Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Guillermin (1962 The Waltz of the Toreadors) and Peter
Glenville (1964 Becket). From 1936 (Vous n’avez rien à
déclarer? / USA: Confessions of a Newlywed, Léo Joannon)
to 1970 (Time for Loving, Christopher Miles, UK), he
also wrote screenplays and dialogues of about twenty
movies, including Monsieur Vincent (Maurice Cloche,
1947), Pattes blanches / UK and USA: White Paws (Jean
Grémillon), and Caroline Chérie / USA: Dear Caroline (Richard
Pottier). The fi rst feature fi lm he directed was an
adaptation of one his most succesful plays. His daughter
Catherine (1934–1989) was a stage actress.
Filmography
1944 Le Voyageur sans Bagages (also original play; coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1951 Deux Sous de Violettes (also co-adapter)
ANSPACH, SOLVEIG (December 8, 1960, Vestmannaeyjar,
Iceland–)
Of Icelandic origin, she came to Paris, where she
studied and obtained two degrees (philosophy and
psychology) and a diploma in psychopathology. Graduated
from the Fémis fi lm school in 1989, she directed
several documentary shorts before fi lming her fi rst
feature fi lm (Haut les Coeurs!), the autobiographical
story of a young woman suffering from breast cancer.
Filmography
1989 Par Amour (documentary; short; also editor)
La Tire (documentary; short)
Vestmannaeyjar (documentary; short)
1991 Le Chemin de Kjölur (documentary; short; also
sound engineer)
Sandrine, une autre Vie (documentary; short)
1992 Sandrine à Paris (medium-length)
1993 Vizir et Vizirette (short; also screenwriter)
1995 Bistrik, Sarajevo (documentary; short)
Bonjour, c’est pour un Sondage (documentary;
medium-length)
Sarajevo, Paroles de Casques bleus (documentary;
medium-length; co-director with Dominique
Garraud; also screenwriter)
1997 Le Comité (short)
Ficelles (short; also screenwriter)
1998 Barbara, tu n’es pas Coupable (documentary;
medium-length; also screenwriter)
Que Personne ne bouge! (documentary; mediumlength;
also screenwriter)
1999 Haut les Cœurs! (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
France / Belgium)
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2001 Made in the USA (documentary; also coscreenwriter)
Reykjavik, des Elfes dans la Ville (documentary;
medium-length)
2003 Stormy weather / Stormviori (also co-screenwriter;
Belgium / Iceland / France)
2006 Les Européens / Européerna / Tarinoita Euroopasta
/ Grenzgânger (segment “Janet by the
Sea”; Belgium / Iceland / France; shot in 2004)
Faux Tableaux dans vrais Paysages islandais (documentary;
medium-length; also screenwriter)
2008 Skrappùt / Back Soon (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist; Iceland / France)
Television Filmography
2007 Bienvenue chez . . . / Wilkommen bei . . . (documentary;
episodes “Didda,” “Manon”; France /
Germany)
2009 Louise Michel (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
ANTOINE, ANDRÉ (Léonard André Antoine / January
31, 1858, Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France–October
19, 1943, Le Pouliguen, Loire-Atlantique, France)
A former gas company employee, he dedicated his life
to the stage from 1887, the year he created with a few
amateur friends the Théâtre-Libre (known as Théâtre
Antoine since 1897). An adept of a naturalist aesthetic,
he broke many dramatic conventions and totally renewed
contemporary theater, infl uencing the greatest
French stage directors of the twentieth century (Firmin
Gémier, Charles Dullin, Sacha Pitoëff, Jacques Copeau,
Jean Vilar) and such fi lmmakers as Jacques Feyder, Jean
Renoir, Marcel Pagnol, and Jean Grémillon. In 1914, he
entered fi lms as an assistant director to Albert Capellani,
who was his collaborator onstage. He appeared
as himself in Ceux de chez nous / USA: Those of Our
Land (Sacha Guitry, 1915). His son, André-Paul Antoine
(1892–1982), was a playwright and a screenwriter.
Filmography
1917 Les Frères corses (also screenwriter, adapter;
shot in 1915)
Le Coupable (also screenwriter, adapter)
1918 Les Travailleurs de la Mer (six episodes; also
screenwriter, adapter)
1919 Israël (Italy)
1920 L’Hirondelle et la Mésange
1921 Quatre-Vingt-Treize (Albert Capellani started
shooting the fi lm in 1914 before leaving for