Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

850 • RAJOT, PIERRE-LOUP
1996 Quand les Etoiles rencontrent la Mer (also coscreenwriter;
Madagascar)
2005 Mahaleo (documentary; co-director with
César Paes; also co-screenwriter, co-cinematographer;
France / Madagascar)
RAJOT, PIERRE-LOUP (February 9, 1958, Ambert,
Puy-de-Dôme, France–)
He was the pupil of Francis Huster at the Cours
Florent and attended Patrice Chéreau’s courses at
the Théâtre des Amandiers. Chéreau directed him in
four of Shakespeare’s plays (Love’s Labours Lost; As You
Like It; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night, or What
You Will). In 1982, he made his fi lm debut in Maurice
Pialat’s A nos Amours / UK and USA: To Our Loves. Seen
in about fi fty movies, he directed a feature-length fi lm
and a short.
Filmography
1996 Jeunes Gens (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
shot in 1992)
2004 Personnes en Danger (short; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
RAMEAU, WILLY (July 29, 1948, Paris, France–)
A former actor (1979 Mais où est donc Ornicar?, Bertrand
Van Effenterre), he directed one of the last Jean
Marais fi lms.
Filmography
1986 Lien de Parenté (also co-screenwriter)
RAMELOT, PIERRE (1905, France–1942, France)
A former actor (1923 La Belle Nivernaise / USA: The
Beauty from Nivernais, Jean Epstein; 1924 L’Héritage de
Cent Millions, Armand du Plessy), he directed two propaganda
medium-length fi lms during the occupation of
France (the anti-Semitic Le Péril juif and Les Corrupteurs,
which was an indictment of Freemasonry). He also cowrote
L’Enfer des Anges (Christian-Jaque, 1941).
Filmography
1924 Voulez-vous faire du Cinéma? (co-director with
René Alina)
1935 Haut comme Trois Pommes (co-director with
Ladislas Vajda)
1937 Le Petit Bateau (short)
1941 Le Péril juif (medium-length; documentary)
Les Corrupteurs (medium-length; also coscreenwriter)
1942 Cabarets montmartrois (short)
Monsieur Girouette et la Guerre de Cent Ans!
(short)
Poste 1 (short)
RAMOS, PHILIPPE (December 22, 1966, Vienne,
Isère, France–)
Between the ages of fi fteen and twenty-fi ve he shot
about twenty amateur Super-8 shorts. In 1992, more
interested in cinema than in his studies, he dropped
out of the university and moved to Paris, where he
showed one of his Super-8 efforts to fi lm critics at
Les Cahiers du Cinéma and Bref. They encouraged him
to persevere. In 1995, he directed his fi rst professional
movie. He edited a short (2001 Ce Vieux Rêve
qui bouge, Alain Guiraudie) and appeared in Humphrey
Bogart et la Femme invisible (short, Anne Benhaïem).
Filmography
1995 Vers le Silence (short; also screenwriter)
1997 Ici-bas (short; also screenwriter, editor)
1999 L’Arche de Noé (short; also screenwriter, editor)
2003 Adieu Pays (also screenwriter, editor)
2004 Capitaine Achab (short; also screenwriter, production
designer)
2007 Capitaine Achab / Kapten Achab (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; France / Sweden)
RANKOVITCH, JEAN-MICHEL (Miloch Rankovitch
/ February 21, 1921, Paris, France–)
He was an actor (1950 Ce Pauvre Desbonnet / Ce Pauvre
Desbonnet, short, Georges Jaffé; Merci Cher Maître,
short, Georges Jaffé; Le Pédicure chinois, short, Georges
Jaffé; 1951 Les Amants de Bras-Mort, Marcello Pagliero;
Moumou, René Jayet; 1953 Koenigsmark, Solange Térac,
supervised by Christian-Jaque; Le Petit Jacques, Robert
Bibal; 1954 Trois Jours de Bringue à Paris, Emile Couzinet;
Le Congrès des Belles-Mères, Emile Couzinet; 1956
Mon Curé Champion de Régiment, Emile Couzinet)
before directing two movies.
Filmography
1964 Cruelle Méprise / La Méprise (shot in 1962)
1967 Le Chacal traque les Filles (shot in 1965)
RAOUL-DUVAL, FRANÇOIS (October 9, 1935,
Paris, France–)
From 1959 to 1964, he was a reporter and photographer
for Dalmas-SIPA agency and notably made