Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Rouch; 1969 Que la Bête meure! / Uccideró un uomo
/ UK: Killer / USA: The Beast Must Die / This Man
Must Die, Claude Chabrol, France / Italy; 1974 Mes
Petites Amoureuses, Jean Eustache; 1976 Les Lolos de
Lola, Bernard Dubois, shot in 1974; 1982 Cinématon,
short, Gérard Courant; 1985 Grosse, short, Brigitte
Roüan) and in TV documentaries (1983 Une Minute
pour une Image, 170 2' documentary, as narrator,
Agnès Varda, 2001 Toc Toc Toc, TV miniseries, as himself,
Benoît Delépine; 2007 Maurice Pialat, l’Amour
existe, documentary, as himself in archive footage,
Jean-Pierre Devillers, Anne-Marie Faux).
Filmography
1951 Isabelle aux Dombes (short)
1952 Riviera di Brenta (short)
1953 Congrès eucharistique diocésain (short)
1957 Drôles de Bobines (short)
1958 L’Ombre familière (short)
1960 L’Amour existe (short; also author of the commentary)
1961 Janine (short)
1962 Le Bosphore (documentary; short)
1964 Pehlivan (documentary; short)
Istanbul (documentary; short)
Byzance (documentary; short)
Maître Galip (documentary; short)
La Corne d’Or (documentary; short)
1965 Chroniques de France (documentary; shorts;
episodes “Pigalle,” “Les Champs-Elysées,”
“Marseille,” “La Parisienne et les grands Magasins”)
1966 Chroniques de France (documentary; shorts;
episodes “Agnès Varda,” “La camargue,” “Le
Quartier Latin,” “Auvers,” “L’Usine marémotrice
de la Rance”)
1969 L’Enfance nue / UK: Me / USA: Naked Childhood
(also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; shot in
1967)
Villages d’Enfants (documentary; mediumlength)
1972 Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble / L’amante giovane
/ UK: Break-Up / USA: We Won’t Grow Old
Together (also screenwriter, dialogist, delegate
producer; France / Italy)
1974 La Gueule ouverte (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1979 Passe ton Bac d’abord / UK and USA: Graduate
First (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1980 Loulou (also co-adapter, co-dialogist)
PIANTANIDA, THIERRY • 815
1983 A nos Amours / UK and USA: To Our Loves (also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor)
1985 Police (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
1987 Sous le Soleil de Satan / UK: Under Satan’s Sun
/ USA: Under the Sun of Satan (also adapter,
actor)
1991 Van Gogh (also screenwriter, adapter)
1995 Le Garçu (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1971 La Maison des Bois (7 52'; also actor; France
/ Italy)
PIANKO, ADAM (February 4, 1942, Arkhangelsk,
USSR–)
After being an assistant to directors André Cayatte
and Edouard Molinaro, he worked with his father
in a society of ready-to-wear clothes. He met fi lm
technicians and decided to direct a documentary
on an experimental school and then a feature fi lm,
both of which were commercial failures. He dedicated
himself to writing for twenty years authoring
two novels (1990 La Mélodie d’Alzenheimer, Editions
François Bourin; 2005 Le Pavé originel, Editions de La
Martinière) and two books (1995 Gentleman Escroc,
Editions Jean-Claude Lattès; 1997 Histoire d’Escrocs,
Calmann-Lévy). More recently, he has shot a couple
of TV documentaries. Other credit (as actor): 1998
¡Viva Apocalypsa! (Philippe Truffault).
Filmography
1973 L’Ecole sauvage (documentary; co-director
with Costa Natsis; also co-screenwriter, producer;
shot in 1971)
1974 On n’est pas sérieux quand on a 17 Ans (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
2002 Salam Alikoum Bernard (documentary; shot in
2000)
2005 Mau par Mao (documentary)
PIANTANIDA, THIERRY
Having trained as a journalist, he was the manager of
Equipe Cousteau’s publishing department for seven
years. Besides the documentaries he co-directed,
he collaborated as a screenwriter on other movies
(2001 Le Géant de la Vallée perdue, documentary,