Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

tère Tex Avery (Le Seuil). Other credit (as actor): 1968
Erotissimo (Gérard Pirès; France / Italy).
Filmography
1969 Paris n’existe pas (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1975 Sérieux comme le Plaisir / USA: Serious As Pleasure
(also screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
actor)
BENAZERAF, JOSÉ (January 8, 1922, Casablanca,
Morocco–)
Having graduated from Sciences Po Paris after
World War II, he entered fi lms as a producer (1957
Les Lavandières du Portugal / Las lavanderas de Portugal,
Pierre Gaspard-Huit, France / Spain; 1958 La Fille
de Hambourg, also co-screenwriter, Yves Allégret;
1961 Un Martien à Paris, Jean-Daniel Daninos; Mourir
d’Amour, Dany Fog; La Fête espagnole / USA: No Time
for Ecstasy, also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Jean-
Jacques Vierne; 1963 L’Accident / USA: The Accident,
Edmond T. Gréville; 1970 Les Enfants de Caïn, René
Jolivet; 1974 Magasin de Lingerie / Tout Bas, short,
Noël Simsolo). A fi lm director since 1961, he won
huge fame as the specialist of erotic cinema with
some intellectual pretention (he was nicknamed the
“Jean-Luc Godard of erotic movies”). From 1975 to
1999, he fi lmed more than fi fty porn fl icks (sometimes
shot on video). Other credit (as actor): 1960
A Bout de Souffl e / UK: By a Tether / USA: Breathless
(Jean-Luc Godard).
Filmography
1962 Le Quatrième Sexe / USA: The Fourth Sex (Alfonso
Gimeno, Michel Wichard; José Benazeraf
is the real director of the fi lm; also
producer, actor)
1963 Le Cri de la Chair / L’Eternité pour nous / USA:
Sin on the Beach (also producer, cameraman,
actor)
Le Concerto de la Peur / La Drogue du Vice / USA:
Night of Lust (also producer, co-cameraman,
actor)
1964 24 Heures d’un Américain / Paris Erotika / USA:
Paris Ooh-La-La! (also screenwriter, dialogist,
camerman, voice)
1965 Cover Girls / Cover Girls ragazze di tutti (also
original story, co-adapter, co-producer, cameraman,
actor; France / Italy)
BENAZERAF, JOSÉ • 75
La Nuit la plus longue / L’Enfer dans la Peau /
USA: Sexus (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer,
actor)
1966 L’Enfer sur la Plage (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1967 Sankt Pauli zwischen Nacht und Morgen (also
co-screenwriter, actor; West Germany)
1968 Un Epais Manteau de Sang / UK: Flesh and
Fantasy / USA: The Subject Is Sex (also screenwriter,
actor, producer, cameraman, actor)
Flesh and Fantasy (also screenwriter, dialogist;
USA)
1969 Joë Caligula—Du Suif chez les Dabes (also adapter,
dialogist, producer, actor; shot in 1966)
Bacchanales 69
1970 Le Désirable et le Sublime (also screenwriter,
adapter, producer, cameraman)
Triangle (short; also producer)
1971 Frustration ou Les Dérèglements d’une jeune Provinciale
/ UK: Frustrated Woman / The Trip to Perversion
/ USA: The Chambermaid’s Dream / The
Chambermaid’s Street (also screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist, producer, cameraman)
1972 Racism (also screenwriter, dialogist; USA)
1973 The French Love (also screenwriter, dialogist,
co-producer, actor)
Bacchanales 73
Le Sexe nu (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer,
cameraman)
Orgies et Bacchanales
1974 Black Love ou L’Homme qui voulait violer le
Monde entier (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer,
cameraman)
Adolescence pervertie / Adolescenza perversa
(also co-screenwriter, co-producer; France /
Italy)
Orgies et Voluptés
Le Bordel (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer,
cameraman)
1975 La Soubrette / La Soubrette perverse (also
screenwriter, dialogist, producer)
La Veuve (hard-core version: La Veuve lubrique;
also screenwriter, dialogist, producer, actor)
Les Incestueuses (also producer, cameraman)
Les Lesbiennes (also producer, cameraman)
1976 Voir Malte et mourir / Une Garce en Chaleur / Lo
sceicco la vede cosi (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer; France / Italy)
1980 Les Contes Galants de Jean de La Fontaine (also
co-screenwriter, producer, cameraman)