Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Television (Italy)
Jours de Noces (short)
Par grande Vitesse (short)
Soirée dansante (short)
Trois Cœurs qui s’enfl amment (medium-length;
also screenwriter)
RODE, ALFRED (Alfred Spedaliere / June 4, 1905,
Torre Del Greco, Italy–July 22, 1979, Lisieux, Calvados,
France)
Italian born, he was a violonist fi rst who created his
own gypsy band in the USA in 1930. He appeared
in a few American fi lms before moving to France,
where he simultaneously carried out his different
activities (musician, producer, actor, director). Credits
(as actor): 1931 Carnaval / USA: Venetian Nights
(Herbert Wilcox, USA); 1932 The Blue Danube (Herbert
Wilcox, USA); 1934 Antonia, Romance hongroise
(Jean Boyer, also in English version: Temptation, Max
Neufeld); Les Nuits moscovites / USA: Moscow Nights
(Alexis Granowsky); 1935 Juanita (also composer,
Pierre Caron, also in English version: Gypsy Melody,
Edmond T. Gréville). He also wrote La Maison du
Printemps (Jacques Daroy, 1950).
Filmography
1940 Le Danube bleu (also producer, actor; codirector
with Emile-Edwin Reinert)
1948 Cargaison clandestine (also screenwriter, producer,
actor, composer)
1951 Boîte de Nuit / USA: Hotbed of Sin (also screenwriter,
producer, actor, composer)
1953 Tourbillon (also screenwriter, actor)
Un Déjeuner d’Amour (short; also actor, composer)
1954 C’est la Vie parisienne (also producer, actor)
1955 La Môme Pigalle / USA: The Maiden (also producer,
actor)
1958 La Fille de Feu / UK and USA: Fire in the Flesh
(also producer)
1959 Visa pour l’Enfer (also producer)
1962 Dossier 1413 / USA: Secret File 1413
ROGER, JEAN-HENRI (January 24, 1949, Marseille,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
Having trained at the Institut de Formation Cinématographique,
he joined a team of politically involved
fi lmmakers (the Dziga Vertov Group) in 1968. While
teaching at the University of Paris VIII (since 1972), he
worked as a cinematographer on about ten movies, in-
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cluding A. Constant (Christine Laurent, 1977) and La Voix
de son Maître (Gérard Mordillat, Nicolas Philibert), before
resuming his fi lm directing career in 1981. He also
played in movies (2000 L’Affaire Marcorelle, Serge Le
Péron; 2001 Eloge de l’Amour, Jean-Luc Godard, France
/ Switzerland; Imago (Jours de Folie) / Le Fil perdu, Marie
Vermillard; 2002 Cavale / UK: One / Trilogy: One, Lucas
Belvaux, France / Belgium; Après la Vie / UK: Three / Trilogy:
Three, Lucas Belvaux; 2006 Bamako, Abderrahmane
Sissako, Mali / USA / France) and appeared as himself
in Ca, c’est vraiment toi (Claire Simon, 2000).
Filmography
1970 Pravda / Prawda (documentary; co-director
with Dziga Vertov Group, Paul Burron, Jean-
Luc Godard)
British Sounds / USA: See You at Mao (co-director
with Jean-Luc Godard)
1981 Neige / USA: Snow (co-director with Juliet
Berto; also co-adapter)
1983 Cap Canaille (co-director with Juliet Berto;
also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)
2002 Lulu (also co-screenwriter)
2005 Code 68 (also screenwriter, dialogist)
ROHMER, ERIC (Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer /
March 20, 1920, Tulle, Corrèze, France–)
He taught literature for eight years in a high school
before co-founding with Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques
Rivette a short-lived review, La Gazette du Cinéma.
From 1957 to 1963, he was editor in chief of the Cahiers
du Cinéma. He started directing in 1950. While
fi lming his own movies, he wrote the screenplay
and dialogue of Tous les Garçons s’appellent Patrick /
Charlotte et Véronique (short, Jean-Luc Godard, shot
in 1957) and made some appearances in fi lms
(1965 Brigitte et Brigitte, Luc Moullet; 1970 Out One:
Noli me tangere, Jacques Rivette, unreleased; 1974
Out One Spectre, shortened version of Out One:
Noli me tangere, Jacques Rivette; 1980 Justaucoeur,
also co-dialogist, Mary Stephen; 1982 Chassé-croisé,
medium-length, Arielle Dombasle; 1993 François Truffaut:
Portraits volés / UK and USA: François Truffaut:
Stolen Portraits, documentary as himself, Michel Pascal,
Serge Toubiana; 1994 Citizen Langlois, documentary as
himself, Edgardo Cozarinsky; 2004 Le Fantôme d’Henri
Langlois / Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque,
documentary, as himself, Jacques Richard) and
on TV (1974 Histoire du Cinéma français par ceux
qui l’ont fait, documentary, Armand Panigel; 1978 En