Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

came a free journalist, publishing articles in Libération
and Télérama. A fi lm director since 1970, he appeared
as himself in a documentary on his grandfather (1995
Le Cinéma de Grand-Père, Liliane de Kermadec).
Filmography
1970 Massaï (documentary; short; also producer)
1980 Voir naître (documentary; short; also producer)
1981 L’Amour entre les Tours (short)
1986 L’Unique (also co-screenwriter)
1993 La Légende (also screenwriter; shot in 1991)
2002 Les Trois Mousquetaires: L’Histoire d’une Résurrection
(documentary; medium-length; codirector
with Guillaume Diamant-Berger)
Les Trois Mousquetaires On Tour (documentary;
short)
DIAMANTIS, ROGER (December 31, 1934, Paris,
France–)
The founder and manager of the movie theater
Saint-André-des-Arts, he directed a short and a feature
fi lm and co-produced La Captive du Désert (also
screenwriter; Raymond Depardon). Other credits
(as actor): 1974 L’Escapade (also associate producer,
Michel Soutter, Switzerland / France); 2005 Roger Diamantis
ou La vraie Vie, documentary, medium-length, as
himself, Elise Girard).
Filmography
1968 La Femme enceinte (short)
1980 Si j’te cherche . . . j’me trouve (also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer, dialogist; shot in 1974)
DIANOUX, ROBERT (1941, France–)
A cinematographer (1980 Apparence féminine, documentary,
Richard Rein; 1986 Otage du Passé, short,
Régine Obadia; 1993 Afrique, je te plumerai, Jean-
Marie Téno), he co-directed a documentary on drug
addiction.
Filmography
1977 Le Manque (documentary; co-director with
Christian Heinic, Jean Sejeaud; also cocinematographer)
DIANVILLE, MAX (September 18, 1890, Vincelles,
Yonne, France–1954, France)
DIAZ, PHILIPPE • 327
He was a screenwriter (1932 Ce Cochon de Morin, as
co-screenwriter, Georges Lacombe; L’Affaire Blaireau,
as screenwriter, co-dialogist, Henry Wulschleger).
Filmography
1932 La Cure sentimentale (co-director with Pierre
Weill)
DIAZ, PHILIPPE
Mostly a delegate producer (1986 Havre, Juliet
Berto; Rue du Départ, Tony Gatlif; Mauvais Sang /
USA: Bad Blood, Leos Carax; 1987 Pierre et Djemila,
Gérard Blain; Cayenne Palace, Alain Maline; 1988 La
Nuit bengali / Bengali Night, Nicolas Klotz, France
/ Switzerland / UK; Candy Mountain, Robert Frank,
Rudy Wurlitzer; Ville étrangère, Didier Goldschmidt;
Eden Miséria, Christine Laurent; 1990 The Man Inside
/ L’Affaire Walraff, Bobby Roth, USA / France)
and executive producer (1997 St. Patrick’s Day,
Hope Perello, USA; 2000 Heavy Metal / Heavy
Metal F.A.K.K.2., animation, Michael Coldewez, Michel
Lemire, Canada / France; 2002 Elfquest, animation,
Patrick Coseys, USA; 2004 Uncovered: The War in Iraq,
documentary, Robert Greenwald, USA; 2005 The
Third Wish, Shirley Jensen, USA; Conventioneers, Mora
Stephens, USA; Driving to Zigzigland, Nicole Ballivian,
USA; Tre, Eric Byler, USA), he directed a few documentary
shorts in the early 1980s. He appeared as
himself in Enquête sur un Film au-dessus de tout Soupçon
(documentary, Olivier Guiton, 1991).
Filmography
2001 Nouvel Ordre mondial . . . quelque Part en Afrique
(documentary; also delegate producer)
2006 The Empire in Africa (documentary; also editor;
USA)
2007 Now and Later (also screenwriter; USA)
Speaking Freely Volume 1: John Perkins (video
documentary)
Speaking Freely Volume 2: Susan George (video
documentary)
Speaking Freely Volume 3: Ray McGovern (video
documentary)
Speaking Freely Volume 4: Chalmers Johnson
(video documentary)
Speaking Freely Volume 5: Hugo Chavez (video
documentary)
2008 The End of Poverty? (documentary; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)