Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Coups / UK and USA: Naked Autumn), André Michel
(1962 Ton Ombre est la mienne / La scelta di Davy /
USA: Your Shadow Is Mine, France / Italy), Jacques Deray
(1963 Symphonie pour un Massacre / Sinfonia per un
massacro / UK: The Corrupt / USA: Symphony for a Massacre
/ The Mystifi ers, France / Italy), Jean-Paul Savignac
(1965 Nick Carter et le Trèfl e rouge / Nick Carter e il
trifoglio rosso, France / Italy), Raoul J. Lévy (1965 Je vous
salue, Mafi a! / Da New York: La mafi a uccide / USA: Hail,
Mafi a, France / Italy), Michel Cournot (1968 Les Gauloises
bleues), and Michel Mitrani (1972 La Nuit bulgare,
shot in 1969).
Filmography
1944 Nebbie sul mare (Italy)
1945 Giorni di gloria (documentary; co-director with
Giuseppe de Santis, Mario Serandrei, Luchino
Visconti; Marcello Pagliero directed the Fosse
Adreatine trial scenes; Italy)
1946 07 . . . tassi (co-director with Alberto d’Aversa;
also original story, co-screenwriter; Italy)
Roma, città libera / Roma città libera (La notte
porta consiglio) (also screenwriter, dialogist;
Italy)
Desiderio (also screenwriter, editor; co-director
with Roberto Rossellini; Italy)
1949 Un Homme marche dans la Ville (also screenwriter,
actor)
1951 La Rose rouge (also actor)
Les Amants de Bras-Mort (also actor)
1952 La P . . . respectueuse (co-director with Charles
Brabant)
1954 Destinées / Destini di donne / UK: Love, Soldiers
and Women / USA: Daughters of Destiny (segment
“Elisabeth”; France / Italy)
Vestire gli ignudi / Vêtir ceux qui sont nus (Italy
/ France)
Vergine moderna (Italy)
1955 Chéri-Bibi / Il forzato della Guiana (France /
Italy)
1956 Walk into Paradise / L’Odyssée du Capitaine
Steve / Walk into Hell (also producer; Australia
/ France)
1961 Vingt Mille lieues sur la Terre / Leon Garros ishchet
druga / US TV: 20,000 Leagues
Across the Land (France / USSR)
PAGNOL, MARCEL (February 1895, Aubagne,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–April 18, 1974, Paris,
France)
PAGNOL, MARCEL • 789
The son of a teacher father, he graduated with a
bachelor’s degree in literature in 1916. From 1915 to
1920, he taught English in various high schools. Then
he went to Paris and began writing novels and plays.
His fi rst stage work, Tonton ou Joseph veut rester pur,
co-authored under the pseudonym of Castro with
Paul Nivoix and Louis Raine, was created in Marseille
in 1923. Harry Baur performed in his fi rst solo play,
Jazz, in 1926. The huge success of Topaze (1928) and
Marius (1929) led him to the fi lm studio. His books
and plays became fi lms (1931 Marius, also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer, Alexander Korda; Längtan
till havet, Swedish-language version of Marius, John W.
Brunius; Zum Goldenanker, German-language version
of Marius, Alexander Korda; 1932 Direct au Coeur,
co-author of the original play, also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, Roger Lion, Arnaudy; Fanny, also screenwriter,
dialogist, supervisor, Marc Allégret; Fanny, Italian-language
version, Mario Almirante; 1933 Topaze,
Louis Gasnier; Topaze, English-language version, Harry
d’Abbadie d’Arrast; Yacout Effendi, Egyptian version of
Topaze, Nagib-El-Rihani; 1934 Der schwarze Walfi sch,
German-language version of Fanny, Dr. Fritz Wendhausen;
1938 Port of Seven Seas, inspired by Marius,
Fanny and César, James Whale, USA; 1961 Mr. Topaze
/ USA: I Like Money, Peter Sellers, USA; 1961 Fanny,
Joshua Logan, USA; 1986 Jean de Florette, Claude
Berri, France / Italy; Manon des Sources / Manon delle
sorgenti / USA: Manon of the Spring, Claude Berri,
France / Italy; 1990 La Gloire de mon Père / USA: My
Father’s Glory, Yves Robert; Le Château de ma Mère /
USA: My Mother’s Castle, Yves Robert; 1993 Bukfenc,
Robert Pajer, Hungary; 1999 Le Schpountz, Gérard
Oury) and TV movies (1957 Das grosse ABC, Rainer
Wolffhardt, West Germany; Playhouse 90, episode
“Topaze,” Vincent J. Donehue; 1958 Die Frau des Fotografen
oder Die grosse Liebe, Imo Moszkowicz, West
Germany; 1959 Fanny, Mita Bergé, Jos Mahu, Belgium;
1960 Topaze, TV miniseries, Edgardo Borda, Ernest
Mas, Argentina; 1963 Topaze, Jan Molander, Sweden;
1965 Merlusse, Georges Folgoas; 1967 Die Frau des
Fotografen oder Die grosse Liebe, Thomas Engel, West
Germany; Der Schpuntz, Günther Fleckenstein, West
Germany; 1971 Fabijen, Vanka Kljakovic, Yugoslavia;
1975 Cigalon, Georges Folgoas; 1978 Pagnol / De Marseillaanse
Trilogie, 7 50', Willy van Hemert, Netherlands;
1984 Zinsen des Ruhms, Kurt Meisel, West
Germany; 1988 Topaze, TV miniseries, Artur Ramos,
Portugal; 1998 Les Marchands de Gloire, Georges Folgoas;
1999 La Femme du Boulanger, Nicolas Ribowski;