Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

210 • CHAVANCE, RENÉ
screenwriter): 1995 Dans la Cour des Grands / O
recreio dos grandes (Florence Strauss, France / Portugal);
1998 Bingo! (Maurice Illouz); 2002 La Beuze
(François Desagnat, Thomas Sorriaux).
Filmography
1992 Gros (short; co-director with Emmanuel Silvestre)
1996 Mr. Schmitt (short)
1997 Il faut faire chier Albert (short)
1999 Les Parasites (also co-screenwriter)
2005 L’Amour aux Trousses (also co-screenwriter)
CHAVANCE, RENÉ (Alexandre René Chavance
/ August 27, 1879, Vitry-Le-François, Marne, France–
July 30, 1961, Paris, France)
Mostly a screenwriter (1909 Le Truc de Baptiste, short;
1910 Rigadin Nourrice sèche, short, Georges Monca;
Les Timidités de Rigadin, short, Georges Monca; 1911
La Ruse de Miss Plumcake, short, Georges Monca;
1912 Les Trois Amis, short, Georges Monca; Les Perruques
de Monsieur Rigadin, short, Georges Monca;
1916 L’Inspecteur des Becs-de-Gaz, short), he directed
only one movie. His son was writer and screenwriter
Louis Chavance (1907–1979).
Filmography
1909 Vengeance corse (short)
CHAVANNES, FRANÇOIS DE (1940, France–)
Filmography
1972 Le Pays des Banarels (short)
1977 La Comédie du Train des Pignes (shot in 1975)
CHAZEL, MARIE-ANNE (September 19, 1951,
Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France–)
The daughter of a clergyman and actress Louba
Guertchikoff (1919–1999), during her secondary
studies at the Pasteur high school in Neuilly, she met
future actors Thierry Lhermitte, Michel Blanc, Gérard
Jugnot, and Christian Clavier. After studying political
science for two years, she co-founded with her four
friends a theatrical company, the Splendid, in 1974.
From 1974 (La Face nord, short, Charles Nemes) to
2008 (Miss Oliver a fi lé à l’anglaise, Claude Zidi), she
played in about forty movies, including some Splendid
box offi ce hits (1978 Les Bronzés / USA: French Fried Vacation,
also co-author of original play, co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, Patrice Leconte; 1979 Les Bronzés font du
Ski, also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Patrice Leconte;
1982 Le Père Noël est une Ordure, also co-author of
original play, co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
Jean-Marie Poiré; 2006 Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la Vie,
also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Patrice Leconte).
Other credits (as co-screenwriter, co-dialogue writer):
1975 Le Bol d’Air (short, also actor, Charles Nemes);
1994 La Vengeance d’une Blonde (also actor, Jeannot
Szwarc); 1997 Les Sœurs Soleil (also actor, Jeannot
Szwarc). She was the companion of actor Christian
Clavier (b. 1952) for more than thirty years.
Filmography
2001 Le Cœur sur la Main (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer)
2004 Au Secours, j’ai Trente Ans! (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, voice)
CHEMINAL, DOMINIQUE (June 7, 1940, Joigny,
Yonne, France–)
He started to study architecture in Strasbourg before
enrolling at the Paris-based Vaugirard fi lm school. From
1964 to 1969, he shot several shorts and mediumlengths
in Africa and Madagascar for Les Actualités
Françaises and the Consortium Audiovisuel International.
Having returned to France, he was second
assistant director (1974 L’Ironie du Sort, Edouard Molinaro)
and then fi rst assistant director (1976 Noirs et
Blancs en Couleur / La Victoire en chantant / Sehnsucht
nach Afrika / USA: Black and White in Color, Jean-Jacques
Annaud, France / West Germany / Switzerland / Ivory
Coast; 1979 Coup de Tête / UK and USA: Hothead,
Jean-Jacques Annaud; Nous maigrirons ensemble, Michel
Vocoret; 1981 La Guerre du Feu / Quest for Fire, Jean-
Jacques Annaud, France / Canada). By 1980, he began
directing commercials (more than 200). He fi lmed two
Jean-Jacques Annaud making-of movies (2004 Deux
Frères, la grande Aventure; 2007 Minor, un drôle de Film).
Filmography
1968 Le Voyage africain (documentary)
1971 Paris-Le Havre (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1972 La Seine à boire (documentary)
1974 Pierre (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1975 L’Ennemi invisible (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1984 La Femme Ivoire (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
associate producer; shot in 1982)
1993 Une Journée chez ma Mère