Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

above all a journalist. From 1923 to 1939, she traveled
around the world in an airplane (Mermoz was sometimes
her pilot) and published her reports in Paris-Soir,
Le Matin, L’Intransigeant, Le Petit Parisien, Lectures pour
tous, and Vu. She co-founded with future fi lmmaker
Carlo-Rim the magazine Jazz. During the occupation of
France, she wrote in some collaborationist newspapers
(La France au Travail; Les Nouveaux), and she had to be
accountable to new French authorities after the liberation
of France. She retired to San Francisco, where she
died at age sixty-nine. She wrote novels (1925 La Bête
cabrée, Editions du Monde Moderne; Voyage autour de
ma Maîtresse, Flammarion) and told of her explorations
in several books (1930 La Caravane des Morts, Editions
des Portiques; 1934 Une Femme chez les Chasseurs de
Têtes, Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Critique).
Filmography
1933 Indiens, nos Frères (documentary)
1934 Promenade en Chine (documentary)
TOESCA, MICHEL (March 28, 1960, Nice, Alpes-
Maritimes, France–)
A movie buff since his childhood, he was fourteen
years old when he took part in a short directed by
his cousin, photographer Jean-Louis Martinetti. The
same year, his father gave him a Super-8 camera for
Christmas, and he shot about ten amateur shorts
from 1975 to 1982. Having settled in Paris in 1979, he
spent a lot of time at the Cinemathèque and briefl y
studied cinema at the E.S.E.C. He earned a living writing
radio plays for Les Nouveaux Maîtres du Mystère
(France Inter, 1981–1986). He directed his fi rst professional
movie, a short, in 1982. He appeared as an
actor (Les Robes, Jérôme Michaud-Larivière; Sinon oui
/ A Foreign Body, Claire Simon, France / Canada; 1999
Swamp!, Eric Bu) and worked occasionally as a sound
engineer (2002 800 km de Différence-Romance, Claire
Simon) and editor (2003 Mimi, Claire Simon).
Filmography
1983 Muthos (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1989 Taratatata (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1994 Dans un grand Lit carré (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2005 J’irai cracher sur vos Tongs (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Videos
1996 Vu dans les Nuages (short)
1999 Dialogue (short)
2002 Train (short)
Humm (short)
La Pierre et le Ciel (short)
2003 Mai (short)
Gym (short)
2005 J’veux pas ktu m’fi lm (short)
Hey Bill! (short)
Bénédicte (short)
2006 15, 16, 17 août (short)
Dialogue 2 (short)
TORRENT, HENRI • 963
Television Filmography
1990– Dynamo (fi ve documentary shorts)
1993
2003 Espaces et Territoires (documentary)
TOLEDANO, PHILIPPE (1938, France–)
His fi rst feature fi lm was about the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy. Having settled in Venezuela
since the mid-1980s, he is an independent producer
(1991 Sicario, José Ramon Novóa, Venezuela; 2000 La
magica aventura de Oscar, Diana Sanchez, Venezuela
/ Spain / Colombia; 1995 Antes de morir, Pablo de la
Barra, Venezuela).
Filmography
1972 Far from Dallas (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1984 Morituri (Venezuela)
1994 Bésame mucho (Venezuela / Mexico / Colombia)
Television Filmography
1989 Coplan (episode “Vengeance à Caracas”)
TOPART, ROBERT (November 16, 1920, Vincennes,
Val-de-Marne, France–)
A former assistant director (1951 Seul dans Paris, Hervé
Bromberger; 1954 Les Fruits sauvages / USA: Wild Fruit,
Hervé Bromberger) and co-adapter (1963 Cinq Filles
en Furie / Les Chiennes de Soledor / USA: Five Wild Girls /
Five Wild Kids, Max Pécas; 1964 La Baie du Désir / USA:
The Erotic Touch of Hot Skin / The Erotic Touch / The Touch
of Skin, Max Pécas), he directed only two fi lms.
Filmography
1967 La muerte escucha (Colombia)
1970 Quatre Hommes aux poings nus (also coscreenwriter)
TORRENT, HENRI (December 4, 1922, Le Boulou,
Pyrénées-Orientales, France–)