Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Filmography
1920 Les Etrennes à travers les Âges (short)
1921 Noël d’Alsace (short)
Le Pendentif (short)
1922 Le Noël du Père Lathuile (short)
1923 Monsieur Lebidois Propriétaire (also screenwriter;
shot in 1921)
Petit Hôtel à louer / USA: Little Hotel for Rent
Le Taxi 313 X 7
Par-dessus le Mur (also screenwriter)
Soirée mondaine
1925 Le Mariage de Rosine
Amour et Carburateur (also screenwriter)
1926 Paris en Cinq Jours (co-director with Nicolas
Rimsky)
Mots croisés (co-director with Michel Linsky)
Au Revoir . . . et merci (co-director with E. B.
Donatien)
1928 Les Transatlantiques
Petite Fille (short)
1929 Dolly (also screenwriter)
1930 Chiqué
Le Roi des Resquilleurs / USA: The King of the
Gate Crashers (also co-screenwriter)
1931 Je t’adore, mais pourquoi? (also co-screenwriter)
Le Roi du Cirage (also co-screenwriter)
1932 Sa Meilleure Cliente
1933 Théodore et Cie
Charlemagne
1934 Ces Messieurs de la Santé
Une Femme chipée
1935 L’Ecole des Cocottes
La Marraine de Charley
1936 Une Gueule en Or
Le Roi / USA: The King
1937 Ignace
Les Rois du Sport
Le Club des Aristocrates
Balthazar
1938 Tricoche et Cacolet
Le Dompteur
1939 Quartier latin (co-director with Alexandre Esway,
Christian Chamborant)
COLOMER, HENRY (1950, Perpignan, Pyrénées-
Orientales, France–)
He studied philosophy and then cinema at the ID-
HEC and the Dramastiska Institutet, Stockholm,
Sweden. After graduating with a diploma in directing,
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he fi lmed shorts for the INA (from 1980 to 1985). He
co-wrote with their director screenplays of two Lâm
Lê movies (1981 Rencontre des Nuages et du Dragon,
short; 1983 Poussière d’Empire, France / Vietnam).
Other credit (as screenwriter): 2004 Corto Maltese:
La Maison dorée de Samarkand (animation, Richard
Danton, Liam Saury).
Filmography
1984 La Boutique infernale de Diderot (documentary)
1989 Salvador Espriu (documentary; short)
Primo Levi (documentary; short)
1992 Les Routes de la Lumière (documentary;
medium-length)
1993 Jean-Michel Déprats traduit Shakespeare (documentary;
short)
Le Japonisme (documentary; short)
1994 Claire Cayron traduit Michel Torga (documentary;
short)
1995 La Maison de l’Eveil (documentary; mediumlength)
1996 Anatomie de la Couleur (documentary; short)
1997 Monte Verità (documentary; medium-length)
2000 Optimum (documentary; medium-length)
Marseille au long Cours (documentary; short)
2002 L’Exilé (documentary; medium-length)
2006 Nocturnes (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2008 Iddu, l’Atelier de Jean-Michel Fauquet (documentary;
medium-length)
Television Filmography
2002 Tempo (10 13'; also screenwriter)
COLPI, HENRI (Enrico Colpi / July 15, 1921, Brig,
Valais, Switzerland–January 14, 2006, Menton, Alpes-
Maritimes, France)
Born to Italian parents, he settled in Sète, France, with
his family in 1932. Having graduated with a bachelor’s
degree in literature from the Faculty of Montpellier,
he enrolled in the IDHEC and obtained his diploma
in 1946. He was a fi lm critic for the review Cinéscript
before entering fi lms as a trainee assistant director
(1947 Les Jeux sont faits / UK and USA: The Chips Are
Down, Jean Delannoy). He briefl y worked as an assistant
director on shorts (1947–1948) and as a sound
recordist (1955 Nuit et Brouillard / UK and USA: Night
and Fog, documentary, short, Alain Resnais) before
becoming one of the best French fi lm editors (1956
Les Hommes de la Baleine, documentary, short, Mario