Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1949 Séraphins et Truands (short)
On répète au Cabaret (short)
1950 Nous avons tous fait la même Chose
Cache-Cache Police (short)
Caprices de Paris (short)
STORA, BERNARD (November 17, 1942, Marseille,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
Having graduated from the IDHEC, he began as
a trainee assistant director (1964 L’Enfer, Henri-
Georges Clouzot, unfi nished; Patate / L’amico di
famiglia / USA: Friend of the Family, Robert Thomas)
before serving as an assistant director (1966 Le Père
Noël a les Yeux bleus / UK and USA: Santa Claus Has
Blue Eyes, medium-length, Jean Eustache; 1968 Le
Tatoué / Nemici . . . per la pelle, Denys de La Patellière,
France / Italy; 1969 Staircase / L’Escalier, Stanley
Donen, USA / UK / France; Le Clan des Siciliens /
USA: The Sicilian Clan, Henri Verneuil; 1970 Darling Lili,
Blake Edwards, USA; The Lady in the Car with Glasses
and a Gun / La Dame dans l’Auto avec des Lunettes
et un Fusil, Anatole Litvak, UK / France; Le Cercle
rouge / I senza nome / UK and USA: The Red Circle,
Jean-Pierre Melville, France / Italy; 1971 Les Mariés
de l’An II / Gli sposi dell’anno secondo / Mirii anului
II / UK: The Scoundrel / USA: The Scarlet Buccaneer
/ The Swashbuckler, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France /
Italy / Romania; Un peu de Soleil dans l’Eau froide /
Un po’ di sole nell’acqua gelida / Un attimo d’amore
/ UK: Sunlight on Cold Water / USA: A Few Hours of
Sunlight, Jacques Deray, France / Italy; Le Casse / Gli
scassinatori / Oi Diarriktes / USA: The Burglars, Henri
Verneuil, France / Italy / Greece; 1972 Le Tueur / Il
commissario Le Guen e il caso Gassot / Der Killer und
der Kommissar, Denys de La Patellière, France / Italy
/ West Germany; 1973 L’Impossible Objet / Questo
impossibile oggetto / UK: Impossible Object / USA: Story
of a Love Story, John Frankenheimer, France / Italy; Les
Aventures de Rabbi Jacob / Le folli avventure di Rabbi
Jacob / UK: The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob / USA: The
Mad Adventures of “Rabbi” Jacob, Gérard Oury, France
/ Italy; 1975 French Connection II, John Frankenheimer,
USA; 1976 L’Ombre des Châteaux, Daniel Duval; 1978
El recurso del método / Viva el Presidente! / Le Recours
/ Le Recours de la Méthode, Miguel Littin, France /
Mexico / Cuba) and second unit director (1978 La
Carapate / USA: Out of It, Gérard Oury; 1980 Le Coup
du Parapluie, Gérard Oury; Trois Hommes à abattre /
UK: Three Men to Destroy / US video: Three Men to
Kill, Jacques Deray; 1982 Tout Feu, tout Flamme, Jean-
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Paul Rappeneau; Le Choc / USA: Contract in Blood /
Shock, Robin Davis, Alain Delon; 1983 Le Battant / US
video: Ice, Alain Delon). An occasional actor (1978
La Tortue sur le Dos / USA: Like a Turtle on Its Back,
Luc Béraud), he collaborated as a screenwriter on
several fi lms (1979 L’Adoption, as co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, Marc Grunebaum; 1984 Le Juge, also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist, Philippe Lefebvre;
1985 L’Effrontée / UK: Charlotte and Lulu / USA: Impudent
Girl, as co-screenwriter, Claude Miller, France /
Switzerland; 1988 La Petite Amie, as co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, Luc Béraud; 1990 Plein Fer, as dialogist,
Josée Dayan, 1991 All Out / De plein Fouet, Thomas
Koerfer, France / Germany / Italy; 1992 Max et
Jérémie, as co-screenwriter, Claire Devers; L’Inconnu
dans la Maison, as co-screenwriter, Georges Lautner;
Navodneniye / L’Inondation, as co-screenwriter, Igor
Minayev, France / Russia; 2002 Les Amours de Mogador,
as co-screenwriter, Souheil Ben-Barka, Morocco)
and TV movies (1989 A Corps et à Cris / Alta tensione a
gran voce, Josée Dayan, France / Italy; 1994 Couchettes
Express, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist; Luc
Béraud; Les Nuiteux, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
Josée Dayan; 1996 Crédit Bonheur, Luc Béraud; 2000
Mémoires en Fuite, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
François Marthouret; 2004 Une Autre Vie, as screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, Luc Béraud).
Filmography
1983 Le Jeune Marié (also screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1987 Vent de Panique (also co-screenwriter)
1994 Consentement mutuel (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2000 Un Dérangement considérable / US video: A
Major Inconvenience (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
shot in 1998–1999)
Television Filmography
1986 L’Inconnue de Vienne
1990 Six Crimes sans Assassins (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1991 La Grande Dune (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1994 La Corruptrice (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1996 Sixième classique (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1997 Avocat d’Offi ce (episode “Amour piégé”; also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1999 Georges Dandin