Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Bal des Echevins,” “Le Pavillon d’Estrées,” “L’Auberge
du Colombier Rouge,” “Le Bastion Saint-Gervais,”
“La Tour de Portsmouth,” “Le Couvent de Béthune,”
“Le Cabane de la Lys”; Henri Diamant-Berger) and
four years later a technical collaborator to Abel
Gance (1927 Napoléon vu par Abel Gance / USA: Abel
Gance’s Napoléon / Napoléon (Abel Gance). He never
directed a talking picture and died penniless at age
fi fty-nine.
Filmography
1908 Les Rivaux de Harlem
Le Secret de l’Acier (co-director with Vanyl)
Le Pont fatal (short)
1909 Cléopâtre / UK: Antony and Cleopatra / USA:
Cleopatra (co-director with Ferdinand Zecca;
also producer)
Samson (short; co-director with Ferdinand
Zecca)
1910 Le Caprice du Vainqueur (short; co-director
with Ferdinand Zecca; also screenwriter)
David et Goliath (short)
Grandeur d’Âme (short; also screenwriter)
Messaline (short; unconfi rmed; movie directed
by Henri Andréani or Albert Capellani; also
screenwriter, adapter)
La Rocadora (short)
La Tragique Aventure de Robert le Taciturne, Duc
d’Aquitaine / USA: A Tragic Adventure (short;
co-director with Ferdinand Zecca; also coscreenwriter)
1911 Caïn et Abel / USA: Cain and Abel (short)
David et Saül / USA: Saul and David (short)
Le Devoir et l’Honneur (short; also screenwriter,
actor)
Faust (short; co-director with Georges Fagot;
also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
Jaël et Sisera (short)
Le Marchand d’Images / USA: The Fairy Bookseller
(unconfi rmed; movie directed by Henri
Andréani or Gaston Velle)
Moïse sauvé des Eaux (short; unconfi rmed;
movie directed by Henri Andréani or Michel
Carré)
Le Sacrifi ce d’Abraham / USA: Abraham’s Sacrifi
ce (short)
Le Siège de Calais (short; also screenwriter)
1912 Absalon (also co-screenwriter)
L’Homme qui assassina (short; also screenwriter,
adapter)
Le Jugement de Salomon (short)
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Le Martyre de Saint Etienne (short)
La Mort de Saül / USA: The Death of Saul
(short; also screenwriter)
Les Rivaux d’Arnheim (short)
Le Sacrifi ce d’Ismaël (short)
Le Tournoi de l’Echarpe d’Or (short; also screenwriter)
1913 Esther (short; also actor)
La Fille de Jephté (short; also screenwriter)
Le Fils de Lagardère
Les Frères ennemis (unconfi rmed; co-director
with René Leprince / Henri Pouctal)
Jacques l’Honneur
Joseph, Fils de Jacob (short; also screenwriter)
1870–1871 (short)
Rebecca (short)
La Reine de Saba (short; co-director with
René Leprince)
1914 Les Cinq Sous de Lavarède
Le Club des Treize
Les Enfants d’Edouard
Sème la Mort (short)
1915 La France avant tout (short)
1916 L’Océan ou les Enfants de la Mer / L’Océan
1922 Ziska, la Danseuse espionne
Mimi Trottin
1924 L’Autre Aile
1927 Flamenca la Gitane
1928 La Pente
ANDRÉI, FRÉDÉRIC (October 23, 1959, France–)
The son of director Yannick Andréi, he was eighteen
when he made his debut as actor onstage (1977 Les
Précieuses Ridicules, by Molière, directed by Rémi
Chenille) and on TV (1977 Le Devoir de Français,
2 90', Jean-Pierre Blanc). Best remembered as the
young music-loving postman in Diva (Jean-Jacques
Beineix, 1981), he played supporting roles in several
other movies, including La Clé sur la Porte / USA:
The Key on the Door (Yves Boisset, 1978), Le Voyage
en Douce / USA: Sentimental Journey (Michel Deville,
1980), and Vénus Beauté (Institut) / UK: Venus Beauty
Salon / USA: Venus Beauty Institute (Tonie Marshall,
1999). In 1979, he co-founded with Isabelle Texier
17 / 23 Productions and shot several shorts before
directing his fi rst feature fi lm in 1986. If he never
really stopped acting, he is above all a director who
notably fi lmed about 150 documentaries released
mostly on the TV programs Faut pas rêver and Envoyé
Spécial.