Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

770 • NION, DIDIER
/ Tempo d’amore / USA: It Only Happens to Others, Nadine
Trintignant, France / Italy; 1976 Une Femme fi dèle
/ UK: When a Woman in Love / USA: Game of Seduction,
Roger Vadim) and on TV (1973 Molière pour rire et
pour pleurer, 6 52', Marcel Camus; Lucien Leuwen,
4 90', Claude Autant-Lara; 1974 Les Fargeot, 49
13', Patrick Saglio; 1975 Paul Gauguin, 7 50', Roger
Pigaut), he also co-wrote two TV movies (1986 Le
Salon du Prêt-à-saigner, Joël Séria; 1990 La Femme et le
Pantin, Mario Camus, Spain / France).
Filmography
1976 La Syncope (short)
1980 Anthracite (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1987 Poussière d’Ange (also co-screenwriter)
1992 Le Retour de Casanova (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1984 L’Ennemi public No. 2 (also co-adapter; coscreenwriter)
1987 L’Heure Simenon (episode “Les Demoiselles de
Concarneau”; also co-screenwriter)
1995 Le Blanc à Lunettes (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
shot in 1993–1994)
L’Instit (episode “D’une Rive à l’autre”)
1997 Les Pardaillan (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1998 L’Enfant des Terres blondes
1999 Premier de Cordée (co-director with Pierre-
Antoine Hiroz)
2002 Sauveur Giordano (episode “Noces de Papier”)
2005 Marc Eliot (episodes “C’est votre Enfant,”
“Tant qu’il y aura des Flics”)
2008 Le Septième Juré (France / Belgium)
NION, DIDIER (January 21, 1959, Le Petit-Quevilly,
Seine-Maritime, France–)
He directed his fi rst amateur short at age seventeen
(Mais si) before working as a cabinetmaker in Switzerland.
He entered fi lms as a grip (1983 Garçon!,
Claude Sautet; 1984 Subway, Luc Besson; 1986 Esther,
Amos Gitai; 1988 Tabataba, Raymond Rajaonarivelo,
France / Madagascar).While fi lming his own movies,
he collaborated on several movies as an assistant
camera operator (1995 Les Semeurs de Peste, Christian
Merlhiot) and cinematographer (1992 L’Echappée
belle, short, Antoine Vaton; 1993 Le Joueur (Same Player
Shoots Again), short; Les Roses de Staline, short, Antoine
Voituriez; Léon (Portrait), documentary, short, Marie
de Laubier; 1994 Le Temps des Cerises, short, Lionel
Boncompagni; 1997 Les Moyens du Bord, short, Antoine
Vaton; 1998 Fils de Personne, short, Niels Dubost;
Ulysse au Pays des Merveilles, short, Charles Bouchery;
1999 Fleshback, short, Fred Noël; 2002 Toujours tout
droit, Mario Caniglia).
Filmography
1998 Clean Time—Le Soleil en plein Hiver (documentary;
short; also cinematographer)
2000 Juillet
2003 Dix-sept Ans (also screenwriter, cinematographer)
NIVOIX, PAUL (December 24, 1893, Saint-Denis,
France–September 14, 1958, France)
A newspaper editor in Marseille (Spectator), he went
to Paris, where he published articles in Comoedia
(known at the time as the only daily review of letters
and arts). He earned some success as a playwright
and became a screenwriter when movies began talking
(1932 Direct au Coeur, also co-author of original
play, co-screenwriter, dialogist, Roger Lion; 1933 Un
peu d’Amour, dialogist only, Hans Steinhoff, Germanlanguage
version: Scampolo, ein Kind der Strasse / Um
einen groschen Liebe, Germany; 1936 La Maison d’en
Face / USA: The House Across the Street, author of
original story, Christian-Jaque; 1937 A Venise, une Nuit,
Christian-Jaque; 1938 Barnabé, dialogist only; Alexander
Esway; 1943 Mahlia la Métisse, dialogist only,
Walter Kapps; 1948 Emile l’Africain, author of original
play, dialogist, Robert Vernay).
Filmography
1950 Les Nouveaux Maîtres (supervised by Jacques
Daniel-Norman; also original play, screenwriter,
dialogist)
NIVOT, ERIC (May 26, 1969, Montceau-les-Mines,
Saône-et-Loire, France–)
Having graduated with a master’s degree in modern
letters in 1991, he earned a diploma in cinema two
years later.
Filmography
1991 L’Excès contraire (16-mm short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1992 Ceca (documentary; industrial fi lm shot on
video; also screenwriter)