Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

472 • GROUSSET, DIDIER
1966 Le Grand Amour blessé (short; also co-screenwriter)
1967 Du Mou dans la Gâchette / Due Killers in fuga
(also co-adapter; France / Italy)
Ouest (documentary; short; also co-screenwriter)
1969 Bruno, l’Enfant du Dimanche / UK: Bruno: Sunday’s
Child (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, France / Belgium)
1990 Le Haut Mal (also co-screenwriter; France /
Switzerland)
Connemara / French video: Fatal Lovers (also
screenwriter; shot in 1988)
Television Filmography
1961 Le Théâtre de la Jeunesse (episode “Don
Quichotte”)
1965 Histoires d’Hommes (6 52'; co-director with
Claude Boissol, Jean Dréville, Pierre Granier-
Deferre; also co-screenwriter)
Don Quijote / Don Quichotte / Don Quijote
von der Mancha (13 26'; co-director with
Jacques Bourdon, Carlo Rim; Spain / France /
West Germany)
1967 L’Amateur ou S.O.S. Fernand (episode “Le Cleptomane”;
also co-screenwriter)
1969 Le Survivant
1970 Prune (30 13'; also co-screenwriter; France
/ Switzerland)
Le Sixième Sens (10 26')
1971 Une Autre Vie (30 26'; also co-screenwriter;
France / Switzerland)
1972 L’Inconnue du Vol 141 (30 13'; also coscreenwriter)
1973 Témoignages (TV series; co-director; France /
Switzerland / Canada)
Le Temps de vivre, le Temps d’aimer (TV series;
also co-screenwriter; France / Switzerland)
1974 Les Enfants des Autres (13 30'; France /
Switzerland)
1975 Typhelle et Tourteron (France / Switzerland)
1976 Le Village englouti (30 13')
1977 Les Anneaux de Bicêtre (also co-screenwriter)
De Guerre lasse
1978 Les Grandes Conjurations (episode “Les
Fantômes du Palais d’Hiver”)
1980 Tarendol (4 52')
1981 Le Roman du Samedi: Un Prêtre marié
1982 Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret (episode
“Maigret et le Clochard”)
1983 Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret (episode
“La Tête d’un Homme”)
1984 Battling le Ténébreux
1985 Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (episode “Tendres
Pigeons”)
1987 Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret (episode
“Maigret chez le Ministre”)
1988 Les Cinq dernières Minutes (episodes “Fais-moi
Cygne,” “Crime blanc bleu”)
1991 Les Cinq dernières Minutes (episode “Prête-moi
ta Plume”)
1994 Les Enfants du Faubourg (also co-screenwriter)
2000 L’Alambic (also screenwriter)
2002 Un Homme d’Honneur (also screenwriter)
2005 Le Nez rouge
GROUSSET, DIDIER
After completing his studies in philosophy in Toulouse,
he moved to Paris, where he landed a job of
trainee assistant (1979 Bobo Jacco / Jacko and Lise,
Walter Bal, France / Belgium). Then he served as an
assistant director (1985 Subway, Luc Besson; 1986
L’Unique / USA: The Original, Jérôme Diamant-Berger;
Un Homme et une Femme: 20 Ans déjà / USA: A Man
and a Woman: 20 Years Later, Claude Lelouch). He
co-wrote an episode of Les Jupons de la Révolution
(“Talleyrand ou Les Lions de la Revanche,” Vincent de
Brus). He is mostly a TV director.
Filmography
1986 Kamikaze (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1990 Rendez-vous au Tas de Sable (shot in 1989)
Television Filmography
1989 Les Jupons de la Révolution (episode “Madame
Tallien”)
1993 Le Cœur qui tape
1994 Eclats de Famille (also co-screenwriter)
1995 Le Fils de Paul
1996 Le Poteau d’Aldo
Papa est un Mirage
1999 Les Monos (episode “Le Responsable”)
Docteur Sylvestre (episode “Ecorchée vive”)
2000 Le Coup du Lapin
Les Monos (episode “Jeux de Lois”)
Docteur Sylvestre (episode “Programme de
Substitution”)
2001 Dans la Gueule du Loup
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