Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

238 • COHN, BERNARD
1914 L’Enlèvement de Déjanire Goldebois (animated
short)
L’Avenir dévoilé par les Lignes des Pieds / Future
Revealed by the Lines of the Feet (animated
short; also screenwriter; France / USA)
His Ancestors / Ses Ancêtres (animated short;
also screenwriter, animator; USA / France)
Serbia’s Card (animated short; also screenwriter,
animator; USA)
The Anti-Neurasthenic Trumpet (short; also
screenwriter, animator; USA)
The Bath (short; also screenwriter, animator;
USA)
The Greedy Neighbor (short; also screenwriter,
animator; USA)
The Social Group (short; also screenwriter,
animator; USA)
The Terrible Scrap of Paper (short; also screenwriter,
animator; USA)
What They Eat (short; also screenwriter, animator;
USA)
1915 La Blanchisserie américaine (short)
Les Braves petits Soldats de Plomb (animated
short)
Eclair Journal (four shorts)
Fantaisies truquées (short)
Fruits et Légumes animés (animated short)
Le Terrible Bout de Papier (short)
La Trompette Anti-Neurasthénique (animated
short)
Un Drame sur la Planche à Chaussures (short)
Un Voisin trop gourmand (animated short)
1916 Les Aventures de Clémentine (animated short;
co-director with Benjamin Rabier)
La Campagne de France 1814 (short)
Comment nous entendons / L’Oreille (short)
Croquemitaine et Rosalie (short)
Eclair Journal (thirty-two shorts)
Les Evasions de Bob Walter (short)
Les Exploits de Farfadet (short)
Les Fiançailles de Flambeau (animated short;
co-director with Benjamin Rabier)
Figures de Cire et Têtes de Bois (short)
Flambeau au Pays des Surprises / Flambeau aux
Lignes (animated short; co-director with Benjamin
Rabier)
Jeux de Cartes (short)
La Journée de Flambeau / Flambeau Chien
perdu (animation; co-director with Benjamin
Rabier)
La Main mystérieuse (short)
Mariage par Suggestion (short)
La Maison de Fantoche (short)
Pages d’Histoire Number 1 and 2 (short)
Pulcheries et ses Meubles (short)
Les Tableaux futuristes et incohérents (short)
Les Victuailles de Gretchen se révoltent (short)
1917 L’Avenir dévoilé par les Lignes des Pieds / USA:
Future Revealed by the Lines of the Feet (short;
also screenwriter, animator)
Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés (animated
shorts; episodes 1, 2, 3)
1918 Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés (animated
shorts; episodes 4, 5)
1921 Fantoche cherche un Logement (short)
COHN, BERNARD (November 11, 1940, Paris,
France–)
After completing his studies in modern letters, he
dedicated his life to cinema. He translated from English
detective novels and cinema books, collaborated
on the compiling of the Dictionnaire du Cinéma Bordas
(1962), co-wrote a book on the western fi lm genre
(1966), published articles in Les Lettres Françaises and
Les Nouvelles Littéraires, and authored a dictionary of
cinematic technical terms (Editions Edena, 1982) and
a dictionary of criticism (Editions Ramsay, 1997). He
entered fi lms as a trainee assistant director for fi lms
(1969 La Voie lactée / La via lattea / La via lactea / Die
Milchstrasse / USA: The Milky Way, Luis Buñuel, France
/ Italy / Spain / West Germany) before working as
second assistant director (1971 L’Araignée d’Eau,
Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe, shot in 1968; Blanche, Walerian
Borowczyk; 1972 Une Belle Fille comme moi / UK: A
Gorgeous Bird Like Me / USA: Such a Gorgeous Kid Like
Me, François Truffaut; 1974 Lancelot du Lac / Lancillotto
e Ginevra / UK: The Grail / USA: Lancelot of the
Lake, Robert Bresson; 1975 Love and Death, Woody
Allen, USA; 1981 Exil, 7 60' TV miniseries, Egon
Gunther, West Germany) and fi rst assistant director
for fi lms (1972 Le Grand Départ, Martial Raysse; 1974
Les Couples du Bois de Boulogne / Canada: Men and
Women of the Bois de Boulogne / US DVD: The Couples
of Bois de Boulogne, Christian Gion; 1975 Rosebud,
Otto Preminger, USA; 1976 Un Enfant dans la Foule,
Gérard Blain; 1977 Sorcerer / Wages of Fear, William
Friedkin, USA; 1978 Who Is Killing the Great Chiefs of
Europe? / Someone Is Killing the Great Chiefs of Europe /
La Grande Cuisine / Qualcuno sta uccidendo i più grandi