Biography
Jean Chapot (15 November 1930 – 10 April 1998) was a French screenwriter and film director who began his career as an actor. In 1972, he was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or for his film Le fusil à lunette at the 25th Cannes Film Festival. Source: Article "Jean Chapot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Honorin et l'enfant prodigue
1994
Writer, Director
In 1930, Honorin, the mayor of a small village, receives a visit from a young girl claiming to be his child.
Polly West est de retour
1993
Director
Polly West, a very rich American star, has bought the castle of Sainte Apolline, a small village in Provence. As soon as she arrives, the dynamic actr...
Honorin et la Loreleï
1992
Director
During the inter-war period, a young German woman and her little girl arrive in a peaceful Provencal village. They have come to find the father of the...
The Pleasure of Love
1991
Screenplay, Producer
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is ...
The Cocottes
1991
Director, Writer
A small village lies peacefully nestled in the hills beneath the Provence sun... until the arrival of an odd group of vacationers. Who are these gorg...
Velvet Paws
1987
Writer
Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sih...
Charles and Lucie
1979
Executive Producer, Writer, Story
An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary ...
Nea
1976
Writer
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challe...
The Burned Barns
1973
Director, Screenplay
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
Les années Lumière
1972
Director
Film montage of documents shot between 1895 and 1900 by the operators of the Lumière brothers.
Le fusil à lunette
1972
Director
Romy: Anatomy of a Face
1967
as Self
Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltun...
La Voleuse
1966
Director, Writer
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
Skies Above
1965
Screenplay
The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to ...
The Thousandth Window
1960
Adaptation
An old man against the public housing project.
A Bomb for a Dictator
1957
RY A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to France. The rebels have made careful plans to blow up ...