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Edmond Castel
Edmond Castel, real name Edmond Castellino, (26 March 1886, Alès – 1 November 1947, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French actor. Filmography * 1927: '' Parisian Pleasures'' a silent film by Joe Francis * 1930: ''Ce qu'on dit, ce qu'on pense'' - short film, anonymous * 1931: '' A Father Without Knowing It'' by Robert Wyler * 1931: ''Amour et business'' by Robert Péguy - short film * 1932: ''To the Polls, Citizens'' by Jean Hémard * 1932: ' by Georges Lacombe * 1932: '' Mirages de Paris'' by Fedor Ozep * 1932: ''Bouillabaisse'' by Roger Lion - short film * 1933: '' In the Land of the Sun'' by Robert Péguy * 1933: ''Les Misérables'' by Raymond Bernard - film shot in three periods * 1935: ''Arènes joyeuses'' by Karl Anton * 1935: ''Le Collier du grand duc / Le parapluie de Monsieur Bec'' by Robert Péguy * 1935: '' Monsieur Prosper'' by Robert Péguy * 1936: '' Bach the Detective'' by René Pujol * 1936: '' Les Croquignolle'' by Robert Péguy * 1937: ''The Lafarge Case'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alès
Alès (; oc, Alès) is a Communes of France, commune in the Gard Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie regions of France, region in southern France. It is one of the Subprefectures in France, sub-prefectures of the department. It was formerly known as ''Alais''. Geography Alès lies north-northwest of Nîmes, on the left bank of the river Gardon d'Alès, which half surrounds it. It is located at the foot of the Cévennes, near the Cévennes National Park. Alès station has rail connections to Nîmes, Mende and Clermont-Ferrand. History Alès may be the modern successor of Arisitum, where, in about 570, Sigebert I, Sigebert, King of Austrasia, created a bishopric. In his campaign against the Visigoths, the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingian king Theudebert I (533–548) conquered part of the territory of the Diocese of Nîmes. His later successor Sigebert set up the new diocese, comprising fifteen parishes in the area controlled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bach The Detective
''Bach the Detective'' (French: ''Bach détective'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by René Pujol and starring Bach, Ginette Leclerc and Paul Bernard.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.242 The film's sets were designed by the art director Emile Duquesne. Synopsis Narcisse works as a doorman for a firm of jewellers, but dreams of becoming a private detective. Het gets his break when he is employed by a detective agency and is able to clear the nephew of his former boss who has been wrongly accused of theft. Cast * Bach as Narcisse * Paul Bernard as André * Monique Bert as Mag * Ginette Gaubert as Olga Worskaïa * Louis Florencie as Baudry * Armand Lurville as Lesueur * Jacques Dumesnil as Stefani * Ginette Leclerc as Zita * Georges Prieur as Durandel * Georges Morton as Olive * Edmond Castel as M. Estrade * Simone d'Arche as Dora * Jules Moy as L'usurier * Alexandre Mihalesco as L'extra * Andrée Champeaux as L'amie du baron * Rachel Devirys as La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Caron (director)
Pierre Caron (15 August 1901 - 22 February 1971) was a French film director. At the end of the Second World War he was forced to flee to South America, where he later died. Filmography * 1920 : '' L'Homme qui vendit son âme au diable'' * 1923 : '' La Mare au diable'' * 1932 : ''Beauty Spot'' * 1934 : '' Votre sourire'' * 1935 : '' Juanita'' * 1936 : '' La Tentation'' * 1936 : '' Notre-Dame d'amour'' * 1936 : '' Les Demi vierges'' * 1936 : '' Blanchette'' * 1936 : ''Marinella'' * 1937 : '' La Fessée'' * 1937 : ''Cinderella'' * 1938 : '' Le Monsieur de 5 heures'' * 1938 : '' Mon oncle et mon curé'' * 1938 : '' Les Femmes collantes'' * 1938 : ''Riviera Express'' or '' L'Accroche-cœur'') * 1938 : '' La Route enchantée'' * 1939 : '' Sing Anyway'' * 1940 : '' Bécassine'' * 1941 : '' Ne bougez plus'' * 1942 : '' Pension Jonas'' * 1945 : '' Ils étaient cinq permissionnaires'' * 1956 : '' Eva no Brasil'' External links Pierre Caronon the Internet Movie Database ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ils étaient Cinq Permissionnaires
ILS or ils may refer to: Organizations *ILS Law College, of the Indian Law Society *International Launch Services *International Life Saving Federation *International Lenin School Science and technology * Iterated local search, in computing * Instrument landing system, for aircraft * Integrated library system, an enterprise resource planning system for libraries * Internet Locator Server, for Microsoft NetMeeting Business and military * Integrated logistics support * Inventory Locator Service, LLC, a digital aviation warehouse company * ILS (company), a Finnish engineering company Finance * Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) * Israeli new shekel, ISO 4217 currency code Other uses *''Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae'', a book of Latin inscriptions * Ils (musician) Illian Walker, better known as Ils or iLS, is an English musician and producer, who has released records on labels including Marine Parade and Distinct'ive Records. Born in London, Ils started his production caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Boyer (director)
Jean Boyer (26 June 1901 – 10 March 1965) was a French film director and songwriter. He was born in Paris. Selected songs * 1930: "Un regardé", in ''Flagrant délit'' (Hanns Schwarz, 1930, music by F. Hollaender) * 1931: "Les Gars de la marine", in '' Le Capitaine Craddock'' (music by W. R. Heyman) * 1932: "Totor t'as tort" (music by René Mercier) - "Un homme" - "L'amour est un mystère" - "Maintenant, je sais ce que c'est" - "Quand ça m'prend" (music by Michel Levine) * 1934: "C’est peu de chose" (music by R. Ervan) * 1936: "Y'a toujours un passage à niveau" (music by Georges Van Parys) * 1939: " Comme de bien entendu" - "Ça c'est passé un dimanche" - "Mimile" - "Ça fait d'excellents Français" (music by Georges Van Parys) * 1945: " Pour me rendre à mon bureau" (words and music) * 1950: "La Pagaïa" and "Je cherche un cœur" (music by Henri Betti) Filmography Director * ''Calais-Dover'' (1931) * ''La Pouponnière'' (1932) * ''Monsieur, Madame and Bibi'' (1932) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serenade (1940 Film)
''Serenade'' or ''Schubert's Serenade'' (french: Sérénade) is a 1940 French historical film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Lilian Harvey, Louis Jouvet and Bernard Lancret. It portrays a fictional romance between the Austrian composer Franz Schubert and an English dancer. The film was the first of two the Anglo-German actress Lillian Harvey made in France, after leaving Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ....Ascheid p. 243 Cast References Bibliography * * External links * 1940 films French historical romance films French black-and-white films 1940s historical romance films 1940s French-language films Films directed by Jean Boyer Films set in Vienna Films set in the 19th century Films about composers Films about classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Sorkin
Marc Sorkin or Mark Sorkin (1902–1986) was a Russian-born film editor and director.Rentschler p.277 He worked with Georg Wilhelm Pabst on a number of films as editor or assistant director. He was born in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then part of the Russian Empire. He began working in the German film industry in Berlin in the 1920s. Following the Nazi Party's takeover of power in 1933, the Jewish Sorkin left for France where he worked in that country's cinema industry. After the Invasion of France by the Germans in 1940 he left for the United States via Casablanca. Selected filmography * '' Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' The Love of Jeanne Ney'' (1927) * '' The Devious Path'' (1928) * '' Westfront 1918'' (1930) * '' Morals at Midnight'' (1930) * ''Scandalous Eva'' (1930) * ''Mountains on Fire'' (1931) * '' Kameradschaft'' (1931) * ''The Five Accursed Gentlemen'' (1932) * '' Teilnehmer antwortet nicht'' (co-director: Rudolph Cartier, 1932) * '' Three on a Honeymoon'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Esclave Blanche (film)
''The Slave'' (also known as ''L'Esclave'') is a ballet ''divertissement'' in one act, choreographed by the Balletmaster Marius Petipa to the music of Cesare Pugni, first presented by the Imperial Ballet for the Imperial Court at the Hermitage Theatre, on April 27/May 9 ( Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1868 in St. Petersburg, Russia. It featured Lev Ivanov Lev Ivanovich Ivanov (russian: link=no, Лев Ива́нович Ива́нов; 2 March 1834, Moscow – 24 December 1901, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer and later, Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet. .... References Ballets by Marius Petipa Ballets premiered at the Hermitage Theatre Ballets by Cesare Pugni 1868 ballet premieres {{ballet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel L'Herbier
Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Early life Marcel L'Herbier was born in Paris on 23 April 1888 into a professional and intellectual family, and as he grew up he demonstrated a multi-talented disposition for sports, dancing, debating and the arts. He attended a Society of Mary (Marists), Marist school and then the Lycée Voltaire (Paris), Lycée Voltaire, followed by the École des Hautes Études Sociales in Paris. He worked hard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Lecouvreur (film)
''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' is a 1938 French-German biographical film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Junie Astor. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of the eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Anton Weber. Plot A famous actress and a Polish prince have an ill-fated love affair. Cast * Yvonne Printemps as Adrienne Lecouvreur * Pierre Fresnay as Maurice de Saxe * Junie Astor as the Duchess of Bouillon * André Lefaur as the Duke of Bouillon * Jaque Catelain as d'Argental * Madeleine Sologne as Flora * Pierre Larquey as Pitou * Thomy Bourdelle as Pauly * Jacqueline Pacaud as Fanchon * Gabrielle Robinne as la Duclos * Véra Pharès as little Adrienne * Michèle Alfa as Amour * Andrée Berty a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films ''La Grande Illusion'' (1937) and ''The Rules of the Game'' (1939) are often cited by critics as among the List of films considered the best, greatest films ever made. He was ranked by the British Film Institute, BFI's ''Sight & Sound'' poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time. Among numerous honours accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Awards, Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry. Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the uncle of the cinematographer Claude Renoir. He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an ''auteur''. Early life and early career Renoir was born in the Montmartre district of Paris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Marseillaise (film)
''La Marseillaise'' is a French film of 1938, directed by Jean Renoir. A vast political, social, and military panorama of the French Revolution up to the autumn of 1792, its many episodes range from the life of ordinary working people through the committed bourgeois struggling for change up to those in the upper echelons of society defending the status quo. Plot Centred on characters from the rebellious city of Marseille, most of the great events of the Revolution from 1789 to 1792 occur offstage. In Marseille, citizens capture the royal fortress of Fort Saint-Jean and set up a revolutionary council. When war is declared against Austria in April 1792, the city raises a force of 500 volunteers who march to Paris. Entertained there to a banquet, a man from Alsace sings a patriotic ballad which moves the men from Marseille. Adopting it as their marching song, it is soon known as La Marseillaise. In July Prussia joins forces with Austria and the people, enraged by the threats in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
