Desclozeaux, Léon

(Bernard Desclozeaux / March 3, 1951, Paris, France - )

   Having graduated from the IDHEC, he was an assist­ant to director Roberto Rossellini and chief editor of commercials and attended Tania Balachova's acting classes before directing his first short. Founder of two production companies, Les Films du Large and Zeaux, he financed more than 200 documentaries.

 Filmography

1979 ◘ Acte manqué (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Remanence (short; France / Italy / Belgium)

        ◘ Lighthouse and Beacons (short)

        ◘ Missed Act (short)

1982 ◘ Mora (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, line producer)

1987 ◘ Tokyo Detective (short; also producer, actor)

1999 ◘ Casseurs de Bateaux / Boat Breakers (documentary; short; also screenwriter, delegate producer)

2001 ◘ Chittagong: Dernière Escale / USA: Chittagong: The Last Stopover (also co-screenwriter; shot in 1998)

2007 ◘ Cargo, les Hommes perdus / USA: Cargo, the Lost Men (also screenwriter, dialogist)

 Television Filmography

1994 ◘ Silence and Fear: Aung san Suu Kyi (documentary video)

        ◘ De Lumière à El Cordobes: une Histoire de la Tau­romachie (documentary; also screenwriter)

1996 ◘ Laurent Terzieff, l'Homme secret (documentary; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Ravensbruck, Mémoires de Femmes (documentary)

        ◘ La Crise de Suez (documentary; short; also screenwriter, line producer)

        ◘ Pioneers of the Deep (documentary; short; also line producer)

2006 ◘ Il était une Fois un Commissariat (documentary; also screenwriter)