Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

gal). He later produced several fi lms in France (1934
Le Scandale, Marcel L’Herbier; 1937 Ignace, Pierre
Colombier; Forfaiture, Marcel L’Herbier; 1946 Roger la
Honte, André Cayatte; 1952 Le Fruit défendu / UK and
USA: Forbidden Fruit, Henri Verneuil; 1953 Les Enfants
de l’Amour, Léonide Moguy) and even directed one of
them, a Fernandel comedy.
Filmography
1940 Narcisse (also producer)
AISNER, HENRI (May 21, 1911, Paris, France–).
A former editor (1934 L’Or dans la Rue, Kurt Bernhardt,
1935 La Petite Sauvage, Jean de Limur), production
manager (1937 Balthazar, Pierre Colombier) and
assistant director (1937 La Bataille silencieuse, Pierre
Billon; Claudine à l’Ecole, Serge de Poligny; 1938 Le
Roman de Werther / Werther, Max Ophüls; 1939 Sans
Lendemain / USA: There’s No Tomorrow, Max Ophüls),
he became a fi lm director after World War II.
Filmography
1947 Tournage de Solidarité (short; co-director)
1949 Le Mystère de la Chambre jaune
1951 Le Choix le plus simple (short)
1954 La Terre fl eurira (short)
1956 Les Copains du Dimanche (also screenwriter;
only released on TV in 1967)
1958 Liberté surveillée (co-director with Vladimir
Voltchek; France / Czechoslovakia)
AJA, ALEXANDRE (Alexandre Arcady / August 7,
1978, Paris, France–)
The son of director Alexandre Arcady and fi lm critic
Marie-Jo Jouan, he appeared under the name Alexandre
Jouan as a child actor in three fi lms directed
by his father (1983 Le Grand Carnaval, 1989 L’Union
sacrée; 1992 Le Grand Pardon II). After three years
in the university, he dropped out of his studies of
philosophy for working with Alexandre Arcady as
second unit director (2000 Là-bas . . . mon Pays; 2002
Entre Chiens et Loups / USA: Break of Dawn, also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist; 2004 Mariage mixte). A
horror fi lm fan, he directed several genre movies in
France and the USA.
Filmography
1997 Over the Rainbow (short; co-director w / Grégory
Levasseur; also screenwriter)
2000 Furia (also co-screenwriter; shot in 1998)
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2003 Haute Tension / USA: High Tension (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2006 The Hills Have Eyes (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
USA)
2007 Mirrors (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
USA)
AKHÉNATON (Philippe Fragione / September 17,
1968, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
Of Neapolitan origin, he is the leader of the successful
French rap band IAM.
Filmography
2000 Comme un Aimant / USA: The Magnet (co-director
with Kamel Saleh; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, composer, actor)
AKIKA, ALI (February 15, 1945, Gigel, Algeria–)
He arrived in France in 1965. After landing a master’s
of science in economics, he taught economics and
management for six years in several Parisian high
schools. As Ali Mocki, he wrote a study on Algerian
cinema since the independence of Algeria (text published
in 1973–1975 in Les Cahiers du Cinéma). He met
two critics of the Cahiers, Serge Le Péron and Jean
Narboni, with whom he directed his fi rst fi lm.
Filmography
1976 L’Olivier (documentary; co-director with Guy
Chapouillié, Danièle Dubroux, Serge Le Péron,
Jean Narboni, Dominique Villain)
1978 Voyage en Capital (co-director with Anne-
Marie Autissier)
1979 Larmes de Sang (documentary; co-director
with Anne-Marie Autissier; France / Algeria)
1981 Iran, un Printemps en Hiver (documentary; also
screenwriter)
1986 Shiwana, Namibia (short; also screenwriter)
1997 Les Laboureurs de la Mémoire (documentary;
also screenwriter)
2005 Isabelle Eberhardt ou La Volupté de la Liberté
(documentary; also screenwriter)
2007 Laissez-les grandir ici! (documentary; co-director
only)
Television Filmography
1981 Paroles et Pouvoir en Iran (documentary;
medium-length; also screenwriter)
1986 Shiwana, Namibia (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)