Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Encounter with Fritz Lang (documentary, short, Peter
Fleischmann, West Germany); 1994 Taxandria (animation,
as co-screenwriter, Raoul Servais, Belgium / France
/ Germany); (as author of original novels): 1969 Les Gommes
(Lucien Deroisy, René Micha, Belgium / France);
1976 Centre Play (episode “In the Labyrinth,” Derek
Martinus, UK); (as technical adviser): 1978 Guerres civiles
en France (François Barat, Joël Farges, Vincent Nordon);
(as actor): 1968 Je t’aime, je t’aime (Alain Resnais, France
/ Belgium); 1974 Histoire du Cinéma français par ceux qui
l’ont fait (documentary, Armand Panigel); 1985 Un Film
(Autoportrait) (Marcel Hanoun); 1999 Le Temps retrouvé /
Il tempo ritrovato / O tempo reencontrado / UK: Time Regained
/ USA: Marcel Proust’s Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz,
France / Italy / Portugal).
Filmography
1963 L’Immortelle / L’immortale (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; France / Italy)
1967 Trans-Europ-Express (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1968 L’Homme qui ment / Muz, ktory luze / UK and
USA: The Man Who Lies (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; France / Czechoslovakia)
1969 N. a pris les Dés (also screenwriter, dialogist;
unreleased)
1970 L’Eden et après / Eden a Potom / USA: Eden
and After (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist;
France / Czechoslovakia)
1974 Glissements progressifs du Plaisir (also screenwriter,
dialogist, actor)
1975 Le Jeu avec le Feu / Giochi di fuoco (also screenwriter,
dialogist; France / Italy)
1983 La Belle Captive (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1995 Un Bruit qui rend fou / The Blue Villa (co-director
with Dimitri de Clercq; also screenwriter, dialogist;
Belgium / France / Switzerland)
2006 Gradiva (C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle) (also
screenwriter, dialogist; Belgium)
ROBELIN, STÉPHANE
Having graduated from the Nice-based Ecole
Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, he directed
several shorts (1996–1998) before fi lming his fi rst
feature-length fi lm in 2004.
Filmography
1994 Rue des Morillons (short; co-director with
Franck Esposito)
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1995 Enculé! (short; co-director with Franck Esposito)
1996 Pile ou Face (short; co-director with Franck
Esposito)
2004 Real Movie (also screenwriter)
2005 Casting (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1996 C-Net (TV show)
2000 Lames de Fond (documentary)
La Passion de Ménilmontant (documentary)
2001 Le Curé de la Sorbonne (documentary)
2002 La Réconciliation en Afrique du Sud (documentary)
ROBERT, JACQUES (Jacques Robert Kneubuhler /
1890, Switzerland–January 15, 1928, France)
Swiss born, he made his fi lm debut in 1914 as a supporting
actor in Henri Pouctal’s version of Le Comte
de Monte-Cristo. His fi rst directing effort was La Vivante
Epingle, produced by Gaumont in 1921, in which
starred his muse Lilian Constantini (1902–1982). He
died prematurely at age thirty-eight.
Filmography
1921 La Vivante Epingle
1922 La Bouquetière des Innocents / USA: The Innocent
Flower Girl
1924 Le Cousin Pons (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
1925 Le Comte Kostia / USA: Count Kostia (also producer)
1926 La Chèvre aux Pieds d’Or (also producer)
1928 En Plongée / Fragments d’Epaves (shot in
1926)
ROBERT, JEAN-DENIS (March 3, 1948, Paris,
France–)
The son of actor and director Yves Robert, he earned
his living as a fashion and stage photographer for several
years before trying his luck as an actor in fi lms
(1974 Vincent, François, Paul . . . et les Autres / Tre amici
le mogli e affetuosamente le altre / USA: Vincent, François,
Paul and the Others, Claude Sautet, France / Italy;
1975 Section spéciale / L’affare della sezione speciale /
Sondertribunal—Jeder kämpft für sich / UK and USA:
Special Section, Costa-Gavras, France / Italy / West
Germany; 1976 Mado, Claude Sautet, France / Italy /
West Germany; 1979 La Femme qui pleure / USA: The
Crying Woman, Jacques Doillon) and on TV (1978 Le