Jacques Ertaud (18 November 1924 – 18 November 1995) was a French

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. Along with

Marcel Ichac Marcel Ichac (22 October 1906 - 9 April 1994) was a French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director. Born in Rueil, France, Ichac was one of the first people to introduce electronic music in cinema using the ondes Martenot instrument ...

, he co-directed the film '' Stars at Noon'', which entered into the

9th Berlin International Film Festival The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June to 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the French New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and Franç ...

Selected filmography

* '' Stars at Noon'' (1959) * '' The Link and the Chain'' (1963) * ''Sans famille'' (1981)

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* 1924 births 1995 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters Writers from Paris 20th-century French screenwriters 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub