Known for Directing
Born
March 3, 1910
Died
May 12, 1994 (age 84)
Birthplace
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Filmography
20 films


The Unexpected Party
1953 · 23m
country: France
This musical comedy produced in 1953 for the General Government of Algeria, features the comic trio composed of Rouiched, Mohamed Touri and Sid Ali Fernandel, accompanied by the orchestra of the master of the Algiers Chaâbi El Hadj M'hamed El Anka, the singer Fadhéla Dziria, Mustapha Skandrani on the piano. Some scenes were filmed at the Summer Palace (the current Palace of the Algerian Presidency, called the People's Palace). André Zwobada, the director, will play an important role after the independence of Algeria in 1962, in the production and preservation of the first Algerian newsreels.


Captain Ardant
1951 · 1h 32m
country: Unknown
Representing the French authority in Morocco, Captain Ardant is the target of the bloodthirsty rebel leader Malek. In order to appropriate himself in arms, he does not hesitate to take the captain's collaborator hostage and to do despicable blackmail.


Daughter of the Sands
1949 · 1h 1m
country: France
This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman she thought would love her is killed by a madwoman.


The Seventh Door
1947 · 1h 28m
country: France
An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the sea" says the young lad" No use, you'd dive to get it back". The young man is curious and he cannot resist temptation: he opens the forbidden door. A strange world is waiting for him where a girl, Leila, will be his guide .


François Villon
1945 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles.


Farandole
1945 · 1h 42m
country: France
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.


The Liberation of Paris
1944 · 32m
country: France
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.


A Star to the Sun
1943 · 1h 32m
country: France
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the gentleman. They get married but she forgot to tell her husband that her father is in fact the most famous poacher in the area.


Sideral Cruises
1942 · 1h 28m
country: France
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.


Life Is Ours
1936 · 1h 6m
country: France
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.