Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

298 • DELANNOY, JEAN
Dictateurs,” “De Gaulle,” “Gandhi,” “Octobre,”
“Exodus,” “La Guerre d’Espagne”;
co-director with Jean-Claude Dassier)
Budapest (documentary; co-director with
Jean-Claude Dassier)
1987 L’Atlantique pour toujours (documentary; short)
1988 Edith raconte Piaf (documentary; mediumlength)
Les Soldats de Gorba (documentary; mediumlength;
also co-producer)
L’Univers des Crânes rasés (documentary;
medium-length; also co-producer)
1989 Perm 35 le dernier Goulag (documentary;
medium-length; also co-producer)
Le Rescapé du Goulag (documentary; short)
1990 Les Mineurs du Kouzbass (documentary; short;
also co-producer)
Chasseurs de Mammouths (documentary; short;
also co-producer)
Les Chouans de la Perestroïka (documentary;
short; also co-producer)
L’Honneur perdu du Capitaine Fedorov (documentary;
short; also co-producer)
1991 Business au Pays d’Eltsine (documentary; short;
also co-producer)
Les Fous du Tsar (documentary; short; also coproducer)
Les Diamants rouges (documentary; short; also
co-producer)
Les Gueules noires minent le Terrain (documentary;
short; also co-producer)
1992 Le Journal de l’Année: 1946 à 1970 (25 70'
or 75' documentary)
Modelka (documentary; medium-length; also
co-producer)
1993 Les Nuits de Moscou (documentary; short; also
co-producer)
Petrovka 38, la Brigade des Stups de Moscou
(documentary; medium-length; also coproducer)
1994 Les Habits neufs de l’Empire (documentary;
medium-length; also co-producer)
L’Affaire Karmamou (documentary; short; also
co-producer)
1995 Le Sentier de la Réussite (documentary; short;
also co-producer)
1996 Embarquement Porte No. 1 (Moscou-Russie)
(documentary; short)
Le Journal de l’Année (Gaumont) 1933 à 1939
(7 70' or 75' documentary)
Camarade Milliardaire (two-part documentary:
40' and 26'; also co-producer)
Du Froufrou chez Ceaucescu (documentary;
short; also co-producer)
1997 1er Challenge Intercontinental de Cerf-volant
(documentary; short)
Embarquement Porte No. 1: Samarkand (documentary;
short)
La Légende du Siècle 1900–1995 (documentary)
1999 La Vie après le Goulag (documentary; mediumlength;
also co-producer)
Loujkov, l’ Homme capital (documentary;
medium-length; also co-producer)
DELANNOY, JEAN (Jean-François Delannoy /
January 12, 1908, Noisy-le-Sec, Seine-Saint-Denis,
France–June 12, 2008, Eure-et-Loir, France)
The son of a bureaucrat, he worked briefl y as a bank
clerk and was an art critic for La Revue Franco-Belge before
decorating shops and apartments with his brother
Pierre. Thanks to his elder sister, actress Henriette
Delannoy (1900–1952), he played in several silent fi lms
and talkies (1926 Casanova, Alexandre Volkoff; 1927
Miss Helyett, Maurice Kéroul, Georges Monca; 1928
La Grande Passion, André Hugon; 1934 Casanova / Les
Amours de Casanova, René Barberis). Hired as an editor
at the Saint-Maurice Paramount Studios (1932 La Belle
Marinière, Harry Lachman; Le Fils improvisé, René Guissart;
Une Etoile disparaît / Une Etoile est morte / Une Etoile
s’éteint, Robert Villers; 1933 Le Père prématuré, René
Guissart; Mon Chapeau, short, Jaquelux; 1935 Le Roi des
Champs-Elysées / USA: The Champs of Champs Elysees,
Max Nosseck, supervised by Robert Siodmak; Michel
Strogoff, French-language version of Richard Eichberg’s
Der Kurier des zaren, Jacques de Baroncelli; Tovaritch,
Jacques Deval; 1936 Club de Femmes, also assistant
director, Jacques Deval; Nitchevo, Jacques de Baroncelli;
1937 Feu!, Jacques de Baroncelli), he directed his fi rst
fi lm, a short, in 1932. His fi lm La Symphonie pastorale
won the Cannes Film Festival Great Prize. Autobiography:
1998 Aux Yeux du Souvenir (Belles Lettres).
Filmography
1932 Franches lippées (short; also screenwriter, editor)
1933 Paris-Deauville (also editor)
1934 L’Ecole des Détectives (short; also editor)
La Moule (short; also editor)
Une Vocation irresistible (medium-length)