Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Tanner, Switzerland / France; 1977 La Dentellière /
Die Spitzenklöpperin / USA: The Lacemaker, Claude
Goretta, France / Switzerland / West Germany; Le
Passé simple, Michel Drach; 1978 Judith Therpauve,
as fi rst assistant director, Alain Corneau; 1979 Série
Noire, as fi rst assistant director, Alain Corneau; 1981
La Provinciale / UK and USA: The Girl from Lorraine,
Claude Goretta, France / Switzerland; Le Choix des
Armes / USA: Choice of Arms, as fi rst assistant director,
Alain Corneau). He played in a TV series (1972 La
Demoiselle d’Avignon, 13 26', Michel Wyn) and a feature
fi lm (1978 La Tortue sur le Dos / USA: Like a Turtle
on Its Back, Luc Béraud). Also a production designer
(1986 Mort un Dimanche de Pluie, Joël Santoni), he
worked as executive producer on about fi fty commercials
(directed by Patrice Leconte, Tony Scott,
Alain Corneau, and Jean-Paul Goude) and a motion
picture (1989 Pentimento, Tonie Marshall). He cowrote
Frères d’Armes, an episode of the Quai No. 1 TV
series (Alain Robillard) and authored a novel (2000
Le Jet de l’Eponge, Editions La Chambre d’Echos).
Filmography
197? 53 Fillettes ou Qu’il est beau et bon le gentil
Chapon (short)
1984 Le Vol du Sphinx (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1997 Les Enfants du Karoo (also co-screenwriter)
FERROUKHI, ISMAËL (June 26, 1962, Kénitra,
Morocco–)
Of Moroccan descent, he grew up in Crest, Drôme,
France, where he met director Cédric Kahn, who
hired him as co-screenwriter (1994 Tous les Garçons
et les Filles de leur Âge . . . , episode “Bonheur,” released
theatrically as Trop de Bonheur, Cédric Kahn; 1996
Culpabilité Zéro / USA: Zero Guilt, Cédric Kahn; 2005
L’Avion / Avion—Das Zauberfl ugzeug, Cédric Kahn,
France / Germany). He turned a director in 1993.
Other credit (as co-screenwriter): 2004 Une Place au
Soleil (short, Rachid Boutounès).
Filmography
1993 L’Exposé (short; also screenwriter)
2004 Le Grand Voyage (also screenwriter)
2007 Enfances (episode “Une Paire de
Chaussures”)
FESCOURT, HENRI • 389
Television Filmography
1995 Court toujours: L’Inconnu (short; also screenwriter)
1997 Un Eté aux Hirondelles (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
2000 Petit Ben (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
FERRY, MICHEL
He successively was an assistant property master
(1982 Le Père Noël est une Ordure, Jean-Marie Poiré),
props trainee (1982 La Truite / USA: The Trout, Joseph
Losey), actor and assistant manager (1983 Pauline
à la plage / UK and USA: Pauline at the Beach, Eric
Rohmer), second assistant director (1985 Red Sonja,
Richard Fleischer, USA; 1986 Under the Cherry Moon,
Prince, USA; 1988 Frantic, Roman Polanski, USA /
France; 1989 A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy, USA),
and fi rst assistant director (1990 Milou en Mai / Milou
a maggio / UK: Milou in May / USA: May Fools, Louis
Malle, France / Italy; La Putain du Roi / La donna del
re / UK: The King’s Mistress / USA: The King’s Whore,
Axel Corti; Austria / France / Italy; 1992 Olivier, Olivier,
Agnieszka Holland; Damage / Fatale, Louis Malle, UK
/ France; 1994 Le Parfum d’Yvonne, Patrice Leconte;
2002 The Green Hour, short, Nicole Kassell, USA;
2004 Pour le Plaisir, Dominique Deruddere, France /
Belgium / UK) before his fi rst movie, a documentary.
Filmography
1997 Les Jardins du Bonheur (documentary; also
screenwriter)
Hantises (also screenwriter)
2002 Aller simple pour Manhattan / Petty Crimes (also
co-screenwriter)
Television Filmography
2005 26 Fois Louis Malle (short; also screenwriter)
FESCOURT, HENRI (Marcellin Henri Fescourt /
November 23, 1880, Béziers, Hérault, France–August
9, 1966, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France)
A former lawyer, he opted for journalism (L’Intransigeant)
and musical criticism before directing his fi rst short for
Gaumont in 1912. Also a screenwriter (1915 Quand
même, Henri Pouctal; 1933 Casanova / Les Amours de Casanova,
René Barberis), he wrote several books (1912
Souvenirs d’Aimée Tessandier, Flammarion; 1925 L’Idée et
l’Ecran: Opinions sur le Cinéma, co-author with Jean-Louis