Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

10 • ALLEN, CHRISTINE
Devil Fails / US TV: When a Woman Meddles
(France / Italy / West Germany)
1958 La Fille de Hambourg / UK and USA: Port of
Desire (also co-screenwriter)
1959 L’Ambitieuse / The Restless and the Damned /
USA: The Ambitious One / US TV: The
Climbers (France / Australia / Italy)
1960 Chien de Pique (also co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1963 Germinal / La furia degli uomini (France / Italy
/ Hungary)
1965 Konga Yo / Terreur sur la Savane (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Congo;
shot in 1961)
1968 Johnny Banco / Johnny Banco—geliebter Taugenichts
/ USA: Johnny Banco (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy / West Germany;
shot in 1966)
1970 L’Invasion / L’invasione (France / Italy)
1976 Orzowei, il fi glio della savana (Italy / France; shot
in 1973)
Mords pas, on t’aime
Television Filmography
1967 Max le Débonnaire (episode “De quoi j’me
mêle”)
1973 Graine d’Ortie (13 26')
1979 Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret (episodes
“Maigret et le Fou de Bergerac,” “Maigret et
l’Indicateur”)
1981 Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret (episodes
“Le Pendu de Saint-Phollien,” “Une Confi -
dence de Maigret”)
ALLEN, CHRISTINE
Filmography
1987 Arrêt sur Image
2004 C comme l’Oiseau
ALLIO, RENÉ (March 8, 1924, Marseille, France–
March 27, 1995, Paris, France)
Of peasant and labor origin, he was fi rst a renowned
painter and regularly exhibited his works from 1957
to 1962. He became a highly praised stage designer
and went to Lyon in 1958, joining Roger Planchon and
his Compagnie du Théâtre de la Cité. He shot some
stuff for the troupe before making his real fi lm debut
in 1963. He was the technical adviser of René Féret
for Histoire de Paul (1975).
Filmography
1963 La Meule (short; also screenwriter)
1965 La Vieille Dame indigne / UK and USA: The
Shameless Old Lady (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1967 L’une et l’Autre / USA: The Other One (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1969 Ballade pour un Chien (co-director with Gérard
Vergez; shot in 1967)
Pierre et Paul (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1972 Les Camisards (also co-screenwriter, dialogist;
shot in 1970)
1973 Rude Journée pour la Reine (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1976 Moi Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma Mère, ma
Sœur et mon Père (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1980 Retour à Marseille (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
France / West Germany)
1981 L’Heure exquise (documentary)
1984 Le Matelot 512 / Australia: Able Seaman 512
(also screenwriter, dialogist)
1991 Contre l’Oubli / Ecrire contre l’Oubli / Against Oblivion
/ Lest We Forget (documentary; segment “Pour
Vythialingam Skandarajah, Royaume-Uni”)
Transit (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; shot
in 1990–1991)
ALLOUACHE, MERZAK (October 6, 1944, Algiers,
Algeria–)
In 1964, he began his Cinema Studies at INC of
Algiers and completed them in IDHEC, the famous
Parisian fi lm school. Having graduated in 1967, he was
one of the most rewarded Algerian directors before
he started shooting in France in the mid-1990s. He
also authored a novel published in 1995 (Bab El-Oued,
Editions du Seuil).
Filmography
1966 Pensée intime (short)
El Bouhali / Le Voleur (short; Algeria)
1972 Nous et la Révolution agraire (short; Algeria)
1975 Tipasa l’Ancienne (short; Algeria)
1976 Omar Gatlato (also screenwriter, dialogist;
Algeria)
1979 Mughamarat batal / Les Aventures d’un Héros
(also screenwriter, dialogist; Algeria)
1982 L’Homme qui regardait les Fenêtres (also screenwriter,
dialogist; Algeria)