Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

862 • RENUCCI, ROBIN
La Chienne / UK and USA: The Bitch (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist, co-editor)
1932 La Nuit du Carrefour (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
dialogist)
Boudu sauvé des Eaux / USA: Boudu Saved from
Drowning (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1933 Chotard et Compagnie (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
1934 Madame Bovary (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1935 Toni (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1936 Le Crime de Monsieur Lange / USA: The Crime
of Monsieur Lange (also co-author of original
idea, dialogist, uncredited executive producer)
La Vie est à nous / UK and USA: The People of
France (also co-screenwriter, actor; co-director
with Jacques Becker, Jacques-Bernard Brunius,
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Paul Dreyfus /
Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Pierre Unik, Paul Vaillant-
Couturier, André Zwobada)
Les Bas-Fonds / UK: Underworld / USA: The
Lower Depths (also co-dialogist)
1937 La Grande Illusion / USA: The Grand Illusion
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1938 La Marseillaise / UK: The Marseillaise (also coscreenwriter,
dialogist, producer)
Une Partie de Campagne / UK and USA: A Day
in the Country (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
actor)
La Bête humaine / UK: Judas Was a Woman /
USA: The Human Beast (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, actor)
1939 La Règle du Jeu / USA: The Rules of the Game
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor)
1941 Swamp Water / UK: The Man Who Came Back
(USA)
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (uncredited codirector
with Bruce Manning; USA)
This Land Is Mine (also uncredited screenwriter,
producer; USA)
1944 Salute to France (short; also co-screenwriter;
co-director with Garson Kanin; USA)
1945 The Southerner (also co-screenwriter; USA)
1946 The Diary of a Chambermaid (also co-screenwriter;
USA)
1947 The Woman on the Beach (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist; USA)
1951 The River / Le Fleuve (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
co-producer; France / India / USA)
1953 Le Carrosse d’Or / La carrozza d’oro / UK and
USA: The Golden Coach (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy)
1955 French Cancan / USA: Only the French Can (also
adapter, dialogist; France / Italy)
1956 Eléna et les Hommes / Eliana e gli uomini / UK:
Elena and Her Men / UK and USA: Paris Does
Strange Things (also screenwriter, co-adapter,
dialogist; France / Italy)
1959 Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe / UK: Lunch on the
Grass / USA: Picnic on the Grass (also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer)
1961 Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier / UK: The
Testament of Docteur Cordelier / UK and USA:
Experiment in Evil / USA: The Doctor’s Horrible
Experiment (also screenwriter, dialogist, coproducer,
actor as himself; shot in 1959)
1962 Le Caporal épinglé / UK: The Vanishing Corporal
/ USA: The Elusive Corporal (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist; co-director with
Guy Lefranc)
1970 Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir / Il teatrino di
Jean Renoir / USA: The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
(originally shot for TV; also screenwriter,
dialogist, narrator, host; four segments: “Le
Dernier Réveillon,” “La Cireuse électrique,”
“Quand l’Amour meurt,” “Le Roi d’Yvetot”;
France / Italy / West Germany)
RENUCCI, ROBIN (Daniel Robin / July 11, 1956,
Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire, France–)
Having trained at the Cours Charles Dullin and at
the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Paris (1979–
1981), he made his acting debut onstage and notably
worked with Roger Planchon and Jean Mercure. He
entered fi lms in 1981 (Eaux profondes / USA: Deep
Water, Michel Deville) and starred and played supporting
roles in about 100 fi lms and TV movies.
Filmography
2007 Sempre vivu! (also co-screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1998 La Femme d’un seul Homme
RESNAIS, ALAIN (June 3, 1922, Vannes, Morbihan,
France–)
A pharmacist’s son, he has had a passion for comics,
popular literature, and cinema since his childhood.
He directed his fi rst 8-mm amateur shorts