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Charles Gérard
Charles Gérard (born Gérard Adjémian, 1 December 1922 – 19 September 2019) was a French actor and director. He appeared in more than fifty films beginning in 1957. In many films he worked with director . He was a close friend of for over 60 years. Gérard was of Armenian
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Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the list of European cities by population within city limits, most populous European city, and the world's List of largest cities, 15th-largest city. The city was founded as Byzantium ( grc-gre, Βυζάντιον, ) in the 7th century BCE by Ancient Greece, Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome ( grc-gre, Νέα Ῥώμη, ; la, Nova Roma) and then as Constantinople () after himself. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bonne Année
''La bonne année'' (also known in the United States as ''Happy New Year'') is a 1973 film directed by Claude Lelouch. It tells the story of a gangster who organises a successful heist but is himself caught and jailed. Released early, he not only recoups his share of the takings but also regains his girlfriend. Plot The gangster Simon and his faithful accomplice Charlot take a holiday in Cannes. Their plan is to rob the Van Cleef & Arpels jewellery shop on the seafront. Exhaustively, they watch and log the movements of the staff and the security routines. Disguised as a rich old man, Simon gets to know the manager by choosing items for an alleged sick sister. He also gets distracted by Françoise, the beautiful owner of the antiques shop next door. She is on her own and willing to enjoy dates. On the night of the heist, Charlot manages to hide in the shop at closing time and at gunpoint gets the manager to fill an attaché case with all the jewels and cash. He then lets Simon in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Smala
''La Smala'' ( en, The Entourage) is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Jean-Loup Hubert. Plot Simone, a former rocker, is a dedicated homemaker who works in a city of the suburbs of Lyon. She deals especially with Robert, a former virtuoso accordion languishing in unemployment, and his five children. One day, Robert's wife left him to go to live in Paris with a Cop. Desperate, Robert decided to go to the capital to persuade her to come back. Meanwhile, Simone takes a few days of well-deserved vacation, went to Paris to visit her brother. She then finds herself in the same train compartment as Robert, and she discovered stunned on arrival at Lyon that his five children followed him. She must manage all this smala and can happily rely on the hospitality of her brother Pierrot (a transsexual, named now Rita), to take care of all these people. But Simone, who is secretly in love with Robert, will help him in his research and even get the opportunity to record an album with one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viva La Vie
Viva may refer to: Companies and organisations * Viva (network operator), a Dominican mobile network operator * Viva Air, a Spanish airline taken over by flag carrier Iberia * Viva Air Dominicana * VIVA Bahrain, a telecommunication company * Viva Entertainment, a Philippine media company * Viva Films, a Philippine film company * Viva Media, an interactive entertainment company based in New York City * Visi Media Asia (branded as VIVA), a subsidiary of Bakrie Group * Viva Records (Philippines), a Philippine record label * Viva Records (U.S.), subsidiary of Snuff Garrett Records * Viva! (organisation), a British animal rights group, which focuses on promoting veganism * Vision with Values (branded as ViVa), political party in Guatemala * Victoria-Vanuatu Physician Project (branded as ViVa), a Canadian organization that sends doctors to Vanuatu Film * ''Viva'' (2007 film), a 2007 film directed by Anna Biller * ''Viva'' (2015 film), a 2015 Irish film directed by Paddy Breathnach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édith Et Marcel
''Édith et Marcel'' is a 1983 French film directed by Claude Lelouch. Plot In 1947, the singer Édith Piaf and the boxer Marcel Cerdan are both at the peak of their respective careers. Their encounter gives birth to a passionate love affair lasting some two years, cut short by Cerdan's death in an air crash. Technical details *Title: ''Édith et Marcel'' *Director: Claude Lelouch *Music: Francis Lai *Length: 140 minutes *Release date: 13 April 1983 Cast * Évelyne Bouix : ''Édith Piaf / Margot de Villedieu'' * Jacques Villeret : ''Jacques Barbier'' * Francis Huster : ''Francis Roman'' * Jean-Claude Brialy : ''Loulou Barbier'' * Jean Bouise : ''Lucien Roupp'' * Marcel Cerdan Jr : ''Marcel Cerdan'' *Charles Gérard : ''Charlot'' *Charlotte de Turckheim : ''Ginou Richet'' *Micky Sébastian : ''Marinette Cerdan'' *Maurice Garrel : ''le père de Margot'' *Ginette Garcin : ''Guite'' *Philippe Khorsand : ''Jo Longman'' * Jany Castaldi : ''Momône'' * Candice Patou : ''la sœur de Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Guignolo
''Le Guignolo'' is a 1980 French-Italian comedy film directed by Georges Lautner. The title is Italian prison slang for a "third-rate crook." Plot The swindler Alexander Dupre (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is released from prison ahead of schedule for good behavior, and immediately rushes to make up for lost time during his incarceration. Posing as an Indian prince, he goes on a cruise ship with the jet set, during which he meets with dazzling beauty Pamela George Eagleton (Mirella D'Angelo), a rich lady, the wife of a diamond mines owner, who has ended up in a difficult financial situation. As an honorable man the "Prince" could not refuse to offer his assistance to the lady in need and agrees to buy her diamonds. After paying in fake bills, Alexander prepares to remove the stones from the frame and discovers that they are also fakes. "Pamela" turns out to be Sophie - a fraud, exactly like himself. The couple leaves together from the ship. The next victim of their collaboration was to beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cop Or Hood
''Cop or Hood'' (french: Flic ou voyou) is a 1979 French crime film, crime and action film directed by Georges Lautner. It's loosely based on the novel ''L'Inspecteur de la mer'' by Michel Grisolia. Plot Stanislas Borowitz is a divisional commissioner from the IGPN (:fr:Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale, Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale) who uses particularly expeditious methods to counteract the "ripoux" (French term for "corrupt cops"). Sent to Nice to struggle against Corsican Mafia, the Mafia and enquire on a murder of a notoriously corrupt commissioner, he changes his identity into a thug named Antonio Cerruti to trigger a gang war between the two biggest local sponsors, Théodore Musard ("l'Auvergnat") and Achille Volfoni ("le Corse"), and discovers a police organization with the mafia of the town. But the corrupt police inspectors Rey and Massard, on the pay of Volfoni, absolutely want to harm him. Cast * Jean-Paul Belmondo ... Antonio Cerutti (aka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal (1977 Film)
''L'Animal'' is a 1977 French action comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch. It was distributed in the United States by Analysis Film Releasing Corp under the title ''Stuntwoman''. Plot Mike Gauché (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a professional film stuntman who works with his fiancée Jane Gardner (Raquel Welch). However minutes before their long planned marriage they are called to perform a car stunt for a movie but it goes wrong, as a brake problem causes their car to fall and they end up in a hospital with bruises and broken legs. Exasperated by the behavior of her fiancé, Jane decides to leave. After his recovery Mike is no longer able to find work in the movie business and is forced to simulate mental retardation and to invent a family to receive Social Security benefits. One day his stuntman friend Santos asks him to replace him from time to time at his job which involves dressing up as a gorilla for advertising pasta at a supermarket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Toy (1976 Film)
''The Toy'' (french: Le Jouet) is a 1976 French comedy-drama film directed by Francis Veber. The film was remade in 1982 as the American film '' The Toy''. Plot The movie tells the story of a little boy who is trying to prove his father wrong by acting exactly like him. His father "buys" people and nothing can stop him from getting what he wants. His son does not see why he cannot do the same and decides to buy a man, who he encountered at the toy shop. The man he chose happened to be a journalist at his father's newspaper. Gradually with the help of his “toy” the boy manages to prove his father's wrong deeds by exposing them in the newspaper produced by him and his "toy". Along this journey, the boy establishes warm relationships with the man and refuses to stay with his father any longer. The message behind the story is that love and respect matter more than money. Cast *Pierre Richard as François Perrin *Michel Bouquet as Pierre Rambal-Cochet * Fabrice Greco as Eric Ramb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body Of My Enemy
''Le Corps de mon ennemi'' (also known as ''Body of My Enemy'' ) is a 1976 French crime film directed by Henri Verneuil. Plot After François Leclercq seduces the young and rich Gilberte Beaumont-Liégard, she introduces him to her family. Through the budding relationship with her in-laws, Leclercq is able to assimilate into the local upper class of his hometown, Cornai. A friend of Gilberte's father, Raphaël Di Massa hires him as manager of his new nightclub, "Number One". The oblivious parvenu Leclercq eventually discovers that "Number One" is actually a cover-up for Raphaël Di Massa's illegal drug trade. Following a dispute between Di Massa and Leclercq, the gun of the latter is stolen and used in the murder of a local football star. An orchestrated miscarriage of justice puts Leclercq in prison, despite his innocence. Seven years later, he returns to Cornai and discovers that it wasn't Di Massa, but Gilberte's father Jean-Baptiste Beaumont-Liégard who ran the drug operatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incorrigible (1975 Film)
''Incorrigible'' ( French: ''L'Incorrigible'') is a 1975 French comedy film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold and Capucine. Plot Victor Vauthier, a lovable rogue and mythomaniac who does not want to give up his ways, leaves prison, causing great sadness to his guards, who had come to like him during his three-month imprisonment. He immediately pulls off a series of thefts and frauds. Meanwhile, he has to report to his parole officer, Marie-Charlotte Pontalec. Victor and Marie-Charlotte immediately hit it off. This does not prevent Victor, encouraged by his father figure, uncle Camille, from trying to profit from his proximity to Marie-Charlotte in order to steal a triptych by El Greco. The picture is located in the Senlis Museum, where Marie-Charlotte's father works as a custodian. However, she ends up figuring out Victor's plan. Main cast * Jean-Paul Belmondo as Victor Vauthier * Geneviève Bujold as Marie-Charlotte Pontalec * Juli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Slap (film)
''The Slap'' (french: La Gifle) is a 1974 French / Italian comedy film directed by Claude Pinoteau. Cast * Lino Ventura - Jean Douléan * Annie Girardot - Hélène Douléan * Isabelle Adjani - Isabelle Douléan - la fille de Jean et d'Hélène * Nicole Courcel - Madeleine * Francis Perrin - Marc Morillon * Jacques Spiesser - Remi * Michel Aumont - Charvin * Robert Hardy - Robert * Nathalie Baye - Christine * Xavier Gélin - Xavier * Georges Wilson - Pierre * Annick Alane - La femme de ménage de Jean * Paul Bisciglia - Le serveur * Robert Dalban - Le concierge du lycée Reception On Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang ..., the film has an aggregate score of 100% based on 5 positive reviews. References External links * 1974 comedy films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
