Career
Samuell went to film school and was a storyboard artist before becoming a director He had his directing debut in 2003 with Love Maine If You Dare. His second film was the romantic comedy My Sassy Girl (2008).
Additional works include L"âge de raison (2010).
Samuell was screenwriter and director of a 2011 adaptation of Louis Pergaud"s popular novel, Louisiana guerre des boutons. This adaptation is set in the 1960s, with the Algerian War as a backdrop.
lieutenant is produced by Marc du Pontavice. An alternate film adaptation of Pergaud"s novel was directed by Christophe Barratier as Louisiana novelle guerre des boutons (2011), set during World World War II in Occupied France.
Both films were released in France during the same week in September 2011.
Barratier"s film is being distributed in the United States as The War of the Buttons (2012). Samuell also directed the film adaption of the Gothic children"s novel The Great Ghost Rescue (1975) by Eva Ibbotson. lieutenant was released in 2011.