Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

ous job when he began shooting his fi rst feature fi lm.
He co-wrote the TV movie Femme de Papier (Suzanne
Schiffman, 1989). Other credit (as actor): 1973 La
Nuit américaine / Effetto notte / USA: A Day for a Night
(François Truffaut, France / Italy).
Filmography
1967 La Cage de Pierre (short; also screenwriter)
1971 Le Parapluie de l’Eléphant de Mer (short; also
screenwriter)
1972 L’Enfant (short; also screenwriter)
1975 Vincent mit l’Âne dans un Pré (. . . et s’en vint dans
l’autre) (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
1979 Roberte (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist;
shot in 1977)
1981 Balthus (documentary)
Le Mariage secret (short; also screenwriter)
1984 Méfi ez-vous d’Echo (short; also screenwriter)
1985 Rouge Gorge (also co-screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist; France / Belgium)
1988 Alouette, je te plumerai (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1990 L’Orient, Mirage de l’Occident (documentary;
also screenwriter)
1993 Porte de Bagnolet (short; also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1982 Télévision de Chambre: Sous le Signe du Poisson
(short; also screenwriter)
1983 Le Secret de Monsieur L (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1987 Guerre chaude, Paix froide
ZUCHUAT, OLIVIER (December 30, 1969, Geneva,
Switzerland–)
After studying theoretical physics at the Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne and at Trinity College
of Dublin, he earned a master’s of philosophy
degree and a degree in French literature from the
University of Lausanne. Then he wrote and directed
for stage and worked as a fi lm editor with Nicolas
Philibert and Frédéric Compain. He has directed
documentaries since 2000.
Filmography
2000 Dollar, Tobin, FMI, Nasdag et les Autres (video
documentary)
2001 Mah Damba, une Griotte en Exil (video documentary;
medium-length; co-director with
Corinne Maury)
ZULAWSKI, ANDRZEJ • 1035
2005 Djourou, une Corde à ton Cou (video documentary;
also co-cinematographer, editor; France
/ Switzerland / Sweden)
2008 Au Loin des Villages (video documentary; France
/ Switzerland)
ZULAWSKI, ANDRZEJ (November 22, 1940,
Lwow, Poland [now Lviv], Ukraine–)
The son of Polish writer and poet Miroslav Zulawski,
he sojourned to Paris (1945–1949) and Czechoslovakia
(1949–1952) with his father, who was a foreign
affairs and UNESCO civil servant. In 1957, he went
back to Paris, where he completed his secondary studies.
The same year, he enrolled in the IDHEC. Having
graduated in 1959 (his dissertation was about Andrzej
Wajda’s Kanal), he moved to Poland and entered fi lms
as an assistant to Wajda (1961 Samson, also actor;
1962 L’Amour à Vingt Ans / L’amore a vent’anni / Liebe mit
zwanzig / Milosc dwudziestolatkow / Hatachi no koi / UK
and USA: Love At Twenty (segment “Milosc dwudziestolatkow,”
France / Italy / West Germany / Poland /
Japan; 1965 Popoly / UK and USA: The Ashes, Andrzej
Wajda). He also studied philosophy at Varsovia and
wrote poems and criticism (published in the Polish
review Film). After having many troubles with Polish
censorship—his novel Kino was seized, and the second
fi lm he directed, Diabel, was banned—he came back to
Paris, where he shot his fi rst French fi lm in 1974. He
authored several novels (1987 Il était un Verger, Stock;
2003 L’Infi délité, Agnès Pareyre; 2004 Comme un Rien,
Calmann-Lévy) and a collection of short stories (1981
Les Choses de la Chair, Editions Jean-Claude Lattès). He
played a leading role in a French movie (1985 Tristesse
et Beauté, Joy Fleury) and a supporting part in Josée
Dayan’s TV movie Les Liaisons dangereuses / USA: Dangerous
Liaisons (2 126'; France / UK / Canada).
Filmography
1971 Trzecia czesc nocy (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
Poland)
1972 Diabel (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1975 L’Important c’est d’aimer / L’importante è amare
/ Nachtblende / UK: The Main Thing Is to Love
(also co-screenwriter; France / Italy / West
Germany)
1981 Possession / USA: The Night the Screaming
Starts (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1984 La Femme publique (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)