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André Delvaux
André Albert Auguste Delvaux (; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Johan Daisne, Julien Gracq and Marguerite Yourcenar, he received international attention for directing magic realist films. Delvaux received the Louis Delluc Prize for ''Rendezvous at Bray'' (1971) and the André Cavens Award for ''Woman Between Wolf and Dog'' (1979) and ''The Abyss'' (1988). The king of Belgium made him a baron in 1996. The Académie André Delvaux is named after him and he posthumously received the first in 2011. Early life and education André Albert Auguste Delvaux was born in Heverlee, Belgium, on 21 March 1926. He studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and worked as a silent film pianist at the Belgian cinématheque in his early 20s. He studied law and took a degree in German philology at the Free Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oud-Heverlee
Oud-Heverlee () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the villages of ''Blanden'', ''Haasrode'', ''Oud-Heverlee proper'', ''Sint-Joris-Weert'' and ''Vaalbeek''. On January 1, 2018, Oud-Heverlee had a total population of 11,099. The total area is 31.14 km2 which gives a population density of 356 inhabitants per km2. Football team The football team of Oud-Heverlee (Oud-Heverlee Leuven) plays in the first division in Belgium since the 2011–12 season. They won the second division title in 2011. They have their training ground here. See also * Haasrode Research-Park The Haasrode Research-Park business and research park in Heverlee (Leuven, Belgium) with a total area of 136 hectares (336 acres), accommodates dozens of high-technology businesses, employing well over 5,000 people in total. International compan ... References External links * Municipalities of Flemish Brabant {{FlemishBrabant-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free University Of Brussels (1834–1969)
The Free University of Brussels (french: Université libre de Bruxelles, or ULB; nl, Vrije Hogeschool te Brussel, later ''Vrije Universiteit Brussel'') was a university in Brussels, Belgium. Founded in 1834 on the principle of "free inquiry" (''libre examen''), its founders envisaged the institution as a free-thinker reaction to the traditional dominance of Catholicism in Belgian education. The institution was avowedly secular and particularly associated with Liberal political movements during the era of pillarisation. The Free University was one of Belgium's major universities, together with the Catholic University of Leuven and the state universities of Liège and Ghent. The "Linguistic Wars" affected the Free University, which split along language lines in 1969 in the aftermath of student unrest at Leuven the previous year. Today two institutions carry the "Free University of Brussels" name: the French-speaking Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Dutch-speaking Vr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Karina
Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940 – December 14, 2019) ''Le Monde''. Retrieved 15 December 2019 was a Danish-French film avant garde actress, director, writer, and singer. She was director 's collaborator in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including '''', '' |
Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier (born Marie-France Thielland; 9 August 1939) is a French actress and screenwriter. She adopted the professional surname Ogier, which was her mother's maiden name. Her first appearance on screen was in ''Voilà l'Ordre'', a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc. She worked with Jacques Rivette (''L'amour fou'', '' Céline et Julie vont en bateau'', ''Duelle'', '' Le Pont du Nord, La Bande des Quatre''), Luis Buñuel ('' Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie''), Alain Tanner ('' La Salamandre''), René Allio, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Civeyrac (''All the Fine Promises'' Prix Jean Vigo), Marguerite Duras, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Barbet Schroeder, and others. Ogier was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1972. Family life Ogier is married to producer and director Barbet Schroeder. She had a daughter, Pascale (1958–1984), who adopted her mother's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Carrière
Mathieu Carrière (; born 2 August 1950) is a German actor. Life Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's first major film, Volker Schlöndorff. In 1969, Carrière moved to Paris to study philosophy and continue his acting. Carrière is also a director and a writer and is known to fight for the rights of fathers. His sister Mareike Carrière was also an actress. After playing the young Tonio at the age of 13 in Rolf Thiele's 1964 film ''Tonio Kröger'', he played a main part in the 1966 German movie ''Der junge Törless'' (''Young Törless''). In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography *''Tonio Kröger'' (1964), as Tonio Kröger as a Boy *''Young Törless'' (1966), as Thomas Törless *'' Gates to Paradise'' (1968), as Alexis Melissen *' (1969), as Lorenzo *' (1970), as Carl-Stéphane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Libre Belgique
''La Libre Belgique'' (; literally ''The Free Belgium''), currently sold under the name ''La Libre'', is a major daily newspaper in Belgium. Together with ''Le Soir'', it is one of the country's major French language newspapers and is popular in Brussels and Wallonia. ''La Libre'' was founded in 1884 and has historically had a centre-right Christian Democratic political stance. The papers is particularly celebrated for its role as an underground newspaper during World War I and World War II when Belgium was occupied. Since 1999, the newspaper has become increasingly liberal but is still considered more conservative than ''Le Soir''. History The modern ''La Libre'' traces its origins to the ''Le Patriote'' newspaper, founded by Victor and Louis Jourdain in 1884. Politically, the newspaper supported the dominant centre-right Catholic Party. After the German invasion of Belgium in World War I, ''Le Patriote'' was banned by the German occupation authorities. In February 1915, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Night
One Night or 1 Night may refer to: Film * ''One Night'' (2002 film), a film produced by Winchester Films * ''One Night'' (2005 film), an Iranian film directed by Niki Karimi * ''One Night'' (2007 film), a film featuring Christian Campbell and Billy Lush * ''One Night'' (2009 film), a Canadian short film directed by Shelagh Carter * ''One Night'' (2010 film), a film featuring Olivier Gruner * ''One Night'' (2012 film), a Belgian-French film directed by Lucas Belvaux * ''1 Night'' (film), a 2016 American film directed by Minhal Baig *'' Ek Raat'' (), a 1942 Indian Hindi-language film Music Albums * ''One Night'' (Greg Brown album), 1983 * ''One Night'' (J. C. Jones album), 1998 * ''One Night'', by ELO Part II, 1996 * ''One Night'', by Arlo Guthrie, 1978 Songs * "One Night" (Elvis Presley song), 1958 * "One Night" (Lil Yachty song), 2015 * "One Night" (WTS song), 2016 * "One Night", by the Corrs from ''In Blue'', 2000 * "One Night", by Griff, 2021 * "One Night", by Jay S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
''The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short'' () is a 1947 novel by the Flemish writer Johan Daisne. It tells the story of a teacher at a girls' school who falls in love with one of his students; he moves from the town and changes profession in order to avoid her, and slowly begins to grow insane. The novel was published in English in 1965, translated by S. J. Sackett. It was adapted into a 1966 film with the same title directed by André Delvaux André Albert Auguste Delvaux (; 21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Joha .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short 1947 Belgian novels Dutch-language novels Belgian novels adapted into films Novels set in Belgium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (film)
''The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short'' () is a 1966 Belgian drama film directed by André Delvaux, starring Senne Rouffaer and Beata Tyszkiewicz. It tells the story of a schoolteacher who falls in love with one of his students, and moves away in order to escape his infatuation. The film is based on the 1947 novel with the same title by Johan Daisne. The film was awarded the Sutherland Trophy at the 1966 BFI London Film Festival. Plot Govert Miereveld, a married man with two children who is working as a teacher in a secondary school, attends the end-of-year awards. Infatuated with Fran Veerman, one of his pupils who in addition to intellect and beauty is a talented singer, he does not manage to declare his love but does ask another girl to give Fran his parting present of a valuable old book. She leaves school and he falls into depression, moving his family to another town and taking a job there as court clerk. Asked to attend the on-site autopsy of a decomposed corpse found in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' and ''Sight & Sound'', which lists his 1963 film '' '' as the 10th-greatest film. Fellini's best-known films include ''La Strada'' (1954), ''Nights of Cabiria'' (1957), ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960), ''8½'' (1963), ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (1965), the "Toby Dammit" segment of ''Spirits of the Dead'' (1968), ''Fellini Satyricon'' (1969), ''Roma'' (1972), '' Amarcord'' (1973), and ''Fellini's Casanova'' (1976). Fellini was nominated for 16 Academy Awards over the course of his career, winning a total of four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film (the most for any director in the history of the award). He received an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
