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Alexandre Trauner
Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer. After studying painting at Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he left the country in 1929, fleeing from the antisemitic government of Miklós Horthy, Admiral Horthy. In Paris, he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, at the studios in Épinay-sur-Seine working on such films as ''À nous la liberté'' (1932) and ''La Kermesse héroïque'' (1935). In 1937, he became a chief set designer. lpce.com, c.2007 Trauner worked with director Marcel Carné for some years on such films as ''Port of Shadows'' (''Quai des brumes'', 1938), ''Le Jour se lève'' (1939), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Alexandre may refer to: * Alexandre (given name) * Alexandre (surname) * Alexandre (film) See also * Alexander * Xano (other), a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name "Alexandre" {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupation Of France
The Military Administration in France (german: Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; french: Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France. This so-called ' was established in June 1940, and renamed ' ("north zone") in November 1942, when the previously unoccupied zone in the south known as ' ("free zone") was also occupied and renamed ' ("south zone"). Its role in France was partly governed by the conditions set by the Second Armistice at after the success of the leading to the Fall of France; at the time both French and Germans thought the occupation would be temporary and last only until Britain came to terms, which was believed to be imminent. For instance, France agreed that its soldiers would remain prisoners of war until the cessation of all hostilities. The "French State" (') replaced the French Third Republic that had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman Of Malacca
''Woman of Malacca'' (French: ''La dame de Malacca'') is a 1937 French drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Richard-Willm and Betty Daussmond. It was based on a 1935 novel by the French writer Francis de Croisset. It was a major success on its initial release.Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl p.104 It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. A separate German-language version '' Another World'' was also made. Synopsis A young Englishwoman, Audrey Greenwood, marries an army officer to escape her dreary life as a school teacher. Accompanying her husband out for colonial service in Malacca, she soon grows unhappy with her marriage, and falls in love with a local sultan, Prince Selim. Cast * Edwige Feuillère as Audrey Greenwood * Pierre Richard-Willm as Prince Selim * Betty Daussmond as Lady Lyndstone * Jacques Copeau as Lord Brandmore * Gabrielle Dorziat as Lady Brandmore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another World (1937 Film)
''Another World'' (german: Andere Welt) is a 1937 French-German drama film directed by Marc Allégret and Alfred Stöger and starring Käthe Gold, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Franz Schafheitlin. Shot at the Epinay Studios of Tobis Film in Paris, the film is the German-language version of '' Woman of Malacca''.Passerini, Labanyi & Diehl p. 118 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jacques Krauss and Alexandre Trauner. Synopsis To escape her dreary life as a teacher, a young woman marries a British medical officer, who takes her to Malacca. The couple's disagreement increases and the young woman falls in love with a Malay prince. Cast * Käthe Gold as Audrey * Karl Ludwig Diehl as Prinz Selim * Franz Schafheitlin as Dr. Herbert Carter * Herbert Hübner as Lord Brandmore * Leopoldine Konstantin as Lady Brandmore * Annemarie Steinsieck as Lady Lyndstone * Karl Günther * Alexander Engel as Dr. Jerrys, Arzt * Karl Meixner as Li, Carters Diener * Herbert Spalke as Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciboulette (film)
''Ciboulette'' is a 1933 French musical film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Simone Berriau, Robert Burnier and Armand Dranem.Goble p.114 It is an adaptation of the 1923 operetta of the same name. The film's art direction was by Lazare Meerson and Alexandre Trauner. It was part of a popular cycle of operetta films during the decade. Cast * Simone Berriau as Ciboulette * Robert Burnier as Antonin * Armand Dranem as Le père Grenu * André Urban as Monsieur Duparquet * Madeleine Guitty as La mère Pingret * Pomiès as Olivier Métra * Thérèse Dorny as Zénobie * Guy Ferrant as Roger de Lansquenet * Marcel Duhamel as Le voleur * Jacques Prévert as L'Âne * Ginette Leclerc as Une cocotte * Viviane Romance as Une cocotte * Monique Joyce as Une cocotte * Christiane Dor as La servante * Marie-Jacqueline Chantal as Une invitée chez Métra * Charles Camus as Grisart * Louis Florencie as Trancher * Pedro Elviro as Arthur et Meyer * Luci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30th Berlin International Film Festival
The 30th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18–29 February 1980. The Golden Bear was awarded to the American film ''Heartland'' directed by Richard Pearce and West German film '' Palermo oder Wolfsburg'' directed by Werner Schroeter. The retrospective was dedicated to American filmmaker Billy Wilder along with a 3D films retrospective. Moritz de Hadeln became the director of the festival and increased the efforts in expansion of Berlin film market. To ease tensions with the Soviet Union due to the Cold War era at the moment, the organizers decided to withdraw the films ''Ninotchka'' and ''One, Two, Three'' from the Billy Wilder retrospective. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Ingrid Thulin, actress (Sweden) - Jury President * Betsy Blair, actress (United Kingdom) * Mathieu Carrière, actor (France) * Alberto Isaac, director and screenwriter (Mexico) * Peter Kern, actor (Austria) * Károly Makk, director an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subway (film)
''Subway'' is a 1985 French thriller film directed by Luc Besson and starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert. The film is classified as part of the cinéma du look movement. Plot Having stolen some compromising documents from a powerful and successful entrepreneur/gangster at a party, a man known as Fred escapes from the police and takes refuge in the underground world of the Paris Métro stations and tunnels. There he joins the dwellers and befriends several colourful characters, including others who are living under the subway to avoid police arrest. While the gangster's henchmen try to find Fred, he develops a romance with the gangster's young trophy wife, Héléna. She had originally invited Fred to the party featured at the opening of the film, and is bored with her gilded-caged life. Fred forms a pop band with some of his friends, such as "The Drummer" and Enrico, who compose the songs. While Fred is working on this project, Héléna's powerful husband pressures the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Besson
Luc Paul Maurice Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed or produced the films '' Subway'' (1985), ''The Big Blue'' (1988), and '' La Femme Nikita'' (1990). Besson is associated with the '' Cinéma du look'' film movement. He has been nominated for a César Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his films '' Léon: The Professional'' (1994) and the English-language '' The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' (1999). He won Best Director and Best French Director for his sci-fi action film ''The Fifth Element'' (1997). He wrote and directed the 2014 sci-fi action film ''Lucy'' and the 2017 space opera film ''Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets''. Near the beginning of his career, in 1980 he founded his own production company, Les Films du Loup, later renamed as Les Films du Dauphin. These were superseded in 2000 when he co-founded EuropaCorp with his longtime collaborator . As writer, director, or producer, Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Giovanni (1979 Film)
''Don Giovanni'' is a 1979 French-Italian film directed by Joseph Losey. It is an adaptation of Mozart's classic 1787 opera ''Don Giovanni'', based on the Don Juan legend of a seducer, destroyed by his excesses. The opera itself has been called one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces". The film stars Ruggero Raimondi in the title role, and the conductor is Lorin Maazel. Nearly three decades after the film's release, Nicholas Wapshott called it a "near perfect amalgamation of opera and the screen". Plot After an unsuccessful attempt to seduce Donna Anna (soprano Edda Moser), Don Giovanni (baritone Ruggero Raimondi) kills her father ''Il Commendatore'' (bass John Macurdy). The next morning, Giovanni meets Donna Elvira (soprano Kiri Te Kanawa), a woman he previously seduced and abandoned. Later, Giovanni happens upon the preparations for a peasant wedding and tries to seduce the bride-to-be Zerlina (mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza), but his ambition is frustrated by Donna Elvira. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Losey
Joseph Walton Losey III (; January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s, he moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. Among the most critically and commercially successful were the films with screenplays by Harold Pinter: ''The Servant'' (1963) and ''The Go-Between'' (1971). Losey's 1976 film ''Monsieur Klein'' won the César Awards for Best Film and Best Director. He was a four-time nominee for both the Palme d'Or (winning once) and the Golden Lion, and a two-time BAFTA nominee. Early life and career Joseph Walton Losey III was born on January 14, 1909, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he and Nicholas Ray were high-school classmates at La Crosse Central High School. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, beginning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Would Be King (film)
''The Man Who Would Be King'' is a 1975 adventure film adapted from the 1888 Rudyard Kipling novella of the same name. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator). The film follows two rogue ex-soldiers, former non-commissioned officers in the British Army, who set off from late 19th century British India in search of adventure and end up in faraway Kafiristan, where one is taken for a god and made their king. Plot In 1885 in India, while working late at night in his newspaper office, the journalist Rudyard Kipling is approached by a ragged, seemingly crazed derelict who reveals himself to be Peachy Carnehan, an old acquaintance. Carnehan tells Kipling the story of how he and his comrade-in-arms Danny Dravot, ex-sergeants of the British Army who had become adventurers, travelled far beyond India into the remote land of Kafiristan. Three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston ( ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics, including '' The Maltese Falcon'' (1941), '' The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' (1948), ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950), '' The African Queen'' (1951), '' The Misfits'' (1961), '' Fat City'' (1972), ''The Man Who Would Be King'' (1975) and ''Prizzi's Honor'' (1985). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Academy Award nominations, winning twice. He also directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins. In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He then moved to Mexico and began writing, first plays and short stories, and later working in Los Angeles as a Hollywood screenwriter, and was nominated for several Academy Awards writing for films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
