Stora, Bernard

(November 17, 1942, Mar­seille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France - )

   Having graduated from the IDHEC, he began as a trainee assistant director (1964 L'Enfer, Henri-Georges Clouzot, unfinished; Patate / Lamico di famiglia / USA: Friend of the Family, Robert Thomas) before serving as an assistant director (1966 Le Père Noël a les Yeux bleus / UK and USA: Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes, medium-length, Jean Eustache; 1968 Le Tatoué / Nemici . . . per la pelle, Denys de La Patel-lière, France / Italy; 1969 Staircase / L'Escalier, Stanley Donen, USA / UK / France; Le Clan des Siciliens / USA: The Sicilian Clan, Henri Verneuil; 1970 Darling Lili, Blake Edwards, USA; The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun / La Dame dans l'Auto avec des Lunettes et un Fusil, Anatole Litvak, UK / France; Le Cercle rouge / I senza nome / UK and USA: The Red Circle, Jean-Pierre Melville, France / Italy; 1971 Les Mariés de l'An II / Gli sposi dell'anno secondo / Mirii anului II / UK: The Scoundrel / USA: The Scarlet Buccaneer / The Swashbuckler, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France / Italy / Romania; Un peu de Soleil dans l'Eau froide / Un po' di sole nell'acqua gelida / Un attimo d'amore / UK: Sunlight on Cold Water / USA: A Few Hours of Sunlight, Jacques Deray, France / Italy; Le Casse / Gli scassinatori / Oi Diarriktes / USA: The Burglars, Henri Verneuil, France / Italy / Greece; 1972 Le Tueur / Il commissario Le Guen e il caso Gassot / Der Killer und der Kommissar, Denys de La Patellière, France / Italy / West Germany; 1973 L'Impossible Objet / Questo impossibile oggetto / UK: Impossible Object / USA: Story of a Love Story, John Frankenheimer, France / Italy; Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob / Le folli avventure di Rabbi Jacob / UK: The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob / USA: The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob, Gérard Oury, France / Italy; 1975 French Connection II, John Frankenheimer, USA; 1976 L'Ombre des Châteaux, Daniel Duval; 1978 El recurso del método / Viva el Presidente! / Le Recours / Le Recours de la Méthode, Miguel Littin, France / Mexico / Cuba) and second unit director (1978 La Carapate / USA: Out of It, Gérard Oury; 1980 Le Coup du Parapluie, Gérard Oury; Trois Hommes à abattre / UK: Three Men to Destroy / US video: Three Men to Kill, Jacques Deray; 1982 Tout Feu, tout Flamme, Jean-Paul Rappeneau; Le Choc / USA: Contract in Blood / Shock, Robin Davis, Alain Delon; 1983 Le Battant / US video: Ice, Alain Delon). An occasional actor (1978 La Tortue sur le Dos / USA: Like a Turtle on Its Back, Luc Béraud), he collaborated as a screenwriter on several films (1979 L'Adoption, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Marc Grunebaum; 1984 Le Juge, also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist, Philippe Lefebvre; 1985 L'Effrontée / UK: Charlotte and Lulu / USA: Impudent Girl, as co-screenwriter, Claude Miller, France / Switzerland; 1988 La Petite Amie, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Luc Béraud; 1990 Plein Fer, as dialogist, Josée Dayan, 1991 All Out / De plein Fouet, Thomas Koerfer, France / Germany / Italy; 1992 Max et Jérémie, as co-screenwriter, Claire Devers; L'Inconnu dans la Maison, as co-screenwriter, Georges Lautner; Navodneniye / L'Inondation, as co-screenwriter, Igor Minayev, France / Russia; 2002 Les Amours de Mogador, as co-screenwriter, Souheil Ben-Barka, Morocco) and TV movies (1989 A Corps et à Cris / Alta tensione a gran voce, Josée Dayan, France / Italy; 1994 Couchettes Express, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist; Luc Béraud; Les Nuiteux, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; Josée Dayan; 1996 Crédit Bonheur, Luc Béraud; 2000 Mémoires en Fuite, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; François Marthouret; 2004 Une Autre Vie, as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Luc Béraud).

 Filmography

1983 ◘ Le Jeune Marié (also screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1987 ◘ Vent de Panique (also co-screenwriter)

1994 ◘ Consentement mutuel (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

2000 ◘ Un Dérangement considérable / US video: A Major Inconvenience (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; shot in 1998-1999)

 Television Filmography

1986 ◘ L'Inconnue de Vienne

        ◘ Six Crimes sans Assassins (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ La Grande Dune (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1994 ◘ La Corruptrice (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Sixième classique (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Avocat d'Office (episode "Amour piégé"; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1999 ◘ Georges Dandin

2001 ◘ Demain et tous les Jours après (also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Mali)

        ◘ L'Aîné des Ferchaux (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Une Preuve d'Amour (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Suzie Berton (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

2006 ◘ Le Grand Charles (2 X 105'; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, narrator)

2008 ◘ Elles et moi (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France / Spain / Belgium)