Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1980 Le Manège (animated short; co-director with
Jean-Pierre Jeunet; also character desiger)
1981 Le Bunker de la dernière Rafale / USA: The
Bunker of the Last Gunshots (short; co-director
with Jean-Pierre Jeunet; also co-screenwriter,
set decorator, costume designer, cinematographer,
actor, editor)
1985 Le Cirque Conférence (short)
Maître Cube (short)
Rude Raid (short)
Le Topologue (short)
1986 Le Défi lé (documentary; short)
1987 Le Concierge est dans l’Escalier (short)
1991 Delicatessen (co-director with Jean-Pierre Jeunet;
also co-screenwriter, artistic director,
storyboard artist, production designer, actor,
sound effects)
1994 KO Kid (animated short; also screenwriter)
1995 La Cité des Enfants perdus / Die Stadt der verlorenen
Kinder / La ciudad de los ninos perdidos
/ La ciutat dels nens perduts / USA: The City
of Lost Children (co-director with Jean-Pierre
Jeunet; also co-screenwriter, artistic director,
production designer, actor, sound effects;
France / West Germany / Spain)
1996 L.S. Dead (short)
1998 Exercice of Steel (shot on video; also screenwriter,
editor)
2008 Dante 08 (also co-screenwriter)
CARON, DIDIER
A fi lm actor (1990 Un Sale Quart d’Heure pour l’Art,
short, Eric Bitoun; 1996 Fallait pas! . . . / Caiga quien
caiga, mañana me caso / Caigui qui caigui, em caso, Gérard
Jugnot, France / Spain; 2000 Meilleur Espoir féminin,
Gérard Jugnot; 2001 Tanguy, Etienne Chatiliez) and TV
actor (1998 Blague à Part, 57 24', François Greze,
Frédéric Berthe, Pascal Chaumeil) and a playwright,
he brought to the screen one of his plays.
Filmography
2005 Un Vrai Bonheur, le Film (also original play, coscreenwriter)
CARON, PIERRE (August 15, 1901, Paris, France–
February 14, 1971, Caracas, Venezuela)
He was only twenty years old when he directed his
fi rst fi lm starring the great stage director and actor
Charles Dullin. Parallel to shooting his own movies,
he served as a collaborator with the director
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(1923 La Roue / La Rose du Rail, six parts; shortened
version: four parts, Marcel L’Herbier) and assistant
director (1931 Après l’Amour, Léonce Perret). During
the occupation of France, he bought and sold on the
black market, acting in complicity with collaborators
and Nazis. In 1946, he was sentenced by default to
fi ve years in jail, was fi ned 120,000 francs, and was
banned from France for fi ve years. He died in Venezuela
at age seventy-nine.
Filmography
1921 L’Homme qui vendit son Âme au Diable (also
producer)
1923 La Mare au Diable (also producer)
1931 Grains de Beauté
1934 Votre Sourire (co-director with Monty Banks)
1935 Juanita
1936 Les Demi-Vierges (also co-screenwriter)
Marinella
La Tentation
Notre Dame d’Amour
1937 Blanchette
Cinderella / Séduction
La Fessée (also co-screenwriter)
1938 Les Femmes collantes
L’Accroche-Cœur / Riviera Express
Le Monsieur de 5 Heures
La Route enchantée
1939 Mon Oncle et mon Curé (also producer)
1940 Bécassine (also producer)
Chantons quand même (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, lyricist)
1941 Ne bougez plus! (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1942 Pension Jonas
1945 Ils étaient Cinq Permissionnaires (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist; shot in 1940)
1946 Por el gran premio (Spain)
1956 Eva no Brasil (also screenwriter, producer,
dialogist; Brazil)
CARPITA, PAUL (November 12, 1922, Marseille,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
The son of a docker father and a fi shmonger mother,
he was a schoolteacher from 1946 to 1968. A former
resistant during World War II, he co-founded with a
few friends CINEPAX, a politically involved group of
fi lmmakers who shot 16-mm reports (Equipe de Choc;
Pour que nos Joues soient toujours roses; Nous voulons
vivre!). From 1953 to 1955, he directed his fi rst feature