Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

868 • RICHET, JEAN-FRANÇOIS
purge Bébé (Jean Renoir); La Chienne (Jean Renoir),
Mam’zelle Nitouche (Marc Allégret); 1932 L’Amour à
l’Américaine / USA: American Love (Claude Heymann);
Fanny (Marc Allégret); 1935 Königsmark / USA: Crimson
Dynasty (Maurice Tourneur); 1936 Le Mort en
Fuite (André Berthomieu); L’Amant de Madame Vidal
(André Berthomieu); 1937 Un Déjeuner au Soleil
(Marcel Cravenne); Forfaiture (Marcel L’Herbier);
1942 Monsieur La Souris / USA: Midnight in Paris
(Georges Lacombe); 1943 Les Anges du Péché / UK
and USA: Angels of the Streets (Robert Bresson);
Voyage sans Espoir (Christian-Jaque); 1950 La Peau
d’un Homme (René Jolivet); 1951 Clara de Montargis
(Henri Decoin); 1955 Sophie et le Crime / USA: Girl
on the Third Floor (Pierre Gaspard-Huit); 1956 Le
Salaire du Péché (Denys de La Patellière). Autobiography:
1977 Au-delà de l’Ecran—70 Ans de la Vie d’un
Cinéaste (Pastorelly).
Filmography
1933 L’Agonie des Aigles / USA: The Death Agony of
the Eagles (also producer)
1934 J’ai une Idée
1935 Minuit, Place Pigalle
1937 L’Habit vert (also producer)
1938 Prisons de Femmes / USA: Marked Girls (also
adapter, producer)
1939 La Tradition de Minuit (also co-screenwriter,
dialogist)
1941 Madame Sans-Gêne (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
producer)
1942 Romance à Trois (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
dialogist, producer)
1943 Domino (also producer)
1946 Les J3 (also producer)
1947 La Grande Maguet (also screenwriter, adapter,
producer)
1949 Monseigneur (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
producer)
1951 Gibier de Potence (also producer)
1952 La Fugue de Monsieur Perle (also adapter, producer)
1953 Les Amants de Minuit (also adapter, producer)
1957 Elisa (also producer)
Que les Hommes sont bêtes (also screenwriter,
producer)
1960 Austerlitz / La battaglia di Austerlitz / Napoleone
ad Austerlitz / USA: The Battle of Austerlitz
(also producer; co-director with Abel Gance;
France / Italy / Yugoslavia)
RICHET, JEAN-FRANÇOIS (July 20, 1966, Paris,
France–)
After earning a diploma as a printer, he worked in a
factory for fi ve years before writing screenplays and
creating a production company with Patrick dell’Isola
(Actes et Octobre) that co-fi nanced his fi rst movie.
Filmography
1995 Etat des Lieux (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
camera operator, editor)
1997 Ma 6T va crack-er (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
camera operator, actor)
2001 De l’Amour (also screenwriter, editor; shot in
1999–2000)
2005 Assault on Precinct 13 / Assaut sur le Central 13
(USA / France)
2008 L’Instinct de Mort / Nemico pubblico no. 1 /
L’instinto di morte (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist; France / Canada / Italy)
L’Ennemi public no. 1 (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist; France / Canada / Italy)
RICHON, RENÉ (February 11, 1949, Marseille,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
Having graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a
master’s degree in history, he enrolled in the IDHEC.
He co-wrote a motion picture (1976 L’Affi che rouge,
Frank Cassenti) and a TV movie (1998 Le Goût des
Fraises, Frank Cassenti).
Filmography
1978 La Barricade du Point du Jour (also co-screenwriter)
RIEUX, MAX DE (Max Ernest Gautier / March 5,
1901, Paris, France–March 10, 1963, Fréjus, Var, France)
He entered fi lms as an actor and played in a few silent
movies (1923 Le Petit Chose, André Hugon; 1924 Les
Grands, Henri Fescourt; 1925 Comment j’ai tué mon
Enfant, Alexandre Ryder; Jack, Robert Saidreau; 1931
Tout s’arrange, Henri Diamant-Berger) before working
behind the camera as an assistant director (1926
Yasmina, André Hugon) and fi nally director. He did
the cutting of La Belle Meunière (Marcel Pagnol) and
resumed his acting career in 1960 (1961 La Croix des
Vivants / Het Kruis der Levenden, Yvan Govar, France
/ Belgium; 1963 Que personne ne sorte / Het laatste
onderzoek, Yvan Govar, France / Belgium; Le Glaive et
la Balance / Uno dei tre / UK: The Sword and the Bal-