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Cinédis
Cinédis was a French film distribution company active from the 1930s to the 1960s, releasing a mixture of French films and dubbed imports from aboard. The company enjoyed its strongest years during the 1950s, when French audience numbers reached their peak. It handled a number of co-productions between France and Italy. The artist René Ferracci designed many of the company's posters.Smith p.203 Selected filmography * '' A Man of Gold'' (1934) * ''Holiday for Henrietta'' (1952) * ''The Wages of Fear'' (1953) * ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1954) * ''House of Ricordi'' (1954) * '' Wild Fruit'' (1954) * '' Knave of Hearts'' (1954) * '' Flesh and the Woman'' (1954) * '' Madame du Barry'' (1954) * ''Marianne of My Youth'' (1955) * ''Spring, Autumn and Love'' (1955) * '' Les Diaboliques'' (1955) * ''Don Camillo's Last Round'' (1955) * ''The Grand Maneuver'' (1955) * '' Madelon'' (1955) * ''Race for Life'' (1955) * '' Elena and Her Men'' (1956) * '' L'homme aux clefs d'or'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cinédis was a French film distribution company active from the 1930s to the 1960s, releasing a mixture of French films and dubbed imports from aboard. The company enjoyed its strongest years during the 1950s, when French audience numbers reached their peak. It handled a number of co-productions between France and Italy. The artist René Ferracci designed many of the company's posters.Smith p.203 Selected filmography * ''A Man of Gold'' (1934) * ''Holiday for Henrietta'' (1952) * ''The Wages of Fear'' (1953) * ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1954) * ''House of Ricordi'' (1954) * ''Wild Fruit'' (1954) * '' Knave of Hearts'' (1954) * ''Flesh and the Woman'' (1954) * '' Madame du Barry'' (1954) * ''Marianne of My Youth'' (1955) * ''Spring, Autumn and Love'' (1955) * '' Les Diaboliques'' (1955) * ''Don Camillo's Last Round'' (1955) * ''The Grand Maneuver'' (1955) * '' Madelon'' (1955) * ''Race for Life'' (1955) * '' Elena and Her Men'' (1956) * '' L'homme aux clefs d'or'' (1956) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Fruit
''Wild Fruit'' ( French: ''Les fruits sauvages'') is a 1954 French drama film directed by Hervé Bromberger and starring Estella Blain, Évelyne Ker and Nadine Basile. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and distributed by Cinédis. Synopsis Maria kills her father in order to stop him forcing her younger sister Christine into prostitution. The family flee to small village in Provence but are eventually tracked down by the police. Cast * Estella Blain as Maria Manzana * as Christine Manzana * as Anna * Nadine Basile as Françoise * Jean-Pierre Bonnefous as José Manzana * Roger Dumas as Hans * Jacques Moulières as Frédéric * Michel Reynald as Michel Manzana * Talina Sauser as Lolita * Norbert Pierlot as Le berger * Marco Villa as Forgeau * Albert Rémy as Louis * Georges Chamarat as Manzana Awards 1954 Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death In The Garden
''La mort en ce jardin'' ("''Death in the Garden''") is a 1956 adventure film by director Luis Buñuel, based on a novel by José-André Lacour, that stars Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel and Michel Piccoli, with additional dialogue by Raymond Queneau. Set in an unidentified South American country, it recounts the bloody suppression by the corrupt governing regime of an insurrection by illegal diamond miners, after which five disparate fugitives take to the jungle in search of safety. Plot When a settlement of illegal diamond miners is broken up by soldiers, in revenge they attack and burn down the army headquarters in the nearest town. Next day, when reinforcements arrive, most of the surviving miners are rounded up to be shot. On a river boat, five people escape the carnage: a pacifist miner, his deaf-mute daughter, the local madame he wants to marry, a Catholic priest, and a wanted adventurer. When pursued by the army, they take to the jungle. There, the struggle for survival s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris, Palace Hotel
''Paris, Palace Hotel'' is a 1956 French-Italian romantic comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Charles Boyer, Françoise Arnoul and Tilda Thamar.Parish p.61 It was shot in Eastmancolor at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne. Synopsis A manicurist working at a luxurious hotel in Paris and a young garage mechanic there to pick up a customer's luxury car, both pretend to be wealthy residents to impress each other with the friendly assistance Henri Delormel, one of the real guests at the hotel. Cast * Charles Boyer as Henri Delormel * Françoise Arnoul as Françoise Noblet * Roberto Risso as Gérard Necker dit Brugnon * Tilda Thamar as Madeleine Delormel * Georges Chamarat as Alexandre - le coiffeur * Louis Seigner as Marcel Brugnon * Simone Bach as Barbara - la brune en robe rouge * Darry Cowl as Jules Hoyoyo * Jacques Jouanneau as Le laquais de l'entrée * Jean Clarieux as Un responsable du réveillon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena And Her Men
''Elena and Her Men'' is a 1956 in film, 1956 film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Ingrid Bergman and Jean Marais. The film's original French title was ''Elena et les Hommes'', and in English-speaking countries, the title was ''Paris Does Strange Things''. It is the third addition to the trilogy, preceded by ''The Golden Coach'' (1953) and ''French Cancan'' (1955). A restored copy has been released in the 21st century. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. Location shooting took place around the city including in Saint-Cloud and the Castle of Ermenonville. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean André (art director), Jean André. Plot Produced in 1956, and set in 1890 France, ''Elena and Her Men'' tells the story of a young, beautiful, and free-spirited Polish princess in fin de siècle Paris who specializes in granting people good luck. Elena's family has run out of money, and in order to save them, she agrees to marry a wealthy, older family fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madelon (film)
''Madelon'' (French: ''La Madelon'') is a 1955 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Line Renaud, Jean Richard and Roger Pierre.The A to Z of French Cinema p.140 It is inspired by the popular song of the First World War "La Madelon" about Madelon, a waitress working in a country inn encountered by a group of soldiers. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. Synopsis In the First World War, Madeleine, a singing waitress who has become of the idol to the French Army travels up to Paris and the Western Front searching for her lover, encountering on the way a variety of different nationalities who make up the Allied forces. Cast * Line Renaud as Madeleine Thullier, dite La Madelon * Jean Richard as Antoine Pichot * Roger Pierre as Le caporal Georges Beauguitte * Pierre Larquey as Le curé * Georges Chamarat as Auguste Thullier * André Valmy as Le capitaine Van Meulen * Gilbert Gil as Un commandant d'aviation chez Maxim's * Jacques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grand Maneuver
''The Grand Maneuver'' (french: Les Grandes Manœuvres) is a 1955 French drama film written and directed by René Clair, and starring Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe. It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as ''Summer Manoeuvres'', and in the United States under the title ''The Grand Maneuver''. It is a romantic comedy-drama set in a French provincial town just before World War I, and it was René Clair's first film to be made in colour. Plot Armand de la Verne, a lieutenant in the French cavalry and a notorious seducer, undertakes a bet that he will "obtain the favours" of a woman selected secretly by lot, before his company departs for its summer manoeuvres in a month's time. His target turns out to be Marie-Louise Rivière, a Parisian divorcée who runs a milliner's shop, and who is also being courted by the serious and respectable Victor Duverger. Marie Louise's growing attraction towards Armand is tempered by her discoveries about his reputation, while Armand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Camillo's Last Round
''Don Camillo's Last Round'' (French: ''La grande bagarre de Don Camillo'', Italian: ''Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone'') is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi and Leda Gloria. It was the third of five films featuring Fernandel as the Italian priest Don Camillo and his struggles with Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi, the Communist mayor of their rural town. The film had 5,087,231 admissions in France. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location in Boretto and Brescello in Emilia-Romagna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. Plot In the small town of Brescello, skirmishes are continuing between the parish priest Don Camillo and the Communist mayor Peppone Bottazzi. After staging a theft of Don Camillo's prized chickens in retribution for a political prank pulled by the priest, Peppone decides to enter the big time of politics by standing for national senator. Peppone has been a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Diaboliques (film)
''Les Diaboliques'' (, released as ''Diabolique'' in the United States and variously translated as ''The Devils'' or ''The Fiends'') is a 1955 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse and Charles Vanel. It is based on the novel '' She Who Was No More'' (''Celle qui n'était plus'') by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The story blends elements of thriller and horror, with the plot focusing on a woman and her husband's mistress who conspire to murder the man. The film was the 10th-highest grossing film of the year in France, with a total of 3,674,380 admissions. The film also received the 1954 Louis Delluc Prize. Clouzot, after finishing ''The Wages of Fear'', optioned the screenplay rights, preventing Alfred Hitchcock from making the film. This movie helped inspire Hitchcock's '' Psycho''. Robert Bloch, the author of the novel '' Psycho'', stated in an interview that his all-time favo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring, Autumn And Love
''Spring, Autumn and Love'' (French: ''Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour'') is a 1955 French-Italian comedy drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Fernandel, Nicole Berger and Andrex.Parish p.177 The film's sets were designed by Jacques Colombier. Cast * Fernandel as Fernand 'Noël' Sarrazin * Nicole Berger as Cécilia * Andrex as Blancard * Georges Chamarat as Bourriol * Denise Grey as La cliente * Gaston Rey as Antoine Sarrazin * Maria Zanoli as Anais * Jacqueline Noëlle as Monique * Mag-Avril as La première commère * Madeleine Sylvain as Mme. Calvette * Edmond Ardisson as Le facteur * Enrico Glori as Le maître d'hôtel * Julien Maffre as Le lampiste * René Worms as Le voyageur * Geo Georgey as Le boucher * Jenny Hélia as La cliente des négociants * Marthe Marty as La deuxième commère * Viviane Méry as La marchand de journaux * Manuel Gary as Victor * Philippe Nicaud as Jean Balestra * Claude Nollier as Julie Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Of My Youth
''Marianne of My Youth'' (French: ''Marianne de ma jeunesse'', German: ''Marianne'') is a 1955 French–West German romantic drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Marianne Hold, Horst Buchholz and Pierre Vaneck.McCann p.174 It was released in separate French language and German language versions. It is based on a 1932 novel ''Schmerzliches Arkadien'' by Peter von Mendelssohn. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location at Hohenschwangau Castle and at Schloss Fuschl in Salzburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jean d'Eaubonne and Willy Schatz. Marcel Ophüls was the assistant director on the production. Plot summary Cast * Marianne Hold as Marianne * Horst Buchholz as Vincent Loringer (German version) * Pierre Vaneck as Vincent Loringer (French version) * Gil Vidal as Manfred (French version) * Udo Vioff as Manfred (German version) * Jean Yonnel as Der Freiherr * Friedrich Domin as Professor * Jean Galland as Capitaine von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flesh And The Woman
''Flesh and the Woman'' (french: Le Grand Jeu) is a 1954 French-Italian drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. It was released in the USA under the title ''Flesh and the Woman'', and in the UK as ''The Card of Fate''. It is a remake of the 1934 film '' Le Grand Jeu''. Plot After an affair with a young woman named Sylvia the Frenchman Pierre Martel leaves Paris and goes to Algeria because he wants to start over. His wife refuses to follow him. Dismayed about all this he decides to join the French Foreign Legion. As a soldier he runs into a look-alike of Sylvia. Cast * Gina Lollobrigida as Sylvia Sorrego / Helena Ricci * Jean-Claude Pascal as Pierre Martel * Arletty as Blanche * Raymond Pellegrin as Mario * Peter van Eyck as Fred * Jean Témerson as Xavier Noblet * Jean Hébey as Brigadier * Paul Amiot as the capitain * Odette Barencey as Gertrude * Charles Bayard * Gérard Buhr as a legionnaire * Jo Dest as the bistro keeper * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |