeil; 1934
Fanatisme, Tony Lekain, Gaston Ravel). A renowned
screenwriter (thirty movies from 1929 Anschluss um
Mitternacht, Mario Bonnard, to 1955 Lola Montès / Lola
Montez / UK: The Fall of Lola Montes / USA: The Sins of
Lola Montes, Max Ophüls, France / West Germany), he
collaborated (often as a dialogist) on several of Max
Ophüls’s masterpieces (1940 De Mayerling à Sarajevo
/ UK: Sarajevo / USA: Mayerling to Sarajevo / US video:
From Mayerling to Sarajevo; 1950 La Ronde / UK and
USA: Roundabout / USA: House of Pleasure; 1952 Le Plaisir
/ UK and USA: Pleasure / USA: House of Pleasure).
Filmography
1933 La Fusée (also co-screenwriter)
1934 Maître Bolbec et son Mari
1935 Le Clown Bux
1936 Les Gais-Lurons (French-language version of
Paul Martin’s Glückskinder; also dialogist; Germany
/ France)
NATSIS, COSTA (Constantin Natsis / January 25,
1943, Rizvouni, Greece–)
He studied political science and philosophy in Berlin
before opting for cinema and Paris at age twenty-one.
After attending the IDHEC as an unregistered student,
he entered fi lms as an assistant to André Cayatte
(1969 Les Chemins de Katmandou / UK: The Roads
to Katmandu / USA: The Pleasure Pit / Dirty Dolls in
Kathmandu), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969 Medea / Médée,
Italy / France / West Germany), and René Clément
(1969 Le Passager de la Pluie / L’uomo venuto dalla pioggia
/ USA: Rider on the Rain / USA: Rain, René Clément,
France / Italy). Confronted with fi nancial worries, he
followed Jean Eustache’s advice and earned his living
as a taxi driver. His professional experience inspired
him to complete his fi rst feature-length fi lm.
Filmography
1970 Le Monsieur d’un Mètre 55 (short; also screenwriter)
1973 L’Ecole sauvage (also co-screenwriter, coproducer;
co-director with Adam Pianko;
shot in 1971)
1999 Innocent (also screenwriter, dialogist)
NAUER, BERNARD (September 16, 1955, Paris,
France–)
A former critic for magazine Actuel (1973–1975), he
entered fi lms as an assistant and location manager. He
directed several commercials and TV reports.
Filmography
1977 Les Noces Feratu? (animated short; also screenwriter)
1978 Conte à régler (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1980 Détournement mineur (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1985 Dialogue de Sourds (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1986 Nuit d’Ivresse
1995 Les Truffes (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1988 Sueurs froides (episode “Mise à l’Index”; also
screenwriter, dialogist)
NAVARRE, RENÉ (Victor René Navarre / July 8,
1877, Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France–February 8,
1968, Azay-sur-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, France)
A stage actor at the Théâtre Saint-Michel, he played
supporting roles on-screen before making his big
break as Fantômas in a successful Louis Feuillade serial
(1913–1914). Until his last screen appearance in
1940 (Les Surprises de la Radio, Marcel Paul = Marcel
Aboulker), he starred or co-starred in more than 100
movies, including a few he directed himself.
Filmography
1916 Christophe Colomb (two-episode short)
1918 Document secret (also producer, actor)
1920 Tue-la-Mort (twelve episodes: “L’Auberge
du petit Chaperon rouge,” “La Forge des
Quatre Chemins,” “Les Contrebandiers,”
“L’Inconnu,” “Tue-la-Mort et Ovilla,” “Une
Etrange Hypothèse,” “L’Incendie,” “Canzonette,”
“Tu ne tueras point,” “Un et un font
un,” “Tiberio,” “La Vengeance d’Ovilla”; also
producer, actor)
1921 L’Aiglonne (co-director with Emile Keppens;
thirteen episodes: “Le Lieutenant Bonaparte,”
“L’Enfant des Prisons,” “Pour tuer l’Empereur,”
“Le Regard de l’Aigle,” “La Revanche de
Fouché,” “Un Secret d’Etat,” “Wagram,” “Le
Drame des Cœurs,” “La Peau du Renard,”