Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

782 • ORTEGA, PASCAL
1962 Les Yeux ouverts (short; also screenwriter, producer,
composer)
1964 Trafi cs dans l’Ombre (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist, producer, composer)
1965 Le Faux Pas (also screenwriter, adapter, producer,
composer)
1966 Arrastão (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
producer, composer)
1968 La Nuit infi dèle / UK: Unfaithful Night (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, producer,
composer)
1969 Le Guerillero ou Celui qui n’y croyait pas /
USA: The Guerilla, or He Who Did Not Believe
(also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, producer,
composer; France / Italy)
1970 L’Amour sur du Sable / Ad Libitum (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer, composer;
unreleased)
ORTEGA, PASCAL (June 17, 1945, Paris, France–
May 10, 1994, Paris, France)
He started his fi lm career as a location manager
(1978 Molière) and assistant director (1978 Judith
Therpauve, Patrice Chéreau; 1979 Série Noire, Alain
Corneau; 1980 5% de Risques, Jean Pourtalé).
Filmography
1982 L’Echappée belle / L’Amour fugitif / Bad Hats
(France / UK, unreleased)
1991 Cherokee
ORVAL, CLAUDE (Gaston Farragut / November 1,
1897, Paris, France–April 24, 1963, Paris, France)
He wrote hundreds of tales and short stories and
about twenty plays. An occasional screenwriter (1934
La Moule, short, Jean Delannoy; 1955 Les Nuits de
Montmartre, also dialogist, Pierre Franchi), he also authored
a novel that was adapted by Bernard Borderie
(1960 Le Caïd).
Filmography
1936 Irma Lucinde Voyante (short; also screenwriter)
1937 Un Meurtre a été commis (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1938 Une Java
Clodoche (co-director with Raymond Lamy)
1939 Nadia, la Femme traquée / L’Ombre du Deuxième
Bureau / A l’Ombre du Deuxième Bureau / Na-
dia, la Lutte secrète (also original short story,
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1948 Triple Enquête
1949 La Nuit du 12 au 13 (short; also screenwriter)
1950 Allô au Secours! (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1951 Musique en Tête (co-director with Georges
Combret; also screenwriter, co-dialogist)
La Garçonnière (short; also original story,
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1952 Duel à Dakar (co-director with Georges
Combret; also screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1953 Les Détectives du Dimanche (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
OSMONT, LOUIS (March 9, 1882, Paris, France–
August 26, 1935, Paris, France)
Filmography
1922 Le Filon du Bouif (also screenwriter, adapter)
1923 Son Excellence le Bouif (also co-screenwriter,
adapter)
L’Affaire Blaireau (also screenwriter, adapter)
1924 L’Aventurier (co-director with Maurice Mariaud)
OSSANG, FRANÇOIS-JACQUES (Jacques
Plougeaut / August 7, 1956, Cantal, France–)
At age seventeen, he wrote collections of poems
(fi rst book published: Ecorces de Cendre, Millas-
Martin, 1975). Two years later, he created a literary
review, CEE. In 1977, he switched to music and
founded a neopunk band (De la Destruction Pure)
and then another band (MKB Fraction Provisoire /
Messagero Killer Boy, which produced nine albums,
including his fi lms’ sound tracks). Having graduated
from the IDHEC, he began shooting movies in 1982.
He authored more than twenty unconventional
books, including novels: Génération Néant (Warvilliers,
1993), Au Bord de l’Aurore (Warvilliers, 1994),
and Les 59 Jours (Diabase, 1999).
Filmography
1982 La Dernière Enigme (short; also screenwriter)
1983 Zona Inquinata (also screenwriter)
1985 L’Affaire des Divisions Morituri (also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer, actor as Frankie Tavezzano,
editor; shot in 1983)