Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1954 Adam . . . est Eve (also screenwriter, adapter)
1955 Boulevard du Crime (also producer)
1956 Les Insoumises
Zaza (also producer)
GAVRAS, JULIE
The daughter of director Costa-Gavras (b. 1933),
she studied literature and law before becoming an
assistant director (1994 Loin des Barbares / Lontano
dai barbari, Liria Bégéja, France / Italy / Belgium;
Dellamorte Dellamore / Demons ’95 / USA: Cemetary
Man / Australia: Of Death of Love, also postproducer,
Michele Soavi, Italy / France / Germany; 1999 La
Voleuse de Saint-Lubin, Claire Devers; 2002 Amen /
Der Stellvertreter / Eyewitness, Costa-Gavras, France
/ Germany / Romania / USA). She also worked as a
dialogue coach (1996 Sostiene Pereira / Pereira pretend
/ Sostiene Pereira / Afi rma Pereira / USA: According to
Pereira, Roberto Faenza, Italy / France / Portugal) and
played in one of her father’s feature fi lms (2005 Le
Couperet, France / Belgium / Spain).
Filmography
1998 Oh les beaux Dimanches! (short; also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
2002 Le Corsaire, le Magicien, le Voleur et les Enfants
(documentary; also camera operator)
2006 La Faute à Fidel (also screenwriter; France /
Italy)
GEDERLINI, GIORDANO (February 10, 1971,
Chile–)
Having graduated from La Sorbonne (cinema–audiovisual
arts department), he began directing shorts in
1995.
Filmography
1995 Tout pour plaire (short; also screenwriter)
1998 Le Parc (short; also screenwriter)
Camping sauvage (short; co-director with
Kader Aoun)
2002 Samouraïs / Samurais (also co-screenwriter;
Spain / France / Germany)
GÉGAUFF, PAUL (August 10, 1922, Blotzheim,
Haut-Rhin, France–December 24, 1983, Gjovik, Norway)
He co-founded with Eric Rohmer Le Ciné-Club du
Quartier Latin. A novelist since 1951 (Les Mauvais
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Plaisants, Editions de Minuit), he was known mostly as
a screenwriter (about forty fi lms from 1950 Le Journal
d’un Scélérat, short, also screenwriter, Eric Rohmer,
to 1984 Frankenstein 90, Alain Jessua). He notably coauthored
the screenplays and dialogues of thirteen
Claude Chabrol fi lms, including the one in which he
played the leading role (1975 Une Partie de Plaisir /
Una gita di piacere / UK: A Piece of Pleasure / USA:
Pleasure Party). He occasionally performed small roles
in movies directed by his friends (1963 Le Vice et la
Vertu / Il vizio e la virtù / UK and USA: Vice and Virtue,
Roger Vadim, France / Italy; 1966 La Ligne de Démarcation,
Claude Chabrol; 1967 Week-End / Week-End,
un uomo e una donna dal sabato alla domenica / UK
and USA: Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard, France / Italy).
The only fi lm he directed, based on a Robert Louis
Stevenson novel, remained theatrically unreleased. He
was stabbed to death by his wife.
Filmography
1965 Le Refl ux (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist;
shot in 1961)
GEHRET, JEAN (January 10, 1900, Geneva, Switzerland–May
25, 1956, Paris, France)
A former musician, he entered fi lms as an actor
(1931 La Chienne, Jean Renoir; 1932 Moune et son
Notaire, Hubert Bourlon; Baleydier, Jean Mamy; La Nuit
du Carrefour / UK and USA: Night of the Crossroads,
Jean Renoir; Boudu sauvé des Eaux / USA: Boudu Saved
from Drowning, also production manager, Jean Renoir;
1933 Cent Mille Francs pour un Baiser, Hubert Bourlon,
Georges Delance; Madame Bovary, uncredited,
Jean Renoir; 1935 Crime et Châtiment / USA: Crime
and Punishment, Pierre Chenal; 1943 Adieu Léonard /
La Bourse ou la Vie, also production manager, Pierre
Prévert). He also worked as an administrator (1942
Dernier Atout, Jacques Becker) and production supervisor
(1945 Falbalas / USA: Paris Frills, Jacques Becker).
He was the author of the original idea of Carré de
Valets (André Berthomieu, 1947).
Filmography
1947 Le Café du Cadran (supervised by Henri Decoin)
1949 Tabusse
Orage d’Eté (also co-adapter)
1950 Le Crime des Justes (shot in 1948)
1953 La Loterie du Bonheur