Robert Batton

Filmes

The Secret of Monte-Cristo
Director of Photography
One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
Just Leon
Director of Photography
Léon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous.
Le mariage de Mlle Beulemans
Director of Photography
The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company of a young man from Paris, to that of her compatriots.
Un chien qui rapporte
Director of Photography
Josyane Plaisir, a rather idle singer, who is waiting for the man of her heart,handsome and rich if possible, accepts the offer of a dog handler. The clever man has worked out a scheme to snare rich men. The trick is simple: "Pantoufle", the little dog he lets for 5,000 francs a week, will run off, climb into a luxurious car with only one man inside and "retrieve" him to Josyane, since her address is stuck to the dog's collar. René, the first man who rings her door-bell, is single (or nearly so!), good-looking but ... broke.
Figuration
Cinematography
The Erlkönig
Director of Photography
Alternate-language version of Le roi des aulnes (1931)
O Rei dos Elfos
Director of Photography
Um jovem corre para salvar a vida de seu filho, mas a morte, encarnada na imaginação da criança como Erlkönig, chama incessantemente.
Miracle of the Wolves
Cinematography
King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.