Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1982 Regards entendus: Hogarth et Lichtenberg (documentary;
short)
1983 Regards entendus: Les Quatre Moments du Jour
(documentary)
1987 Geneviève de Brabant (documentary; short)
1990 Richard Krautheimer (documentary)
Refl exions faites: Ernest Gombritch (documentary)
Refl exions faites: Carlo Ginzburg (documentary)
Refl exions faites: Jacques Derrida (documentary)
Refl exions faites: Claude Lévi-Strauss (documentary)
Refl exions faites: Pierre Bourdieu (documentary)
La Forme et le Lieu, Dani Karavan (documentary)
1997 Roger Stéphane, un Portrait Souvenir (documentary)
1998 Les Variations Gershwin (documentary)
2001 Marcel Duchamp en Vingt-Six Minutes (documentary;
short)
2006 Profession Crooner (documentary)
COLLINE, PAUL (Paul Duard / September 22,
1895, Paris, France–November 8, 1991, Paris, France)
A chansonnier and playwright, he also played in
shorts (1931 La Brigade du Bruit, also screenwriter,
Louis Mercanton; La Disparue, Louis Mercanton;
Si . . . , Arcy-Hennery; 1932 En lisant le Journal, Alberto
Cavalcanti; Montmartre qui tourne / Nous ne ferons
jamais de Cinéma / Revue montmartroise, Alberto Cavalcanti;
1933 Chansonniers de Montmartre, Anonymous;
Désiré Lanquetin deuxième Classe, Willy Rozier; Deux
Picon-Grenadine, Pierre-Jean Ducis; Fantômas Hôtel,
also screenwriter, Jean de Marguenat; On demande un
Employé, Pierre-Jean Ducis; 1934 Quatre à Troyes, also
screenwriter, Pierre-Jean Ducis), medium-length fi lms
(1935 Une Tête qui rapporte, also screenwriter, Jacques
Becker), and feature fi lms (1933 Les Trois Mousquetaires
/ USA: The Three Musketeers, two parts: “Les Ferrets
de la Reine,” “Milady,” Henri Diamant-Berger; 1954 Si
Versailles m’était conté / UK: Fabulous Versailles / USA:
Royal affairs in Versailles / Affairs in Versailles, Sacha Guitry;
1956 Si Paris nous était conté, Sacha Guitry). Other
credits (as dialogist): 1932 Rivaux de la Piste (Serge
de Poligny); 1950 Jeannot l’Intrépide / USA: Johnny the
Giant Killer / US TV: Johnny Little and the Giant (animation,
as co-dialogist, Jean Image, Charles Frank); (as
screenwriter): 1932 Adémaï et la Nation Armée (short,
Jean de Marguenat); Sens interdit (short, Jean de Mar-
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guenat); 1933 Adémaï Joseph à l’O.N.M. (short, Jean de
Marguenat); 1934 Adémaï Aviateur / UK: Skylark (also
dialogist, Jean Tarride); Les Géants de la Route / La Belle
Vie (also dialogist, Pierre-Jean Ducis); 1935 Adémaï au
Moyen-Âge (also dialogist, Jean de Marguenat); Sesenta
horas en el cielo (Raymond Chevalier, Spain); 1943 Adémaï
Bandit d’Honneur (also dialogist, Gilles Grangier);
1950 L’Atomique Monsieur Placido (also adapter, dialogist,
Robert Hennion); (as lyricist): 1933 L’Etoile de Valencia
(Serge de Poligny); 1963 Muriel ou Le Temps d’un
Retour / Muriel, il tempo di uno ritorno / UK: Muriel, or the
Time of Return / USA: The Time of Return (Alain Resnais,
France / Italy); (as author of original story): Adémaï
Bandit d’Honneur (Gilles Grangier); 1947 ¡A volar joven!
/ Puerta joven (Miguel M. Delgado, Spain). He signed
two children’s books adapted from his screenplays
and illustrated by Moallic and Aragon (1946 Adémaï
Aviateur, Les Grandes Editions Françaises; 1947 Adémaï
au Moyen-Âge, Les Grandes Editions Françaises).
Filmography
1948 Le Socle (short; co-director with Alain Pol; also
screenwriter)
Le Vieux Maire (short; co-director with Alain
Pol; also screenwriter)
1950 Adémaï au Poteau Frontière (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
COLLOT, NADIA (June 15, 1957, Montréal, Québec,
Canada–)
She had scientifi c training before earning a diploma in
audiovisual. Then she traveled around the world for
a year and became a puppeteer in a Parisian group
and an Afro-Cuban music percussionist before studying
fi lm editing. From 1989 to 2003, she edited many
documentaries for French TV.
Filmography
2001 Marie et ses Bébés (documentary; short)
2003 Le Temps d’une Génération (short)
2006 Tabac, la Conspiration (documentary; France /
Canada / Switzerland)
Television Filmography
1995 Hong Kong, le Singe sacré (documentary; short;
also cinematographer)
2005 Tabac, retenez votre Souffl e (documentary;
medium-length)
COLOMBANI, FLORENCE (July 9, 1979, Clamart,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–)