Carpita, Paul

(November 12, 1922, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France - )

   The son of a docker father and a fishmonger mother, he was a schoolteacher from 1946 to 1968. A former resistant during World War II, he co-founded with a few friends CINEPAX, a politically involved group of filmmakers who shot 16-mm reports (Equipe de Choc; Pour que nos Joues soient toujours roses; Nous voulons vivre!). From 1953 to 1955, he directed his first feature film, Le Rendez-vous des Quais, which was censored be­cause it showed a Marseille dockers' strike organized by a Communist labor union to protest the Indochina War and "scenes of resistance to public force suscep­tible to disturb public order." In 1988, the seized cop­ies were found in the Bois d'Arcy Film Archives, and the movie was first shown at the French Cinemath­eque and then was released theatrically in 1990.

 Filmography

        ◘ Vers la Lumière (short)

        ◘ Rencontre Jeunesse (short)

        ◘ Nous voulons vivre! (documentary; short)

        ◘ Pour que nos Joues soient toujours roses (documentary; short)

1951 ◘ Je suis née à Berlin (documentary)

1956 ◘ Rencontre à Varsovie (documentary)

1958 ◘ La Récréation (short)

1960 ◘ Marseille sans Soleil (short)

1962 ◘ Demain, l'Amour (short)

1964 ◘ Des Lapins dans la Tête (short)

        ◘ Graines au Vent (short)

1966 ◘ La Visite (short)

1970 ◘ Adieu Jésus (short)

1972 ◘ Les Fleurs de Glai (short)

1990 ◘ Le Rendez-vous des Quais (also screenwriter, cinematographer; shot in 1953)

1996 ◘ Les Sables mouvants (also screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist; shot in 1994)

2002 ◘ Marche et rêve / Les Homards de l'Utopie (also screenwriter, dialogist)