Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

922 • SÉCHAN, EDMOND
Georges Régnier; 1950 Savage Africa / Congolaise,
documentary, Jacques Dupont; 1952 Crin-Blanc / UK:
Wild Stallion / USA: White Mane, Albert Lamorisse;
1955 Nagana, Hervé Bromberger; 1956 Le Monde
du Silence / Il mondo del silenzio / UK and USA: The
Silent World, documentary, Jacques-Yves Cousteau,
Louis Malle, France / Italy; Les Possédées / L’isola delle
donne sole / L’isola delle capre / USA: Passionate Summer,
Charles Brabant, France / Italy; Le Ballon rouge
/ UK and USA: The Red Balloon, short, Albert Lamorisse;
La Bête noire, short, Georges Rouquier; 1957
Les Aventures d’Arsène Lupin / Le avventure di Arsenio
Lupin / USA: The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Jacques
Becker, France / Italy; Mort en Fraude / USA: Fugitive
in Saigon, Marcel Camus; 1958 Tamango / La rivolta
dell’esperenza, John Berry, France / Italy; Le Piège / La
trappola si chiude / USA: No Escape / Any Man’s Woman,
Charles Brabant, France / Italy; 1959 Le Soleil de Pierre,
documentary, short, Daniel Lecomte; Les Dragueurs /
UK: Young Have No Morals / The Dredgers / USA: The
Chaser, Jean-Pierre Mocky; 1961 Le Triomphe de Michel
Strogoff / Il trionfo di Michele Strogoff / UK and USA:
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff, Victor Tourjansky,
France / Italy; 1962 Ton Ombre est la mienne / USA:
Your Shadow Is Mine, André Michel; 1963 Love Is a Ball
/ UK: All This and Money Too, David Swift, USA; 1964
L’Homme de Rio / L’uomo di Rio / UK: That Man from
Rio, Philippe de Broca, France / Italy; Echappement
libre / Scappamento aperto / A escape libre / Der Boss
hat sich was ausgedacht / USA: Backfi re, Jacques Deray,
France / Italy / Spain / West Germany; La Grande
Frousse / La Cité de l’indicible Peur / USA: The Big Scare,
Jean-Pierre Mocky; 1965 Le Ciel sur la Tête / Allarme
dal cielo / Il cielo sulla testa / UK: Heaven on One’s
Head / USA: Skies Above / US TV: Sky Above Heaven,
Yves Ciampi, France / Italy; Le Gendarme à New York
/ Tre gendarme a New York, Jean Girault, France / Italy;
Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine / L’uomo di Hong
Kong / UK: Up to His Ears / USA: Chinese Adventures in
China, Philippe de Broca, France / Italy; 1966 Monsieur
le Président-Directeur-Général, Jean Girault; Monnaie
de Singe / I sette falsari / La viuda soltera / UK: Money
Money, Yves Robert, France / Italy / Spain; Tendre
Voyou / Un avventuriere a Tahiti / USA: Tender Scoundrel,
Jean Becker, France / Italy; 1967 Toutes Folles de lui,
Norbert Carbonnaux; A Cœur Joie / UK and USA: Two
Weeks in September, Serge Bourguignon, France / UK;
1969 Le Lis de Mer, Jacqueline Audry; La Pince à Ongles
/ UK: The Nail Clippers, short, Jean-Claude Carrière;
1970 La Peau de Torpédo / Dossier 212—Destinazione
morte / Der Mann mit der Torpedohaut / UK: Pill of
Death / USA: Only the Cool, Jean Delannoy, France
/ Italy / West Germany; 1971 Sur un Arbre perché,
Serge Korber, France / Italy; La Grande Maffi a / Un
matto, due matti, tutti matti, Philippe Clair, France /
Italy; 1973 Le Mataf / Tre per una granda rapina, Serge
Leroy, France / Italy; The Day of the Jackal / Chacal, as
second unit cinematographer, Fred Zinnemann, UK
/ France; 1974 Piaf / USA: Piaf: The Early Years, Guy
Casaril; 1976 Le Pays bleu / UK and USA: Blue Country,
Jean-Charles Tacchella; D’Amour et d’Eau fraîche, Jean-
Pierre Blanc; 1977 Monsieur Papa, Philippe Monnier;
1978 Les Petits Câlins, Jean-Marie Poiré; La Carapate /
USA: Out of It, Gérard Oury; 1979 L’Esprit de Famille,
Jean-Pierre Blanc; 1980 La Boum / USA: The Party,
Claude Pinoteau; 1982 Juste avant le Mariage, Daniel
Ceccaldi; La Boum 2, Claude Pinoteau; 1983 Femmes /
Mujeres, Tana Kaleya, France / Spain; 1984 Les Morfalous,
Henri Verneuil; Joyeuses Pâques, Georges Lautner;
La Septième Cible, Claude Pinoteau; 1987 L’Âge de
Monsieur est avancé, Pierre Etaix). He also worked
for TV (1974 A Dossiers ouverts, 25x13’, Claude Boissol;
1981 Nana, 4 90', Maurice Cazeneuve, France
/ Belgium / Switzerland) and was once a second unit
director (1970 Le Gendarme en Balade / 6 gendarmi in
fuga, Jean Girault, France / Italy).
Filmography
1953 Mano I (short; also cinematographer)
1957 Niok l’Elephant / USA: Niok l’Elephant (short;
also screenwriter)
1959 Histoire d’un Poisson rouge / USA: The Golden
Fish (short)
1960 L’Ours / Daniele nella gabbia d’orso / USA: The
Bear (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France
/ Italy)
1962 Le Haricot (short; author of commemtary)
1968 Pour un Amour lointain (also co-screenwriter)
1974 . . . Les Borgnes sont Rois / UK: The One-Eyed Are
Kings / USA: One-Eyed Men Are Kings (short;
co-director with Michel Leroy; also screenwriter,
producer)
1980 Toine (short)
1981 La Plume magique (short)
Television Filmography
1978 Photo-Souvenir (also co-screenwriter)
1980 Lundi
1987 Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2 90'; France /
USSR)