Bourguignon, Serge

(September 3, 1928, Maigneley-Montigny, Oise, France - )

   A former IDHEC student (1948-1950), he was an assistant director (1950 Les Enfants terribles / USA: The Strange Ones, Jean-Pierre Melville; 1951 Capitaine Ardant, André Zwobada) before directing his first short. He spent two years (1954-1955) in India and other Asian countries for Connaissance du Monde. One of his shorts, Le Sourire, got the Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm for best short film in 1960. His first feature film earned him the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 1962.

 Filmography

        ◘ Médecins des Sols (documentary; short)

        ◘ Bornéo (documentary; short)

        ◘ Démons et Merveilles de Bali (documentary; short)

1956 ◘ Sikkim, Terre secrète / Le Langage du Sourire (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Jeune Patriarche (documentary; short)

1958 ◘ Marie Lumière (short)

        ◘ Le Sourire (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Escale (documentary; short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Montreur d'Ombres (documentary; short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Rançon (short)

1962 ◘ Les Dimanches de Ville-d'Avray / UK: Cybele / USA: Sundays and Cybele (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1965 ◘ The Reward (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; USA)

        ◘ A Cœur joie / UK and USA: Two Weeks in Sep­tember (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ The Picasso Summer (completed by Robert Sallin and released on US TV)

1984 ◘ Mon Royaume pour un Cheval (documentary; shot in 1978-1984)

1987 ◘ The Fascination (USA; shot in 1985)