Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

834 • POLLÈS, RENAN
1977 Nucléaire = Danger immédiat (documentary)
1978 Malville: Etat de Siège (documentary; mediumlength;
also co-cinematographer, co-editor)
1979 Le Juste Droit (documentary; co-director with
Sandra Zadeh)
1980 Le Noir Printemps des Jours (documentary; also
cinematographer, co-editor; shot in 1978)
1981 Solidarnösc / Solidarité (documentary)
POLLÈS, RENAN (February 5, 1943, Paris, France–)
He entered fi lms as a camera operator (1971 Le Frisson
des Vampires / UK: Sex and the Vampire / The Terror
of the Vampires / Thrill of the Vampires / USA: Strange
Things Happen at Night / US DVD: The Shiver of the
Vampire, Jean Rollin; 1972 Les Petits Enfants d’Attila,
Jean-Pierre Bastid) and then became one of the busiest
cinematographers of the past four decades (more
than seventy shorts, feature fi lms, documentaries, and
TV movies).
Filmography
1965 Univermag II. (short)
1968 Le Maître du Monde (short)
2002 Cinq Tableaux du Temps qui passe dans un Appartement
(short)
2004 Elle critique tout (co-director with Alain Riou;
also editor)
2006 Tous les Hommes sont des Romans (co-director
with Alain Riou)
Television Filmography
1984 Gavrinis (documentary; short)
1988 Mythes et Mégalithes (documentary)
1990 Francis Haskell, Questions de Goûts (documentary)
1993 Egyptomanie (documentary)
1997 Il était une Fois l’Atlantide (documentary)
1998 Les Supports de l’Ecrit (documentary)
1999 Les Ecrans du Savoir au Bahrein (documentary)
2000 Maurice Limat (documentary)
Y a-t-il un Bug dans l’Avion (documentary;
short)
Un Rêve américain (documentary)
2001 Pop Art & Co (documentary)
2006 Henri Pollès, Paris & Henri Pollès, Plougescrant
(2 7'30")
POLLET, BÉATRICE (September 19, 1964, Paris,
France–)
Having graduated from the Louis Lumière fi lm school
(image department) and with a master’s degree in cinema
from the University of Paris VIII, she worked as a
script supervisor on about forty feature fi lms and TV
movies (from 1987 Un Médecin des Lumières, TV, René
Allio, to 2007 Sous Les Toits de Paris, Hiner Saleem).
Filmography
1987 Véra (also screenwriter, dialogist; unreleased)
1993 Le Singe (short; also screenwriter)
1998 Tic-Toc (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2003 Portraits de Peintres, d’un Atelier à l’Autre (two
26' video documentaries: “Françoise Adnet,”
“Pierre Henry”; two 52' video documentaries:
“Jansen,” “Pollet”)
2006 Qui sommes-nous? (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Television Filmography
1995 Je suis née Transexuelle (documentary; short)
POLLET, JEAN-DANIEL (June 30, 1936, La Madeleine,
Nord, France–September 9, 2004, Cadenet,
Vaucluse, France)
He studied at Sciences Po for two years. After his
military service in the French army’s Cinematographic
Service, he served as an assistant director to Julien
Duvivier (1957 L’Homme à l’Imperméable / L’uomo
dall’impermeabile / USA: The Man in the Raincoat, France
/ Italy) and directed his fi rst short. He produced documentary
shorts (1963 Du Côté de Nardemer, Gérard
Vienne; Forêts d’Ardennes, Gérard Vienne, François
Sommer), played in Les Autres (Hugo Santiago, 1974),
and appeared as himself in documentaries (1964
Cinéastes de notre Temps, episode “La Nouvelle Vague
par elle-même,” André S. Labarthe, Robert Valey). In
1989, a train that he was fi lming struck him. He received
twenty-seven fractures and remained paralyzed.
He shot his last fi lms near his house in Cadenet in
Provence. Jean-Paul Fargier completed his last movie in
2006 (Jour après Jour, also cinematographer, actor).
Filmography
1958 Pourvu qu’on ait l’Ivresse (short; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
1959 La Ligne de Mire (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist, editor; unreleased)
1961 Gala (short)
1963 Méditerranée (documentary; medium-length;
co-director with Volker Schlöndorff; also cinematographer)