Pollet, Jean-Daniel

(June 30, 1936, La Mad­eleine, Nord, France - September 9, 2004, Cadenet, Vaucluse, France)

   He studied at Sciences Po for two years. After his military service in the French army's Cinematographic Service, he served as an assistant director to Julien Duvivier (1957 L'Homme à l'Imperméable / L'uomo dall'impermeabile / USA: The Man in the Raincoat. France / Italy) and directed his first short. He produced documentary shorts (1963 Du Côté de Nardemer, Gérard Vienne; Forêts d'Ardennes. Gérard Vienne, François Sommer), played in Les Autres (Hugo Santiago, 1974), and appeared as himself in documentaries (1964 Cinéastes de notre Temps, episode "La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même", André S. Labarthe, Robert Valey). In 1989, a train that he was filming struck him. He re­ceived twenty-seven fractures and remained paralyzed. He shot his last films near his house in Cadenet in Provence. Jean-Paul Fargier completed his last movie in 2006 (Jour après Jour, also cinematographer, actor).

 Filmography

        ◘ Pourvu qu'on ait l'Ivresse (short; also screenwriter, cinematographer)

        ◘ La Ligne de Mire (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, editor; unreleased)

1961 ◘ Gala (short)

1963 ◘ Méditerranée (documentary; medium-length; co-director with Volker Schlôndorff; also cinematographer)

        ◘ Bassae (documentary; short)

        ◘ Paris vu par . . . / UK and USA: Six in Paris (episode "Rue Saint-Denis"; also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; shot in 1963)

1966 ◘ Une Balle au Cœur / Mia sfaira stin kardia / USA: Devil at My Heels (also screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Greece)

        ◘ La Femme aux Cent Visages (short)

        ◘ Le Horla (medium-length; also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ Les Morutiers (documentary; short; also co-screenwriter, editor; co-director with Etienne Lalou)

1969 ◘ Le Maître du Temps / O Homem das Estrelas (France / Brazil; unreleased)

1971 ◘ L'Amour c'est gai, l'Amour c'est triste (also co-screenwriter; shot in 1968)

        ◘ Le Sang (also co-screenwriter; unreleased)

1974 ◘ L'Ordre (documentary; short; also cinematographer)

1976 ◘ L'Acrobate (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Pascale et Maddy (short)

1981 ◘ Pour Mémoire (documentary; co-director with Maurice Born; shot in 1978)

1986 ◘ Au Père Lachaise (documentary; short; co-director with Pierre-Marie Goulet)

1990 ◘ Contretemps (also screenwriter, cinematographer; shot in 1988)

        ◘ Trois Jours en Grèce (documentary; also screenwriter, actor as himself; unreleased)

1991 ◘ Contre Courant (short)

1994 ◘ Dieu sait quoi (documentary; also screenwriter, adapter; France / Belgium; shot in 1992)

1998 ◘ Tu imagines Robinson (shot in 1967)

2001 ◘ Ceux d'en Face (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; shot in 1999)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ Dim Dam Dom (documentary; episode "Les Mariés de Robinson")

        ◘ Dim Dam Dom (documentary; episode "Chez Georges et Rosy")