Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

tal novels). Several of his works were brought to the
screen (1951 Caroline Chérie / USA: Dear Caroline,
Richard Pottier; 1953 Un Caprice de Caroline chérie
/ USA: Caroline Chérie, Jean Devaivre; 1955 Le Fils de
Caroline Chérie / UK: Caroline and the Rebels / USA:
The Son of Dear Caroline, Jean Devaivre; Les Mauvaises
Rencontres, Alexandre Astruc; 1968 Caroline chérie /
Caroline Chérie: Schön wie die Sünde, Denys de La Patellière,
France / West Germany), and he collaborated
as a screenwriter on a dozen productions, including
a couple of modern adaptations of Stendhal’s novels
(1964 De l’Amour / La calda pelle / UK: All About Loving,
Jean Aurel, France / Italy; 1967 Lamiel, Jean Aurel,
France / Italy) and of Max Ophüls’s Lola Montès / Lola
Montez / UK: The Fall of Lola Montes / USA: The Sins of
Lola Montes (1955, France / West Germany).
Filmography
1969 Quarante-Huit Heures d’Amour / USA: 48 Hours
of Love (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
SAINT-MAURICE, CHRISTIAN DE (1927,
France–)
Filmography
1960 Suspense au Deuxième Bureau / USA: The Spy
Catcher (also screenwriter, dialogist)
SAINT-PHALLE, NIKI DE (Catherine Marie-
Agnès Fal de Saint-Phalle / October 29, 1930, Neuillysur-Seine,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–May 21, 2002, San
Diego, California, USA)
The daughter of a banker ruined by the stock market
crash of 1929, she grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut,
and New York City. After working as a fashion model
(for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Life) and studying acting
in Paris, she switched to painting and won international
fame thanks to her monumental sculptures.
Filmography
1973 Daddy (co-director with Peter Whitehead;
also screenwriter, actor; France / UK)
1976 Un Rêve plus long que la Nuit (also screenwriter,
actor)
SAIRE, JEAN-PIERRE (1944, Fougerolles, Haute-
Saône, France–)
He directed three shorts before becoming an assistant
director (1973 Le Mataf / Tre per una granda
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rapina, Serge Leroy, France / Italy; 1978 Sophie et le
Capitaine, Liliane de Kermadec, unfi nished; Il était une
Fois un Musicien, TV, episode “Monsieur Rachmaninoff,”
Roger Hanin). He also was a technical adviser (1985
Les Nanas / UK festival: Girls, Girls, Girls, Annick Lanoë)
but worked mainly as a co-producer (1995 Guiltrip /
Guiltrip, la colpa, Gerard Stembridge, Ireland / France
/ Italy), producer (2000 Le Comte du Ventre plein, Melvin
Van Peebles, France / Netherlands), or executive
producer (1990 La Femme et le Pantin / La mujer y
el pelele, Mario Camus, France / Spain; Les Disparus
de Saint-Agil, Jean-Louis Benoît; 1997 A bacia de John
Wayne / Le Bassin de J.W., João César Monteiro, Portugal
/ France; 1999 Civilisées, Randa Chahal Sabagg,
France / Lebanon; 2001 Tosca, Benoît Jacquot, Italy
/ France / UK / Germany; 2006 La Planète blanche /
USA: The White Planet, documentary, Jean Lemire, Thierry
Piantanida, Thierry Ragobert). He created several
production companies: Salud Productions (1979)
and Etamp (with French and Czech partners, 1990).
Filmography
1971 Hier c’est demain (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Le Voyage à travers la Ville (short)
Poupées qu’on les apppelle (short)
1983 Le Retour de Christophe Colon (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist; shot in 1981)
SAKREF, AKIM
Filmography
2004 Intox, Chroniques d’un Fils de P . . . (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
SALFATI, PIERRE-HENRY (August 20, 1953,
France–)
A former student in architecture, he graduated with a
master’s degree in philosophy before directing shorts
in the early 1980s. He co-wrote fi lms (1996 Ligne de
Vie / Liniya zhizni, as co-screenwriter, Pavel Lounguine,
France / Switzerland / Italy; 2001 Un Ange, as co-screenwriter,
shot in 1999) and TV movies and series (1981
Un Jour sombre dans la Vie de Marine, Josyane Serror;
Les Héritiers, episode “Les Femmes du Lac,” Bruno
Gantillon; 1982 Sans un Mot, Gérard Poitou-Weber;
Paris Saint-Lazare, 6 52', Marco Pico; 1983 La Dame
de Coeur, Jean Sagols; Croquignol, Jean Brard; 1984 La
Femme jalouse, Peter Kassovitz; Le Dernier Civil, Laurent
Heynemann; La Dictée, Jean-Pierre Marchand; Histoire