Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

cuochi d’Europa / Ein Kochtopf voller Leichen / Die Schlemmeorgie
/ UK: Too Many Chiefs, Ted Kotcheff, USA
/ France / Italy / West Germany; 1979 Concorde / The
Concorde: Airport ’79 / Airport ’79: The Concorde, David
Lowell Rich, USA; 1981 Murder Obsession (Follia omicidia)
/ L’ossessione che uccide / UK: The Wailing / Fear /
Delirium / USA: Murder Syndrome, Robert Hampton =
Riccardo Freda, Italy / France; Dr. Jekyll et les Femmes,
Walerian Borowczyk; 1985 Ran, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
/ France; 1986 Max mon Amour / Makkusu, mon
amûru / Max My Love, Nagisa Oshima, France / Japan
/ USA; 1995 Jusqu’au Bout de la Nuit, Gérard Blain)
and TV (1984 Deux Filles sur un Banc, Alain Ferrari; Les
Cerfs-volants, Pierre Badel, France / Canada; 1992 La
Fortune de Gaspard, Gérard Blain). He appeared as an
actor in a couple of Jean Yanne’s comedies (1972 Tout
le Monde il est beau tout le Monde il est gentil / Questo
nostro simpatico mondo di pazzi, France / Italy; 1973
Moi y’en a vouloir des Sous / Dacci oggi i nostri soldi quotidiani,
France / Italy) and co-wrote two documentaries
(1996 Milice, Film noir, Alain Ferrari; 2001 Autopsie
d’un Mensonge—Le Négationnisme, Jacques Tarnero).
Besides his fi ction fi lms, he shot commercials and
reports for the FR3 TV channel on sports, literature,
music, and painting. He taught on an assistantship the
history of cinema at the E.S.E.C., E.S.R.A., E.S.C.A.R.,
IDHEC, and Fémis.
Filmography
1969 La Boîte (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1989 Natalia (also screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist;
shot in 1987)
Television Filmography
2001 Autopsie d’un Mensonge: Le Négationnisme
(documentary)
2003 Positif, une Revue (documentary; also screenwriter)
Edith Scob, une Comédienne si étrange (documentary;
also screenwriter)
COLAS, DANIEL (1947, Paris, France–)
An actor on the stage, in cinema (1976 Le plein de Super,
Alain Cavalier; Mords pas, on t’aime, Yves Allégret;
1978 Dehors c’est nulle Part, short, Patrick Chapuis;
1983 La Femme de mon Pote / USA: My Best Friend’s
Girl, Bertrand Blier; 1984 Rive droite, Rive gauche,
Philippe Labro), and on TV (1968 Au Théâtre ce Soir,
episode “J’ai 17 Ans,” Pierre Sabbagh; 1970 Au Théâtre
ce Soir, episode “Un Ange passe,” Pierre Sabbagh; 1972
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De Sang froid, Abder Isker; Au Théâtre ce Soir, episode
“De Doux Dingues,” Georges Folgoas; 1973 Fantasio,
Roger Kahane; 1975 Au Théâtre ce Soir, episode “Il
était une Gare,” Pierre Sabbagh; 1978 Les Grandes
Conjurations: Le Connétable de Bourbon, Jean-Pierre
Decourt; 1981 Au Théâtre ce Soir, episode “Monsieur
Dehors,” Pierre Sabbagh, also stage director; 1982
L’Adieu aux As, TV miniseries, Jean-Pierre Decourt,
France / West Germany / Switzerland / Belgium / Morocco;
Commissaire Moulin, episode “Un Hanneton sur
le Dos,” Claude Boissol; 1985 Au Théâtre ce Soir, episode
“Chacun pour moi,” Pierre Sabbagh, also author
of original play, stage director; 1987 Marie-Pervenche,
episode “Une Tigresse dans le Moteur”), he co-wrote
a TV movie (L’Arbre de la Discorde, François Rossini,
1992) and several plays.
Filmography
1980 Ras le Cœur (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
co-producer, actor)
1988 Man-Eaters / Mangeuses d’Hommes (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, actor; USA /
France)
2005 Nuit noire (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist;
shot in 2002)
Television Filmography
1992 Quand épousez-vous ma Femme? (also stage
director)
1995 Une Femme sur les Bras, un Cadavre sur le Dos
COLLARD, CYRIL (December 19, 1957, Paris,
France–March 5, 1993, Versailles, Yvelines, France)
The son of an engineer father, he gave up his mathematics
and physics superior studies and went to
Puerto Rico. Having returned to France, in 1979 he
met press attaché Claude Davy, who introduced him
to director Maurice Pialat. Parallel to his directing
career, he was an assistant director (1980 Loulou,
Maurice Pialat; 1981 L’Heure exquise, also actor, René
Allio; 1983 A nos Amours / UK and USA: To Our Loves,
also actor, Maurice Pialat), actor (1980 Les Pas perdus,
short, Marie André; 1986 Mariage blanc, TV, Mathieu
Kassovitz; Le Petit Docteur, episode “La Piste de
l’Homme roux,” Marc Simenon; 1987 Côté Nuit, short,
Jean-Baptiste Huber), and co-screenwriter (1995 Raï,
Thomas Gilou). He also co-founded a rock band, Cyr,
and authored novels (1987 Condamné Amour, Flammarion,
reedited in 1993 by J’ai Lu; 1989 Les Nuits fauves,
Flammarion, reedited in 1991 by J’ai Lu; 1994 L’Animal,