Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

on a few fi lms (1967 Coplan ouvre le Feu à Mexico /
Moresque: Obiettivo allucinante / Entre las redes / USA:
Mexican Slayride, as screenwriter, production manager,
Riccardo Freda, France / Italy / Spain; 1968 Capitaine
Singrid / I mercenari muiono all’alba / Capitao Singrid /
UK: Captain Singrid, as co-adapter, co-dialogist, France
/ Italy / Portugal). Later, he occasionally co-wrote
movies again (1983 La Trace, as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, also co-producer, Bernard
Favre; 1990 Der grüne Berg, as co-screenwriter, Fredi
M. Murer, Switzerland; 2001 Mon Père, il m’a sauvé la
Vie, as co-screenwriter, José Giovanni; 2008 Lucifer
et moi, Jacques Grand-Jouan). In 1977, he created a
production company that fi nanced his own fi lms and
many others (1977 La Question / USA: The Question, as
co-producer, Laurent Heynemann; 1991 La Vieille qui
marchait dans la Mer / UK and USA: The Old Lady Who
Walked in the Sea, Laurent Heynemann; 1994 Veillées
d’Armes: Histoire du Journalisme en Temps de Guerre /
The Troubles We’ve Seen—Die Geschichte der Kriegsberichterstattung
/ The Troubles We’ve Seen: A History of
Journalism in Wartime, as delegate producer, two-part
documentary: “Premier Voyage,” “Deuxième Voyage,”
Marcel Ophüls, France / Germany / UK; Le Renoncement,
short; Gil Rabier, Nils Tavernier; 1996 L’@mour
est à réinventer, Dix Histoires d’Amours au Temps du
Sida, ten shorts: “Dans la Décapotable,” Merzak Allouache;
“Enceinte ou Lesbienne?,” Françoise Decaux-
Thomelet; “Et alors?,” François Dupeyron; “Tout n’est
pas en noir,” Philippe Faucon; “Tapin du Soir,” Anne
Fontaine; “Une Nuit ordinaire,” Jean-Claude Guiguet;
“Un Moment,” Pierre Salvadori; “La Mouette,” Nils
Tavernier; “Les Larmes du Sida,” Paul Vecchiali; “Dedans,”
Marion Vernoux; 1997 Fred, as executive
producer, Pierre Jolivet; Lumière sur un Massacre, ten
shorts: “Ce n’est qu’un Pas,” Youssef Chahine; “Le
Soldat,” “L’Usine,” Pierre Jolivet; “La Forêt,” Mathieu
Kassovitz; “La Chaussure,” Pavel Lounguine; “La Prothèse,”
Rithy Panh; “Le Parfait Soldat,” Volker Schloendorff;
“L’Enfant,” Coline Serreau; “La Lettre,” Bertrand
Tavernier; “L’Enquête,” Fernando Trueba; Nous habitons
tous sur une Île déserte, short; Jennifer Devoldère;
1998 Restons groupés, as co-producer, Jean-Paul Salomé;
1999 Ma Petite Entreprise; as co-producer, Pierre
Jolivet; Les Passagers, as co-producer, Jean-Claude
Guiguet; 2000 Pas d’Histoires! 12 Regards sur le Racisme
au Quotidien, twelve shorts: “Poitiers, Voiture
11,” Yves Angelo, François Dupeyron; “Pimprenelle,”
Yamina Benguigui; “Maman, regarde!,” Paul Boujenah;
“Mohamed,” Catherine Corsini; “Lettre à Abou,” Emi-
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lie Deleuze; “Petits Riens,” Xavier Durringer; “Sans
Autre, t’es rien,” Philippe Jullien; “Tadeus,” Philippe
Jullien, Jean-Pierre Lemouland; “Cyrano,” Vincent Lindon;
“Pas d’Histoire,” Philippe Llioret; “Relou,” Fanta
Régina Nacro; “Le Vigneron français,” Christophe Otzenberger;
Tout près des Etoiles les Danseurs de l’Opéra
de Paris, documentary, Nils Tavernier; Clémentine . . .
plein de Choses que vous ne savez pas, short, Francis Allégret;
2001 Le Fruit de nos Entrailles, short, Guillaume
Terver; 2002 Le Frère du Guerrier, as co-producer,
Pierre Jolivet; Une Affaire privée, as co-producer, Guillaume
Nicloux; 2003 Cette Femme-là / USA: Hanging
Offense, as co-producer, Guillaume Nicloux; Père et
Fils / USA: Fathers and Sons, as co-producer, Michel
Boujenah, France / Canada). An occasional technical
adviser (1981 L’Homme fragile, Claire Clouzot; 1990
Un Eté après l’Autre / Impasse de la Vignette, Anne-
Marie Etienne, France / Belgium; 1991 Ragazzi, Mama
Keïta; Jalousie, Kathleen Fonmarty; 1997 Vive la Mariée
et la Libération du Kurdistan, Hiner Saleem) and actor
(1963 La Boulangère de Monceau / UK and USA: The
Baker of Monceau / The Baker’s Girl of Monceau / The
Girl at the Monceau Bakery, short, Eric Rohmer; 1993
Faut-il aimer Mathilde, Edwin Baily, 1997 Quand le Chat
sourit, short, Sabine Azéma, Canada), he appeared as
himself in numerous documentaries shot for cinema
(1988 Hôtel Terminus / Hôtel Terminus: Klaus Barbie,
sa Vie et son Temps / Hotel Terminus—Leben und Zeit
von Klaus Barbie / Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of
Klaus Barbie, Marcel Ophüls, France / West Germany /
USA; 1993 Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 Ans, Agnès Varda;
François Truffaut, Portraits volés / UK and USA: François
Truffaut: Stolen Portraits, Michel Pascal, Serge Toubiana;
1995 L’Univers de Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, France
/ Belgium / Spain; 2003 Claude Sautet ou La Magie
invisible / Claude Sautet oder Die unsichtbare Magie, N.
T. Binh; 2005 Cineastes en accio / Cineastas en acción,
Carlos Benpar, Spain; 2007 Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient,
Todd MacCarthy, USA) and TV (1981 Dialogue
pour un Portrait: Philippe Noiret, Dominique Varenne;
Le Petit Mitchell illustré, Gérard Jourd’hui; 1990 Gilles
Grangier, 50 Ans de Cinéma, Maurice Delbez; 1994 Jean
Renoir: Part One—From La Belle Epoque to World War
II, David Thompson, UK; Jean Renoir: Part Two—Hollywood
and Beyond, David Thompson, UK; 1995 The
Making of an Englishman, Kevin MacDonald, UK; 1996
Philippe le Bienheureux, Claude Fléouter; Un Film sur
Bertrand Tavernier, Nils Tavernier; The Lumière Brothers’
First Films, as narrator; 1997 Cannes . . . les 400 Coups,
Gilles Nadeau; 2000 In the Shadow of Hollywood / A