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Charles Millot
Charles Millot (born Veljko Milojević; 23 December 1921 – 6 October 2003) was a Yugoslav-born French actor who made many film appearances over a 35-year period. His notable film appearances include: '' The Train'' (1964), ''The Night of the Generals'' (1967), '' Waterloo'' (1970) as Marquis de Grouchy, '' French Connection II'' (1975), ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' (1988) and ''Eye of the Widow'' (1991). He died aged 81 on 6 October 2003 in Paris, France.Charles Millot at BFI Retrieved 30 December 2015Charles Millot at NYT movies . Retrieved 30 December 2015 Selected filmography *'' |
Charles Millot (encyclopédiste)
Charles Millot (circa 1717 in Duchy of Lorraine – 9 June 1769, Brabant-le-Roi) was an 18th-century cleric. A priest of Loisey from 1743 to 1769 then in Brabant-le-Roi until his death, Millot contributed the ''Encyclopédie'' by Diderot and D'Alembert Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the '' Encyclopé ... the articles ''affabilité'' and ''entêtement'', where he attacked the great and the devotees. He was a member of the ''Société littéraire de Châlons-sur-Marne''. Bibliography * Frank Arthur Kafker''The Encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie'' Oxford, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth Century, 1988, p. 258. External links Charles Milloton Wikisource {{DEFAULTSORT:Millot, Charles 18th-century French Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Une Ravissante Idiote
''Une ravissante idiote'' ( ''The Ravishing Idiot'') is a 1964 French-Italian Cold War comedy film directed by Édouard Molinaro. François Billetdoux and André Tabet wrote a screenplay based on Charles Exbrayat 1962 novel of the same name. Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins star as the protagonists in the Franco-Italian production. The film was also released as ''Agent 38-24-36'' in the United States. Plot A Soviet spy (Perkins) is on an official mission to obtain sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. The klutzy intelligence operative has to rely on the instinct of his new partner and love-interest Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they traipse across the countryside, avoiding counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives. Cast *Brigitte Bardot as Penelope Lightfeather *Anthony Perkins as Harry Compton / Nicholas Maukouline *Grégoire Aslan as Bagda *Jean-Marc Tennberg as Cartwright *Hans Verner as Farington *Jacques Monod as Surgeon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mourir D'aimer
''Mourir d'aimer'' (English title: ''To Die of Love''; it, Morire d'amore; ) is a 1971 Franco-Italian film drama directed by André Cayatte. Based on the true story of Gabrielle Russier r it was the third most popular film of 1971 in France. Plot The time is May 1968. Danièle Guénot, 32 years old and divorced with two children, is a politically engaged French and Latin teacher in Rouen who organises discussion sessions at her home. A 17-year-old student, Gérard Leguen, falls in love with her. She rebuffs him but eventually gives in to the mutual attraction. His parents complain, and she is sent to prison and he to other schools, relatives, and a psychiatric in-patient clinic. She eventually kills herself. Cast * Annie Girardot: Danièle Guénot * Bruno Pradal: Gérard Leguen * Claude Cerval: judge * François Simon: Gérard's father * Jean-Paul Moulinot: Danièle's father * Jean Bouise: juvenile justice judge * Marie-Hélène Breillat r "The snake" (Danièle's cell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promise At Dawn
''Promise at Dawn'' (french: La Promesse de l'aube) is a 1970 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Dassin's wife. It is based on the 1960 novel ''Promise at Dawn'' (french: La Promesse de l'aube) by Romain Gary and the subsequent play by Samuel A. Taylor. Plot The film follows author Romain Gary as he recalls his growing up with his Lithuanian-born mother. The two leave Vilnius, Lithuania for France, where they settle in Paris. As twenty years pass, they encounter social change, age, different convictions, poverty and the slow approach of World War II. Cast * Melina Mercouri as Nina Kacew * Assi Dayan as Romain age 25 * Didier Haudepin as Romain age 15 * François Raffoul as Romain age 9 * Despo Diamantidou as Aniela (as Despo) * Jean Martin as Igor Igorevitch * Fernand Gravey as Jean-Michel Serusier * Jacqueline Porel as Madame Mailer * Elspeth March as Fat Woman * Maria Machado as Nathalie Lissenko * Julie Dassin as Romain's Friend * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Neretva (film)
''Battle of Neretva'' ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Bitka na Neretvi, Битка на Неретви) is a 1969 SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavian Epic film, epic partisan film. Written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić, it is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against the Yugoslav Partisans. The plan was also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive and occurred in the area of the Neretva, Neretva river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ''Battle of Neretva'' is the most expensive motion picture made in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the year after Sergei Bondarchuk (playing the role of Martin in ''Neretva'') won the honour for ''War and Peace (film series), War and Peace''. The score for the English-speaking versions was composed by Bernard Herrmann. Its soundtrack was rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayerling (1968 Film)
''Mayerling'' is a 1968 romantic tragedy film starring Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, Geneviève Page, James Robertson Justice and Andréa Parisy. It was written and directed by Terence Young. The film was made by Les Films Corona and Winchester and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based on the novels ''Mayerling'' by Claude Anet and ''L'Archiduc'' by Michel Arnold and the 1936 film ''Mayerling'', directed by Anatole Litvak, which dealt with the real-life Mayerling Incident. Plot In the 1880s, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (Mason) and his mother Empress Elisabeth (Gardner), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that does not realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales (Robertson Justice), later to become King Edward VII of Britain, visits Vienna and provides comic rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Commit A Murder
''To Commit a Murder'' (France: ''Peau d'espion'') is a 1967 French neo-noir spy film starring Louis Jourdan. It was one of a series of thrillers directed by Edouard Molinaro in the 1960s. accessed 25 January 2014 The film was based on the 1967 novel ''Peau d'espion'' by Jacques Robert. Plot A playboy writer gets involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist and take him to Red China.Cast * |
Triple Cross (1966 Film)
''Triple Cross'' is a 1966 Anglo-French World War II spy film directed by Terence Young and produced by Jacques-Paul Bertrand. It was released in France in December 1966 as ''La Fantastique Histoire Vraie d'Eddie Chapman'', but elsewhere in Europe and the United States in 1967 as ''Terence Young's Triple Cross''. It was filmed in Eastman Color, print by Technicolor. ''Triple Cross'' was based loosely on the real-life story of Eddie Chapman, believed by the Nazis to be their top spy in Great Britain, although he was actually an MI5 double agent known as "Zigzag". The title of the film comes from Chapman's signature to mark he was freely transmitting by radio, a Morse code XXX. Another meaning of the title "Triple Cross" becomes clear in the final scene of the film. Chapman, sitting at a bar, is asked who he was really working for. In reply, he raises his glass in salute to his reflection in the mirror. ''Triple Cross'' is the second pairing of Terence Young and actress Claudine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nun (1966 Film)
''The Nun'' (french: La Religieuse; also known as french: Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Denis Diderot) is a 1966 French drama film directed by Jacques Rivette from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean Gruault, based on the novel of the same title by Denis Diderot. Plot Suzanne, a young woman in a wedding gown, prepares to take her vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty and make herself a nun. However, she refuses at the last moment and instead begs her parents not to force her to take them. This does not work, and later Suzanne learns much about her family and her heritage – or her lack thereof. She discovers that her mother's husband is not her father, and that her mother is shutting her up in the convent because she does not want her husband to know that the girl was not his daughter. She also does not want to see her sin in the flesh, for she says bearing the girl was her only sin. The father sends the priest to convince her, who reveals her heritage, but it fell o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Poppy Is Also A Flower
''The Poppy Is Also a Flower'' is a 1966 American-French-Austrian made-for-television spy and anti-drug film. It was originally made under the auspices of the United Nations as part of a series of television specials designed to promote the organization's work. The film was directed by Terence Young and stars Yul Brynner, Omar Sharif, Eli Wallach, Angie Dickinson, Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Trevor Howard, Rita Hayworth and Marcello Mastroianni. Grace Kelly (as Princess Grace of Monaco) narrates. The film was also known by alternative titles ''Poppies Are Also Flowers'', ''The Opium Connection'', and ''Danger Grows Wild'' (in the UK). Plot In an attempt to stem the heroin trade at the Afghanistan–Iran border, a group of narcotics agents working for the United Nations inject a radioactive compound into a seized shipment of opium, in the hopes that it will lead them to the main heroin distributor in Europe. Cast In alphabetical order * Senta Berger as Maxine * Steph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Monde Nouveau
''Un monde nouveau'' is a 1966 French-Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Most notably it featured Sean Connery as himself. Harry Saltzman produced the film. Plot A beautiful photographer, Christine Delaroche as Anne, has a love affair with Nino Castelnuovo as Carlo, and becomes pregnant. Carlo wants her to have an abortion and sleeps with a wealthy woman to get money to pay for it, but Ann decides against losing her unborn child. Cast * Christine Delaroche as Anne * Nino Castelnuovo as Carlo * Madeleine Robinson as Wealthy woman * Pierre Brasseur as Photographer * Georges Wilson as Medical professor * Isa Miranda * Françoise Brion * Tanya Lopert as Mary * Jeanne Aubert * Jean-Pierre Darras * Franco Bucceri * Antoine De Rudder * Arlette Gilbert * Paul Mercey * Charles Millot Charles Millot (born Veljko Milojević; 23 December 1921 – 6 October 2003) was a Yugoslav-born French actor who made many film appearances over a 35-year period. His notable f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trans-Europ-Express (film)
''Trans-Europ-Express'' is a 1966 experimental film written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marie-France Pisier. The title refers to the Trans Europ Express, at the time an international rail network in Europe. A frame story shows a creative team devising a film plot during a train journey to Antwerp, intercut with a film-within-the-film about a novice cocaine smuggler and a prostitute that enacts their outline imperfectly. Plot The film-within-the-film features a Frenchman named Elias who takes his first consignment of cocaine from Paris to Antwerp on the Trans Europ Express. There he is passed from one mysterious intermediary to another and, with some time to spare, enacts a rape fantasy with a prostitute called Eva. Eventually he reaches his top contact, who reveals that his cargo was powdered sugar and the whole exercise was a test of his loyalty. Told that his next assignment will be to take a shipment back to Paris, he looks up Eva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |