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Claude Jaeger
Claude Jaeger (April 2, 1917 – September 16, 2004) was a Swiss-born French film producer and actor. Life and career Claude Jaeger was born on April 2, 1917, in Geneva, Switzerland. He undertook his studies in Paris and briefly worked at the Ministry of Finance, but was interrupted by World War II and he served in the French Army. After the 1940 armistice with Nazi Germany, he joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) at the suggestion of Manuel Azcárate, a Spanish communist in exile in France after the Republican defeat in the Spanish Civil War. After the collapse of the Nazi-Soviet alliance, Germans began rounding up the exiled Spaniards in France in 1941. Jaeger and other communists sought refuge in the ''Zone libre'' (free zone) in the southern section of Vichy France in 1942. He also began to discover his interest in the film industry and worked as an assistant director. In the ''Zone Libre'', Jaeger met Gillo Pontecorvo, an Italian filmmaker and fellow communist, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city of Geneva () had a population 201,818 in 2019 (Jan. estimate) within its small municipal territory of , but the Canton of Geneva (the city and its closest Swiss suburbs and exurbs) had a population of 499,480 (Jan. 2019 estimate) over , and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French Departments of France, departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over ,As of 2020, the Eurostat-defined Functional Urban Area of Geneva was made up of 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameo Appearance
A cameo role, also called a cameo appearance and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief appearance of a well-known person in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake) or renowned people making uncredited appearances. Short appearances by celebrities, film directors, politicians, athletes or musicians are common. A crew member of the movie or show playing a minor role can be referred to as a cameo role as well, such as Alfred Hitchcock's frequent cameos. Concept Originally, in the 1920s, a "cameo role" meant "a small character part that stands out from the other minor parts". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' connects this with the meaning "a short literary sketch or portrait", which is based on the literal meaning of " cameo", a miniature carving on a gemstone. More re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Chapot
Jean Chapot (15 November 1930 – 10 April 1998) was a French screenwriter and film director who began his career as an actor. In 1972, he was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or for his film ''Le fusil à lunette'' at the 25th Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Heaven on One's Head'' (1965) * '' La Voleuse'' (1966) * ''The Burned Barns ''The Burned Barns'' (french: Les Granges brûlées) is a 1973 French drama film directed by Jean Chapot. The fim score was composed by Jean Michel Jarre and released as album in 1973. In 2003, the soundtrack album was reissued on CD by Disques Dr ...'' (1973) External links * 1930 births 1998 deaths French film directors French male film actors French male screenwriters People from Seine-Maritime Writers from Normandy 20th-century French male actors 20th-century French screenwriters 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Voleuse
''La Voleuse'', meaning 'the thief', is a 1966 Franco-German film directed by Jean Chapot, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras. In German, the film was titled ''Schornstein Nr. 4'' ("Chimney No. 4"). Set in Germany, it tells the story of a childless couple where the wife (Romy Schneider) steals back a little boy she gave away in her teens and the husband (Michel Piccoli) gradually persuades her that the childless couple who lovingly raised the child have the better claim. Plot Werner and Julia, a childless middle-class couple in Berlin, face a crisis. Unable to conceive, Julia wants to reclaim a child she gave away at birth when she was single in her teens. The little boy is now six and lives happily in Essen with a childless working-class couple, a Polish immigrant called Radek and his wife. Despite Werner's efforts to dissuade her, she starts stalking the child. As there was no formal adoption, she feels she has a legal as well as a moral right to the boy and one day at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro (13 May 1928 – 7 December 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter. Biography He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde. He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (''Oscar'', ''Hibernatus''), '' My Uncle Benjamin'' (with Jacques Brel and Claude Jade), ''Dracula and Son'' (with Christopher Lee), and the Academy Award-nominated '' La Cage aux Folles'' (with Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi). Molinaro was active as a director until a few years before his death, although after 1985 he had almost exclusively been producing works for television. In 1996, his cinematic work was awarded the René Clair Award, a prize given by the Académie française for excellent film work. Molinaro died of a respiratory insufficiency in 2013. He was 85. Filmography (as director) *''Les Alchimistes'' (1957, short) *' (''Back to the Wall'', ''Evidence in Concrete'', 1958) — based on a novel by Frédéric Dard *' (''The Road to Shame'', 1959) — based on a novel by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chasse à L'homme
''Male Hunt'' (french: La chasse à l'homme; it, Caccia al maschio) is a 1964 comedy film directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Jean-Claude Brialy, Catherine Deneuve, Marie Laforêt, Claude Rich, Françoise Dorléac and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Plot It is the day that Antoine (Jean-Claude Brialy), a Paris advertising man, is to marry the lovely Gisèle ( Marie Laforêt) and his best man Julien (Claude Rich), a divorced statistician, tries to talk him out of it with tales of the hard times he had from women, ending in entrapment by his stunning secretary Denise ( Catherine Deneuve), a professional virgin. Going into a bistro for a quick drink before they drive to the wedding, the owner Fernand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a retired villain and pimp, tells the two of his exploits that ended in marriage to pretty but pushy Sophie ( Marie Dubois). Antoine decides to run for it, taking one of the tickets for the honeymoon in Greece and giving the other to Fernand. On board ship, he falls fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Poitrenaud
Jacques Poitrenaud (born 22 May 1922, Lille – died 5 April 2005, Paris) was a French film director and actor. Director *1956: '' Saint-Germain-en-Laye, cité royale'' (Short) *1957: '' Enfants, Touraine'' (Short) *1960: '' La revenante'' (Short) *1960: '' Les portes claquent'' (co-réalisé avec Michel Fermaud) *1961: '' Les Amours de Paris'' *1962: ''Les Parisiennes'' (pour le sketch : Ella) *1963: ''Strip Tease'' (''Sweet Skin,'' 1965 U.S. release title)Internet Movie Database, ''Sweet Skin'' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057536/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_12 *1963: '' L'Inconnue de Hong Kong'' *1964: '' Du grabuge chez les veuves'' *1964: ''Une souris chez les hommes'' (or ''Un drôle de caïd'') *1965: ' *1966: ''Four Queens for an Ace'' (French title: ''Carré de dames pour un as'') *1967: ' *1968: '' Ce sacré grand-père'' (English title: ''The Marriage Came Tumbling Down'') *1969: ' *1971: ''Mendiants et orgueilleux'' (according to the novel of Albert Cossery) Actor ;In cinema * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Une Souris Chez Les Hommes
''Une souris chez les hommes'' en, A Mouse with the Men, is a French comedy film from 1963, directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, written by Michel Audiard and Francis Ryck, starring Dany Saval and Louis de Funès Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. He is France's favourite actor, according to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, having played over 150 roles in fil .... The film is known under the titles: "A Mouse with the Men" (International English title), "Un drôle de caïd" (alternative French title), "O Tesouro Oculto" (Portugal), "Bei Oscar ist 'ne Schraube locker" (West Germany), "Due uomini in fuga... per un colpo maldestro" (Italy). Cast References External links * Une souris chez les hommesat the ''Films de France'' * analyse du film 1964 films French comedy films 1960s French-language films French black-and-white films Films directed by Jacques Poitrenaud Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ''Pépé le Moko'', ''Little World of Don Camillo'', ''Panic (1946 film), Panic (Panique)'', ''Voici le temps des assassins'' and '':fr:Marianne de ma jeunesse, Marianne de ma jeunesse''. Jean Renoir called him, a "great technician, [a] rigorist, a poet". Early years It was as an actor, in 1916 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon under the direction of André Antoine, that Duvivier's career began. In 1918 he moved on to Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, as a writer and assistant of, amongst others, André Antoine, Louis Feuillade and Marcel L'Herbier. In 1919 he directed his first film. In the 1920s several of his films had a religious concern: ''Credo ou la tragédie de Lourdes'', ''The Abbot Constantine (1925 film), L'abbé Constantin'' and ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements
''Le Diable et les Dix Commandements'' ( en, The Devil and the Ten Commandments) is a French film from 1962 directed by Julien Duvivier that consists of seven sketches (eight in the versions shown in Germany and Japan) played by an ensemble cast that includes Michel Simon, Micheline Presle, Françoise Arnoul, Mel Ferrer, Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura, Fernandel, Alain Delon, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Louis de Funès. The film contrasts a series of human failings with the ever-present hope of redemption and a snake (voiced by Claude Rich) adds the Devil's comments. Plot Episode 1 Jérôme, the old handyman at a convent, is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to take the name of the Lord in vain, but is saved when the visiting bishop proves to be an old school friend. Episode 2 To obtain a beautiful necklace, Françoise succumbs to the wealthy Philip, husband of her friend Micheline. Her husband Georges finds the necklace she had hidden and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Baratier
Jacques Baratier (8 March 1918 – 27 November 2009) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films. His film ''Goha'' won the Jury Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. His 1962 film ''La poupée (film), La poupée'' was entered for the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. ''Goha'' was also shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography * ''Les Filles du soleil'' (1948) * ''Désordre'' (1949) * ''La Cité du midi'' (1951) * ''La vie du vide'' (1952) * ''Le Métier de danseur'' (1953) * ''Histoire du palais idéal'' (1954) * ''Paris la nuit'' (1955) * ''Goha'' (1958) * ''La Poupée (film), La Poupée'' (1962) * ''Sweet and Sour (1963 film), Dragées au poivre'' (1963) * ''Eves futures'' (1964) * ''L'Or du duc'' (1965) * ''Voilà l'ordre'' (1966) * ''Le Désordre à vingt ans'' (1967) * ''Piège'' (1968) * ''Les Indiens'' (1969) * ''La Ville-bidon'' (1973) * ''Vous intéressez-vous à la chose?'' (1974) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Poupée (film)
''La Poupée'' ("The Doll") is a 1962 French-Italian science fiction film directed by Jacques Baratier. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. It was Baratier's final film. ''La Poupée'' is a surrealistic work, "part theater of the absurd, part musical with Greek chorus". Grand Guignol In ''La Poupée'', a rebel impersonates the leader of a fictional country, loosely modeled off Latin American dictators. His "wife" Marion (played by the crossdressing actor Sonne Teal) is in fact also a robot imposter, the ''Poupée''. Olaf Möller, Film Comment Cast * - Col. Prado Roth / The Rebel *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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