Gégauff, Paul

(August 10, 1922, Blotzheim, Haut-Rhin, France - December 24, 1983, Gjovik, Norway)

   He co-founded with Eric Rohmer Le Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin. A novelist since 1951 (Les Mauvais Plaisants, Editions de Minuit), he was known mostly as a screenwriter (about forty films from 1950 Le Journal d'un Scélérat, short, also screenwriter, Eric Rohmer, to 1984 Frankenstein 90, Alain Jessua). He notably co-authored the screenplays and dialogues of thirteen Claude Chabrol films, including the one in which he played the leading role (1975 Une Partie de Plaisir / Una gita di piacere / UK: A Piece of Pleasure / USA: Pleasure Party). He occasionally performed small roles in movies directed by his friends (1963 Le Vice et la Vertu / Il vizio e la virtù / UK and USA: Vice and VirtueL Roger Vadim, France / Italy; 1966 La Ligne de Démar­cation, Claude Chabrol; 1967 Week-End / Week-End, un uomo e una donna dal sabato alla domenica / UK and USA: Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard, France / Italy). The only film he directed, based on a Robert Louis Stevenson novel, remained theatrically unreleased. He was stabbed to death by his wife.

 Filmography

1965 ◘ Le Reflux (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; shot in 1961)