Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

800 • PAUREILHE, CHRISTIAN
1998 Le Temps d’un Eclair (also co-screenwriter)
2000 La Caracole
H (episodes “Une Histoire de Cadeau,” “Une
Histoire de Ski”)
2001 Jalousie
L’Interpellation (also co-screenwriter)
2007 Louis Page (episode “Silence, dis-moi”)
La Boîte à images (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
PAUREILHE, CHRISTIAN (February 1, 1947,
Paris, France–)
He was only seventeen years old when he made his
fi lm debut serving as an assistant director or assistant
editor to such fi lmmakers as Jean-Luc Godard,
Jean Becker, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and François
Reichenbach and working on many TV programs.
Then he was a chief editor, artistic manager, and
fi nally director.
Filmography
1970 La Plaine du Vivivouioui (also screenwriter, producer;
shot in 1968–1970; unreleased)
1973 Fil à Fil (short; also screenwriter, producer)
1975 Allégorie (also screenwriter, producer, actor,
cinematographer, editor)
Carrara (documentary; short; also screenwriter)
1976 Caméra (short; also screenwriter, producer)
Caméra 2 (short; also screenwriter, producer)
1979 Démons de Midi (also producer, co-screenwriter;
France / Belgium / Spain)
1981 Chaz-Chase (documentary; short; also screenwriter,
producer)
1982 Aujourd’hui c’est la Fête (short; also screenwriter,
producer)
Television Filmography
1987– Contre-Enquête (documentary; episodes “Je
1990 vais boire un Café, je reviens,” “Pourquoi pas
moi?”)
1990 Mémoire de l’Europe (10 52' documentary;
also co-screenwriter)
1997 Gens d’à bord (documentary; short; also coscreenwriter,
producer)
1998 Vie foraine (documentary; short; also coscreenwriter,
producer)
2000 Aux Trois Relais (documentary; short; also coscreenwriter,
producer)
PAVIOT, PAUL (March 11, 1926, Paris, France–)
Having graduated from the ENPC (Ecole Nationale
de Photographie et Cinématographie) and from the
SCPC (New York Signal Corp Photographic Center),
he started out as a still photographer (a dozen movies
from 1947 Voyage surprise, Pierre Prévert, to 1950).
He co-founded the Groupe des Trente, dedicated to
shorts. In 1953, he directed an adaptation of his fi lm
Chicago Digest for the Crazy Horse cabaret.
Filmography
1951 Terreur en Oklahoma (short; also producer)
1952 Chicago Digest (short)
Saint-Tropez, Devoir de Vacances (also coscreenwriter)
1953 Torticola contre Frankensberg (short; also coscreenwriter)
Lumière (documentary; short; also co-screenwriter)
1954 Pantomimes (short)
Tempi nostri / Zibaldone N. 2 / Quelques Pas
dans la Vie / UK: A Slice of Life / USA: The
Anatomy of Love (segment “La Parade”; also
co-screenwriter; Italy / France)
1955 Un Jardin public (short)
1957 Mam’zelle Souris (short; also screenwriter,
adapter)
1958 Django Reinhardt (documentary; short)
1960 Pantalaskas (also screenwriter, adapter, producer)
1962 Portrait Robot (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
producer; shot in 1960)
Television Filmography
1968 Les Cavaliers de la Route / Polizeifunk ruft (52
26'; also co-screenwriter; episodes “Begegnung
in Paris,” “Hahrerfl ucht im Morgengrauen,”
“Das Giftige Dessert,” “Philipp und
Dorothea”; France / West Germany / Japan
/ Canada)
1970 Le Chien qui a vu Dieu
La Fin et les Moyens
Sultan à vendre
1971 Le Mauvais
1972 Irma la Douce
1973 Le Masque aux Yeux d’Or (also screenwriter)
Genitrix
1974 Hugues Panassié ou La Passion du Jazz (documentary)
1975 Bonjour Monsieur Courteline