Freedland, Georges

(December 13, 1910, Paris, France - December 23, 1993, Paris, France)

   He entered films as an assistant director to Fedor Ozep (1931 Les Frères Karamazoff, also German-language version: Der Môrder Dimitri Karamasoff, Eric Engels; 1932 Mirages de Paris, also editor, also German-language version: Grossstadtnacht, France / Germany; 1937 La Dame de Pique / UK: Pique Dame / USA: Queen of Spades, also editor; 1945 Le Père Chopin / L'Oncle du Canada, also editor, France / Canada). He also was an editor (1935 Bourrasque / Moghreb, Pierre Billon; 1936 Les Jumeaux de Brighton, also co-screenwriter, Claude Heymann; 1937 Il est un petit Pays, doc­umentary, René Leclère; Au Service du Tsar, Pierre Bil­lon; 1938 La principessa Tarakanova / Tarakanowa / UK: Betrayal / USA: Princess Tarakanova, Fedor Ozep, Mario Soldati, Italy / France; 1952 Le Banquet des Fraudeurs / Het Banket der Smokkelaars / Das Bankett der Schmug-gler, Henri Storck, Belgium / West Germany; 1975 Le Bol d'Air, short, Charles Nemes) and a screenwriter or dialogist (1933 Amour et Publicité, short, as author of original idea, Leo Mittler; 1984 Panther Squad, Pe­ter Knight = Pierre Chevalier; 1986 Les Amazones du Temple d'Or / US DVD: Golden Temple Amazons, James Gartner = Jesûs Franco; 1987 Maniac Killer, Frank Drew White = Andrea Bianchi; Commando Mengele / USA: Angel of Death, A. M. Franck White = Andrea Bianchi; Dark Mission / Operacion Cocaina, Jess Franco, France / Spain). From 1940 to 1945, he settled in the USA, where he directed information shorts for the "France Libre" (The Free France) and education films for the U.S. Navy.

 Filmography

1935 ◘ Le Rapide 7l3 (short)

1948 ◘ Neuf Garçons, un Coeur (also screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1950 ◘ La Danse solitaire (short)

        ◘ Enfantillages (short)

1959 ◘ Zuruck aus dem Weltall / Und immer ruft das Herz / Avaruusraketilla rakkauteen / Rymdraket till karleken / USA: Moon Wolf (also screenwriter; West Germany / Finland)

1975 ◘ Une Vierge pour Saint-Tropez / Video: Scandale à Saint-Tropez / La ragazzina perversa (as Gre­gory Freed; also co-adapter, co-dialogist; shot in 1973; France / Italy)