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Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker (; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led the French New Wave movement. Biography Born in Paris, Becker was from an upper-middle-class background. His father Louis Becker, from Lorraine, was corporate director for Fulmen, a battery manufacturer; his mother, Margaret Burns, of Scottish and Irish descent, managed a fashion house in rue Cambon near Chanel in Paris. He was educated at the Lycées Condorcet and Carnot and then at the École Bréguet. Becker was reluctant to pursue a business career like his father and at the age of 18 he went to New York. On a transatlantic liner he met the film director King Vidor who offered him a job but Becker turned it down. Back in France Becker developed a friendship with Jean Renoir, whom he had first met in 1921 through their mutual ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESIEE Paris
ESIEE Paris () is a grande école of engineering located in Marne-la-Vallée. The school was established in 1904 and is part of the ESIEE network of graduate schools. ESIEE Paris offers its students general engineering training with the aim of enabling them to design, produce and oversee complex industrial systems while meeting strict economic constraints and dealing with an international environment. To accomplish this, the school renders advanced scientific and technological training, which is frequently updated to keep pace with changes in the leading edge technologies and supplemented by its association with language, general culture, economics and humanities teaching. ESIEE Paris belongs to the Paris Île-de-France Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The school is also a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles, and Gustave Eiffel University, Université Gustave Eiffel. The 'modernist' school building located at Marne-la-Vallée has been designed and conceived b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Happened At The Inn
''It Happened at the Inn'' (French: ''Goupi mains rouges'') is a 1943 French mystery film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Fernand Ledoux, Robert Le Vigan, Georges Rollin and Blanchette Brunoy. It follows an investigation into the family members of an old woman who has been murdered. The film is based on the 1937 novel with the same title by Pierre Véry. It was released in France on 14 April 1943. The film was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris, with location filming taking place around Charente. Cast * Fernand Ledoux as Goupi-Mains rouges * Robert Le Vigan as Goupi-Tonkin * Georges Rollin as Goupi-Monsieur * Blanchette Brunoy as Goupi-Muguet * Arthur Devère as Goupi-Mes sous * Germaine Kerjean as Goupi-Tisane * Maurice Schutz as Goupi-L'Empereur * Guy Favières as Goupi-La Loi * Marcelle Hainia as Goupi-Cancan * René Génin as Goupi-Dicton * Albert Rémy as Jean des Goupis * Line Noro as Marie des Goupis * Marcel Pérès as Eusèbe, le gendarme * Louis Seigner as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Le Vigan
Robert Le Vigan (born Robert Coquillaud, 7 January 1900 – 12 October 1972) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".Ginette Vincendeau (ed) ''Encyclopedia of European Cinema'', London: Casell/BFI, 1995, p.262 A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes,Rémi Fournier Lanzoni ''French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present'', New York and London: Continuum, 2002, p.139. According to Fournier Lanzoni, Le Vigan found exile in Argentina. he vanished while playing Jéricho in '' Children of Paradise'' (''Les Enfants du Paradis''), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe; Le Vigan was replaced by Pierre Renoir. He was sentenced to forced labour for 10 yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot (; 20 November 1907 – 12 January 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed '' The Wages of Fear'' (1953) and '' Les Diaboliques'' (1955), which are critically recognized as among the greatest films of the 1950s. He also directed documentary films, including '' The Mystery of Picasso'' (1956), which was declared a national treasure by the government of France. Clouzot was an early fan of the cinema and, desiring a career as a writer, moved to Paris. He was later hired by producer Adolphe Osso to work in Berlin, writing French-language versions of German films. After being fired from UFA studio in Nazi Germany due to his friendship with Jewish producers, Clouzot returned to France, where he spent years bedridden after contracting tuberculosis. Upon recovering, he found work in Nazi-occupied France as a screenwriter for the German-owned company Continental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Libération De Paris
''La Libération de Paris'' (''The Liberation of Paris'') is a short historical documentary film shot in secret by small units of the French Resistance during the Battle for Paris in August 1944. Production In 1943, a group of French filmmakers, which included Louis Daquin, Jean Grémillon, Jacques Becker, and Pierre Renoir (Jean's brother), founded the Comité de libération du cinéma français. Technicians from this group filmed the uprising in Paris from its beginnings on August 19, 1944, and the footage was developed and edited for the film, which was released to French theaters on September 1, 1944, immediately after the German departure from the occupied territories. See also * Liberation of Paris The liberation of Paris () was a battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been occupied by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Armisti ... * '' Is Paris Burning?' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comité De Libération Du Cinéma Français
was an organization of filmmakers in France created in 1943. The most well-known members are Jacques Becker, Pierre Blanchar, Louis Daquin, Jean Painlevé, and Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Members of this organization made projects for French cinema for after the War. During the German occupation of France in World War II they made films about the Maquis, such as one showing a Maquis camp in Vercors. During the uprising in Paris, they filmed the documentary '' Journal de la Résistance: La Libération de Paris'', (directed by André Zwoboda). Parts of this movie were used in the newsreel ''France Libre Actualités''. The group also created its own underground film journal called L’Ecran français in 1943. After the war, the publication became a place where film critics could debate each other, such as the iconic argument over Citizen Kane between Andre Bazin and Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosophe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Resistance
The French Resistance ( ) was a collection of groups that fought the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, Nazi occupation and the Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy#France, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy regime in France during the World War II, Second World War. Resistance Clandestine cell system, cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis (World War II), Maquis in rural areas) who conducted guerrilla warfare and published Underground press, underground newspapers. They also provided first-hand intelligence information, and escape networks that helped Allies of World War II, Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind Axis powers, Axis lines. The Resistance's men and women came from many parts of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Catholic Church in France, Roman Catholics (including clergy), Protestantism in France, Protestants, History of the Jews in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trump Card (film)
''The Trump Card'' (French: ''Dernier atout'') is a 1942 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau and Pierre Renoir. The film marked Becker's full debut as a director, although he had briefly worked on '' Cristobal's Gold'' in 1940. It was filmed partly on the French Riviera, which stood in for South America. Interiors were filmed at the Victorine Studios and at Pathé's studio in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. During production Becker used the pretext of filming to liaise between French Resistance groups in Paris and the South.Crisp p.194 Synopsis In a Latin American country, two young policeman finish joint top of their graduating detective class. To separate them, they take on an investigation at a luxury hotel to see who is the better detective. The case proves however, to have been the murder of a notorious American gangster, killed by his former associates from Chicago Chicago is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristobal's Gold
''Cristobal's Gold'' (French: ''L'or du Cristobal'') is a 1940 French drama film directed by Jean Stelli and Jacques Becker and starring Charles Vanel, Conchita Montenegro and Albert Préjean. Jean Renoir helped the original director, Jacques Becker, prepare the film and worked on the script, before Becker quit after three weeks and was replaced by Jean Stelli.Durgnat p.213 The film is based on a novel by Albert t'Serstevens. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris and the Victorine Studios in Nice with location shooting taking place around Villefranche-sur-Mer. The film's sets were designed by the art director Eugène Lourié. Synopsis Off the coast of South America, a gang of criminals led by a former police officer plans to seize the ship ''Cristobal'' carrying a cargo of gold bullion. Cast * Charles Vanel as Le Coronel, le chef de la police * Conchita Montenegro as La Rubia * Albert Préjean as Dupuy * Jim Gérald as Un pirate * Dita Parlo as Lisbeth * Guillaume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Life And My Films
''My Life and My Films'' () is a 1974 memoir by the French filmmaker Jean Renoir. Renoir tells anecdotes from his life, covering subjects such as the respect for natural unity he was imprinted with in childhood, his time in World War I, his career in French cinema with many commercial failures, his family life, and his exile during World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ... and work in Hollywood. References External links Flammarion {{Jean Renoir 1974 non-fiction books French memoirs Show business memoirs Books by Jean Renoir Éditions Flammarion books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Bled
''Le Bled'' is a 1929 French silent film, silent adventure film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jackie Monnier, Enrique Riveros and Alexandre Arquillière. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and location shooting, on location in French Algeria around Biskra, Boufarik and Staouéli. The film's sets were designed by the art director William Aguet. It was made to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the French conquest of Algeria in 1830. The film's title was an expression used to refer to the interior of Algeria.Bergan p.134 Cast * Jackie Monnier as Claudie Duvernet * Diana Hart as Diane Duvernet * Renée Rozier as Marie-Jeanne * Enrique Rivero as Pierre Hoffer * Manuel Raaby as Manuel Duvernet * Aïssa as Zoubir * G.A. Martin as Le fauconnier * Jacques Becker as Un ouvrier agricole * Hadj Ben Yasmina as Le chauffeur * Alexandre Arquillière as Christian Hoffer References Bibliography * Bergan, Ronald. ''Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise''. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
