Each dictionary entry dedicated to Maurice Pialat (its life and work) is descriptive and/or analytical and/or interpretative. This covers a biographical or filmographic aspect, a theme, a film concept, a film subject, a poetic element or an aesthetic trait. Almla s, Nestor; Love; Motor vehicles; Barb; Fine Arts; Berri, Claude; “Turkish Chronic”; Anger; Collard, Cyril; “Diocolous eucharistic Congress”; Counter-foot; Courbevoie; Documentary; “Coil drill”; Duret, Jean-Pierre; FIESCHI, Jacques; Films of Livradois; Generations; Giordano, Isabelle; Glenn, Pierre-William; Improvisation; Irruption; ‘Isabelle aux Dombes’; “I feel that I have the dry heart”; Kurant, Willy; Lido Films; Loiseleux, Jacques; Music; “Do not badine with love”; Painted paper; Painting; Pialat actor; Policy; Price; Sound; Tarrazon, Michel; Theatre; Filming; Final projects; Medical visitor; Wagon.