Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

436 • GÉRAULT, MATHIEU
1981 Les Surdoués de la première Compagnie (also
screenwriter, dialogist)
1982 T’es Folle ou quoi? (also screenwriter, codialogist)
On s’en fout . . . nous on s’aime (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, producer)
1984 Retenez-moi . . . ou je fais un malheur / USA:
Hold Me Back or I’ll Have an Accident (also
screenwriter, dialogist, delegate producer)
1985 Blessure (also co-screenwriter)
1986 Justice de Flic (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer)
GÉRAULT, MATHIEU (November 17, 1976, Laval,
Mayenne, France–)
Having graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics,
he began directing movies without having
received any cinematographic training.
Filmography
2001 Hautes Herbes (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)
2005 Journal IV (also screenwriter, dialogist)
GESSNER, NICOLAS (August 17, 1931, Budapest,
Hungary–)
Of Hungarian descent and naturalized Swiss, he graduated
from Zurich University with a PhD thesis on
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956. He previously
was an assistant stage director at the Zurich
Theater and to Jean-Louis Barrault (1951–1955) and
had studied Japanese cinema at Tokyo Daiei Studios
with director Teinosuke Kinugasa during the shooting
of Bara wa ikutabika / UK and USA: A Girl Isn’t Allowed
to Love. In 1957, he attended a training course in Hollywood
with Henry Koster (My Man Godfrey). From
1958 to 1961, he directed plays and operas in Zurich
and Lucerne and fi lmed commissioned shorts for the
Swiss army and civil defense.
Filmography
1958 Vielleicht schon Morgen / Demain peut-être
(short; Switzerland)
1959 Operation Schweiz / Opération Suisse (short;
Switzerland)
Auskunft im Cockpit / Le Pilote m’a dit (short;
Switzerland)
1960 Les Quatre Saisons / Die vier Jahreszeiten (short;
Switzerland)
1965 Un Milliard dans un Billard / Allarme in cinque
banche / Diamantenbilard / UK: Diamonds Are
Brittle / USA: Diamond Cue (also screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy / West Germany)
1968 La Blonde de Pékin / La bionda di Pechino / Die
Blonde von Peking / USA: Peking Blonde / The
Blonde from Peking (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Italy / West Germany; shot
in 1966)
1970 Una su tredici / 12 + 1 / UK: Twelve Plus One
/ USA: The Twelve Chairs / US video: The 13
Chairs (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist;
Italy / France)
1971 Quelqu’un derrière la Porte / UK: Two Minds
for Murder / USA: Someone Behind the Door
(France / Italy)
1974 Pastoral Switzerland (short; Switzerland)
1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane / La Petite
Fille au bout du Chemin (Canada / France)
1980 It Rained All Night the Day I Left / Deux Affreux
sur le Sable (Canada / France / Israel; shot in
1978)
1988 Quicker Than the Eye / Passe-Passe (also coscreenwriter;
Switzerland / France)
1989 Tennessee Nights / US video Black Water (USA
/ Switzerland / West Germany / France)
Television Filmography
1963 Der Gefangene der Botschaft (West Germany /
Switzerland)
1974 Sag Oma gute Nacht / Say Goodnight to
Grandma (West Germany)
1982 Herr Herr (Switzerland)
1984 Le Tueur triste (also co-screenwriter)
1985 Intrigues (episode “Macho”; also co-screenwriter)
1987 Das andere Leben (West Germany)
1993 Le Château des Oliviers (8 85'; France /
Italy)
1994 Chèques en Boîte
1997 Spaceship Earth (TV series; also screenwriter)
GÉTREAU, LUC (June 1962, Marseille, Bouchesdu-Rhône,
France–)
He studied at the IDHEC with such teachers as
director and editor Henri Colpi and cinematographers
Jean Badal and Henri Alekan. Then he was an
assistant to Jacques Weber onstage and to Coline
Serreau in fi lms. He co-wrote Le Ministère des Nuages