Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1979 Le Gagnant (also screenwriter, dialogist, delegate
producer)
1981 Pétrole! Pétrole! (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1982 Les Diplômés du dernier Rang (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1983 Le Bourreau des Cœurs (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1984 J’ai rencontré le Père Noël / USA: Here Comes
Santa Claus (also co-screenwriter, producer)
1985 Pizzaiolo et Mozzarel (also co-adapter, delegate
producer)
1990 Le Provincial (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1992 Sup de Fric (also screenwriter, dialogist, coproducer)
2000 Les Insaisissables (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1981 Salut Champion (episode “La Troisième mitemps”)
GIONO, JEAN (March 30, 1895, Manosque,
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France–October 8, 1970,
Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France)
A writer since 1929 (Colline), he was always interested
in movies, and he wrote many texts on the
subject. Several of his novels and short stories were
brought to the screen (1933 Jofroi / USA: Ways of
Love, from Jofroi de la Maussan, medium-length, Marcel
Pagnol; 1934 Angèle / Un de Baumugnes, Marcel
Pagnol; 1937 Regain / USA: Harvest, Marcel Pagnol;
1938 La Femme du Boulanger / USA: The Baker’s Wife,
from the novella Jean le Bleu, Marcel Pagnol; 1949 Le
Bout de la Route, Emile Couzinet; 1957 Kara talih, from
Un de Baumugnes, Lutfu Akat, Turkey; 1958 Le Foulard
de Smyrne, short, also author of commentary, actor,
François Villiers; 1963 Les Grands Chemins / Il baro /
UK and USA: Of Flesh and Blood, Christian Marquand,
France / Italy; Un Roi sans Divertissement, also original
novel, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, producer, François
Leterrier; 1965 Le Chant du Monde / Ossessione
nuda / La saga dei Forrest, Marcel Camus, France /
Italy; 1973 Le Déserteur, TV, Alain Boudet; 1979 Jean
le Bleu, TV, Hélène Martin; 1980 Colline, TV, Lazare
Iglésis, 1981 Faust au Village, TV, Jean-Pierre Prévost;
1984 Les Cavaliers de l’Orage, from Deux Cavaliers de
l’Orage, Gérard Vergez; 1987 L’Homme qui plantait des
Arbres / USA: The Man Who Planted Trees, animated
short, Frédéric Back, Canada; 1989 Der Mann mit den
Bäumen, Werner Kubny, West Germany; 1990 L’Ami
Giono, fi ve episodes: “Jofroi de la Maussan,” Marcel
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Bluwal; “Ennemonde,” Claude Santelli; “L’Onorato,”
Marcel Bluwal; “Ivan Ivanovitch Kossiakoff,” Fabrice
Cazeneuve; “Le Déserteur,” Gérard Mordillat; 1995
Le Poids du Ciel, short, Laurent Herbiet; Le Hussard sur
le Toit / USA: The Horseman on the Roof, Jean-Paul Rappeneau;
1999 La Femme du Boulanger, TV, from Jean
le Bleu, Nicolas Ribowski; 2001 Les Âmes fortes / UK
and USA: Savage Souls, Raoul Ruiz, France / Belgium /
Switzerland). He wrote the screenplay, dialogue, and
commentary of L’Eau vive / US TV: Girl and the River
(also narrator, François Villiers) and co-authored the
screenplay and adaptation of L’Etoile du Sud / The
Southern Star (Sidney Hayers, France / UK). He also
appeared in fi lms (1959 La Duchesse, short, François
Villiers; 1960 Les Gens de Lettres, short, as himself,
Henri Champetier, Léonce Peillard).
Filmography
1960 Crésus (with Claude Pinoteau as technical adviser;
also screenwriter, dialogist, co-producer)
GIOVANNI, JOSÉ (June 22, 1923, Paris, France–
April 24, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland)
His secondary studies were interrupted by World
War II. He earned a living working in a coal mine and
as a lumberjack. From 1942 to 1944, he was a mountain
guide with the movement Jeunesse et Montagne.
After the liberation of France, he was involved with
his brother and an uncle in a racketeering affair that
went wrong (three people were killed by his accomplices).
Sentenced to death in 1948, he was pardoned
by President Vincent Auriol and released from jail in
1956. He wrote his fi rst novel in 1957 (Le Trou, Série
noire) and soon began working as co-screenwriter
and co-adapter (1959 Du Rifi fi chez les Femmes /
Rifi fi tra le donne / USA: The Riff Raff Girls, Alex Joffé,
France / Italy). He collaborated on many movies as
author of original novel, co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
and co-dialogist (1960 Le Trou / Il buco / UK: The Hole
/ USA: The Night Watch, Jacques Becker, France / Italy;
1963 Symphonie pour un Massacre / Sinfonia per un
massacro / UK: The Corrupt / USA: Symphony for a
Massacre / The Mystifi ers, also actor, Jacques Deray,
France / Italy); author of original novel, co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, and dialogist (1960 Classe tous
Risques / Asfalto che scotta / USA: The Big Risk, Claude
Sautet, France / Italy; 1961 Un Nommé La Rocca /
Quello che spara per primo / USA: A Man Named
Rocca / A Man Called Rocca, Jean Becker, France /