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Andrée Damant
Andrée Damant (20 September 1929 – 6 December 2022) was a French actress. Life and career Damant starred in many commercials. She also specialized in the roles of sympathetic Méridionales often Marseillaises pure strain, which led from time to time to interpret on screen characters from the world of Marcel Pagnol Marcel Paul Pagnol (; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionabl .... Damant died on 6 December 2022, at the age of 93. Filmography Theater References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Damant, Andree 1929 births 2022 deaths 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses French film actresses French stage actresses French television actresses Actors from Avignon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avignon
Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of Southeastern France. Located on the left bank of the river Rhône, the Communes of France, commune had a population of 93,671 as of the census results of 2017, with about 16,000 (estimate from Avignon's municipal services) living in the ancient town centre enclosed by its Walls of Avignon, medieval walls. It is Functional area (France), France's 35th largest metropolitan area according to Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, INSEE with 336,135 inhabitants (2019), and France's 13th largest urban unit with 458,828 inhabitants (2019). Its urban area was the fastest-growing in France from 1999 until 2010 with an increase of 76% of its population and an area increase of 136%. The Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Boujenah
Paul Boujenah, is a French-Tunisian film director. He is the brother of Michel Boujenah and the uncle of siblings Matthieu Boujenah and Lucie Boujenah Lucie Boujenah, (born 31 July 1987 in Paris) is a French actress best known for her role as Jenna in the series ''Soda (TV series), Soda'', and more recently for her portrayal of Camille in the Netflix series ''Marianne (TV series), Marianne''. .... Selected filmography External links * Tunisian film directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Tunisia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Périer (director)
Étienne Périer (11 December 1931 – 21 June 2020) was a Belgian film director. Filmography Director * 1956 : ''Bernard Buffet'' * 1959 : ', with Micheline Presle and François Périer * 1960 : ''Murder at 45 R.P.M.'', with Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Jean Servais * 1961 : '' Bridge to the Sun'', with Carroll Baker and James Shigeta * 1962 : ''Swordsman of Siena'', with Stewart Granger, Sylva Koscina and Christine Kaufmann * 1965 : ''Dis-moi qui tuer'', with Michèle Morgan and Paul Hubschmid * 1967 : ', with Nicole Garcia, Ludmila Mikaël, music from Jean Michel Jarre * 1968 : ''Hot Line'', with Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer, George Chakiris, Marie Dubois * 1971 : ''When Eight Bells Toll'', with Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon and Jack Hawkins * 1971 : ''Zeppelin'', with Michael York and Elke Sommer * 1972 : ', with Stéphane Audran, Michel Serrault, Robert Hossein and Jean-Claude Brialy * 1974 : ', with Lea Massari, Michel Serrault, Michel Bouquet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maigret (1991 TV Series)
''Maigret'' is a 1991 international television serial based on Georges Simenon's books. Detective Jules Maigret was played by Bruno Cremer. Only actor Jean Richard has portrayed Maigret more than Bruno Cremer. Cast Main *Bruno Cremer as Detective Jules Maigret Recurring *Anne Bellec as Madame Maigret (seasons 1-5) * Jean-Claude Frissung and Jean O'Cottrell as Detective Janvier (seasons 1-11) * Philippe Pollet as Detective LaPointe (seasons 1-2) *Claude Faraldo as Palmari (seasons 2-3) *François-Régis Marchasson and Philippe Lejour as Judge Coméliau (seasons 2-3) *Jean-Pierre Gos as Detective Lucas (seasons 2-4) *Erick Desmarestz as Judge Benneau (seasons 2-5) *Michel Dussin, Bernard Papineau and Jean-Claude Calon as Doctor Paul (seasons 2-13) * Éric Prat as Detective Torrence (seasons 3-5) *Alexandre Brasseur as Inspector Paul Lachenal (seasons 9-11) *Fabien Béhar as Inspector Luciani (seasons 9-10) *Laurent Schilling and Olivier Darimont as Inspector Lambert (seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe De Broca
Philippe de Broca (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director. He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful ''That Man from Rio, That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', ''Le Magnifique, The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique)'' and ''On Guard (1997 film), On Guard (Le Bossu)''. His works include historical, romantic epics such as ''Chouans!'' and ''King of Hearts (1966 film), King of Hearts (Le Roi de cœur)'', as well as comedies with a charismatic, breezy hero ready to embark upon any adventure which comes his way, so long as it means escaping everyday modern life: ''Practice Makes Perfect (Le Cavaleur)'', ''The Devil by the Tail (Le Diable par la queue)'', ''The African (L'Africain)''. He had links with the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom he made six films, as well as with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort. Biography Philippe de Broca was born on 15 March 1933 in Paris, France. He was the son of a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz (; born 3 August 1967) is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for '' See How They Fall'' (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for ''La Haine'' (1995). He also received Best Director and Best Writing nominations. Early life He is the son of Peter Kassovitz, a director and writer, and Chantal Rémy, a film editor. His mother is a French Catholic, while his father is a Hungarian Jew who fled during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Mathieu has described himself as "not Jewish but I was brought up in a world of Jewish humor". Career Filmmaker As a filmmaker, Kassovitz has made several artistic and commercial successes. He wrote and directed ''La Haine'' (''Hate'', 1996), a film dealing with themes around class, race, violence, and police brutality. The film won the César Award for Best Film and netted Kassovitz the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Métisse (film)
''Métisse'' (also known as ''Café au lait'') is a 1993 French film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Plot Lola, a young West Indian Métis, is pregnant. However, she does not know which of her two lovers is the father: Felix, a poor Jewish bicycle courier, or Jamal, the son of affluent African diplomats. When she refuses to get a paternity test, the two men fight to prove to her that they would be a better father. Cast * Julie Mauduech as Lola Mauduech * Hubert Koundé as Jamal Saddam Abossolo M'bo * Mathieu Kassovitz as Félix *Vincent Cassel as Max * Héloïse Rauth as Sarah *Andrée Damant as Maurice's mother *Peter Kassovitz Peter Kassovitz (born 7 January 1938) is a Hungarian-French film director and scriptwriter. Personal life He was born to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary. He fled the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father ... as University professor References External links * * * 1993 films French romantic comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Charles Tacchella
Jean-Charles Tacchella (born 23 September 1925) is a French screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film '' Cousin Cousine'' (1975), which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and which was later (1989) remade in a US version starring Ted Danson and titled ''Cousins''. Early career Jean-Charles Tacchella studied in Marseilles and, just after the Liberation, left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director. He joined ''L'écran Français'' when he was nineteen where he worked with Renoir, Becker and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, actors, films and met André Bazin, Nino Frank, Roger Leenhardt, Roger Thérond and Alexandre Astruc. He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim, Anna Magnani, Vittorio de Sica and created the monthly “Ciné Digest” with Henri Colpi. In 1948, Tacchella, along with Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Astruc, Claude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Tchernia
Pierre Tcherniakowski (29 January 1928 – 8 October 2016), better known as Pierre Tchernia, was a French cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. In France he was known as ''"Magic" Tchernia'' and ''Monsieur Cinema''. Early life Born in Paris as Pierre Tcherniakowski, he was the youngest of four children. His father, a Ukrainian immigrant, was an engineer and his mother a seamstress. He grew up in Courbevoie. In 1940, at age 12, he saw John Ford's Western ''Stagecoach'' and was inspired to work in cinema. After graduation, he enrolled in a film and photography technical school, and then joined the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies. Career He was part of the creation of the first televised news in France in 1949 and was an early French news presenter. In 1955 he became a producer of animation (with a heavy influence from the early animation of Walt Disney). For many years he hosted a television game show of movie trivia, ''Monsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Robert
Yves Robert (19 June 1920 – 10 May 2002) was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Life and career Robert was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. In his teens, he went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with unpaid parts on stage in the city's various theatre workshops. From ages 12–20 he set type as a typographer, then studied mime in his early 20s. In 1948 he made his motion picture debut with one of the secondary roles in the film, ''Les Dieux du dimanche''. Within a few years, Robert was writing scripts, directing, and producing. Yves Robert's directorial efforts included several successful comedies for which he had written the screenplay. His 1962 film, ''War of the Buttons (1962 film), La Guerre des boutons'' won France's Prix Jean Vigo. His 1972 film ''The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire'' won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1973. In 1976, ''Un éléphant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Father's Glory (film)
''My Father's Glory'' (original title: ''french: La Gloire de mon père'') is a 1990 French film directed by Yves Robert, based on the autobiographical novel ''My Father's Glory'' by Marcel Pagnol. The sequel, which was also filmed by Robert in 1990, is ''My Mother's Castle'' (). Both films are based on the cycle , published in 1957. Plot This film is set between 1900 and the First World War. Young Marcel was born in the country but raised in Marseilles. His father, Joseph, is a hard-working, atheistic school teacher in Marseilles. Marcel's maternal aunt Rose marries the rotund, jovial, and pious Roman Catholic Uncle Jules. The two men argue over religion. Over the summer, both men take their respective families to share a house in Provence in southern France. Here, Jules offers to educate Joseph on hunting. Marcel wants to come with them, but they lie to him and leave the house early in the morning while they think he is asleep. Waking, he follows them stealthily and is angered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Leroy
Serge Leroy (14 May 1937 – 27 May 1993) was a French film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography References External links * 1937 births 1993 deaths Film directors from Paris French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
