Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

912 • SAUTET, CLAUDE
Yves Robert; Le Dos au Mur / UK: Evidence in Concrete
/ USA: Back to the Wall, Edouard Molinaro; Le Fauve
est lâché / USA: The Tiger Attacks, also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, Maurice Labro; 1960 Les Yeux sans Visage /
Occhi senza volto / UK: Eyes Without a Face / USA: The
Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus, Georges Franju, France
/ Italy). The defection of Robert Dhéry allowed him to
direct his fi rst movie. While working on his own fi lms,
he became a famous screenwriter and dialogist (1960
Colère froide, as dialogist and technical adviser, André
Haguet; 1963 Symphonie pour un Massacre / Sinfonia per
un massacro / UK: The Corrupt / USA: Symphony for a
Massacre / The Mystifi ers, Jacques Deray, France / Italy;
Peau de Banane / Buccia di banana / USA: Banana Peel,
as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, France /
Italy; 1964 Echappement libre / Scappamento aperto / A
escape libre / Der Boss hat sich was ausgedacht / USA:
Backfi re, as co-screenwriter, Jean Becker, France / Italy /
Spain / West Germany; L’Âge ingrat, as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, Gilles Grangier; Monsieur / Intrigo a Parigi,
as uncredited co-screenwriter, Jean-Paul Le Chanois,
France / Italy; 1966 La Vie de Château / UK: Gracious
Living / USA: A Matter of Resistance, as co-screenwriter,
Jean-Paul Rappeneau; L’Homme de Marrakech, as uncredited
screenwriter, Jacques Deray, France / Italy;
Atout Cœur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 / OSS 117 a Tokio si
muore / UK: Mission to Tokyo / USA: O.S.S. 117—Terror
in Tokyo, as uncredited screenwriter, Michel Boisrond,
France / Italy; 1967 Mise à Sac / Una notte per 5 rapine,
as screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist, Alain Cavalier;
1968 La Petite Vertu, as screenwriter, adapter, Serge
Korber; 1969 Le Diable par la Queue / Non tirate il Diavolo
per la coda / USA: The Devil by the Tail, as uncredited
screenwriter, Philippe de Broca; Sous le Signe du Taureau,
as uncredited co-screenwriter, Gilles Grangier;
1970 Borsalino, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Jacques
Deray, France / Italy; 1971 Les Mariés de l’An II / Gli
sposo dell’anno secondo / Mirii anului II / UK: The Scoundrel
/ USA: The Scarlet Buccaneer / The Swashbuckler, as
co-adapter, co-dialogist, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France
/ Italy / Romania; 1974 L’Horloger de Saint-Paul / UK:
The Watchmaker of St. Paul / USA: The Clockmaker of
St. Paul, as uncredited co-screenwriter, Bertrand Tavernier;
1975 Que la Fête commence / USA: Let Joy Reign
Supreme, as uncredited co-screenwriter, Bertrand Tavernier;
Le Vieux Fusil / Das alte Gewehr / Abschied in der
Nacht / USA: The Old Gun / US video: Vengeance One
by One, as uncredited co-screenwriter, Robert Enrico,
France / West Germany; 1977 Des Enfants gatés / UK
and USA: Spoiled Children, as uncredited screenwriter,
Bertrand Tavernier; 1981 Coup de Torchon / UK: Clean
Up / USA: Clean Slate, as uncredited screenwriter, Bertrand
Tavernier; 1988 Mon Ami le Traître, as co-adapter,
José Giovanni). In 1994, Mark Rydell shot an American
remake of Les Choses de la Vie (1994 Intersection, Mark
Rydell, USA).
Filmography
1951 Nous n’irons plus au Bois (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1956 Bonjour Sourire (supervised by Robert Dhéry)
1960 Classe Tous Risques / Asfalto che scotta / USA:
The Big Risk (also co-screenwriter; Claude
Sautet; France / Italy)
1965 L’Arme à gauche / Corpo a corpo / Armas para
el Caribe / UK: Guns for the Dictator / USA: The
Dictator’s Guns (also co-dialogist; France / Italy
/ Spain)
1970 Les Choses de la Vie / L’Amante / USA: The
Things of Life / These Things Happen (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1971 Max et les Ferrailleurs / Il commissario Pelissier
/ UK and USA: Max (also co-dialogist; France
/ Italy)
1972 César et rosalie / E simpatico, ma gli romperei
il muso / Cesar und Rosalie / USA: César and
Rosalie (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy /
West Germany)
1974 Vincent, François, Paul . . . et les Autres / Tre amici
le mogli e affettuosamente le altre / USA: Vincent,
François, Paul and the Others (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist; France / Italy)
1976 Mado (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
France / Italy / West Germany)
1978 Une Histoire simple / Eine einfache Geschichte
/ UK and USA: A Simple Story (as co-screenwriter;
France / West Germany)
1980 Un Mauvais Fils / UK and USA: A Bad Son (also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1983 Garçon! (also co-screenwriter)
1988 Quelques Jours avec moi / UK and USA: A
Few Days with Me (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1992 Un Coeur en Hiver / UK: A Heart in Winter /
USA: A Heart of Stone (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1995 Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud / Nelly e Mr. Arnaud /
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud / UK and USA: Nelly
and Mr. Arnaud (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
France / Italy / West Germany)