Cabouat, Patrick

(January I, 1950, Nîmes, Gard, France - )

   He directed his first short (Parabole) at age sixteen. His movie won a prize at the San Sebastian Film Fes­tival. Having graduated with a high school diploma in Washington, DC, USA, he landed a job as a trainee director in various New York and Washington press agencies. The events of May 1968 in France gave him the opportunity to shoot documentaries. He met director Marin Karmitz, with whom he co-wrote Coup pour Coup, in which he also played, in 1971. The same year, he was hired by the research depart­ment of ORTF (French TV at the time). In 1980, he co-founded Jean-Luc Ormière's production company, Orca Productions.

 Filmography

1966 ◘ Parabole (short; also screenwriter)

1970 ◘ Albertine ou le Souvenirs parfumé de Marie-

        ◘ Rose (short; co-director with Jacques Kébadian)

1976 ◘ Chroniques de France (five shorts)

1979 ◘ Manadara (documentary; short)

        ◘ Vercors (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Sahara après le Désert (documentary; short)

1977 ◘ Les Loulous (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; shot in 1975)

1999 ◘ Le Droit à l'Enfance (documentary; short)

 Television Filmography

1976 ◘ La Câblier Vercors (documentary; short)

1995 ◘ De Gaulle et la Gauche (documentary; short)

        ◘ La Reconstruction de la France (documentary; short; co-director with Henri de Turenne)

        ◘ Nathan Charansky, du Goulag au Gouvernement (documentary; short)

        ◘ Bourguiba, le combattant suprême (documentary; short)

        ◘ Panique à la Bourse: Le Krach de 1987 (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Métier de Bourreau (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Baccalauréat, Deux Siècles d'Epreuves (documentary; short)

        ◘ Lusillés pour l'Exemple (documentary; short)

2004 ◘ Le Mystère du Général Jaruzelski (documentary; short)

        ◘ Gauchers, des Gens à l'Envers (documentary; short)

        ◘ 1945: France Année Zéro (documentary)

        ◘ 1945: La Face cachée des Libérateurs (documentary; short)

        ◘ Grand Orient: Les Frères invisibles de la Répub­lique (documentary; short)

        ◘ France, le Roman des Années 50 (2 X 52' documentary)