Dréville, Jean

(September 20, 1906, Vitry-sur-Seine, France - March 5, 1997, Paris, France)

   A former advertising drawer and film journalist (L'Intransigeant; Comoedia), he founded three maga­zines (Photo-Ciné; Cinégraphie; Cinéma-Ciné) from 1925 to 1927. A film director since 1929, he also was suc­cessively cinematographer (1929 Cagliostro, Richard Oswald); cinematographer, editor, sound engineer, and dubbing (1929 Roumanie, Terre d'Amour / Ô Rou-manie, Terre d'Amour/ Roumanie, Terre latine, Camille de Morlhon); camera operator (1931 Vive la Foire!, short, Michel Gorel, Daniel Abric); assistant director (1946 L'Affaire du Collier de la Reine / USA: Queen's Necklace, Marcel L'Herbier); and technical adviser (1980 La Mer Couleur de Larmes, Serge de Sienne). He appeared as himself in a documentary (1968 Cinéastes de notre Temps, documentary; episode "La Première Vague", Noël Burch, Jean-André Fieschi).

 Filmography

1929 ◘ Quand les Epis se courbent (documentary; also cinematographer)

        ◘ Autour de l'Argent (documentary; short; also cinematographer, sound engineer, editor)

        ◘ Physiopolis (documentary; also cinematographer)

        ◘ Créosote (short; also cinematographer, editor)

        ◘ Vive la Foire! (documentary; short)

        ◘ A la Varenne (Java chantée) (short; also producer, cinematographer, editor)

        ◘ Le Baptême du petit Oscar (short)

        ◘ Lomme d'Amour (also editor)

        ◘ La Chanson du Muguet (short; filmed song)

        ◘ Midi (documentary; short; also cinematographer, editor)

        ◘ Trois pour Cent (also adapter)

        ◘ Un Homme en Or / USA: A Man and His Woman (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Le Bonheur (co-director with Marcel L'Herbier; also co-editor)

        ◘ Touche à tout (also editor)

        ◘ Coup de Vent / Colpo di vento (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Les Petites Alliées (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Troïka sur la Piste blanche Maman Colibri

        ◘ Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Petersbourg / USA: Kreutzer Sonata

        ◘ Le Joueur d'Echecs / USA: The Chess Player / The Devil Is an Empress (also co-screenwriter)

1939 ◘ Son Oncle de Normandie

        ◘ La Brigade sauvage / USA: Savage Brigade (Jean Dréville completed the film after Marcel L'Herbier fell ill)

1940 ◘ Le Président Haudecoeur

1942 ◘ Annette et la Dame blonde

        ◘ Les Affaires sont les Affaires

1943 ◘ Les Roquevillard (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Tornavara

1945 ◘ Les Cadets de l'Océan (shot in 1942)

        ◘ La Cage aux Rossignols / USA: A Cage of Night­ingales

        ◘ La Ferme du Pendu

        ◘ Le Visiteur / USA: Tainted

        ◘ Copie conforme / UK and USA: Confessions of a Rogue (also co-adapter)

        ◘ La Bataille de l'Eau lourde / Kampen om tungt-vannet (co-director with Titus Vibe Muller; also co-adapter; France / Norway)

        ◘ Les Casse-Pieds

        ◘ Retour à la Vie / USA: Return to Life (segments "Le Retour de René", "Le Retour de Louis")

        ◘ Le Grand Rendez-vous (also co-adapter)

        ◘ Encyclopédie filmée Lettre A:Absence (documentary; short)

        ◘ Les Sept Péchés capitaux / I sette peccati / I sette peccati capitali / UK and USA: The Seven Capital Sins (segment "La Paresse / Sloth"; France / Italy)

        ◘ La Fille au Fouet (René Le Hénaff started the shooting of the film; also Swiss version: Die Jungfrau mit der Peitsche / Germany: Das Madchen mit der Peitsche / Das Madchen vom Bergsee; France / Switzerland)

        ◘ Horizons sans Fin

        ◘ La Reine Margot / La Regina Margot / UK: A Woman of Evil / USA: Queen Margot (France / Italy)

        ◘ Escale à Orly / Zwischenlandung in Paris (also actor; France / West Germany)

        ◘ Les Suspects (also actor, editor)

        ◘ A Pied, à Cheval et en Spoutnik / UK: Hold Tight for the Satellite / USA: Sputnik / A Dog, a Mouse, and a Sputnik

        ◘ La Belle et le Tzigane / A Fekete szem éjszâkja (co-director with Mârton Keleti; France / Hungary)

        ◘ Normandie-Niémen (co-director with Damir Vlatich Berejnykh; France / USSR)

1962 ◘ La Fayette / Lafayette, una spada per due bandi-ere / USA: Lafayette (also co-adapter; France / Italy)

1966 ◘ La Nuit des Adieux / Tretya molodost (co-director with Isaac Michalovitch Menaker; France / USSR)

        ◘ La Sentinelle endormie (France / Italy)

 Television Filmography

1965 ◘ Histoires d'Hommes (episode "Commando Grand Nord"; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, editor)

1967 ◘ SOS Fréquence 17 (episodes "Objet volant non identifié", also co-adapter",L'Escalade", also co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1969 ◘ La Légende de Bas de Cuir / Die Lederstrump-ferzahlungen / USA: The Leatherstocking Tales (episodes "Der Wildtôter" / "Le Chasseur de Daims" / "Vinatorul de cerbi" / USA: The Deerslayer, co-director with Pierre Gaspard-Huit and Sergiu Nicolaescu; Le Dernier des Mo­hicans / Der letzte Mohikaner / Ultimul Mohican / USA: The Last of the Mohicans, co-director with Sergiu Nicolaescu; Das Fort am Biberfluss / Aventures en Ontario / USA: Adventures in Ontario, co-director with Sergiu Nicolaescu; France / West Germany / Romania)

1971 ◘ Le Voyageur des Siècles (4 X 90'; also co-editor; episodes "Le Bonnetier de la Rue Tripette", "Le Grain de Sable", "L'Album de Famille", "L'Homme au Tricorne")