Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

256 • COTARD, DANIEL
1969 Z (as Constantin Costa-Gavras; also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Algeria)
1970 L’Aveu / La confessione / UK and USA: The Confession
(France / Italy)
1973 Etat de Siège / L’Amerikano / Der unsichtbare
Aufstand / UK and USA: State of Siege (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy /
West Germany)
1975 Section spéciale / L’affare della sezione speciale
/ Sondertribunal—Jeder kämpft für sich allein /
UK and USA: Special Section (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, actor; France / Italy / West
Germany)
1978 Grand Canyon (short; also screenwriter)
1979 Clair de Femme / Chiaro di donna / Die Liebe
einer Frau / USA: Womanlight (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; France / Italy / West
Germany)
1982 Missing (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter;
USA)
1983 Hanna K (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1986 Conseil de Famille / UK and USA: Family Business
(also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1988 Betrayed (USA)
1989 Music Box (USA)
1991 Contre l’Oubli / Ecrire contre l’Oubli / Against Oblivion
/ Lest We Forget (documentary; segment
“Pour Kim Song-Man, Corée”)
1993 La Petite Apocalypse / La piccolo apocalisse (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy /
Poland)
1995 A propos de Nice, la Suite (segment “Les
Kankobals”)
Lumière et Compagnie / Lumiere y compania
/ Lumière and Company (co-director only;
France / Spain / Denmark / Sweden)
1997 Mad City (USA)
2002 Amen / Der Stellvertreter / UK and USA: Eyewitness
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France
/ Germany / Romania)
2005 Le Couperet / Arcadia (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Belgium / Spain)
2009 Eden à l’Ouest / Eden Is West / Pardeisos sti Dysi
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France /
Greece / Italy)
COTARD, DANIEL (January 16, 1959, Paris,
France–)
The son of an usherette, he graduated with a master’s
degree in cinematographic studies from the
cinema department at the University of Paris VIII. In
1995, he played in two shorts (Pique-Nique Douille,
Yvan Gauthier; Le Chien noir, also producer, Gilles
Adrien) and created his own production company,
Spiral Films. He authored plays (1998 Le Couteau
dans l’Herbe, Le Pacte). Other credits (as producer):
1996 Rêves d’Eau (short, Spideh Farsi); (as delegate
producer): 1995 Le Voyeur (short, Patrice Girard);
1996 Jacques, Nantes et Barbara (short, Philippe Guiheneuf);
1997 Pique-Nique (short, Hervé Bastien);
Lettre sur le Bonheur (short, Emmanuelle Petit); Une
Belle Vie (short, Marie Tikova); 1998 Pascal et la vieille
Dame (short, Wilfried Hureau).
Filmography
1983 La DS rose (short)
1984 Mort sûre (short)
1986 Echec à l’Amour (short)
1989 Edition spéciale (short)
1990 Le Ring (short; also screenwriter, composer)
Un Petit Travail tranquille (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, composer, editor)
1992 Neuilly j’y étais, Plaisance je suis (short)
1995 Rien ne va plus (short; also screenwriter, delegate
producer, editor, composer)
1997 Décroche! (short; also screenwriter, delegate
producer, cinematographer, composer)
1999 Le Garçon aux Allumettes (short; also screenwriter,
delegate producer, cinematographer,
composer)
2000 La Marelle (short; also screenwriter, delegate
producer)
Le Pacte (also screenwriter, delegate producer;
unreleased)
COULIBOEUF, PIERRE (February 16, 1949, Elbeuf,
Yvelines, France–)
Having graduated with a doctoral degree in modern
letters (thesis on Pierre Klossowski and Leopold
Sacher Masoch), he is a plastician who directed mostly
experimental shorts. He authored or collaborated on
several art books: 1991 Pab l’Enchanteur (Editions du
Musée-Bibliothèque P. A. Benoît); 1993 C’est de l’Art
(La Différence, Collection Mobile Matière); 1994 Le
Bureau de l’Homme noir (print limited to 100 copies);
1997 Le Grand Récit (co-author with Denys Zacharopoulos,
Editions Centre d’Art Contemporain du Domaine
de Kerguéhennec, Bignan); 2003 Les Guerriers
de la Beauté (Yellow Now, Collection Côté Cinéma,
Belgium); 2004 Le Démon du Passage (co-edited by