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Jean-Roger Caussimon
Jean-Roger Caussimon (24 July 1918 – 19 October 1985) was a French singer-songwriter and film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985 but is better known for having worked with poet-singer Léo Ferré. Discography Studio albums * ''Jean-Roger Caussimon chante Jean-Roger Caussimon'' (1970) * ''À la Seine'' (1972) * ''Musique légère'' (1974) * ''Il fait soleil'' (1975) * ''Chanson de l'homme heureux'' (1977) * ''Papy rock'' (1979) Live albums * ''Au théâtre de la Ville'' (1978) Posthumous releases * ''En public à l'Olympia 74'' (1992) * ''Jean-Roger Caussimon au cabaret du Lapin Agile'' (2003) Selected filmography * ''François Villon'' (1945) - Le grand écolier * '' The Last Judgment'' (1945) * ''Pétrus'' (1946) - Milou * '' Destiny Has Fun'' (1946) - Marcel * ''Captain Blomet'' (1947) - Clodomir * ''La fleur de l'âge'' (1947) * ''Le mannequin assassiné'' (1948) - Jérôme * ''Scandals of Clochemerle'' (1948) - Samotras * ''The Murdered Model'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Saint Mène La Danse
''Le Saint mène la danse'' (''The Saint leads the Dance'') also known as ''The Dance of Death'' and ''Le Saint conduit le bal'' (''The Saint leads the Ball'') is a 1960 film featuring Félix Marten as Simon Templar, the crimefighter also known as The Saint. Plot The Saint is in New York and helps in the arrest of a gangster, but a year later in Paris the gangster's friends try to get revenge. Cast * Felix Marten as Simon Templar * Michèle Mercier as Dany * Françoise Brion as Norma * Jean Desailly as Freddie Pellman * Nicole Mirel as Gina * Henri Nassiet as Louis * Clément Harari as Archie * Jean-Marie Rivière as Mario Production This is a crime comedy directed by Jacques Nahum Jacques Nahum (27 February 1921 – 21 July 2017) was a French director, screenwriter, and producer, famed for producing the cult television show ''Arsène Lupin'', descended from the Pallache family. Background Jacques Nahum was born on .... References External links * 1960 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Que La Fête Commence
''Que la fête commence...'' (English title ''Let Joy Reign Supreme'') is a 1975 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring Philippe Noiret. It is a historical drama set during the 18th century French Régence centring on the Breton Pontcallec Conspiracy. It won the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Prix Méliès, and the César Award for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing and Best Production Design, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Supporting Actress and Best Music. Plot In France in 1719, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans is the regent for the young Louis XV. He is sophisticated, gentle, a liberal and a libertine. He endeavours to keep his subjects cultured and happy—mainly to stop the peasants from rising up—but he knows he has no real royal authority. To assist him, Philippe enlists the aid of an atheistic and venal priest named Guillaume Dubois, another libertine who does not care for anyone except himself. The film begin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Leaf Clover (film)
''Five Leaf Clover'' (French: ''Le trèfle à cinq feuilles'') is a 1972 French comedy film directed by Edmond Freess and starring Philippe Noiret, Liselotte Pulver and Micha Bayard.Bock & Bergfelder p.379 Cast * Philippe Noiret as Alfred * Liselotte Pulver as Daisy * Micha Bayard as Germaine Constant * Maurice Biraud as Georges-André Constant * Jean Carmet as Lord Picratt * Jean-Roger Caussimon as Vampirus * Barbara Cederlung as Isabelle * Monique Chaumette as Marie-Berthe * Pierre Fabre as Ferdinand * Thalie Frugès as Chloë * Corinne Koeningswarter as Isalaide * Bernard La Jarrige Bernard La Jarrige (25 February 1912 – 29 May 1999) was a French film and television actor.Paietta p.17 His name is sometimes written as Bernard Lajarrige. Selected filmography * '' Orage'' (1938) - Un copain (uncredited) * ''La cité des lumi ... * Ginette Leclerc as L'épicière * Paul Préboist as Léon Constant References Bibliography * Hans-Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Breakers
''Law Breakers'' (french: Les Assassins de l'ordre) is a 1971 French drama film starring Jacques Brel, directed by Marcel Carné. It was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. Based on a real-life incident, an idealistic and dedicated magistrate is assigned to examine the case of two policemen and their inspector who have beaten a suspect to death. By the time the case is heard in court, all the witnesses and the widow's counsel have been intimidated into silence, the magistrate himself has come under heavy pressure to drop the case, and the three murderers walk free. Plot In Provence just before Christmas, a former prisoner suspected of robbery is dragged from his home by two policemen, taken to the police station, and beaten to death. His widow then files a charge and the case is allocated to the magistrate Bernard Level for judicial investigation. Both the two policemen and the inspector on duty deny any wrongdoing, as does the one other policeman in the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantômas Contre Scotland Yard
''Fantômas contre Scotland Yard'' (, "Fantomas Against Scotland Yard") is the final installment of a trilogy of films starring Jean Marais as the arch villain Fantômas name opposite Louis de Funès as the earnest but outclassed commissaire Juve and the journalist Fandor, also played by Marais. The trilogy was France's humorous answer, starting in 1964, to the James Bond phenomenon that swept the world at around the same time. The ''Fantômas'' films became extremely successful in Europe and USSR, and found success even in the United States and Japan where fan websites exist to this day.Japan fan website via the Internet Archive Plot In the third and final film of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dis-moi Qui Tuer
''Dis-moi qui tuer'' (English title: ''Tell Me Whom to Kill'') is a 1965 French drama film directed by Étienne Périer. The screenplay was written by Maurice Fabre and Didier Goulard, based on a novel by Henri Lapierre. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Paul Hubschmid. Plot A couple of children come across evidence of a Nazi treasure in an old hotel. Cast * Michèle Morgan as Geneviève Monthannet * Paul Hubschmid as Reiner Dietrich * Darío Moreno as Pitou * Rellys as Le Basta * Jean Yanne as Federucci * Jean-Roger Caussimon as Kopf * Alain Decock as Constantin * François Leccia as Marc Pestel * Germaine Montero as Madame Fayard * Daniel Allier Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ... as Machelin * Yann Arthus-Bertrand as Galland * Fiona Lewis as Pompon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleins Feux Sur Stanislas
''Pleins feux sur Stanislas'' () is a French-German comedy thriller film from 1965. It was directed by Jean-Charles Dudrumet, written by Michel Cousin and Jean-Charles Dudrumet, starring Jean Marais. The film was known under the title ''Killer Spy'' (USA), ' (Portugal), ' (West Germany). It was a sequel of L'honorable Stanislas, agent secret from 1963. Cast * Jean Marais: Stanislas Dubois, the secret agent, writer * Nadja Tiller: Bénédicte Rameau, literature critic * André Luguet: the colonel of Sailly, the leader * Bernadette Lafont: Rosine Lenoble, the fiancée of Vladimir * Rudolf Forster: Rameau, the father of Bénédicte (under the name of "Rudolph Forster") * Nicole Maurey: Claire, the chairwoman of the association * Yvonne Clech: the hotel keeper * Marcelle Arnold: Morin, secretary of Stanislas * Jacques Morel: the tax inspector of Stanislas * Bernard Lajarrige: Paul, the butler of Stanislas * Edward Meeks: James, the English spy * Billy Kearns: American spy * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas The Impostor
''Thomas the Impostor'' (french: Thomas l'imposteur) is a 1965 French drama film directed by Georges Franju and starring Emmanuelle Riva, Fabrice Rouleau, Sophie Dares, Jean Marais and Charles Aznavour. It is based on a novel of the same name by Jean Cocteau. Plot The film is set during World War I, as Paris is expected to fall to the Germans. The Princesse de Bormes, a widow, helps wounded soldiers by evacuating them from the front and bringing them to her villa in Paris for medical care. However, the authorities will not give the Princess and the soldiers passes to return to Paris. The situation changes when an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins the authorities and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. Thomas is able to use his position of posing as the general's nephew to cut through the red tape, in order to help the Princess. She is entranced by Thomas, and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pyramid Of The Sun God
''The Pyramid of the Sun God'' (German: ''Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes'' is a 1965 West German and Italian western film adventure directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Lex Barker, Gérard Barray and Michèle Girardon. It is based on a book by Karl May, and was part of a boom of Karl May adaptations during the decade.Bergfelder p.188 It follows on from ''The Treasure of the Aztecs'' (1965), also directed by Siodmak and featuring the same cast. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Veljko Despotovic and Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger. Rio Grande Cast *Lex Barker as Dr. Karl Sternau *Michèle Girardon as Josefa Cortejo *Gérard Barray as Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla * Hans Nielsen as Don Pedro Arbellez * Rik Battaglia as Captain Lazaro Verdoja *Gustavo Rojo as Lieutenant Potoca *Theresa Lorca as Karja *Ralf Wolter as Andreas Hasenpfeffer *Kelo Henderson as Frank Wilson *Alessandra Panaro as Rosita Arbellez * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Treasure Of The Aztecs
''The Treasure of the Aztecs'' (German: ''Der Schatz der Azteken'') is a 1965 western adventure film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Lex Barker, Gérard Barray and Michèle Girardon. It was made as a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany. It was based on a novel by Karl May, part of a boom in adaptations of the author's works during the decade.Bergfelder p.188 It was followed by a second part ''The Pyramid of the Sun God'' (1965). It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in Barcelona and Yugoslavia. The film sets were designed by the art directors Hertha Hareiter and Otto Pischinger. It was made in Eastmancolor. Cast *Lex Barker as Dr. Karl Sternau *Gérard Barray as Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla * Rik Battaglia as Captain Lazaro Verdoja *Michèle Girardon as Josefa Cortejo *Alessandra Panaro as Rosita Arbellez *Theresa Lorca as Karja *Ralf Wolter as Andreas Hasenpfeffer *Fausto Tozzi as Benito Juarez * Hans Nielsen as Don Pedr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
