Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

RADOT, GUILLAUME (August 13, 1911, Paris,
France–November 5, 1977, Garches, Haut-de-Seine,
France)
He entered fi lms as an assistant director to Jacques de
Baroncelli (1940 L’Homme du Niger) before directing and
often producing a few fi lms in the 1940s and 1950s.
Filmography
1943 Le Loup des Malveneur (supervised by Marcel
L’Herbier)
1944 Le Bal des Passants
1947 Chemins sans Loi (also producer)
1948 Le Destin exécrable de Guillemette Babin (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, producer)
1949 La Louve (also screenwriter, co-dialogist, producer)
1950 Cartouche, Roi de Paris (also producer)
1957 Fric-Frac en Dentelles (also producer, co-screenwriter)
RAGOBERT, THIERRY (October 18, 1959, Paris,
France–)
From 1978 to 1981, he was an assistant editor for
French TV. For ten years (1982–1992), he worked for
the Cousteau Society as an editor and assistant director.
Then he began fi lming documentaries.
Filmography
2005 La Planète blanche / USA: The White Planet
(documentary; co-director with Thierry Piantanida;
France / Canada)
Television Filmography
1996 Rey Bouba “Royaume caché d’Afrique” (documentary)
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La Septième Merveille du Monde (documentary)
1997 Alexandrie, la Magnifi que (documentary)
1998 Origines de l’Homme: La Piste d’Abel (documentary)
1999 Les Amoureux du Pôle (documentary)
L’Enigme des Nascas (documentary)
2000 A la Recherche de Saint-Exupéry (documentary)
Les Derniers Jours de Zeugma (documentary)
2001 La Mémoire perdue de l’Île de Pâques (documentary)
2002 Les Mystères d’Alexandrie (documentary)
2004 La Bible dévoilée (4 52' documentary)
2006 Un Paradis pour les Gorilles (documentary; also
screenwriter, editor)
Le Mystère des Criquets (documentary)
2007 Space Cobayes 188 Jours dans l’Espace (documentary)
RAJAONARIVELO, RAYMOND (1947, Antananarivo,
Madagascar–)
He left Madagascar to study cinema in France at Paul
Valéry University of Montpellier. After being an assistant
director from 1980 to 1988, he turned out
shorts. His fi rst feature-length fi lm (Tabataba), shown
at the Cannes Film Festival directors’ fortnight, was
the fi rst Malgach movie shot in 35-mm.
Filmography
1978 Izaho Lokanga Ianao Valiha (short; Madagascar)
1980 Babay Sa Lavohitra (short; Madagascar)
1989 Tabataba (also co-screenwriter; France / Madagascar;
shot in 1987)
1994 Le Jardin des Corps (short)