Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Rivière de Diamants”; also co-screenwriter;
France / Italy / Japan / Netherlands)
1965 Cul-de-Sac (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
UK)
1967 Dance of the Vampires / USA: The Fearless
Vampire Killers / The Fearless Vampire Killers
or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor; UK
/ USA)
1968 Rosemary’s Baby (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist; USA)
1971 The Tragedy of Macbeth / Macbeth (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; UK / USA)
1972 What? / Che? / Quoi? / Was? / US recut version:
Diary of Forbidden Dreams (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist; Italy / France / West
Germany)
1974 Chinatown (also uncredited co-screenwriter,
actor; USA)
1976 Le Locataire / USA: The Tenant (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, actor)
1979 Tess (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist;
France / UK)
1986 Pirates (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
France / Tunisia)
1988 Frantic (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; USA
/ France)
1992 Bitter Moon / Lunes de Fiel (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / UK
/ USA)
1994 Death and the Maiden / La Jeune Fille et la Mort
(UK / USA / France)
1999 The Ninth Gate / La Neuvième Porte / La novena
puerta (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist;
USA / Spain / France)
2002 The Pianist / Le Pianiste / Der Pianist / Pianista
(UK / France / Germany / Poland)
2005 Oliver Twist (UK / France / Italy / Czech Republic)
2007 Chacun son Cinéma ou Ce petit Coup au Coeur
quand la Lumière s’éteint et que le Film commence
/ To Each His Cinema (segment “Cinéma
érotique”; also producer)
POLIGNY, SERGE DE (April 14, 1903, Paris,
France–March 23, 1983, Paris, France)
After studying at the Beaux-Arts, he started his fi lm
career as a production designer at the Paramount
studios of Joinville. His fi rst movies were shorts and
French-language versions of German fi lms.
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Filmography
1931 Ménages ultra-modernes (short)
Une Brune piquante / La Femme à Barbe
(short)
1932 Les As du Turf / Canari / USA: Aces of the Turf
Vous serez ma Femme (French-language version
of Carl Boese and Heinz Hille’s Der Frechdachs;
Germany / France)
Coup de Feu à l’Aube (French-language version
of Alfred Zeisler’s Schuss im Morgengrauen;
Germany / France)
1933 Rivaux de la Piste (French-language version
of Alfred Zeisler’s Strich durch die Rechnung;
Germany / France)
L’Etoile de Valencia (French-language version of
Alfred Zeisler’s Stern von Valencia; Germany /
France)
1934 L’Or (French-language version of Karl Hartl’s
Das Gold; Germany / France)
1935 Un de la Montagne (co-director with René Le
Hénaff)
Jonny haute Couture
Retour au Paradis (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1937 La Chanson du Souvenir (French-language version
of Detlef Sierck’s Das Hofkonzert; Germany
/ France)
Claudine à l’Ecole
1939 Le Veau gras
1943 Le Baron Fantôme / UK: The Phantom Baron
(also screenwriter, co-adapter)
1945 La Fiancée des Ténèbres (also co-screenwriter)
1947 Torrents (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1950 La Soif des Hommes / USA: Thirst of Men (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1953 Alger-Le Cap (documentary; also screenwriter)
Cent Ans de Gloire—La Médaille militaire (also
screenwriter)
POLJINSKY, SERGE (May 8, 1944, Nice, Alpes-
Maritimes, France–)
He directed industrial fi lms until 1970 before opting
for a politically involved cinema. Other credit (as production
manager): 1992 Samostoyatelnaya zhizn / Une
Vie indépendante / An Independent Life (Vitali Kanevsky,
Russia / France / UK).
Filmography
1974 Le Funambule (also screenwriter)
1976 La Ville est à nous