Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1026 • ZAUBERMAN, YOLANDE
shorts with his friends. In 1964, after working as an
assistant to a production company, he came back to
France and did his military service in the French army’s
Cinematographic Service. Determined to become a
fi lmmaker, he enrolled in a private fi lm school and
earned a diploma. In 1968, he trained for a time at the
Maison de la Culture du Havre before being hired at
the cinema department managed by Vincent Pinel. He
soon began producing and directing documentaries.
Filmography
1969 On voit bien qu’c’est pas toi (medium-length;
also producer)
L’Entrée d’un Navire dans le Port du Havre (documentary;
short; co-director with Vincent
Pinel; also producer, co-editor)
1970 A suivre (documentary; also producer)
1973 Moi j’dis qu’c’est bien (also producer)
1976 Gros Plan (documentary; co-director with
Vincent Pinel)
1978 Vues d’ici (co-director with Vincent Pinel; also
screenwriter, producer, editor)
1982 La Barrière blanche (also producer)
1984 Le Havre—Visiteurs (Lutte sénégalaise) (documentary;
short; co-director with Jean-Luc
L’Huillier; also producer, editor)
Docteur Amadou et Mister Sy (documentary;
short; also producer)
1988 Table rase (documentary; also co-producer,
editor)
1988– Marat mort (documentary; also producer)
2005
1991 Les Montagnes parlantes (documentary; short;
co-director with Jean-Christophe Leforestier;
also producer, editor)
1994 Les Romantiques (also co-screenwriter, producer)
1997 Le Misanthrope (also co-adapter, producer)
2000 Allers / Retours (documentary; short; also coproducer)
ZAUBERMAN, YOLANDE (1955, Paris, France–)
After completing her studies in the history of art
and economics, she directed a documentary on a
South African anti-Apartheid family. Her fi rst feature
fi lm (Moi Ivan, toi Abraham) was shown at the Cannes
Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight. She co-produced
a documentary short (1998 Témoins / Swiadkowie /
USA: Witnesses: Anti-Semitism in Poland 1946, Marcel
Loinski, France / Poland) and was the author of the
original ideas of Tanguy (Etienne Chatiliez, 2001) and
Agathe Cléry (Etienne Chatiliez, 2008).
Filmography
1987 Classifi ed People (medium-length documentary)
1990 Caste criminelle (documentary; also screenwriter)
1993 Moi Ivan, toi Abraham / Ya—Ivan, Tu—Abraham /
USA: Ivan and Abraham / Me Ivan, You Abraham
(also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Belarus)
1997 Clubbed to Death (Lola) / Dançar Até Morrer
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France /
Portugal / Netherlands)
2002 La Guerre à Paris (also co-screenwriter)
2004 Paradise Now—Journal d’une Femme en Crise
(documentary; also co-screenwriter, producer,
actor as herself, cinematographer, editor)
ZECCA, FERDINAND (February 19, 1864, Paris,
France–March 23, 1947, Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne,
France)
The son of the caretaker of the Théâtre de l’Ambigu
(later a stagehand chief), he began his artistic career
as a café concert entertainer reciting monologues. In
1899, Léon Gaumont and Charles Pathé hired him
as an actor, but he soon began directing short fi lms
and became a production manager for Pathé. In 1913,
he settled in the USA to supervise the activities of
the Pathé exchange in New Jersey. Back in France in
1920, he managed Pathé Baby until his retirement
in 1939. Other credits (as supervisor): 1905 L’Antre
infernal (short, Gaston Velle); 1906 Les Roses magiques
/ USA: Magic Roses (short, Segundo de Chomon);
1908 L’Affaire Dreyfus / USA: The Dreyfus Affair (Lucien
Nonguet); Excursion dans la Lune / USA: Excursion
to the Moon (short, Segundo de Chomon); Transformations
élastiques / Les Vêtements cascadeurs (short,
Jean Durand); (as actor): 1904 Faust (short, Georges
Fagot); 1905 Créations renversantes (short, Segundo de
Chomon); Rigadin aux Balkans (short, Georges Monca);
(as producer): 1906 La Grève des Bonnes / La Grève des
Cuisiniers / USA: Servant’s Strike (short, Charles-Lucien
Lépine); Pauvre Mère / USA: Poor Mother (short, Albert
Capellani); 1907 Cendrillon / Cendrillon ou La Pantoufl e
merveilleuse / USA: Cinderella (short, Albert Capellani);
Les Débuts d’un Patineur / Max Patineur / Max veut apprendre
à patiner / UK: The Unskillful Skater / USA: Max