Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Filmography
2003 Bienvenue chez les Rozes (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
PALUD, HERVÉ (April 14, 1953, Paris, France–)
He was an actor for eight years, performing onstage,
in fi lms (1977 Lâche-moi les Valseuses! . . . ,
Alain Nauroy; Marche pas sur mes Lacets, Max Pécas;
1978 Comment se faire réformer, Philippe Clair; Les
Réformés se portent bien, Philippe Clair; 1979 Ces
Flics étranges venus d’ailleurs, Philippe Clair; Gros
Câlin / Cocco mio, Jean-Pierre Rawson, France / Italy;
Rien ne va plus / USA: Out of Whack, Jean-Michel
Ribes), and on TV (1978 Au Théâtre ce Soir, play “Un
Ménage en Or,” Pierre Sabbagh; 1980 Médecins de
Nuit, episode “Légitime Défense,” Bruno Gantillon;
1988 Palace, TV miniseries, Jean-Michel Ribes). A
fi lm director from 1981, he shot mainly comedies.
His son is director Xavier Palud. Other credit (as
co-screenwriter): 1997 Aventurière malgré lui (TV
movie, Marc Rivière).
Filmography
1981 Du Blues dans la tête / French video: Bloody
Blues (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1984 Jacques Mesrine: Profession Ennemi public (documentary;
also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1986 Les Frères Pétard (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1991 Les Secrets professionnels du Docteur Appfelglück
(co-director with Alessandro Capone,
Stéphane Clavier, Mathias Ledoux, Thierry
Lhermitte)
La Gamine
1994 Un Indien dans la Ville / USA: An Indian in Paris /
An Indian in the City / Little Indian, Big City (also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1998 Mookie (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2004 Albert est méchant (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
executive producer)
Television Filmography
1988 Sueurs froides (episodes “Le Chat et la souris,”
“Dernier Week-End”)
1989 David Lansky (4 90': episodes “Prise
d’Otage,” “L’Enfant américain,” “Le Gang des
Limousines,” “Hong-Kong sur Seine”)
PANH, RITHY (April 18, 1964, Phnom Penh, Cambodia–)
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Imprisoned in a rehabilitation camp by the Khmer
Rouge in 1975, he escaped to Thailand and took
refuge in Paris in 1980. Having graduated from the
IDHEC, he shot a fi rst documentary on Cambodian
refugee camps (Site 2). He teaches at the Fémis.
Filmography
1989 Site 2 / Das Land der Anderen (documentary;
also screenwriter; France / West Germany)
1991 Cambodia, entre Guerre et Paix (documentary;
Cambodia)
1994 Les Gens de la Rizière / Neak sre / Das Reisfeld /
UK and USA: Rice People (France / Cambodia
/ Switzerland / Germany; shot in 1992)
1996 Bophana, une Tragédie cambodgienne (documentary;
France / Cambodia)
1998 Un Soir après la Guerre / USA: One Evening
After the War (France / Cambodia; shot in
1996–1997)
2001 Quand la Barque se brise, que la Jonque s’ouvre
(also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Cambodia)
2003 Les Gens d’Angkor (documentary; France /
Cambodia)
S-21, la Machine de Mort Khmère rouge / USA:
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (documentary;
also screenwriter; France / Cambodia)
2005 Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé (documentary; also
co-screenwriter; Cambodia / France)
2007 Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la Braise (documentary;
also screenwriter)
2008 Un Barrage contre le Pacifi que (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Cambodia)
Television Filmography
1990 Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; episode
“Souleymane Cissé”)
2002 Wide Angle (documentary; episode “La Terre
des Âmes errantes” / “Land of the Wandering
Souls”; also screenwriter)
PANIJEL, JACQUES (1921, Paris, France–)
A biologist, he began writing in the 1950s and adapted J.
M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World for TV (1957
Le Baladin du Monde occidental, Marcel Bluwal). He campaigned
against the Algerian War and shot a clandestine
report on the French police repression of a demonstration
organized by the FLN in Paris in October 1961.
Other credit (as technical adviser): 1961 La Peau et les
Os (also co-screenwriter, Jean-Paul Sassy).