Faurez, Jean

(February 9, 1905, Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France - October 24, 1980, Paris, France)

   He successively was an advertising chief, location manager, editor, assistant director (1936 Mademoiselle Mozart / USA: Meet Miss Mozart, Yvan Noé; Mes Tantes et moi, Yvan Noé; 1939 Le Château des Quatre Obèses, Yvan Noé; Quartier Latin, Pierre Colombier, Christian Chamborant, Alexandre Esway; 1940 De Mayerling à Sarajevo / UK: Sarajevo / Mayerling to Sarajevo / US video: From Mayerling to Sarajevo, Max Ophuls; 1942 Signé Illisible, Christian Chamborant), production manager (1939 UEtrange Nuit de Noël, Yvan Noé; 1941 Nous les Gosses / UK: Portrait of Innocence, Louis Daquin; 1943 Le Voyageur de la Toussaint / Il viaggiatore dOgnissanti, Louis Daquin, France / Italy; Madame et le Mort, Louis Daquin; La Cavalcade des Heures / USA: Love Around the Clock, Louis Daquin), and finally direc­tor. He also was an occasional screenwriter (1949 Les Vagabonds du Rêve, as adapter, dialogist, Charles-Félix Tavano; 1968 Gorri le Diable, as adapter, dialogist, 13 x 26' TV series, Jean Goumain, Pierre Neurrisse).

 Filmography

        ◘ Service de Nuit / Turno di notte (France / Italy)

        ◘ La Fille aux Yeux gris

        ◘ Couleurs de Venise (short; also screenwriter; co-director with Jacques Mercanton)

        ◘ Contre-Enquête

        ◘ La Vie en Rose / UK: A Merry Life / USA: The Loves of Colette

        ◘ Vire-Vent

        ◘ Histoires extraordinaires (as co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Jep le Traboucaire (unfinished)

        ◘ Les Grenadiers de Lessach (short)

        ◘ La Résurrection de Barnabé (short; also adapter)

1960 ◘ Quai du Point-du-Jour (also co-adapter)

        ◘ L'orraine-Escaut (documentary; short)

        ◘ Passant par Paris (documentary; short)

        ◘ Profondeur 4000 (documentary; short)

        ◘ Sources de Vie (short)

        ◘ Le Petit Mystère de Marly (short)

        ◘ Retour aux Pyrénées (short)

        ◘ Le Blé le plus dur (short)