Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Homme de trop / Il 13° uomo / UK and USA: Shock
Troops, Costa-Gavras, France / Italy) and then served
as fi rst assistant director (1969 Target: Harry / How
to Make It / What’s in It for Harry?, also production
manager, Roger Corman, USA; Le Temps de vivre,
Bernard Paul, France / Italy; 1970 Un Eté sauvage
/ L’età selvaggia, Marcel Camus, France / Italy, shot
in 1968; Elise ou la vraie Vie, Michel Drach, France /
Algeria; L’Aveu / La confessione / UK and USA: The
Confession, Costa-Gavras, France / Italy; Le Mur de
l’Atlantique / Un elmetto pieno di . . . fi fa, Marcel Camus,
France / Italy; 1971 Un Aller simple / Solo andata / La
puerta cerrada, José Giovanni, France / Italy / Spain; Ca
n’arrive qu’aux Autres / Tempo d’amore / USA: It Only
Happens to Others, Nadine Trintignant, France / Italy;
1973 Défense de savoir / L’uomo in basso a destra nella
fotografi a, Nadine Trintignant, France / Italy; 1974 Les
Deux Mémoires, documentary, Jorge Semprun). He
directed several commercials and appeared as himself
in documentaries (1990 Gilles Grangier, 50 Ans de Cinéma,
TV, Maurice Delbez; 1992 Patrick Dewaere, Marc
Esposito; 2006 A l’Ombre du Polar, TV, Fabien Granet;
Alain Corneau, du noir au bleu, Grégory Marouzé; 2008
Mémoires du Cinéma français, de la Libération à nos
Jours, video, Hubert Niogret). He is the companion of
director Nadine Trintignant.
Filmography
1969 Le Jazz est-il dans Harlem? (documentary;
short; co-director with Daniel Berger; also
co-screenwriter)
1974 France, Société anonyme (also screenwriter,
adapter, co-dialogist)
1976 Police Python 357 / UK and USA: The Case
Against Fierro (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
1977 La Menace / The Treat (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist; France / Canada)
1979 Série noire (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1981 Le Choix des Armes / USA: Choice of Arms (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1984 Fort Saganne (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1986 Le Môme (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1989 Nocturne indien (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1991 Ecrire contre l’Oubli / Contre l’Oubli / Against Oblivion
/ Lest We Forget (documentary; segment
“Ali Muhammad al-Qajiiji, Lybie”)
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Tous les Matins du Monde / UK: All the Mornings
of the World (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1995 Le Nouveau Monde / US video: New World (also
original idea, co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
Les Enfants de Lumière (short; co-director only;
also screenwriter)
Lumière et Compagnie / Lumiere y compania
/ Lumière and Company (co-director only;
France / Spain / Denmark / Sweden)
1997 Le Cousin (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2000 Le Prince du Pacifi que / El principe del Pacifi co /
USA: The Prince of the Pacifi c (also co-adapter,
co-dialogist; France / Spain)
2003 Stupeur et Tremblements / UK and USA: Fear
and Trembling (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist;
France / Japan)
2005 Les Mots bleus (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
2007 Le Deuxième Souffl e (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
Television Filmography
1988 Médecins des Hommes (episode “Afghanistan,
le Pays interdit”; also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
CORNU, JACQUES-GÉRARD (May 5, 1925,
Paris, France–)
A former assistant director to Jean Delannoy, Alexandre
Esway, Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, and Emile-Edwin
Reinert, he made his debut as a director at the RTF
(French TV at the time) in 1951. In 1954, after a training
course for US TV, he became artistic director of
various French TV channels: Télé Lille (1954), Paris-
Télévision (1955), and Télé-Luxembourg (1957). He
directed his only feature fi lm in 1960.
Filmography
1960 L’Homme à Femmes (also co-screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1962 Quand on est deux (26 13')
1964 La Confi dence fausse
1967 Quand la Liberté venait du Ciel (13 26')
Saturnin Belloir (13 26')
CORNUAU, JÉRÔME (March 30, 1961, Paris,
France–)