Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1034 • ZINGG, GÉRARD
documentary), Raymond Depardon (1974 Une Partie
de Campagne, documentary), Pierre Barouh (1979 Le
Divorcement), Jean-Pierre Mocky (1995 Noir comme le
Souvenir, France / Switzerland), and exploitation fi lm
director Jean-Marie Pallardy (1977 Le Ricain / USA:
The Man from Chicago; 1979 Une Femme spéciale /
USA: A Very Special Woman / Kiss Me with Lust / Ready
and Willing; 1981 Trois Filles dans le Vent; 1984 Vivre
pour survivre / White Fire, also actor, France / Turkey
/ UK), to whom he was also an assistant director
(1978 L’Amour chez les Poids lourds / Grossi bestioni /
UK: Erotic Encounters / Truck Stop / US video: Traveling
Companions, France / Italy). While editing other fi lmmakers’
movies, he directed a couple of forgettable
pictures. In 1997, he co-founded with Anne Saint
Dreux the National Center for Advertising Archives
(now the House of Advertising).
Filmography
1980 Bactron 317 / L’Espionne qui venait du Show
(co-director with Jean-Claude Strömme, unreleased)
1985 Gros Dégueulasse
1988 Emmanuelle 6
ZINGG, GÉRARD (June 7, 1942, Montfermeil,
Seine-Saint-Denis, France–)
The grandson of French painter Jules-Emile Zingg,
he was trained at the Sciences Po. He played
competitive sports before entering fi lms as a coscreenwriter
(1969 Ternos caçadores / Sweet Hunters
/ Tendres Chasseurs / Jailbird, Ruy Guerra, Brazil /
France; 1981 L’Année prochaine . . . si tout va bien /
UK and USA: Next Year If All Goes Well, also technical
adviser, Jean-Loup Hubert; Histoires extraordinaires, TV,
episode “La Lettre volée,” Ruy Guerra; 2008 Lucifer
et Moi, Jacques Grand-Jouan) and assistant director
(1974 Les Valseuses / UK: Getting It Up / USA: Going
Places, Bertrand Blier). He also supervised the dubbing
and co-wrote the dialogue of Marco Ferreri’s La
Dernière Femme / L’ultima donna / UK and USA: The
Last Woman (France / Italy, 1976). He had previously
played the Norman clerk Jean Lohier in Robert Bresson’s
Le Procès de Jeanne d’Arc / UK and USA: Trial of
Joan of Arc (1963, shot in 1961). After being technical
adviser to Virginie Thévenet (1985 La Nuit Porte-
Jarretelles) and Radovan Tadic (1990 Erreur de Jeunesse,
shot in 1988) and the commercial failure of his
two feature movies, he devoted himself to painting
for fi fteen years. He also published several books
(1995 L’Heure du Loup; 1999 Loup, où es-tu?, Editions
Humus Dumerchez) and appeared as himself in a TV
documentary (2007 Dominique Laffi n, Portrait d’une
Enfant pas sage, Laurent Perrin).
Filmography
1971 La Quille, Bon Dieu! (short; also co-screenwriter)
1977 La Nuit tous les Chats sont gris (also co-screenwriter)
1988 Ada dans la Jungle (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
ZONCA, ERICK (Eric Robert Louis Zonca / September
10, 1956, Orléans, Loiret, France–)
The son of building contractors, he went to Paris to
enroll in a school of dramatic art but soon dropped
out and moved to New York, where he paid for his acting
courses doing small jobs. Back in France, he briefl y
studied philosophy before writing for sitcoms and
working as an assistant director (1989 La Valse des Pigeons,
Michaël Perrotta). His fi rst fi lm was a short (Rives,
1992). He co-wrote Le Secret (Virginie Wagon, 2000).
Filmography
1992 Rives (short)
1995 Eternelles (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1996 Seule / USA: Alone (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1998 La Vie rêvée des Anges / USA: The Dreamlife of
Angels / US video: The Daydreams of Angels
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2000 Le Petit Voleur (originally shot for TV; also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2007 Julia (also co-screenwriter; France / USA /
Mexico / Belgium)
ZUCCA, PIERRE (July 10, 1943, Paris, France–January
15, 1995, Paris, France)
The son of photographer André Zucca (1897–1973),
he was from 1963 (Judex / L’uomo in nero, Georges
Franju, France / Italy) to 1974 (Mes Petites Amoureuses,
Jean Eustache) one of the busiest still photographers
in French cinema, working mainly with Nouvelle
Vague directors (Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol,
François Truffaut) and various foreign fi lmmakers
shooting movies in France (Riccardo Freda, Alfred
Hitchcock, Dusan Makavejev). He gave up his previ-