Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

382 • FAVRAT, FRANÇOIS
d’Ognissanti, Louis Daquin, France / Italy; Madame et
le Mort, Louis Daquin; La Cavalcade des Heures / USA:
Love Around the Clock, Louis Daquin), and fi nally director.
He also was an occasional screenwriter (1949 Les
Vagabonds du Rêve, as adapter, dialogist, Charles-Félix
Tavano; 1968 Gorri le Diable, as adapter, dialogist, 13
26' TV series, Jean Goumain, Pierre Neurrisse).
Filmography
1944 Service de Nuit / Turno di notte (France / Italy)
1945 La Fille aux Yeux gris
1946 Couleurs de Venise (short; also screenwriter;
co-director with Jacques Mercanton)
1947 Contre-Enquête
1948 La Vie en Rose / UK: A Merry Life / USA: The
Loves of Colette
1949 Vire-Vent
Histoires extraordinaires (as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1951 Jep le Traboucaire (unfi nished)
1952 Les Grenadiers de Lessach (short)
La Résurrection de Barnabé (short; also
adapter)
1960 Quai du Point-du-Jour (also co-adapter)
Lorraine-Escaut (documentary; short)
Passant par Paris (documentary; short)
Profondeur 4000 (documentary; short)
1962 Sources de Vie (short)
1963 Le Petit Mystère de Marly (short)
Retour aux Pyrénées (short)
1964 Le Blé le plus dur (short)
FAVRAT, FRANÇOIS (May 10, 1967, Lyon, Rhône,
France–)
Besides his own fi lms, he co-wrote a couple of fi lms
(2002 Bord de Mer, Julie Lopes Curval; 2003 Elle est
des nôtres / USA: She’s One of Us, Siegrid Alnoy). Other
credits (as actor): 1996 5’ très SM (short, Philippe
Rouquier); 2000 Petit Ben (TV movie, Ismaël Ferroukhi);
2004 Feux rouges (voice only, Cédric Kahn);
(as production manager): 1996 Berjac: Coup de Maître
(Jean-Michel Ribes).
Filmography
2001 Mon Meilleur Amour (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2004 Le Rôle de sa Vie / USA: The Role of Her Life
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
2009 La Sainte Victoire (also screenwriter, dialogist)
FAVRE, BERNARD (June 7, 1945, Enghien-les-
Bains, Val-d’Oise, France–)
Born of a long line of blacksmiths, he fi lmed two
shorts for the Musée des Arts et Traditions populaires.
A projectionist, he frequented the French Cinematheque
before learning editing. He directed his
fi rst feature fi lm in 1983.
Filmography
1972 Les Techniques de Charpente au Moyen-Âge
(documentary; short)
La Fabrication du Collier de Cheval dans le Nivernais
(documentary; short)
1977 La Rue de l’Enfer (documentary; also screenwriter)
1983 La Trace (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist)
1989 Vent de Galerne 1793 (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Canada)
1991 L’Entraînement du Champion avant la Course
(also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1997 Pondichéry, dernier Comptoir des Indes (also coscreenwriter)
Television Filmography
1979 La Montagne dispersée (documentary)
1982 Pavillon 13 (documentary)
1991 Les Années algériennes (4 60' documentary)
1993 Versant sud de la Liberté (2 60' documentary)
1994 Museum d’Histoire naturelle (20 35')
Syrie Mémoire et Civilisation (documentary)
1995 L’Image de la Science (DVD documentary)
De Gaulle, où es-tu? (documentary)
1997 Bois d’Amont (documentary; short)
1998 Un Hiver dans la Tourmente (Canada / France)
De la Vidéo au Multimédia
2000 Faust Vs Mephisto (documentary; also screenwriter)
2002 La Surface de Réparation (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2004 Bien né mal né (Eugénisme d’Etat / Eugénisme
familial) (2 55' documentary; also screenwriter)
2005 Julien Duvivier, Cinéaste des Désillusions (documentary)
2007 Edgar Faure, l’Enragé du bien public (documentary)