Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1958 Gentleman Cambrioleur (short)
1959 Symphonie pour un Homme seul (short)
Les Amoureux de la Seine (short)
Ciné Ballet de Paris (documentary)
1961 Magic coiffeur (short)
CUQ, GÉRARD
Having graduated from the INSAS (Brussels fi lm
school), he directed many commercials, industrial
fi lms, and video clips. Other credits (as TV coscreenwriter):
1993 Van Loc: Un Grand Flic de Marseille
(episode “La Vengeance,” Claude Barrois); 1994 Commissaire
Moulin (episode “Mort d’un Offi cier de Police,”
Jean-Louis Daniel); 1997 Juge et Partie (Jacques
Malaterre); 2004 Les Cordier, Juge et Flic (episode “La
Rançon,” Eric Summer).
Filmography
1985 Le Dernier Héros (short)
2002 Les Percutés / US video: Triggered (also coscreenwriter;
France / Belgium)
Television Filmography
1998 Homicide conjugal
Vertiges (episode “Tapage nocturne”)
2000 Vertiges: Le Fil du Rasoir
2001 Meurtres sous Hypnose (also co-screenwriter)
2002 Mariage interdit (also co-screenwriter)
2003 Vertiges: La Femme de l’Ombre
2004 L’Homme de mon Choix
Ariane Ferry (TV series)
2005 Femmes de Loi (episodes “Amour fou,” “Meurtre
à la Carte”)
La Voie de Laura (2 65')
2006 Chassé-croisé amoureux (France / Switzerland)
2007 Femmes de Loi (episodes “Immunité,” “Sur le
Vif”)
2008 Femmes de Loi (episodes “Speed Dating,”
“Meurtre Ascendant Scorpion”)
CURTELIN, JEAN (December 25, 1932, France–
May 28, 2000, Paris, France)
The son of a postman, he was raised in Lyon. After
winning money selling waffl es in Saint-Malo, he
founded a fi lm review, Présence du Cinéma, in the late
1950s. He made his professional debut as an uncredited
screenwriter and dialogist. From 1965 (Mission
spéciale à Caracas / Missione Caracas / Mision especial
en Caracas / US video: Mission to Caracas, Raoul André,
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France / Italy / Spain) to 1998 (L’Enfant et les Loups,
TV movie, Pierre-Antoine Hiroz), he authored or coauthored
more than thirty screenplays and dialogue
for fi lms and TV. He was also a novelist (1982 La Marseillaise,
ou Le Journal d’un Culturé, Editions de la Table
Ronde) and playwright (1983 Les Mains d’Hippolyte).
Filmography
1986 Suivez mon Regard (also screenwriter, dialogist)
CUTTOLI, JEAN-CHARLES
An assistant director (1970 Ils, Jean-Daniel Simon;
1982 Le Cantique des Créatures: Pablo Picasso pintor /
USA: Pablo Picasso Painter, documentary, Frédéric Rossif,
France / Spain) and second unit director (1987 Le
Coeur musicien, documentary, Frédéric Rossif), he codirected
a couple of animal documentaries.
Filmography
1984 Sauvage et beau (documentary; co-director
with Frédéric Rossif)
1992 Les Contes sauvages (documentary; co-director
with Gérald Calderon)
CZAJKA, ISABELLE (September 20, 1962, Paris,
France–)
Having graduated from the Ecole Nationale Louis
Lumière in 1984, she successively worked as a second
assistant camera operator (1986 Cours privé, Pierre
Granier-Deferre), second assistant cameraman (1987
L’Eté en Pente douce, Gérard Krawczyk), assistant cameraman
for fi lms (1985 Les Rois du Gag, Claude Zidi;
1986 Les Trottoirs de Saturne / Las veredas de Saturno,
Hugo Santiago, France / Argentina; 1988 A Gauche
en sortant de l’Ascenseur, Edouard Molinaro; King
Lear, Jean-Luc Godard, Bahamas / USA; 1989 Vent de
Galerne 1793, Bernard Favre; 1991 Les Amants du Pont-
Neuf / USA: The Lovers on the Bridge, Leos Carax, shot
in 1988–1990; 1992 Un Vampire au Paradis, Abdelkrim
Bahloul, shot in 1990–1991; Riens du tout, Cédric
Klapisch; 1994 Lou n’a pas dit non, Anne-Marie Miéville;
1996 Les Caprices d’un Fleuve, Bernard Giraudeau; 1998
Terminale, Francis Girod; 2001 Le Peuple migrateur / Il
popolo migratore / Nomaden der Lüfte—Das Geheimnis
der Zugvögel / Nomadas del viento / USA and Canada:
Winged Migration, Jacques Perrin, France / Italy / Germany
/ Spain / Switzerland) and TV (1990 Charmante
Soirée, Bernard Murat; 1991 L’Irlandaise, José Giovanni;