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Jean Sorel
Jean Sorel (; born 25 September 1934) is a French actor. Born Jean Bernard de Chieusses de Combaud de Roquebrune, he worked extensively in European cinema during the 1960s and 1970s with directors such as Luis Buñuel and Luchino Visconti. However, since 1980 he has worked mostly in television. He was married to Italian actress Anna Maria Ferrero from 1962 until her death in 2018. In 2018 he married Patricia Balme.§French Wikipedia article Filmography *1959: '' J'irai cracher sur vos tombes'' as Elmer *1960: '' Les Lionceaux'' as Patrice *1960: '' I Dolci inganni'' as Renato *1960: '' Ça s'est passé à Rome'' (''La Giornata balorda'') as David *1961: '' Vive Henri IV... vive l'amour!'' as Le prince de Condé *1961: '' Amélie ou le temps d'aimer'' as Alain *1961: ''Gold of Rome'' (''L'Oro di Roma'') as Massimo *1962: ''Vu du pont'' as Rodolpho *1962: ''Disorder'' (''Il Disordine'') as Andrea *1962: ''Adorable Julia'' (''Julia, Du bist zauberhaft'') as Tom Fennel *1962: '' ...
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Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an Indirect election, indirectly elected Métropole, metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropo ...
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Chair De Poule
''Chair de poule'' ( French for "goosebumps") is a 1963 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Robert Hossein, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Sorel and Georges Wilson. The screenplay is based on the 1960 novel ''Come Easy, Go Easy'' by James Hadley Chase, which took several plot elements from the 1934 novel '' The Postman Always Rings Twice'' by James M Cain. The film was released in the United States as ''Highway Pickup''. Plot In Paris, Daniel and Paul work installing safes by day and robbing them by night. When a raid goes wrong and a man is killed, Daniel is shot down by the police and jailed. He escapes and, heading south, is given a job and a room by Thomas, who runs an isolated café and garage with his much younger wife Maria. She scorns the drifter her husband has hired until, by chance, she sees an old newspaper that reports his escape. She tells Daniel she will turn him in unless he opens the safe where Thomas keeps his cash. When Thomas is out one night, ...
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The Sweet Body Of Deborah
''The Sweet Body of Deborah'' ( it, Il dolce corpo di Deborah) is a 1968 ''giallo'' film directed by Romolo Girolami and starring Carroll Baker and Jean Sorel. It was written by Ernesto Gastaldi based on a story by Gastaldi and producer Luciano Martino. Set in Geneva, the film follows a recently married American woman who finds herself in danger after a stranger begins to target her husband and accuse him of murdering an ex-fiance named Susan. Plot Deborah and Marcel return to Geneva from their honeymoon. Marcel learns of his former fiancée Susan's suicide, and is confronted by a man named Philip who accuses him of murdering her. Marcel begins to receive threats from someone who holds him responsible for Susan's death. His new bride Deborah also becomes the target of these threats, and a weird neighbor named Robert with voyeuristic tendencies begins fixating on her as well. Cast * Carroll Baker as Deborah * Jean Sorel as Marcel * George Hilton as Robert (the voyeur) * ...
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Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
''Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold'' ( it, Fai in fretta ad uccidermi... ho freddo!) is a 1967 Italian crime-comedy film written and directed by Francesco Maselli. Plot Giovanna and Franco, a couple of Italian adventurers and swindlers, after trying to trick each other, decide to join forces. Cast *Monica Vitti as Giovanna * Jean Sorel as Franco * Roberto Bisacco as Sergio * Daniela Surina as Christina * Barbara Pilavin as Ruth Clay * John Stacy as Albert Clay * Tom Felleghy as Dick Marton * Madeline Foy as Alice Martin * Enzo Maggio * Tullio Altamura Tullio Altamura (born 18 July 1924) is an Italian actor, best known for his roles in Spaghetti Western, spaghetti westerns and action films in the 1960s. Life and career Born in Bologna, the son of a career officer in the Kingdom of Italy, It ... References External links * 1967 films 1960s crime comedy films Films directed by Francesco Maselli Commedia all'italiana Italian crime comedy films 1967 comedy films 1 ...
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Belle De Jour (film)
''Belle de Jour'' () is a 1967 drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli. Based on the 1928 novel '' Belle de jour'' by Joseph Kessel, the film is about a young woman who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class prostitute, while her husband is at work. The title of the film is a play on words on the French term ''belle de nuit'' ("beauty of the night", i.e., a prostitute), as Séverine works during the day under the pseudonym "Belle de Jour". Her nickname can also be interpreted as a reference to the French name of the morning glory (''Convolvulaceae''), meaning "beauty of heday", a flower that blooms only during the day. ''Belle de Jour'' is one of Buñuel's most successful and famous films with many film historians calling Deneuve's performance her finest. It won the Golden Lion and the Pasinetti Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival in 1967. Plot Séverine Serizy (Catherine Deneuve), a young and bea ...
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Sex Quartet
''Sex Quartet'' (US title: ''The Queens'', it, Le fate, 'the fairies') is a 1966 Italian-French comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, Mauro Bolognini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Luciano Salce. It starred Capucine, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti and Raquel Welch. Plot Four unrelated shorts by four different directors. "Queen Sabina" chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-saving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust. Cast * Monica Vitti as Sabina (segment "Fata Sabina") * Enrico Maria Salerno as Gianni (segment "Fata Sabina") * Claudia Cardinale as Armenia (segment "Fata Armenia") * Gastone Mo ...
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The Man Who Laughs (1966 Film)
''The Man Who Laughs'' ( it, L'uomo che ride) is a 1966 Italian historical drama film based on the 1869 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. Plot In this version, the character of Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (played by Jean Sorel). His disfigurement is represented as a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. While he deals with this, he also falls for a beautiful girl named Dea. The story (which is attributed, in the movie credits, to the director, producer and others involved in making the film, but not to Victor Hugo) has the disfigured acrobat being seduced by a noblewoman and in so doing becomes a henchman for the Borgias. Meanwhile, Dea miraculously acquires her eyesight and falls in love with a young nobleman. This nobleman is marked for death not just by Angelo's employers but by Angelo as well over the loss of Dea. Angelo's assassination attempt fails and he is mortally wounded. In the final scene the escaping Angelo staggers into a Leper Colony and ...
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Weekend, Italian Style
''L'ombrellone'' or ''Weekend, Italian Style'' is a 1966 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Dino Risi. It was co-produced with Spain and France. The soundtrack is full of Italian Pop songs from the 1960s. Plot Ferragosto in Rome. Everybody is on holidays on the beach, except Enrico Marletti (Enrico Maria Salerno), who spends the week working. On the weekends, he drives to Rimini to meet his wife Giuliana (Sandra Milo), but she is living her ''dolce vita'' (sweet life) and her husband is out of place amidst her chic friends. Cast *Sandra Milo: Giuliana Marletti *Enrico Maria Salerno: Enrico Marletti * Jean Sorel: Sergio *Daniela Bianchi: Isabella Dominici *Lelio Luttazzi: Conte Antonio Bellanca *Raffaele Pisu: Pasqualino * Leopoldo Trieste: professor. Ferri * Trini Alonso: Clelia Valdameri * Alicia Brandet: Vicina di stanza *Véronique Vendell: Giuliana * Pepe Calvo: Mr. Tagliaferri *Antonella Della Porta: Miss De Rossi *Solvi Stubing Solvi Stubing (19 January 1941 – 3 Ju ...
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Made In Italy (1965 Film)
''Made in Italy'' is a 1965 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Nanni Loy. Cast Usi e costumi * Lando Buzzanca * Aldo Giuffrè * Walter Chiari * Lea Massari * Claudio Gora * Marina Berti * Renzo Marignano Le donne * Virna Lisi * Giulio Bosetti * Catherine Spaak * Fabrizio Moroni * Mario Meniconi * Sylva Koscina * Jean Sorel Il lavoro * Gino Mucci * Milena Vukotic * Aldo Fabrizi * Nino Castelnuovo * Mario Pisu * Enzo Liberti Il cittadino, lo stato, la Chiesa * Nino Manfredi * Carlo Pisacane * Gigi Reder * Carlo Taranto * Ugo Fangareggi * Enzo Petito La famiglia * Peppino De Filippo * Tecla Scarano * Alberto Sordi * Rossella Falk * Claudie Lange * Marcella Rovena * Anna Magnani * Andrea Checchi * Antonio Casagrande * Franco Balducci Emigranti * Giampiero Albertini * Aldo Bufi Landi * Adelmo Di Fraia * Renato Terra Renato Terra (26 July 1922 in Naples – 28 November 2010 in Rome) had a career working in film as an actor, and has appeared in over 80 movie ...
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Vaghe Stelle Dell'Orsa
''Sandra'' ( it, Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, lit=Glimmering stars of the Great Bear) is a 1965 drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, and starring Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, and Michael Craig. A modern-day retelling of the Electra story, the film centers on the incestuous relationship between a young Italian woman (Cardinale) and her brother (Sorel), on her return to their ancestral home of Volterra. It premiered at the 26th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. Plot Visconti's retelling of the Electra story starts with Sandra/Electra (Claudia Cardinale) returning to her ancestral home in Italy. On the eve of an official ceremony commemorating the death of her Jewish father in a Nazi concentration camp, she revives an intimate involvement with her brother (Jean Sorel), which troubles her naive husband ( Michael Craig). As ever with Visconti, he is ambivalently drawn to the decadent society he is ostensibly criticising; and Armando Nan ...
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Le Bambole
''Le bambole'' (U.S. title: ''The Dolls'', UK title: ''Four Kinds of Love'') is a 1965 Italian comedy film in four segments; starring Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer, and Mario Montuori. The four vignettes—The Telephone Call (La telefonata), Treatise on Eugenics (Il trattato di eugenetica), The Soup (La minestra), and Monsignor Cupid (Monsignor Cupido)—concern secrets of love and secret lovers. The fourth segment is based on a tale of Boccaccio's ''The Decameron''. Plot This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories. Cast * Nino Manfredi as Giorgio (segment "La telefornata") * Virna Lisi as Luisa (segment "La telefornata") * Elke Sommer as Ulla (segment "Il trattato di eugenetica") * Maurizio Arena as Massimo (segment "Il trattato di eugenetica) * Piero Focaccia as Valerio (segment "Il trattato di eugenetica) * Monica Vitti as Giovanna (segment "La minestra") * Gina Lollobrigida Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actres ...
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De L'amour
''All About Loving'' (french: De l'amour) is a 1964 French comedy film directed by Jean Aurel and starring Anna Karina. Cast * Anna Karina as Hélène * Elsa Martinelli as Mathilde * Michel Piccoli as Raoul * Jean Sorel as Antoine * Philippe Avron as Serge * Joanna Shimkus as Sophie * Bernard Garnier as Werther * Isabelle Lunghini * Bernard Nicolas as Frédéric * Katia Christine Katia is a feminine given name. It is a variant of Katya. Notable people with this name Actresses and models *Katia Dandoulaki, Greek actress * Katia Margaritoglou, Greek fashion model and beauty contestant * Katia Winter (born 1983), Swedi ... as Katia Kristine References External links * 1964 films 1964 comedy films 1960s French-language films French black-and-white films Films based on works by Stendhal Films directed by Jean Aurel 1960s French films {{1960s-comedy-film-stub ...
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