Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

356 • DUTY, CLAUDE
Monde premier, co-author with Cassandra Purdy, Cynthia
Smith, Au même Titre).
Filmography
1973 Indians (documentary)
1975 Wow (documentary; short)
1978 Raoni (documentary; co-director with Luiz
Carlos Saldanha; also screenwriter, producer;
France / Brazil / Belgium)
1985 The Rhythmatist (documentary; also screenwriter;
USA)
2000 Tribal Journeys (13 30' documentary: 1991
“Awa Guajas” / “People Beyond Time,” “The
Poturus” / “People of the Moon”; 1993 “The
Agtas” / “At the Edge of the World,” part 1,
“The Toulambis / First Contact,” part 2, “The
Toulambis”; 1994 “Musuane” / “Unknown
Tribe of Spice Islands”; 1995 “Togutil” / “The
Gentle People”; 1997 “The Mikea” / “The
Gentle People,” “The Mursi” / “Wild Women
of Ethiopia, “The Kayapo” / “Raoni, Keeper
of the Rainforest”; 1998 “The Una” / “Stone
Age,” “The Korowai” / “The Last Cannibals,”
“The Asmat” / “The Fine Arts of War”)
2004 Amazon Forever (documentary; also screenwriter;
Brazil / France)
DUTY, CLAUDE (September 9, 1946, Tunis, Tunisia–)
After studying graphics and advertising drawing,
he worked for the ORTF (French TV at the time)
animation cinema service before directing shorts. He
played in several movies (1980 Le Rôle effacé de Marie,
Jean-Michel Mongrédien; 1996 Rouen, Cinq Minutes
d’Arrêt, short, Ingrid Gogny; 1997 La Nuit des Cétoines,
short, Antoine Vivet; 2000 Soleil, short, Fabrice Tempo;
2002 L’Auberge espagnole / Una casa de locos / UK
and Canada: Pot Luck / USA: The Spanish Apartment,
Cédric Klapisch; 2005 El Cantor, Joseph Morder; 2006
Avril, Gérald Hustache-Mathieu) and fi lmed the fi nal
sequences of Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep (1996) and
Olivier L. Brunet’s short Le Mariage de Fanny (1999).
Filmography
1974 Le Courant d’Air (16-mm short; also screenwriter,
producer)
1976 Les Contes du Noyé bagué (16-mm short; also
screenwriter, producer, producer designer,
editor)
1978 Images d’Archives (short)
La Religieuse de Diderot (16-mm short; also
screenwriter, producer)
Rêves de Vaches . . . (16-mm short; also screenwriter,
producer)
1979 Mode d’Emploi (16-mm short; also screenwriter,
producer, cinematographer)
1980 J’en bave . . . (16-mm short; also screenwriter,
producer, editor)
1981 Observation de l’Hématozoaire de Laveran (16mm
animated short; also screenwriter, producer,
cinematographer)
1982 Poppée (16-mm short; also screenwriter, producer)
1984 Intra-Muros (16-mm short; also screenwriter)
1985 Le plus beau Film que vous ayez vus . . . (short)
1986 Les Enervés de Jumièges (short; also screenwriter)
1988 Mourir en Macédoine (animated short; also
screenwriter, production designer)
1990 Dialogues givrés (13 35' video shorts)
1991 Ménage à froid (short; also screenwriter)
Passera-t-il? (short; also screenwriter)
1992 Retour de Bâton (short; also screenwriter)
1995 La Pucelle des Zincs (short; also co-screenwriter)
Pierre & Claude (animated short; co-director
with Alain Ade; also screenwriter)
1996 Stigmates (short; co-director with Jean-Louis
Gonnet; also co-screenwriter)
1997 Rupture imposé (video short; also screenwriter)
Rupture de Fin d’Eté (video short; also screenwriter)
Poids et moi (short; also screenwriter)
1999 En plein dans la Cuisse! (video short; also
screenwriter)
2000 Le Goût du Couscous (video short; also screenwriter,
cinematographer, editor)
2002 Filles perdues, Cheveux gras (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2003 Bienvenue au Gîte / Bed and Breakfast (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist; France / UK)
DUVAL DANIEL (November 28, 1944, Vitry-sur-
Seine, Val-de-Marne, France–)
A child in care, he worked in a roller-skate factory. At
age fi fteen, he fell ill and had to remain bedridden. His
room companion, Father Dagonet, who produced a
religious TV program, Le Jour du Seigneur, encouraged
him to opt for a new career. He entered fi lms as a