Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

836 • POTEAU, GÉRARD
whom she worked in the research service at ORTF
(French TV) (image and contemporary music). Then
she became an assistant director before directing her
fi rst TV documentary. She authored an essay (1977
Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras, Les Editions de Minuit)
and did an interview with Marguerite Duras that was
published in Le Camion (Editions de Minuit, 1977).
Filmography
1990 Portrait de Famille (avec mon Père Maurice Denis)
(documentary; short)
1992 Jean Degottex—Peintre (documentary; short)
Christian Boltanski—Signalement (two 2 60'
documentaries: “Le Voyage au Pérou,” “Une
Maison en Allemagne”)
1994 Portrait de Claude de Soria, Sculpteur (documentary;
short)
2004 L’Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas (also
screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1976 Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras (2 60' documentary)
1981 Les Lieux de Virginia Woolf (documentary)
1982 La Peste—Marseille 1720 (documentary)
1984 Savannah Bay, c’est toi (documentary)
1985 La Princesse Palatine à Versailles, Portrait d’une
Famille royale (documentary)
1987 A la Recherche de Carl Theodor Dreyer (documentary)
La Tour de Victor Laloux (documentary; short)
1989 Chroniques de France (documentary; episodes
“D’un Nord à l’Autre,” “Ballade en Champagne”)
Océaniques (documentary; episode “Edmond
Jabès”)
1993 La Maison de Jean-Pierre Raynaud 1969–1993
(documentary; short)
1995 Le Gardien du Feu (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1996 Un Siècle d’Ecrivains (documentary; episode
“Françoise Sagan”)
POTEAU, GÉRARD (July 14, 1948, Arpajon, Essonne,
France–)
A playwright, he directed plays before working as
an assistant director. After shooting a comedy, he
resumed his directing activities for stage and opera
until 1993. Then he worked as a cultural attaché
in Cameroon and is now administrator of national
monuments. He authored several novels (2004 Le Fou
d’Assise, Editions Hors Commerce; 2006 Le Déjeuner
de Giverny, Editions Hors Commerce; 2007 Les Roses
de Malmaison, Editions Hors Commerce). Other
credits (as co-adapter): 1978 Les Filles du Régiment
(Claude Bernard-Aubert); 1982 Les P’tites Têtes (Bernard
Menez).
Filmography
1982 Salut . . . j’arrive! / Sehnsucht nach dem rosaroten
Chaos (also screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist;
France / West Germany)
POTTIER, RICHARD (Richard Deutsch / June 6,
1906, Graz, Austria–November 2, 1994, Le Plessis-
Bouchard, Val-d’Oise, France)
A former student of medicine, he began as an assistant
to Josef von Sternberg and Dimitri Buchowetzki
in 1929 in Germany. He settled in Paris, where he
directed his fi rst movie in 1934 and worked as a cinematographer
(1942 Le Tonnelier, documentary, mediumlength),
shot additional scenes for Mariage d’Amour
(Henri Decoin, 1942), and worked as a screenwriter
(1945 Le Roi des Resquilleurs, as co-adapter, Jean Devaivre;
1946 Sérénade aux Nuages, as co-screenwriter,
André Cayatte) and supervisor (1949 Interdit au Public,
Alfred Pasquali).
Filmography
1934 Si j’étais le Patron
1935 Fanfare d’Amour
Un Oiseau rare
1936 Le Disque 413 (also English-language version:
Guilty Melody)
27, Rue de la Paix
1937 Les Secrets de la Mer Rouge
1938 Lumières de Paris
1941 Le Monde tremblera / La Révolte des Vivants /
USA: The World Will Shake (shot in 1939)
1942 Mademoiselle Swing (also co-screenwriter)
Défense d’aimer
Huit Hommes dans un Château
1943 Picpus
Mon Amour est près de toi
La Ferme aux Loups
1945 Les Caves du Majestic
1946 L’Insaisissable Frédéric
Destins
1947 Vertiges
1948 L’Aventure commence Demain
La Nuit blanche
1949 Deux Amours