Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

de Fer,” “Les Trois Crimes de Vidocq,” “Les
Chevaliers de la Nuit,” “Echec à Vidocq,”
“Les Chauffeurs du Nord,” “Les Banquiers du
Crime”; France / West Germany)
1972 Histoire du Soldat
Les Misérables (2 110'; also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
1973 Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq / Die Abenteuer
des Monsieur Vidocq (episodes “La Bande
à Vidocq,” “Les Assassins de l’Empereur,” “Les
Bijoux du Roi,” “Vidocq et l’Archange,” “Les
Deux Colonels,” “L’Epingle noire,” “Vidocq et
Compagnie”; France / West Germany)
1974 Antoine Bloyé
1975 Sara (also screenwriter, adapter)
1978 Mitzi
Lulu
La Dernière Bande
1980 Le Misanthrope
1981 Exercice de Style
1982 Mozart (6 52'; also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist; France / Belgium / Canada
/ Italy / Switzerland)
1983 Thérèse Humbert
1985 Music-Hall (also co-screenwriter)
Sarah et le Cri de la Langouste
1987 Série Noire (episode “1996”; also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, actor)
1989 L’Ami Giono: Solitude de la Pitié
La Cévenne (two-part documentary)
1990 L’Ami Giono: Joffroi de la Maussan (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; shot in 1988)
L’Ami Giono: Onorato
Clérambard
La Goutte d’Or (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist;
France / Tunisia)
1991 Les Ritals (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
Billy (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
1995 Lisa ou L’Affabulatrice (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2008 A Droite toute (4 52'; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
BOCCAROSSA, DOMINIQUE (December 1,
1954, Paris, France–)
From 1975 to 1980, he studied at the Ecole Nationale
des Arts Appliqués de Paris, then, from 1981
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to 1983, at the Beaux-Arts. Having graduated with
a master of cinema, he worked as set designer for
stage, TV, and cinema (1982–1989). Also a painter,
he taught plastic arts (1990–1993) before directing
shorts and feature fi lms.
Filmography
1982 Vincent ou Les Raisons du Silence (short; also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1983 Grève au Pays des Nègres Blancs (short; also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1984 Aloades (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1985 Jean, l’Homme nu dit Le Baptiste (short; also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1989 Squatter (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1992 Le Saut de l’Ange (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1995 Stabat Mater (also screenwriter, dialogist; unreleased)
2001 Bleu le Ciel (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2003 La Vie nue (also screenwriter, dialogist)
BOISROND, MICHEL (October 9, 1921, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais,
Eure-et-Loir, France–November
10, 2002, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines, France)
An assistant director for ten years (1946 L’Aventure
de Cabassou, Gilles Grangier; 1947 Histoire de chanter,
Gilles Grangier; Rendez-vous à Paris, Gilles Grangier;
1948 Ruy Blas, Pierre Billon; Rocambole, two episodes,
“Rocambole,” “La Revanche de Baccarat” / Il
ragno della metropoli / Rivincita di Baccarat, Jacques de
Baroncelli, France / Italy; 1949 Jo la Romance, Gilles
Grangier; 1950 La Beauté du Diable / La bellezza del
diavolo / UK: Beauty and the Beast / USA: Beauty and
the Devil, René Clair, France / Italy; 1951 Les Petites
Cardinal, Gilles Grangier; Le plus joli Péché du Monde,
Gilles Grangier; 1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro, uncredited,
Henry King, USA; Les Belles de Nuit / Le belle
della notte / UK: Night Beauties / USA: Beauties of the
Night, René Clair, France / Italy; 1953 Un Caprice de
Caroline chérie / USA: Caroline Cherie, Jean Devaivre;
1954 Un Acte d’Amour / An Act of Love, Anatole Litvak,
France / USA; 1955 Escale à Orly / Zwischenlandung in
Paris, Jean Dréville, France / West Germany; Interdit de
Séjour, Maurice de Canonge; Les Grandes Manoeuvres /
Grandi manovre / UK: Summer Manœuvres / USA: The
Grand Maneuver, René Clair, France / Italy; Mississippi
One, Sarah Moon; 1991), he also was a technical collaborator
(1951 Deux Sous de Violettes, Jean Anouilh)