Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

86 • BERNARD, RAYMOND
Expression) in 1986, Patrick Mario Bernard was the
winner of the “Aide à la creation” (Help to Creation)
award in 1987 and 1990. Besides his collaboration
with Pierre Trividic, he created the decors and
the costumes of Gertrude Stein’s Marguerite Ida &
Helena Annabel Opera (1992) and of Heiner Müller’s
play Soirée prussienne (also co-director with Didier
Doumergue, 1995). He also co-directed, with Didier
Doumergue, Murasaki Shikibu, and Marguerite Yourcenar,
Fragment-Nô (also decors, 1998). Pierre Trividic
studied law, history, and cinema (at the IDHEC). Then
he was awarded an external Villa Medici Bursary in
1994. He co-wrote Un Dîner avec M. Boy et la Femme
qui aime Jésus (short, Pascale Ferran, 1989), Petits Arrangements
avec les Morts / USA: Coming to Terms with
the Dead (Pascale Ferran, 1994), Ceux qui m’aiment
prendront le Train / USA: Those Who Love Me Can Take
the Train (Patrice Chéreau, 1998), Les Deux Vies du
Chat Radiguet (TV documentary, Jean-Christophe
Averty, 1998), 2006 Lady Chatterley (TV version: Lady
Chatterley et l’Homme des Bois, Pascale Ferran, France /
Belgium), and 2007 La Clé (Guillaume Nicloux). Other
credit (Patrick Mario Bernard, as actor): 2008 L’Autre
Rive (short, Fabrice Camoin).
Filmography
1989 Réfl exions sur la Puissance motrice de l’Amour
(Pierre Trividic only; short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1991 La Différence entre l’Amour (Pierre Trividic only;
short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2001 Ceci est une Pipe (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2003 Dancing (co-director with Xavier Brillat; also
screenwriter, actor)
2008 L’Autre ( also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1990 Treize Brouillons pour un Portrait d’Averty (Pierre
Trividic only; documentary; short; also screenwriter)
1994 Jules Verne (Pierre Trividic only; documentary;
also screenwriter)
1998 Un Siècle d’Ecrivains (documentary; episode “Le
Cas Howard Philips Lovecraft”; co-director
with Xavier Brillat)
2006 Une Famille parfaite (also screenwriter, dialogist)
BERNARD, RAYMOND (October 10, 1891, Paris,
France–December 12, 1977, Paris, France)
The son of writer-playwright Tristan Bernard (1866–
1947) and brother of writer Jean-Jacques Bernard, he
studied dramatic art at age fi fteen and made his fi lm
debut as an actor in 1916 in Jeanne Doré (René Hervil,
Louis Mercanton), in which starred Sarah Bernhardt.
The same year, he served as assistant to Jacques
Feyder (L’Homme de Compagnie). The fi rst movies he
directed were adaptations from his father’s works. He
made an uncredited appearance in the remake of his
fi lm Le Miracle des Loups (1961 Le Miracle des Loups /
La congiura dei potenti / USA: Blood on His Sword / The
Miracle of the Wolves, André Hunebelle, France / Italy).
Filmography
1917 Le Ravin sans Fond (co-director with Jacques
Feyder)
1918 Le Gentilhomme commerçant / USA: The Commercial
Gentleman
Le Traitement du Hoquet
1919 Le Petit Café / USA: The Little Cafe (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter)
1920 Le Secret de Rosette Lambert
1921 La Maison vide
1922 Triplepatte
1923 Le Costaud des Epinettes
L’Homme inusable
Décadence et Grandeur
1924 Le Miracle des Loups / USA: Miracle of the
Wolves (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1927 Le Joueur d’Echecs / USA: The Chess Player (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1930 Tarakanova (shot in 1928–1929)
1931 Faubourg-Montmartre
1932 Les Croix de Bois / UK and USA: Wooden
Crosses (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
1934 Les Misérables (three parts: “Une Tempête sous
un Crâne,” “Les Thénardier,” “Liberté, Liberté
chérie”; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
Tartarin de Tarascon
1935 Amants et Voleurs (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
1936 Anne-Marie (also co-adapter)
1937 Le Coupable
Marthe Richard au Service de la France
1938 J’étais une Aventurière
1939 Les Otages / USA: The Mayor’s Dilemna
1940 Cavalcade d’Amour
1946 Un Ami viendra ce Soir / USA: A Friend Will Come
Tonight (also co-adapter)
Adieu Chérie (also co-adapter)