Queysanne, Bernard

(June 9, 1944, Rabat, Morocco-)

   He started as a trainee assistant and an assistant editor for French television before entering films as a still photographer in 1965 (Le 17ème Ciel / UK: Seventeenth Heaven, Serge Korber). He soon moved behind the camera as an assistant director working with Robert Enrico (1967 Les Aventuriers / Tre avven-turieri / UK and USA: The LastAdventureL France / Italy; 1968 Ho! / Criminal Face, France / Italy; 1971 Boulevard du Rhum / La via del rhum / El bulevar del ron / USA: Rum RunnersL France / Italy / Spain; 1972 Les Caïds / UK: The Hell Below), Jean-Gabriel Albicocco (1970 Le Coeur fou; 1971 Faire l'Amour: De la pilule à l'Ordinateur / Emmanuelle et ses Sœurs, segment "Emmanuelle", France / West Germany / Sweden / Japan), Georges Franju (1970 La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret), Philippe La-bro (l973 L'Héritier / L'erede / USA: The Inheritor / The Exterminator, France / Italy), and Robert Benayoun (1974 Sérieux comme le Plaisir).

 Filmography

        ◘ La Sologne d'Alain Fournier (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Concorde (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le F.I.A.P. (documentary; short)

        ◘ Claude Sautet (documentary; short)

        ◘ Serge Reggiani (documentary; short)

        ◘ Un Homme qui dort (co-director with Georges Pérec; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Le Travail de l'écrivain: Gustave Flaubert (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Diable au Cœur / USA: The Devil in the Heart (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ L'Amant de Poche / UK: Lover Boy / USA: The Pocket Lover (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ L'œil de l'Autre (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Il était un Musicien (episode "Monsieur Schumann"; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ André Malraux, Aventure, Représentation, Méta­morphose (documentary)

        ◘ Les 400 Coups de Virginie (6 X 52')

        ◘ Irène et sa Folie (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1982 ◘ La Tendresse (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Diane Lanster (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Hélas Alice est lasse (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Mademoiselle B (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Une Occasion en Or (episode "Le Frénétique")

        ◘ Crimes passionnels (episode "Antoinette"; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1991 ◘ V comme Vengeance (episodes "Plagiat et Meurtre", shot in 1989; "Le Billard écarlate"; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1995 ◘ Alfred Hitchcock: Le Maître fait ses Gammes (documentary)

        ◘ Thomas Narcejac (documentary)

        ◘ Autour de Vertigo (documentary)

1996 ◘ François Nourissier: Autoportrait (documentary; also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Un Siècle d'Ecrivains (documentary; episode "Maurice Leblanc: A l'Ombre des Lupins"; co-director with Nicole Berkmans; also co-screenwriter)

1999 ◘ Propos amicaux à propos d'espèces d'Espaces (documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer, sound)

        ◘ Georges Pérec: Lire-traduire (documentary; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Un Siècle d'Ecrivains (documentary; episode "Francis Carco"; also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Les Dessous de la Terre (documentary; episodes "Un Parfum d'Eternité", "Charentic Park"; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Voyages, Voyages (documentary; episode "Fes et Meknès"; also screenwriter, cinematographer)

2002 ◘ Voyages, Voyages (documentary; episode "Bruxelles"; also screenwriter, cinematographer)

        ◘ L'Hôtel s'amuse (6 X 26' documentary; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Bons Baisers des Tropiques (6 X 26'; also screenwriter)