- Benazeraf, José
- (January 8, 1922, Casablanca, Morocco-)Having graduated from Sciences Po Paris after World War II, he entered films as a producer (1957 Les Lavandières du Portugal / Las lavanderas de Portugal, Pierre Gaspard-Huit, France / Spain; 1958 La Fille de Hambourg, also co-screenwriter, Yves Allégret; 1961 Un Martien à Paris, Jean-Daniel Daninos; Mourir d'Amour, Dany Fog; La Fête espagnole / USA: No Time for Ecstasy, also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Jean-Jacques Vierne; 1963 L'Accident / USA: The Accident, Edmond T. Gréville; 1970 Les Enfants de Caïn, René Jolivet; 1974 Magasin de Lingerie / Tout Bas, short, Noël Simsolo). A film director since 1961, he won huge fame as the specialist of erotic cinema with some intellectual pretention (he was nicknamed the "Jean-Luc Godard of erotic movies"). From 1975 to 1999, he filmed more than fifty porn flicks (some-times shot on video).Other credit (as actor):1960 ◘ A Bout de Souffle / UK: By a Tether / USA: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard).Filmography◘ Le Quatrième Sexe / USA: The Fourth Sex (Alfonso Gimeno, Michel Wichard; José Benaz-eraf is the real director of the film; also producer, actor)◘ Le Cri de la Chair / UEternité pour nous / USA: Sin on the Beach (also producer, cameraman, actor)◘ Le Concerto de la Peur / La Drogue du Vice / USA: Night of Lust (also producer, co-cameraman, actor)◘ 24 Heures d'un Américain / Paris Erotika / USA: Paris Ooh-La-La! (also screenwriter, dialogist, camerman, voice)◘ Cover Girls / Cover Girls ragazze di tutti (also original story, co-adapter, co-producer, cameraman, actor; France / Italy)◘ La Nuit la plus longue / L'Enfer dans la Peau / USA: Sexus (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer, actor)◘ L'Enfer sur la Plage (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)◘ Sankt Pauli zwischen Nacht und Morgen (also co-screenwriter, actor; West Germany)◘ Un Epais Manteau de Sang / UK: Flesh and Fantasy / USA: The Subject Is Sex (also screenwriter, actor, producer, cameraman, actor) Llesh and Fantasy (also screenwriter, dialogist; USA)◘ Joë Caligula—Du Suif chez les Dabes (also adapter, dialogist, producer, actor; shot in 1966)◘ Bacchanales 69◘ Le Désirable et le Sublime (also screenwriter, adapter, producer, cameraman)◘ Triangle (short; also producer)◘ Frustration ou Les Dérèglements d'une jeune Provinciale / UK: Frustrated Woman / The Trip to Perversion / USA: The Chambermaid's Dream / The Chambermaid's Street (also screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, producer, cameraman)◘ Racism (also screenwriter, dialogist; USA)◘ The French Love (also screenwriter, dialogist, co-producer, actor)◘ Bacchanales 73◘ Le Sexe nu (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer, cameraman)◘ Orgies et Bacchanales1974 ◘ Black Love ou L'Homme qui voulait violer le Monde entier (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer, cameraman)◘ Adolescence pervertie / Adolescenza perversa (also co-screenwriter, co-producer; France / Italy)◘ Orgies et Voluptés◘ Le Bordel (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer, cameraman)1975 ◘ La Soubrette / La Soubrette perverse (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer)◘ La Veuve (hard-core version: La Veuve lubrique; also screenwriter, dialogist, producer, actor)◘ Les Incestueuses (also producer, cameraman)◘ Les Lesbiennes (also producer, cameraman)1976 ◘ Voir Malte et mourir / Une Garce en Chaleur / Lo sceicco la vede cosi (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer; France / Italy)1980 ◘ Les Contes Galants de Jean de La Fontaine (also co-screenwriter, producer, cameraman)1981 ◘ Brantôme 81 Vie de Dames galantes / video: Vie de Courtisanes (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, producer, cameraman; theatrically unreleased)
Encyclopedia of French film directors . Philippe Rège. 2011.