Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

384 • FEIX, ANDRÉE
Rocher; 2000 Le Miroir aux Alouettes, E-Dite; 2006 Le
Pied noir à l’Envers, Editions de l’Olivier).
Filmography
1978 Pauline et l’Ordinateur (also screenwriter, shot
in 1976)
1982 Roue libre (short; also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1980 Les Nomades de l’Exploit
Marie Cavale
La Danse au Cœur (documentary)
1981 Papiers d’Arménie (documentary)
1982 Charleston et Compagnie (documentary)
La Rivière perdue
1984 La Lanterne des Morts
1985 Noctuailes
1988 Le Crime de Médée n’aura pas lieu
1989 Les Fils du Vent (documentary)
1992 Convois d’Esclaves (documentary)
1995 Malika B . . . (documentary)
1999 Boudiaf, l’Esprit assassiné (documentary)
2001 Le Miroir aux Alouettes
2004 Regards de Femmes (documentary)
2005 On aime trop la Vie (documentary)
2006 La Danse enferme (documentary)
FEIX, ANDRÉE (February 12, 1912, Paris, France–
April 15, 1987, Paris, France)
She started in 1929 as a secretary at Gaumont before
becoming an editor for fi lm (1933 Âme de Clown, Marc
Didier, Yvan Noé; 1934 La Maison du Mystère, Gaston
Roudès; Le Petit Jacques, Gaston Roudès; Flofl oche,
Gaston Roudès; 1936 Mademoiselle Mozart, Yvan Noé;
Gigolette, Yvan Noé; 1951 Le Voyage en Amérique / UK:
The Voyage to America / USA: The Trip to America, Henri
Lavorel; 1953 Koenigsmark, Solange Térac, France /
Italy; Au Diable la Vertu, Jean Laviron; Légère et court
vêtue, Jean Laviron; 1954 Soirs de Paris, Jean Laviron;
Votre Dévoué Blake, Jean Laviron; 1959 Orfeu Negro /
Orfeo negro / Orfeu do Carnaval / USA: Black Orpheus,
Marcel Camus, France / Brazil / Italy; 1960 Os Bandeirantes
/ Rio negro / US TV: Gold of the Amazon, Marcel
Camus, France / Brazil / Italy; L’Homme à Femmes /
US TV: Murder by Two, Jacques-Gérard Cornu; 1962
L’Oiseau de Paradis / UK and USA: Dragon Sky, France
/ Italy; 1965 Le Chant du Monde / Ossessione nuda / La
saga dei Forrest, Marcel Camus, France / Italy; 1967
Vivre la Nuit / Vivere la notte, Marcel Camus, France /
Italy; 1970 Un Eté sauvage / L’età selvaggia, Marcel Ca-
mus, France / Italy; 1975 Otalia de Bahia / Os Pastores
da Noite / USA: Bahia, Marcel Camus, France / Brazil)
and TV (1973 Molière pour rire et pour pleurer, 6 52',
Marcel Camus), script supervisor (1940 De Mayerling
à Sarajevo / UK: Sarajevo / US video: From Mayerling
to Sarajevo, Max Ophuls; 1942 Dernier Atout, Jacques
Becker), and fi rst assistant director (1943 Je suis avec
toi, Henri Decoin; 1946 Etoile sans Lumière / UK and
USA: Star Without Light, Marcel Blistène; 1950 Clara
de Montargis, Henri Decoin). She directed only two
movies, supervised by Henri Decoin.
Filmography
1946 Il suffi t d’une Fois (supervised by Henri Decoin)
1947 Capitaine Blomet (supervised by Henri Decoin)
FEJTÖ, RAPHAËL (September 17, 1974, Paris,
France–)
Of Hungarian descent, he is the grandson of historian
and journalist Ferenc Fejtö. He had his fi rst contact
with cinema as an actor (1987 Adieu les Enfants / Auf
wiedersehen Kinder / UK and USA: Goodbye Children,
Louis Malle, France / West Germany).
Filmography
1996 56 fois par Semaine (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer, actor)
2004 Osmose (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
2007 L’Âge d’Homme (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
FÉLIX, LOUIS (Donatien Gilles Louis Félix / August
8, 1920, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France–)
He began shooting his fi rst amateur fi lms with a
Pathé-Baby camera at age thirteen and made his
professional debut as a cameraman of shorts in 1938.
In the early 1940s, he was studying to become an
engineer when he met cinematographer Nicolas
Hayer. He resumed his fi lm career taking part in the
shooting of a movie on the liberation of Paris. Hired
as a cameraman and reporter for “France Libre Actualités,”
he fi lmed the advances of the allied armies
into Germany. Then he worked as cinematographer
(1947 L’Ecole des Facteurs / UK and USA: School for
Postmen, Jacques Tati). In 1951, he gave up reports to
direct shorts and feature fi lms.