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Eric Godon
Eric Godon (born 7 February 1959) is a Belgian character actor, director and writer. Recognisable by his burly appearance and deep voice, he is perhaps best known in English language circles, for his roles in ''In Bruges'', and '' The Missing''. Life and career Godon studied Germanic Philology in Brussels, and was a member of the Belgian Junior national football team. He began his acting career at the age of 42. He is largely self-taught, and is well versed in improvisation. He speaks many languages, which have proven useful in his international acting career. In addition to his native language (French), he is fluent in Dutch, Flemish, English and German, and is also reasonable in Hebrew, Spanish, Italian and Russian. He is pursuing an international career. After '' Fishing Without Nets'', an American independent film by Cutter Hodierne shot in Kenya, he played the character of mayor Georges Deloix in the first series of the BBC drama '' The Missing''. In 2015, he appeared alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baudour
Baudour is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Saint-Ghislain, located in the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut, Belgium. Notable inhabitants *Henri Delmotte and Michel Daerden were born in Baudour Gallery Image:Baudour JPG00.jpg, Baudour, Church ''St-Géry'' (15th/16th centuries). Former municipalities of Hainaut (province) {{Hainaut-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld (born 17 July 1962) is a French actor, writer and director. His film, '' La journée de la jupe'', was nominated for three César Awards in 2009, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for Lilienfeld. Director filmography *'' Il n'y a guère que les actions qui montent'' (1990) (short) *'' Seventh Heaven (De zevende hemel)'' (1993) *'' XY, drôle de conception'' (1996) *'' Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir'' (1997) *''HS - hors service'' (2001) *'' La journée de la jupe'' (2009) *''Arrêtez-moi'' (2012) Actor filmography * ''L'été en pente douce ''L'été en pente douce'' (''Summer on a gentle slope'') is a French film, an adaptation of a novel by Pierre Pelot. It was directed by Gérard Krawczyk, and released in 1987. Synopsis Following the death of his mother, Stephane Leheurt, nickn ...'' (1987) * '' La vie est à nous !'' (2005) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lilienfeld, Jean-Paul French male screenwriters French scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouble At Timpetill
''Trouble at Timpetill'' (french: Les Enfants de Timpelbach) is a 2008 French fantasy adventure film written and directed by Nicolas Bary, based on the novel of the same name by Henry Winterfeld. The film won the TFO Prize for Best Youth Film at the 2011 edition of the Cinéfranco. Cast * Raphaël Katz : Manfred * Adèle Exarchopoulos : Marianne * Léo Legrand : Thomas * Gérard Depardieu : Général Igor * Carole Bouquet : Drohne * Armelle : Corbac * Eric Godon : Butcher Stettner * Baptiste Betoulaud : Oscar Stettner * Lola Créton : Mireille Stettner * Léo Paget : Robert Lapointe * Terry Edinval : Wolfgang * Florian Goutieras : P'tit Louis * Mathieu Donne : Gros Paul * Martin Jobert : Willy Hak * Ilona Bachelier : Charlotte * Julien Dubois : Barnabé * Marcus Vigneron : Charles Benz * Jonathan Joss : Jean Krög * David Cognaux : Kevin * Sacha Lecomte : Philibert * Tilly Mandelbrot : Erna * Maxime Riquier : Bobby le Scribe * Manon Chevallier : Marion * Valentine Bouly : Paulette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin McDonagh
Martin Faranan McDonagh (; born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director. Born and brought up in London, he is the son of Irish parents. He is known as one of the most acclaimed modern playwrights whose work has spanned over two decades. He is celebrated for his absurdist black humor which often challenges the modern theatre aesthetic. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Laurence Olivier Awards, and nominations for five Tony Awards. In 1999 he was one of the recipients of the V Europe Prize Theatrical Realities awarded to the Royal Court Theatre (with Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jez Butterworth, Conor McPherson). He started his career in the Royal National Theatre with ''The Pillowman'' in 2003. He has since written many plays produced on the West End and on Broadway including ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'' (1996), ''The Cripple of Inishmaan'' (1996), ''The Lieutenant of Inishmor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rik Daniëls
Rik Daniëls (born 24 October 1962) is a Belgian television director. He is best known for directing the Belgian TV series '' Alle maten'' with Vincent Rouffaer since 1998 and the 1995 series ''Thuis''. He also worked as the leading director on the top series ''Flikken Flikken (Belgian Dutch for "Cops") was a popular Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Ghent. The show started in 1999 and ended on 19 April 2009. In the series, a team of six police officers solved various crimes, petty c ...''. External links * Flemish television directors 1962 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flikken
Flikken (Belgian Dutch for "Cops") was a popular Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Ghent. The show started in 1999 and ended on 19 April 2009. In the series, a team of six police officers solved various crimes, petty crimes as well as organised crime. The series always aimed at showing the policework in a realistic way—though a little personal drama was never far off. Of all the actors that came along during the ten seasons, only Mark Tijsmans (playing Wilfried Pasmans) and Ludo Hellinx (playing Raymond Jacobs) appeared throughout the entire series. Flikken was produced by the VRT and broadcast on Belgian public channel Eén and TROS in the Netherlands. Flikken is very popular in Belgium and the Netherlands. The show has had very high ratings of up to 1.8 million viewers during the last (10th) season. Every year the VRT organises the Flikkendag, a family day where the public can meet the actors of the show. There are many games, demonstrations of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sex Trade
The sex industry (also called the sex trade) consists of businesses that either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment. The industry includes activities involving direct provision of sex-related services, such as prostitution, strip clubs, host and hostess clubs and sex-related pastimes, such as pornography, sex-oriented men's magazines, sex movies, sex toys and fetish or BDSM paraphernalia. Sex channels for television and pre-paid sex movies for video on demand, are part of the sex industry, as are adult movie theaters, sex shops, peep shows, and strip clubs. The sex industry employs millions of people worldwide, mainly women. These range from the sex worker, also called adult service provider (ASP) or adult sex provider, who provides sexual services, to a multitude of support personnel. Etymology The origins of the term ''sex industry'' are uncertain, but it appears to have arisen in the 1970s. A 1977 report by the Ontari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Berliner
Alain Berliner (born 21 February 1963) is a Belgian film director best known for the 1997 film ''Ma vie en rose'', which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Golden Globe Awards in 1998. Born in Brussels, he also directed '' Le Mur'', '' Passion of Mind'', ''La Maison du canal ''La Maison du canal'' (''The House by the Canal'') is a Franco-Belgian telefilm, directed by Alain Berliner, released in 2003. It is based on a novel by Georges Simenon. Its running time is 94 minutes. Technical details * Director: Alain Berli ...'', and '' J'aurais voulu être un danseur''. References External links *Alain Berliner official site(English version) 1963 births Living people Belgian film directors European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners {{belgium-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Miller
Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the ''Service Cinéma de l'Armée''. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and ''La meilleure façon de marcher'' (''The Best Way to Walk'', 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's ''Les Mistons'' (1957) and ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). Miller received César nominations for best director and writing for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Klarsfeld
Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Since the 1960s, he has made notable efforts to commemorate the Jewish victims of German-occupied France and has been a supporter of Israel. Early years Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest into a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before the Second World War began. In 1943, his father was arrested by the SS in Nice during a roundup ordered by Alois Brunner. Deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Klarsfeld's father died there. Young Serge was cared for in a home for Jewish children operated by the Œuvre de secours aux enfants, a French Jewish humanitarian organisationHis mother and sister also survived the war in Vichy France, helped by the underground French Resistance beginning in late 1943. Life He helped found and has led the Sons and Daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Secret
''A Secret'' (french: Un secret) is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the 2004 novel by Philippe Grimbert. Synopsis The film follows Maxime Nathan and his family in France during the years before and after World War II. François Grimbert (played as a young boy by Valentin Vigourt and as an adult by Mathieu Amalric) grows up in Paris in the 1950s. He is the skinny, sickly son of two marvelously athletic parents, Tania (Cécile de France) and Maxime (Patrick Bruel). For a while, he dreams of a stronger, fitter, more charismatic older brother to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy. Only gradually does he learn of his parents' tragic past and that he had a sibling – a half-brother named Simon, his father's first son. Simon is the big secret, but the discovery opens the door to further revelations and deeper enigmas. François knows that his parents met sometime around the war, and he imagines their courtship and marriag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost (born 1969, Ronse, Belgium) is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in New York and Brussels. His works are in a number of collections, including The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, who share ''Storyteller'' (2010), SMAK Gent and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. His short film ''Suspension'' received an honorable mention at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. He has also exhibited at The San Francisco International Film Festival, CineVegas, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Viennale, and The Locarno Film Festival. His first feature film, '' The Invader'', premiered at the Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ... in 2011. He has lived in Belgium and Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
