Sotha

(Catherine Sigaux / November 25, 1943, Royat, Puy-de-Dôme, France - )

   She already had directed her first short when she co-founded (in 1968) with Romain Bouteille, Coluche, Patrick Dewaere, and a few others the first and most famous French café theaters, Le Café de la Gare, for which she co-wrote and performed many shows until today. She played in a handful of films (1973 Themroc / Il mangiaguardie, Claude Faraldo, France / Italy; 1977 Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine, Coluche, Marc Mon­net, France / Belgium; 1978 Si vous n'aimez pas ça, n'en dégoûtez pas les Autres, as Catherine Sigaux, Raymond Lewin, shot in 1973; 1987 Cross, Philippe Setbon, France / Canada) and TV productions (1989 Tango Bar, Philippe Setbon; 1992 Patrick Dewaere, l'Enfant du Siècle, documentary, as herself, Alexandre Moix). She collaborated on the script of Mon Bel Amour, ma Déchirure (José Pin-heiro) and briefly worked as a script supervisor (1991 Love at First Sight, TV series, Philippe Setbon, USA).

 Filmography

1965 ◘ Le Huron (short)

1968 ◘ Il arrivera de la Mer (short)

1971 ◘ Glissom butreu (short)

        ◘ L'Art et les Restes (short)

        ◘ Au long de la Rivière Fango (also screenwriter, dialogist, co-composer)

        ◘ Le Graphique de Boscop (co-director with Georges Dumoulin; also screenwriter, dialogist, actor, co-editor, co-composer)

1981 ◘ Les Matous sont romantiques (also screenwriter, dialogist, co-editor, co-composer)

        ◘ Pas besoin de Valise (short)

        ◘ Les œufs sur le Plat (short)

        ◘ Tant Pis si je meurs (unreleased)