Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1999 Un Siècle d’Ecrivains (documentary; episode
“Bernard Clavel”)
Kosovo – Des Journalistes dans la Guerre (documentary)
2003 Voyages d’Automne (documentary)
Video Documentaries
1991 Portrait Entretien: Paul Ricoeur
1992 Portrait Entretien: Jacques Ellul
1993 Portrait Entretien: Jean Carbonnier
Portrait Entretien: Pierre Chaunu
VALENTE, MARTIN (April 24, 1967, Paris,
France–)
He studied at the Regional Conservatory of Dramatic
Art of Île-de-France and began an acting career onstage
and in fi lms (2003 Changement de Trottoir, short,
Antonin Peretjako; 2006 L’Opération de la dernière
Chance, short, Antonin Peretjako). After working as
an assistant director on several commercials, he shot
his fi rst documentary.
Filmography
1997 Radioscopie d’une Fac ordinaire (documentary)
2000 La Déclaration (short; shot on DVD)
Cannes, les Coulisses d’un Festival (documentary)
2001 Ta Sœur (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2004 Les Amateurs (also screenwriter, dialogist; shot
in 2002)
2007 Fragile(s) (also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
2003 Et toc! (TV series; co-director with Samuel
Tasinaje)
VALENTIN, ALBERT (August 5, 1908, La Louvière,
Belgium–April 13, 1968, Suresnes, Hauts-de-
Seine, France)
He was an assistant director to René Clair (1931 A
nous la Liberté / USA: Liberty for Us; 1933 Quatorze Juillet;
1934 Le Dernier Milliardaire; 1935 The Ghost Goes
West, UK; Break the News, UK). From 1932 (Boudu
sauvé des Eaux / USA: Boudu Saved from Drowning, Jean
Renoir) to 1968 (Vingt-Quatre Heures de la Vie d’une
Femme / 24 Stunden im Leben einer Frau, Dominique
Delouche, France / West Germany), he was a screenwriter
in great demand and notably wrote or cowrote
three beautiful Jean Grémillon movies (1938
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L’Etrange Monsieur Victor / Der merkwürdige Monsieur
Victor, France / Germany; 1944 Le Ciel est à vous, 1951
L’Etrange Madame X). He started his directing career
shooting French-language versions of German fi lms.
Filmography
1934 Toi que j’adore (also screenwriter, dialogist;
French-language version of Geza von Bolvary’s
Ich kenn’Dich nicht und Liebe Dich; Germany)
La Chanson de l’Adieu / UK: Farewell (Frenchlanguage
version of Geza von Bolvary’s
Abschiedwalzer; Germany)
1935 Stradivarius (French-language version of Geza
von Bolvary’s Stradivari; Germany)
Les Dieux s’amusent (French-language version
of Reinhold Schünzel’s Amphitryon / Aus den
Wolken kommt das Glück; Germany)
Taxi de Minuit / Deux contre un (mediumlength)
1940 L’Entraîneuse (shot in 1938)
L’Héritier des Mondésir
1942 La Maison des Sept jeunes Filles
1943 A la Belle Frégate
Marie-Martine
1944 La Vie de Plaisir (also screenwriter)
1948 Le Secret de Monte Cristo
1949 L’Echafaud peut attendre (also screenwriter)
VALÈRE, JEAN (May 21, 1925, Paris, France–)
After several training periods in the fi lm printing and
developing laboratories at CTM of Genevilliers and
Montreuil, he became a second assistant director
(1948 Le Destin exécrable de Guillemette Babin, Guillaume
Radot, 1949 Jo la Romance, Gilles Grangier,
1950 La Marie du Port, Marcel Carné) and then
fi rst assistant director (1949 La Maternelle, Henri
Diamant-Berger; Mademoiselle de La Ferté, Roger Dallier;
1950 Meurtres / UK and USA: Three Sinners, Richard
Pottier; 1951 Caroline Chérie / USA: Dear Caroline, Richard
Pottier; Monsieur Fabre / USA: Amazing Monsieur
Fabre, Henri Diamant-Berger; 1952 Le Plaisir / UK and
USA: House of Pleasure / Pleasure, Max Ophüls; 1953 Le
Témoin de Minuit, Dimitri Kirsanoff; Thérèse Raquin /
Teresa Raquin / USA: The Adultress, Marcel Carné, France
/ Italy; 1954 Avant le Déluge / Prima del deluvio / USA: Before
the Deluge, André Cayatte, France / Italy; Mam’zelle
Nitouche / Santarellina / UK: Oh No, Mam’zelle, Yves Allégret,
France / Italy; La Belle Otéro / La bella Otero, Richard
Pottier, France / Italy; 1955 Le Dossier noir / Fascicolo nero,