Jacques Viot (writer)


Jacques Viot was a French novelist and screenwriter.
After service in the artillery during the First World War he became involved with the Surrealist movement. From the mid-1930s he began working on screenplays, collaborating with directors such as Marcel Carne, Jacques Feyder and Marcel Camus.
After the war, he enrolled at HEC Paris where he obtained a diploma, then worked in an insurance firm in Nantes.

Selected filmography

Beautiful Days Under Western Eyes People Who Travel The Tamer Daybreak Carmen Marie-Martine The Ménard Collection Lunegarde Back Streets of Paris The Woman in Red The Long Night Night Express Juliette, or Key of Dreams The Call of Destiny The King's Prisoner The Air of Paris House on the Waterfront