Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Filmography
1963 L (documentary)
1973 Le Journal d’un Suicidé (shot in 1971)
1976 Être Jeune et travailler (documentary)
1979 Subversion (also screenwriter; unreleased)
1980 Philippe Adrien (documentary)
1981 Pour vivre libre, il faut avoir du Talent (documentary)
1984 Illustres Inconnus
1993 Lectures lunaires (documentary)
1996 Galerie des 5 Continents (documentary)
1999 Le Pont vertical (documentary)
2000 Le Cœur baladeur (documentary)
2007 Mauve, le Tigre! (also screenwriter)
STELLI, JEAN (Jules Elie Ernoult / December 6,
1894, Lille, Nord, France–February 2, 1975, Grasse,
Alpes-Maritimes, France)
A former actor (1922 L’Ouragan sur la Montagne,
Julien Duvivier; Les Roquevillard, Julien Duvivier), he
was a journalist and stage location manager before
returning to cinema as an assistant to director Julien
Duvivier (1935 Golgotha / UK: Ecce Homo / USA: Behold
the Man) and production manager (1936 Jenny,
Marcel Carné). A fi lm director since 1936, he occasionally
co-wrote screenplays for other fi lmmakers
(1938 Gibraltar / USA: It Happened in Gibraltar, Fedor
Ozep; 1961 Melekler sahimdir, as co-author of original
screenplay, Süha Dogan, Turkey; 1964 Gibraltar / Spionaggio
a Gibilterra / Mision en el estrecho / USA: The
Spy, as co-author of original screenplay, Pierre Gaspard-Huit;
1965 Dernier Tiercé, as adapter and dialogist,
Richard Pottier).
Filmography
1936 Jeunesse d’abord (co-director with Claude
Heymann)
1938 Durand Bijoutier (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1939 Pour le Maillot jaune
1940 L’Or du Cristobal (Jean Stelli completed the
shooting of the fi lm started by Jacques
Becker)
1942 Le Voile bleu / UK and USA: The Blue Veil
1943 La Valse blanche (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1944 L’Enfant de l’Amour
1946 La Tentation de Barbizon
Mensonges
1947 Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain
STENGEL, CHRISTIAN • 939
La Cabane aux Souvenirs (also screenwriter)
1948 Route sans Issue
Cité de l’Espérance
1949 Cinq Tulipes rouges
Dernier Amour
1950 La Voyageuse inattendue (also adapter, actor)
On n’aime qu’une Fois
Envoi de Fleurs
1951 Maria du Bout du Monde
Mammy
Sérénade au Bourreau
1952 Une Fille sur la Route
1953 Un Trésor de Femme
La Nuit est à nous
1954 Les Amoureux de Marianne
1956 La Foire aux Femmes / USA: Tides of Passion
Alerte au Deuxième Bureau / US TV: Nest of
Spies (also co-adapter, co-dialogist)
Baratin (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1957 Deuxième Bureau contre Inconnu / USA: Whereabouts
Unknown (also co-screenwriter)
1958 Rapt au Deuxième Bureau / USA: Operation
Abduction (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1961 Deuxième Bureau contre Terroristes (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; shot in 1959)
STENGEL, CHRISTIAN (September 22, 1902,
Marly-Le-Roy, Yvelines, France–June 25, 1986, Versailles,
Yvelines, France)
A former bank clerk, he entered fi lms as a screenwriter
(1933 Le Martyre de l’Obèse, Pierre Chenal,
supervised by Marcel L’Herbier). From 1933 to
1943, he worked as a production manager (1933
L’Abbé Constantin, Jean-Paul Paulin; Le Fakir du Grand
Hôtel, Pierre Billon; 1934 La Maison dans la Dune
/ USA: The House on the Dune, also art director,
Pierre Billon; 1935 Crime et Châtiment / USA: Crime
and Punishment, also co-screenwriter, Pierre Chenal;
1936 Un Grand Amour de Beethoven / USA: The Life
and Loves of Beethoven, Abel Gance; Les Mutinés de
l’Elseneur, Pierre Chenal; 1937 L’Homme de nulle Part
/ Il fu Mattia Pascal / UK: Man from Nowhere / The
Late Mathias Pascal / USA: Feu Mathias Pascal, Pierre
Chenal, France / Italy; La Dame de Pique, Fédor Ozep;
1938 Les Pirates du Rail, Christian-Jaque; La Piste du
Sud, Pierre Billon; 1941 Le Briseur de Chaînes, Jacques
Daniel-Norman; 1942 Boléro, Jean Boyer; Pontcarral,
Colonel d’Empire, Jean Delannoy; 1943 Secrets, Pierre
Blanchar; Je suis avec toi, Henri Decoin; 1959 La Bête