Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1923 Marie, la Femme au Singe (also screenwriter,
producer)
1926 La Chaussée des Géants (Robert Boudrioz and
then Jean Durand)
Face aux Loups (also screenwriter)
1927 Palaces (also screenwriter, adapter)
1928 L’Île d’Amour / Bicchi (co-director with Berthe
Dagmar; also screenwriter, adapter)
1929 La Femme rêvée
1930 Détresse (also screenwriter, adapter)
DURAND, JEAN-MARIE (Jean-Marie Durand-
Galliano / 1942, France–)
A former actor (1971 Le Frisson des Vampires / UK:
Sex and the Vampire / The Terror of the Vampires / Thrill
of the Vampires / Vampire Thrills / USA: Strange Things
Happen at Night / US DVD: The Shiver of the Vampires,
Jean Rollin), co-screenwriter (1970 L’Ardoise, Claude
Bernard-Aubert), and unit production manager (1972
Le Viager, Pierre Tchernia; 1973 Les Granges brûlées /
La mia legge, Jean Chapot, France / Italy; Je sais rien,
mais je dirai tout, Pierre Richard; 1975 Love and Death
/ Guerre et Amour, Woody Allen, USA / France), he
wrote and directed a lowbrow comedy.
Filmography
1980 Les Aventures de Guidon fûté (also screenwriter,
dialogist, composer)
DURAS, MARGUERITE (Marguerite Donnadieu
/ April 4, 1914, Gia Dinh, French Cochin China [now
Vietnam]–March 3, 1996, Paris, France)
Born to French parents, both schoolteachers, she
spent her childhood and adolescence in French
Cochin China and Cambodia (with two years in
France). She left Indochina to study law, mathematics,
and political science at the Sorbonne in Paris. From
1938 to 1940, she earned her living as a secretary in
France’s Ministry of Colonies. During the occupation
of France, she joined the French Resistance while
her husband was a prisoner in Dachau (he came
back alive in 1945). Her fi rst novel, Les Impudents,
was published by Plon in 1943. Thirty-three books
would follow until 1995 (C’est tout, Editions P.O.L.).
She used the pseudonym of Duras from the name of
the village where her father had his house (he died
when she was four years old). Many of her novels
and plays were brought to the big and small screens
(1958 The Angry Age / La diga sul Pacifi co / The Sea Wall,
DURAS, MARGUERITE • 353
René Clément, Italy / USA; 1961 ITV Television Playhouse,
episode “The Square,” Stuart Burge, UK; 1965
Love Story, episode “La Musica,” John Nelson-Burton,
UK; 1966 10.30 P.M. Summer, also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, Jules Dassin, USA / Spain;
1967 Skver, Dragoslav Lazic, Yugoslavia; The Wednesday
Play, episode “Days in the Trees,” Waris Hussein,
John Schlesinger, UK; La Musica, also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, Paul Seban; The Sailor from Gibraltar,
Tony Richardson, UK; 1968 Diese Frau zum Beispiel,
TV, Heinz Von Cramer, West Germany; Ganze Tage
in den Bäumen, TV, Tom Toelle, West Germany; 1969
Lievevrouwbedstro / L’Amante anglaise, TV, Harry Kümel,
Belgium; 1973 Saerlige spor, TV, Soren Melson, Denmark;
1980 Hele dager I traerne, Odd-Geir Saether,
Norway; 1982 En rachâchant, short, Jean-Marie Straub,
Danièle Huillet; La Musica, TV, Peter Simons, Belgium;
1985 Das Mal des Todes, Peter Handke, Austria; 1988
La Bête dans la Jungle, TV, Benoît Jacquot; 1990 Le
Coupeur d’Eau, Philippe Tabarly; 1992 L’Amant / The
Lover, Jean-Jacques Annaud, France / UK / Vietnam;
1998 Miragens, short, André Delhaye, Portugal; 2001
H Story, Nobuhiro Suwa, Japan; 2003 La Maladie de la
Mort / The Malady of Death, short, Asa Mader, France
/ USA; 2004 L’Après-Midi de Monsieur Andesmas, Michelle
Porte, France / Belgium; Vie matérielle, short,
Franck Heslon; 2008 Marguerite ou La Vie tranquille,
video short, Stéphanie Murat; 2009 Un Barrage contre
le Pacifi que, Rithy Panh, France / Belgium / Cambodia).
By 1958, she had begun writing for fi lms as an author
of commentary (1959 Le Soleil de Pierre, documentary,
short, Daniel Lecomte), screenwriter, dialogist (1959
Hiroshima mon Amour / 24-jikan no joji / UK and USA:
Hiroshima, My Love, Alain Resnais, France / Japan; 1964
Nuit noire, Calcutta, short, Marin Karmitz; 1965 Les
Rideaux blancs / Un Instant de Paix / Der Augenblick des
Friedens / Die weissen Vorhänge / Chwila pokoju / Matura,
segment “Les Rideaux blancs,” Georges Franju,
France / West Germany / Poland; 1966 Mademoiselle,
Tony Richardson, France / UK; La Voleuse / Schornstein
Nr. 4, Jean Chapot, France / West Germany),
screenwriter, co-dialogist (1960 Moderato cantabile /
Moderato cantabile: Storia di uno strano amore / UK:
Seven Days . . . Seven Nights / USA: Moderato Cantabile,
Peter Brook, France / Italy), co-screenwriter and codialogist
(1961 Une aussi longue Absence / L’inverno
ti farà tornare / USA: The Long Absence, Henri Colpi,
France / Italy; 1964 Sans Merveille, TV, Michel Mitrani;
1974 Nouvelles de Henry James, episode “Ce que savait
Morgan,” Luc Béraud), dialogist only (1963 L’Itinéraire