Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

194 • CAYROL, JEAN
1973 Il n’y a pas de Fumée sans Feu / Non c’è fuomo
senza fuoco / UK and USA: Where There’s
Smoke (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
France / Italy)
1974 Verdict / L’accusa è: Violenza carnale e omicidio /
Il testamento / UK and USA: The Verdict / Jury of
One (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)
1977 A chacun son Enfer / Jedem seine Hölle (also
screenwriter; France / West Germany)
1978 La Raison d’Etat / Ragione di stato (also coscreenwriter;
France / Italy)
L’Amour en Question (also co-screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1980 La Faute (also co-screenwriter)
1981 Les Avocats du Diable (also co-screenwriter)
1982 Des Yeux pour pleurer (also co-screenwriter)
1983 Retour à Chercheil
CAYROL, JEAN (June 6, 1911, Bordeaux, Gironde,
France–February 10, 2005, Bordeaux, France)
At age fi fteen, he created a literary review, Abeilles et
Pensées, and published poems in the Cahiers du Sud at
age eighteen. After completing his studies in law and
literature, he worked as a librarian at the Bordeaux
Chamber of Commerce in 1935. During World War
II, he joined the French Resistance in 1941. Arrested
in 1942, he was interned in Fresnes jail and then
deported to Mathausen concentration camp. Having
returned to France, he wrote poems and novels (he
won the Théophraste Renaudot Prize in 1947 for Je
vivrai l’Amour des Autres). By 1950, he became literary
adviser for the publisher Le Seuil and founded the
review Ecrire, in which were published young writers.
His fi rst contribution to cinema was the commentary
of Nuit et Brouillard / UK and USA: Night and
Fog (documentary, Alain Resnais, 1955). He made his
directing debut in 1960 and co-signed most his fi lms
with novelist, former teacher, and future publisher
Claude Durand. He wrote the screenplay and dialogue
of Alain Resnais’s Muriel ou Le Temps d’un Retour
/ Muriel, il tempo di un ritorno / UK: Muriel, or The Time
of Return / USA: The Time of Return (France / Italy).
Two TV movies were adapted from his novels (1975
N’oubliez pas que nous aimons, Luc Godevais; 1978
Kakemono Hôtel, Franck Apprederis). He co-authored
with Claude Durand an essay on cinema: 1963 Le
Droit de Regard (Editions du Seuil).
Filmography
1960 On vous parle (short; also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
co-director with Claude Durand)
1961 La Frontière (short; also author of commentary;
co-director with Claude Durand)
Madame se meurt (short; also cinematographer;
co-screenwriter, author of commentary, cinematographer;
co-director with Claude Durand)
1963 De tout pour faire un Monde (short; also
co-screenwriter, author of commentary; codirector
with Claude Durand)
1965 Le Coup de Grâce (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist; co-director with Claude
Durand; France / Canada)
1966 La Déesse (short; also screenwriter)
1970 Do Not Disturb ou Prière de ne pas déranger
(short; also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1961 Les Spécialités de la Mer (short; co-director
with Claude Durand)
CAZA, CHRISTIAN (Khatchik Hovsep Kazazian /
September 20, 1930, Constantinople [now Istanbul],
Turkey–May 9, 1979, Paris, France)
Of Armenian origin, he entered fi lms as an actor under
the pseudonym of Michel Ardan. From 1946 (Martin
Roumagnac / USA: The Room Upstairs, Georges Lacombe)
to 1975 (Quand la Ville s’éveille, Pierre Grasset),
he played supporting roles in about thirty movies, including
Claude Sautet’s Classe tous Risques / Asfalto che
scotta / USA: The Big Risk (France / Italy, 1960) and Laslo
Benedek’s Recours en Grâce / Tra due donne (France /
Italy, 1960). In the early 1960s, he created his own production
company, Les Productions Belles Rives, which
notably co-fi nanced comedies (1971 La Grande Java,
as production manager, also co-screenwriter, Philippe
Clair; Les Bidasses en Folie / UK: The Five Crazy Boys,
Claude Zidi; 1973 La Brigade en Folie, also co-screenwriter,
Philippe Clair) and more ambitious fi lms (1966
Les Grandes Gueules / Una vampata di violenza / UK:
Jailbird’s Vacation / USA: The Wise Guys, Robert Enrico,
France / Italy; 1971 Franz, Jacques Brel, France / Belgium;
Les Assassins de l’Ordre / Inchiesto su un delitto della polizia,
Marcel Carné, France / Italy).
Filmography
1974 La Grande Nouba (also production manager)
1979 Les Bidasses en Vadrouille (also co-adapter, codialogist,
production manager)
CAZENEUVE, FABRICE
Mainly a TV director, he shot fi ction, documentaries,
and reports for various French TV channels.