Known for Editing
Born
February 5, 1926
Died
October 1, 2015 (age 89)
Birthplace
Altkirch, Haut-Rhin, France
Filmography
44 films, 1 show


A Pain in the Ass
2008 · 1h 26m
country: France
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.


The Valet
2006 · 1h 25m
country: France
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.


Ruby & Quentin
2003 · 1h 25m
country: France
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.


The Pharmacist
2003 · 1h 24m
country: France
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.


The Closet
2001 · 1h 24m
country: France
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.


American Virgin
2000 · 1h 28m
country: France
When your father is a pornographer, what can you do to shock him? If you're Katrina Bartalotti, you announce that you're going to lose your virginity -- live on the Internet, for the whole world to see.


The Frenchman's Son
1999 · 1h 47m
country: France
A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin, whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed than his two grandmothers, both of whom hate one another. Upper class teacher bristles at the coarse behavior of working class Suzanne, who shoplifts and cheats at cards. Soon bad guys threaten them, and the chase begins.


Le radeau de la Méduse
1998 · 2h 10m
country: France
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.


The Dinner Game
1998 · 1h 20m
country: France
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...


Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir
1997 · 1h 30m
country: France
The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.


The Best Job in the World
1996 · 1h 45m
country: France
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.


Two Dads and One Mom
1996 · 1h 30m
country: France
Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother...


Stranger in the House
1992 · 1h 44m
country: France
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.


Room Service
1992 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
The countess and her son, irresponsible but sweet viscount Louis, own the castle Montverdier, which is falling apart. Fernand Castanier is the baker in the neighboring town Mussy-sur-Ploute.


My Father the Hero
1991 · 1h 45m
country: France
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...


Believed Violent
1990 · 1h 40m
country: France
Having developed a revolutionary device that puts water in the mouth of all secret services in the world, professor Forrester is about to go on a conference in San Francisco under the protection of Tom Lepski, an insurer.


L'Œil au beur(re) noir
1987 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie, whocould rent them the vacant apartment of her stepfather, but she'd rather rent to some low-lifes than to a black or an Algerian.


Waiting for the Moon
1987 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.


Just the Way You Are
1984 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Despite her success as a professional flute player and the constant attention of men around her, Susan Berlanger feels insecure because of her lame right leg. During a European tour, she decides to cover her leg with a cast to see how people will react to her as a nondisabled person.


L'Étincelle
1984 · 1h 48m
country: France
A beautiful DJ starts a romantic relationship with an older antiquarian. The only problem: she's pregnant and already hitched.


Petit Con
1984 · 1h 30m
country: France
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.


Rock and Torah
1983 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once more enthused by music than by sculpting holy icons.


Chanel Solitaire
1981 · 1h 47m
country: France
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.


Molière
1978 · 4h 13m
country: France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.


Trocadero Lemon Blue
1978 · 1h 30m
country: France
Ten years old Phil who is living with his mother and likes skateboarding with his friends has fallen in love with a girl of his age.


A Dream of Passion
1978 · 1h 50m
country: Greece
Maya is a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda, a Bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.


Another Man, Another Chance
1977 · 2h 11m
country: France
Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west, they build up a small photo shop. Meanwhile, animal doctor David lives on his lonesome farm together with his unlucky wife. It takes years and two tragic accidents until Jeanne and David meet. She has already decided to return to France as soon as possible, but love, and fate, have other plans.


Servant and Mistress
1977 · 1h 30m
country: France
When a rich man dies, his maid Maria unexpectedly becomes his heir. In order to get revenge on the man's nephew Jerome, for slights he committed while she was a maid, she keeps him on as her personal valet - a role he willingly accepts.


The Good and the Bad
1976 · 2h
country: France
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.


Cat and Mouse
1975 · 1h 48m
country: France
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.


Marriage
1974 · 1h 39m
country: France
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.


And Now My Love
1974 · 2h 30m
country: France
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.


Profession: Adventurers
1973 · 1h 30m
country: France
Henry, a rich Londoner bored, shipwrecked in the Atlantic and ends up in San Francisco. The adventure has just begun. From the novel "Naufrage en eaux troubles" by François Ponthier.


Sambizanga
1973 · 1h 42m
country: Angola
Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.


Happy New Year
1973 · 1h 55m
country: France
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.


The Suns of Easter Island
1972 · 1h 31m
country: Chile
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.
Faire l'amour... De la pilule à l'ordinateur
Faire l'amour... De la pilule à l'ordinateur
1971 · 1h 15m
country: Sweden
An anthology film featuring five stories about women of different nationalities – French, German, American, Japanese, and Swedish. Each of them makes new experiences in love and sex.


The Plot Against Harry
1971 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Deadpan, small-time Kosher Nostra mobster Harry Plotnick goes meshugga when he gets into the catering biz with his ex-brother-in-law.


The Wanderer
1967 · 1h 55m
country: France
Rural France, the 1890s. Always in motion, Augustin wanders three times. First, as a youth, while a boarder near Bourges, he's lost in the woods and finds a chateau where an engagement party's in progress: there he falls eternally in love with Yvonne and she with him. Back at school, he hears she is in Paris, so he follows in a vain search and meets a woman, jilted by her lover. In the countryside a few year's later, Augustin's friend François finds Yvonne and brings Augustin to her. They marry, but the next day, Augustin leaves to fulfill a youthful promise he made to Yvonne's brother. François comforts the pregnant Yvonne as they await Augustin's return.


The Girl with the Golden Eyes
1961 · 1h 35m
country: France
A skirt-chasing fashion photographer meets a charming young woman who captures his interest immediately. She is not wholly forthcoming, but after a period of time, he realizes that he is in love with her -- she is not just another conquest. It takes awhile before he also realizes that she is the partner of his femme associate who is possessive, at the very least.


Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth, the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers.


Special Delivery
1955 · 1h 26m
country: Germany
Complications ensue when a U.S. diplomat discovers that he has a baby on his hands and an undercover gal in his arms.


Double Destiny
1954 · 1h 30m
country: France
A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in Germany.