Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

240 • COLLIN, FABIEN
Flammarion) and a diary (1993 L’Ange sauvage, Flammarion).
He died of AIDS in 1993.
Filmography
1982 Grand Huit (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1986 Alger la Blanche (short; also co-screenwriter,
producer)
1987 Les Raboteurs (documentary; short)
1992 Les Nuits fauves / Notti selvagge / UK and USA:
Savagge Nights (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
actor, composer; France / Italy)
Television Filmography
1990 Le Lyonnais (episode Taggers; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, editor)
COLLIN, FABIEN (Fabien Joseph Collin / November
19, 1917, Oran, Algeria–)
He was mostly an assistant director (1950 Trois Télégrammes
/ USA: Paris Incident, Henri Decoin; 1951 Clara
de Montargis, Henri Decoin; 1952 La Vérité sur Bébé
Donge / UK: The Truth of Our Marriage, Henri Decoin;
Le Désir et l’Amour / El deseo y el amor, also actor, Henri
Decoin, Luis Marìa Delgado, France / Spain; 1954 Secrets
d’Alcove / Il letto / USA: The Bed, segment “Le Billet de
Logement,” Henri Decoin, France / Italy; Bonnes à tuer
/ Quattro donne nella notte / USA: One Step to Eternity,
Henri Decoin, France / Italy; 1955 Des Gens sans Importance,
Henri Verneuil; Razzia sur la Chnouff / Razzia / UK:
Chnouf / USA: Razzia, Henri Decoin, France / Italy; 1957
Je reviendrai à Kandara, Victor Vicas; Mademoiselle et son
Gang, Jean Boyer; 1959 La Femme et le Pantin / Femmina
/ UK: A Woman Like Satan / USA: The Female, Julien Duvivier,
France / Italy; 1960 Les Petits Chats, Jacques Villa;
1965 La Grosse Caisse, Alex Joffé; 1966 La Longue Marche
/ USA: Long March, Alexandre Astruc; 1967 Le Vicomte
règle ses Comptes / The Viscount: Furto alla banca mondiale
/ Atraco al hampa / UK and USA: The Viscount, Maurice
Cloche, France / Italy / Spain).
Filmography
1961 La Récréation / US video: Love Play (co-director
with François Moreuil)
1962 Un Chien dans un Jeu de Quilles / Uno sconosciuto
nel mio letto (also co-screenwriter;
France / Italy)
1965 Le Commissaire mène l’Enquête (co-director
with Jacques Delille; shot in 1963)
1966 Et la Femme créa l’Amour (shot in 1964)
COLLIN, PHILIPPE (November 19, 1931, Paris,
France–)
After graduating from the IDHEC in 1953, he started
out as a trainee assistant director to Léonide Moguy
(1953 Les Enfants de l’Amour / USA: Children of Love)
before serving as assistant to such fi lmmakers as Eric
Rohmer (1962 Le Signe du Lion / UK and USA: The
Sign of Leo, shot in 1959) and Louis Malle (1960 Zazie
dans le Métro / Zazie nel metró, France / Italy; 1962
Vie privée / Vita privata / UK and USA: A Very Private
Affair, France / Italy; 1963 Le Feu follet / UK: A Time to
Love and a Time to Die / Will o’ the Wisp / USA: The Fire
Within, France / Italy). He directed about 200 reports
for TV programs (Les Ecrans de la ville, Ciné 3, L’Invité
du Dimanche, L’Homme en Question, Ciné-Regards, Désir
des Arts, Les Arts). From 1974 to 2001, he was fi lm
critic for weekly magazine Elle and a radio program
(from 1985 to 2001). Other credits (as actor): 1980
Le Borgne (Raúl Ruiz); La Banquière (Francis Girod);
1987 Jeux d’Artifi ces (Virginie Thévenet); 1989 Pentimento
(Tonie Marshall).
Filmography
1977 Ciné-Follies (compilation fi lm; also screenwriter)
1980 Le Fils puni (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
shot in 1978)
1996 Les Derniers Jours d’Emmanuel Kant (also coscreenwriter;
shot in 1993)
2005 Aux Abois
Television Filmography
1967 Marcel Duchamp (documentary)
1968– Naissance de l’Esprit Dada 1913 (documen-
1969 tary)
Dada à Zurich (documentary)
Dada à Berlin 1917 (documentary)
Dada à Paris 1919 (documentary)
Mort de Dada 1921 (documentary)
1970 Dim Dam Dom (documentary; short; episode
“Portrait de Delphine Seyrig”)
Dim Dam Dom (documentary; short; episode
“Colette revue et relue”)
Jacques Higelin, Portrait francophone (documentary;
short)
1972 Giorgio de Chirico (documentary)
L’Hymne national (documentary; short)
1975 Le Style 1925 (documentary)
1980 Passages (documentary)
Paris perdu (documentary)