Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

212 • CHÉRASSE, JEAN A.
on TV, and in fi lms (about twenty movies from 1993
Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil / USA: 1, 2,3, Sun, Bertrand Blier,
to 2007 Le Fils de l’Epicier / USA: The Grocer’s Son, Eric
Guirado).
Filmography
1992 Poison rouge (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1994 Batata (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
Jour de Chance (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1996 L’Attache (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1997 Rue bleue (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
composer)
2001 17, Rue bleue (also screenwriter, dialogist,
composer)
2004 Si j’ose dire (short; also screenwriter, dialogist,
composer)
CHÉRASSE, JEAN A. (Jean-André Chérasse / November
26, 1932, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, France–)
A former student of the St-Cloud Ecole Normale
supérieure, he received his degree in history. After
graduating from the IDHEC (directing and editing
section), he completed his apprenticeship as assistant
director (1954 Le Chant des Fleuves / Das Lied
der Strome, documentary, France / West Germany; Le
Rouge et le Noir / UK and USA: Le Rouge et le Noir /
L’uomo e il Diavolo / UK: Scarlet and Black / The Red
and the Black / USA: Rouge et Noir, Claude Autant-
Lara, France / Italy). In 1958, he entered French TV
and directed several collections of documentaries,
including the historical series Présence du Passé (codirected
by Jean Mauduit and Bernard Revon). From
1965 to 1967, he was in charge of production in TV.
He directed both fi ction movies and documentaries
and authored historical books (1975 Dreyfus ou
l’Intolérable Vérité, co-author with Patrice Boussel,
Editions Pygmalion; 1976 Sade, j’écris ton Nom Liberté,
co-author with Geneviève Guicheney, Editions Pygmalion;
2006 Femmes dans la Guerre 1939–1945, coauthor
with Guylaine Guidez, Charles Lavauzelle).
Other credits (as co-screenwriter): 1961 Le Pendule
à Salomon (also co-dialogist, Vicky Ivernel); 1967 Loin
du Vietnam (segment “Les Tigres de Papier,” Ruy
Guerra); (as co-dialogist): 1960 La Vérité / La verità
/ UK and USA: The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France / Italy).
Filmography
1958 Un Charlatan crépusculaire (short; also screenwriter)
1962 La Vendetta / Bandito si . . . ma d’onore (also coscreenwriter;
France / Italy)
Un Clair de Lune à Maubeuge (also coadapter)
1975 Dreyfus ou l’intolérable Vérité (documentary;
also screenwriter; shot in 1973)
1980 La Prise du pouvoir par Philippe Pétain (documentary;
also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1967 Valmy et la Naissance de la République (codirector
with Abel Gance; three parts: “La
Chute de la Royauté,” “Chronique de l’Eté
1792,” “Bataille et Naissance de la République”)
1984 Paris, j’écris ton nom Liberté (documentary; also
screenwriter)
1985 Les Captifs de l’An Quarante (documentary;
also screenwriter)
1986 Le Miroir des Passions françaises (documentary;
co-director with Theodore Zeldin; also
screenwriter)
1988 Le Miroir colonial (three-part documentary)
1992 La Marseillaise n’est pas encore enrouée (documentary)
1994 Les Dossiers de l’Histoire (documentary; segment
“France, Année Zéro”)
1995 Les Dossiers de l’Histoire (documentary; segment
“Le Grand Retour”; two parts)
1996 Les Dossiers de l’Histoire (documentary; segment
“Marthe Richard et la Tolérance”)
2004 Henri Frenay, l’Inventeur de la Résistance (documentary)
CHÉREAU, PATRICE (November 2, 1944, Lezigne,
Maine-et-Loire, France–)
The son of painters, he is mostly a stage director
(from 1963) and opera director (from 1969) and
notably ran the Sartrouville Theatre (1966–1969) and
the Nanterre Théâtre des Amandiers (1982–1990).
He played in a few movies (1983 Danton, Andrzej
Wajda, France / Poland / West Germany; 1985 Adieu
Bonaparte / Weda’an Bonapart, Youssef Chahine, France
/ Egypt; 1992 The Last of the Mohicans, Michael Mann,
USA; 1994 La Bête de Scène, short, Bernard Nissile;
1997 Lucie Aubrac, Claude Berri; 1999 Le Temps retrouvé