Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

244 • COLUCHE
Ruspoli; Le Mystère Picasso / UK and USA: The Mystery
of Picasso, documentary, short, Henri-Georges
Clouzot; 1957 La Déroute, short, Adonis Kyrou; 1958
La Première Nuit, short, Georges Franju; La Mer et les
Jours, documentary, short, Alain Kaminker, Raymond
Vogel; Du Côté de la Côte, documentary, short; 1959
Hiroshima mon Amour / 24—Jikan no joji / UK and
USA: Hiroshima, My Love, Alain Resnais, France / Japan;
1961 L’Année dernière à Marienbad / L’anno scorso
a Marienbad / Letztes Jahr in Marienbad / UK: Last
Year in Marienbad / USA: Last Year at Marienbad, Alain
Resnais, France / Italy / West Germany / Austria; 1965
La Femme Fleur, animated short, Jan Lenica; Fraternelle
Amazonie, documentary, Paul Lambert; 1976 Der Fangschuss
/ Le Coup de Grâce / US DVD: Coup de Grace, as
additional editor, Volker Schloendorff, West Germany
/ France; Chantons sous l’Occupation, documentary, André
Halimi; 1977 Bilitis, David Hamilton, France / Italy;
1977–1991 The Cousteau Odyssey, TV series, Jacques-
Yves Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau, USA; 1981 Les
Fruits de la Passion / Shanghai Ijin Shôkan—China Doll
/ USA: Fruits of Passion, Shuji Terayama, France / Japan;
1982 Le Grand Frère, Francis Girod; 1983 La Fuite en
Avant, Christian Zerbib, France / Belgium, shot in
1980; 1985 David, Thomas et les Autres / Sortüz egy
fekete bivalyért, as consulting editor, László Szabó,
France / Hungary; 1986 Le Sphinx, documentary, short,
Thierry Knauff, Belgium; Le Sacrifi ce / Offret / The
Sacrifi ce, as consulting editor, Andreï Tarkovski, France
/ Sweden / UK; 1989 Australia, Jean-Jacques Andrien,
France / Switzerland / Belgium). He also was an art
director (1962 Regards sur la Folie, documentary,
medium-length, Mario Ruspoli), art collaborator
(1987 Les Noces barbares, Marion Hänsel, Belgium /
France), and artistic adviser (1992 Sur la Terre comme
au Ciel / Entre el cielo y la tierra / In Heaven and on
Earth / USA: Between Heaven and Earth, Marion
Hänsel, Belgium / France / Spain / Netherlands; 1995
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Li, Marion
Hänsel, Belgium / France / UK). He played small parts
in two Francis Girod pictures (1988 L’Enfance de l’Art;
1990 Lacenaire / US video: The Elegant Criminal) and
appeared as himself in documentaries (1974 Histoire
du Cinéma français par ceux qui l’ont fait, TV, Armand
Panigel; 2004 Le Fantôme d’Henri Langlois / UK: Henri
Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque / USA: Henri
Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque, documentary,
Jacques Richard). His fi rst feature fi lm (Une
aussi longue Absence / L’inverno ti farà tornare / USA:
The Long Absence) received the Louis Delluc Prize
in 1961. He authored four books: 1947 Le Cinéma et
ses Hommes (Editions Causse, Graille & Castelnau,
Montpellier, France); 1963 Défense et Illustration de la
Musique de Film (Société d’Edition, de Recherches et
de Documentation Cinématographiques); 1987 Les
Jardins de Loulou (Editions Séguier); 1996 Lettres à un
jeune Monteur (co-author with Nathalie Hureau, Les
Belles Lettres).
Filmography
1951 Des Rails et des Palmiers (short; co-director)
1953 Architecture de Lumière (short; co-director)
1956 Matériaux
(short)
nouveaux, Demeures nouvelles
1961 Une aussi longue Absence / L’inverno ti farà
tornare / USA: The Long Absence (also lyricist;
France / Italy)
1963 Codine / Codine (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, lyricist; France / Romania)
1967 Mona, l’Etoile sans Nom / Steaua fara nume /
UK and USA: Nameless Star (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Romania;
shot in 1965–1966)
1969 Heureux qui comme Ulysse (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1973 L’Île mystérieuse / La isla misteriosa / L’isola
misteriosa e il Capitano Nemo / USA: The Mysterious
Island (6 52'; Juan Antonio Bardem
directed the theatrical version; France / Spain
/ Italy)
Television Filmography
1967 Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur Opus 55 (Eroica) von
Ludwig Van Beethoven (West Germany)
1969 Thibaud / Thibaud des Croisades / UK: Desert
Crusader (13 26'; second season; also coadapter)
Fortune (13 26'; France / Switzerland)
1970 Noëlle aux quatre Vents (85 13')
1972 Les Evasions célèbres (13 55'; co-director
only; France / Italy / Hungary / Austria)
1975 Le Pélerinage (24 13')
1977 Bergeval Père et Fils (5 55')
1982 Le Château de l’Amaryllis
COLUCHE (Michel Colucci / October 28, 1944,
Paris, France–June 19, 1986, Opio, Alpes-Maritimes,
France)
The son of an Italian house painter who died when
Coluche was three years old, he began working at age