Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

lance journalist for Paris-Jour. In 1959, he co-founded
with future screenwriter Jean Curtelin a fi lm review
(Présence du Cinéma). While collaborating as a fi lm
critic with such magazines as Cinéma (1958–1962), Les
Lettres Françaises, and Midi-Minuit Fantastique, he served
as an assistant director (1959 La Nuit des Espions / La
notte delle spie / UK: Night Encounter / USA: Double
Agents, Robert Hossein, France / Italy; Le Vent se lève /
Il vento si alza / UK: Operation Time Bomb / USA: Time
Bomb, Yves Ciampi, France / Italy; 1961 Qui êtes-vous,
Monsieur Sorge? / La spia del secolo / Wer sind Sie, Dr.
Sorge? / Spy Sorge: Shinjuwan zenya, Yves Ciampi, France
/ Italy / West Germany / Japan; Il colosso di Rodi / Le
Colosse de Rhodes / El coloso de Rodas / USA: The Colossus
of Rhodes, Sergio Leone, Italy / France / Spain; 1962
Liberté I, Yves Ciampi; 1963 L’Aîné des Ferchaux / Lo sciacallo
/ UK: Magnet of Doom / US TV: An Honorable Young
Man, Jean-Pierre Melville, France / Italy; 1965 L’Arme
à Gauche / Corpo a corpo / Armas para el Caribe / UK:
Guns for the Dictator / USA: The Dictator’s Guns, Claude
Sautet, France / Italy / Spain; 1966 Un Monde nouveau
/ Un mondo nuovo / UK: A New World / USA: A Young
World, Vittorio de Sica, France / Italy; Roger la Honte /
Trappola per l’assassino, Riccardo Freda, France / Italy;
Paris brûle-t-il? / Is Paris Burning?, René Clément, France
/ USA; Le Deuxième Souffl e / UK and USA: Second
Breath, Jean-Pierre Melville; 1967 Coplan ouvre le Feu à
Mexico / Moresque: Obiettivo allucinante / Entre las redes
/ USA: Mexican Slayride, Riccardo Freda, France / Italy /
Spain; La morte non conta I dollari / USA: Death at Owell
Rock / No Killing Without Dollars, George Lincoln = Riccardo
Freda, Italy). Other credit (as co-screenwriter):
2003 L’Adieu (two-part TV movie: “Zone interdite,”
“Terre brûlée,” François Luciani).
Filmography
1968 Coplan sauve sa Peau / Horror: l’assassino ha le
ore contate / UK: Devil’s Garden / UK and USA:
Requiem for a Snake (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Italy)
1970 Cran d’Arrêt / Il caso “Venere privata” / USA:
Safety Catch (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter;
France / Italy)
Un Condé / L’uomo venuto da Chicago / UK:
Blood on My Hands / USA: The Cop (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1971 Le Saut de l’Ange / Da parte degli amici: Firmato
mafi a! (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter;
France / Italy)
1972 L’Attentat / L’attentato / Das Attentat / German
video: Die tödliche Falle (Die Affäre Sadiel) / UK:
BOISSET, YVES • 115
Plot / USA: The Assassination / The French Conspiracy
(France / Italy / West Germany)
1973 R.A.S. / R.A.S. nulla da segnalare (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France
/ Italy)
1975 Dupont-Lajoie / UK: Rape of Innocence / USA:
The Common Man (also co-adapter; France /
Italy)
Folle à tuer / Una donna di uccidere (also
screenwriter, co-adapter)
1977 Le Juge Fayard dit “Le Shérif ” (also co-screenwriter)
Un Taxi mauve / Un taxi color malva / USA: The
Purple Taxi (also screenwriter, adapter; France
/ Italy / Ireland)
1978 La Clé sur la Porte / USA: The Key Is in the Door
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1980 La Femme-Flic (also co-screenwriter)
1981 Allons z’Enfants (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1982 Espion, lève-toi! (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
actor)
1983 Le Prix du Danger / US video: The Prize of Peril
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1984 Canicule / USA: Dog Day (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1986 Bleu comme l’Enfer (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1988 La Travestie (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
actor)
1989 Radio Corbeau (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1991 La Tribu (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
Television Filmography
1966 Rouletabille (episode “Le Parfum de la Dame
en noir”)
1979 Histoires insolites (episode “La stratégie du
Serpent”; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1988 Médecins des Hommes (episode “Les Karen, le
Pays sans Péché”; also co-screenwriter)
Série noire (episode “La Fée Carabine”)
1989 Le Suspect (also co-screenwriter)
1991 Les Carnassiers (also co-screenwriter)
Haute Tension (episode “Frontière du Crime”;
France / Canada)
1993 Morlock (also co-screenwriter)
L’Affaire Seznec (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
Chute libre (also co-screenwriter)