Jean Bastia
Jean Bastia (actually Jean Simoni; * February 15, 1919 in Bastia ) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Bastia, who chose his stage name after his birthplace, worked as an assistant director in the French film since 1946 and has worked with Erich von Stroheim, Alfred Rode and often with Jean Boyer. Was published in 1956 his film debut Nous autres à Champignol, which was followed by several comedies, the former preference came to meet. From the mid- 1970s he worked as a production manager, after he had had very little after 1960 in the former functions in appearance.
He is the brother of the composer Pascal Bastia.