Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Château en Suède (France / Belgium)
Marie Octobre
DEBAIN, HENRI (August 3, 1886, Paris, France–
January 15, 1983, Paris, France)
From 1914 (L’Affaire Caillaux, Anonymous) to 1956
(Mon Curé chez les Pauvres, Henri Diamant-Berger),
he played in almost thirty movies. He also served as
assistant director (1924 Les Grands, also actor, Henri
Fescourt; 1925 Un Fils d’Amérique, also actor, Henri
Fescourt; Les Misérables, Henri Fescourt). After directing
a few fi lms, he worked as a dubbing director.
Filmography
1927 Chantage
1928 Hara-Kiri (co-director with Marie-Louise Iribe)
1930 Méphisto (four episodes: “La Mariée d’un
Jour,” “Le Furet de la Tour pointue,” “Les Forains
mystérieux,” “La Revanche de l’Amour”;
co-director with Nick Winter)
DEBATS, MICHEL (February 2, 1949, Marseille,
Bouches-du-Rhône, France–)
He was an assistant director for fi lms (1973 J’irai
comme un cheval fou / USA: I Will Go Like a Wild Horse /
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse, Fernando Arrabal; 1975
Aloïse, Liliane de Kermadec; 1976 Demain les Mômes,
Jean Pourtalé; 1979 Et la Tendresse? . . . Bordel!, Patrick
Schulmann; 1980 5 % de Risques, Jean Pourtalé, France
/ Belgium; Sunday Lovers / Les Séducteurs / I seduttori
della domenica, segment “The French Method,”
Edouard Molinaro, UK / France / Italy; Les Borsalini,
Michel Nerval; 1981 Malevil / Malevil, Countdown der
Neutronenbombe, Christian de Chalonge, France /
West Germany; 1982 Le Retour de Martin Guerre / UK
and USA: The Return of Martin Guerre, Daniel Vigne;
1983 Mortelle Randonnée / USA: Deadly Circuit, also
costume designer, Claude Miller; 1984 La 7ème Cible,
Claude Pinoteau; Poulet au Vinaigre / UK and USA: Cop
au Vin, Claude Chabrol; 1985 Une Femme ou Deux /
USA: A Woman or Two, Daniel Vigne; 1987 On se calme
et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez, Max Pécas; 1989 Comédie
d’Eté, Daniel Vigne; 1990 La Putain du Roi / La donna del
re / The King’s Mistress / USA: The King’s Whore, Axel
Corti, France / Italy / UK / Austria; 1995 Madame
Butterfl y, Frédéric Mitterrand, France / UK / Germany;
1999 Himalaya—L’Enfance d’un Chef / Canada: Caravan
/ USA: Himalaya, also costume designer, property
master, technical adviser, Eric Valli, France / UK / Ne-
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pal, shot in 1997–1998; 2002 Mouche, Marcel Carné,
unfi nished) and TV (1989 Mieux vaut courir, Elisabeth
Rappeneau; 1994 Le Dernier Tour, Thierry Chabert;
1996 Pêcheur d’Islande, Daniel Vigne).
Filmography
2001 Le Peuple migrateur / Il popolo migratore / Nomaden
der Lüfte—Das Geheimnis der Zugvögel
/ Nomadas del viento / USA: Winged Migration
(documentary, co-director with Jacques Perrin,
Jacques Cluzaud; France / Italy / Germany
/ Spain / Switzerland)
Television Filmography
2004 Le Pigeon et les Hommes (documentary)
Courses à tire d’Aile (documentary)
DEBECQUE, SERGE
A former assistant director (1936 La Joueuse d’Orgue,
Gaston Roudès; 1937 La Tour de Nesle, Gaston
Roudès; 1939 Une Main a frappé, Gaston Roudès;
1940 Pour le Maillot jaune, Jean Stelli), he had a brief
experience as a fi lmmaker.
Filmography
1947 Coïncidences (also screenwriter, co-adapter)
DEBORD, GUY (December 28, 1931, Paris, France–
November 30, 1994, Bellevue-la-Montagne, Haute-
Loire, France)
Known mostly as a philosopher and the main
theoretician of International Situationism, he shot
experimental fi lms that were the illustration of his
thesis, notably developed in his book La Société du
Spectacle (Buchet-Chastel, 1967). Other credit (as
screenwriter): 1995 Guy Debord, son Art et son Temps
(documentary; Brigitte Cormand).
Filmography
1952 Hurlements en Faveur de Sade (short; also
screenwriter, voice)
1959 Sur le Passage de quelques Personnes à travers
une assez courte Unité de Temps (short; also
screenwriter)
1961 Critique de la Séparation (short.; also screenwriter,
voice)
1974 La Société du Spectacle (documentary; also
original book, screenwriter, voice)
1975 Réfutation de tous les Jugements tant élogieux
qu’hostiles, qui ont été jusqu’ici portés sur le Film