Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

896 • ROZIER, JACQUES
1997 Ils sont parmi nous (documentary; co-director
with Clémence Barret; also screenwriter)
1998 Kafkaland (short; also screenwriter)
Merci le Foot (short; also screenwriter)
Qu’il était beau l’An 2000 (documentary; codirector
with Clémence Barret; also screenwriter)
1999 Godard à la Télé (documentary; mediumlength)
2002 Chirac Image par Image (documentary; mediumlength)
Jospin Image par Image (documentary; mediumlength)
Le Pen Image par Image (documentary; mediumlength)
2003 Faits divers à la Une (documentary; mediumlength)
L’Express a Cinquante Ans (documentary;
medium-length; also co-screenwriter)
2004 Le Direct à la Télé (documentary; mediumlength)
A la Recherche de la Folie perdue (documentary,
short; also co-screenwriter)
Paris sous les Eaux (documentary; mediumlength;
also co-screenwriter)
2006 Comiques et Présidents (documentary; mediumlength;
also co-screenwriter)
ROZIER, JACQUES (November 10, 1926, Paris,
France–)
A graduate of the IDHEC, he began directing shorts
before working as an assistant director to Jean Renoir
(1955 French Cancan / USA: Only the French Can, France
/ Italy) and to French TV fi lmmakers. He appeared as
himself in an episode of Cinéastes de notre Temps (1964
“La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même,” André S. Labarthe,
Robert Valey) and co-wrote and co-produced Peter
Fleischmann’s Frevel (France / West Germany, 1984).
Filmography
1947 Langage de l’Ecran (short)
1954 Une Epine au Pied (short)
1955 La Rentrée des Classes (short; also co-screenwriter,
editor)
1958 Blue Jeans (short)
1962 Dans le Vent (short)
1963 Adieu Philippine / Desideri nel sole (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist; France / Italy; shot
in 1960)
1964 Paparazzi (short)
Bardot et Godard / Le Parti des Choses (short)
1973 Du Côté d’Orouet (also co-screenwriter, dialogist;
shot in 1969)
1976 Les Naufragés de l’Île de la Tortue (also screenwriter,
dialogist; shot in 1974)
Nono Nénesse (short; co-director with Pascal
Thomas; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1983 Lettre de la Sierra Morena (also screenwriter,
actor)
1986 Maine Océan (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
actor)
1995 Comment devenir Cinéaste sans se prendre la
Tête (short)
2001 Fifi Martingale (shot in 1999–2000)
Television Filmography
1964 Ni Figue ni Raisin (TV series)
Cinéastes de notre Temps (episodes “Luis Buñuel,”
“Jean Vigo”)
1965 Dim Dam Dom (TV series)
1983 Lettres d’un Cinéaste: Jacques Rozier (documentary;
short)
1990 Joséphine en Tournée
1992 Revenez Plaisirs exilés! (Alceste)
ROZIER, WILLY (William Rozier / June 27, 1901,
Talence, Gironde–May 26, 1983, Talange, Moselle,
France)
A former swimming champion (he represented
France at the Amsterdam Olympic Games of 1928),
he entered fi lms as an actor (1928 La Venenosa, Roger
Lion; Le Kinkajou, short, Jean de Marguenat; 1931 Les
Monts en Flammes, Luis Trenker, Joë Hamman; Calais-
Douvres, French-language version of Anatole Litvak’s
Nie wieder Liebe, Jean Boyer, France / Germany; Autour
d’une Enquête, French-language version of Robert Siodmak’s
Voruntersuchung, Robert Siodmak, Germany
/ France; 1932 Le Petit Ecart, French-language version
of Reinhold Schüntzel’s Der kleine Seltensprung, Henri
Chomette, Germany / France; Avec l’Assurance / USA:
With Assurance, Roger Capellani; Le Bolide, short, Roger
Capellani; Haut les Mains!!!, short, Maurice Champreux;
1933 La Guerre des Valses, French-language version of
Ludwig Berger’s Walzerkrieg, Raoul Ploquin, Germany
/ France). A fi lm director since 1933, he created his
production company, Sport Films, and conceived an
underwater camera, the Aquafl ex.
Filmography
1933 N’épouse pas ta Fille (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, editor)