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Jean Daurand
Jean Daurand (1913–1989) was a French actor. He starred in ''La Nuit Merveilleuse'' and ''Derrière la Facade''. Selected filmography * ''Rothchild'' (1933) * ''Le secret d'une nuit'' (1934) * ''Pension Mimosas'' (1935) - Un groom (uncredited) * ''Passé à vendre'' (1936) * ''Les grands'' (1936) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) - Un matelot * ''Les petites alliées'' (1936) - Un marin * ''The Man of the Hour'' (1937) - Un journaliste (uncredited) * ''Double crime sur la ligne Maginot'' (1937) * '' Hercule'' (1938) - Sandwich (uncredited) * ''Alert in the Mediterranean'' (1938) - Le matelot Calas * ''Éducation de prince'' (1938) - Le camarade de Marianne * ''Le capitaine Benoît'' (1938) - Griffon * ''Behind the Facade'' (1939) - Le télégraphiste * ''Nord-Atlantique'' (1939) - Gus * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) - L'Ablette * ''Brazza ou l'épopée du Congo'' (1940) - Le quartier-maître Hamon * ''Sixième étage'' (1940) - Jojo - le jeune ouvrier * '' The Marvelous Night'' (1940) - Le m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Purpose It was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United Kingdom. BFI activities Archive The BFI maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Jeux Sont Faits (film)
''Les jeux sont faits'', known in English as ''The Chips are Down'', is a 1947 French fantasy film directed by Jean Delannoy, based on the screenplay of the same name by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Plot In a country very similar to France under German military occupation, two people are murdered at the same moment. Ève is poisoned by her influential husband, who wants her money and her naïve younger sister, Lucette. Pierre, a worker and a leader of the resistance, is shot by an informer. Meeting in the afterlife, the two fall in love. As they were fated to do so, but prevented by others, they are granted 24 hours back on earth. Their first mission is to do a favour to a dead man who was worried about his young daughter. Then, after brief sex, they address unfinished business. Ève confronts her evil husband and tries to convince her sister of his treachery. Pierre goes to a meeting of resisters and tries to convinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escapade (1957 Film)
''Escapade'' is a 1957 French adventure film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Louis Jourdan, Dany Carrel, and Roger Hanin. Premise Some gangsters use a young girl to get to a recently released convict who hid $10 million from a robbery just before he was caught. Cast * Louis Jourdan : Frank Raphaël * Dany Carrel : Agnès Mercenay * Roger Hanin : Olivier * Lise Delamare : Miss Mercenay * Jean-Loup Philippe : Philippe * Félix Martin : Angelo * Arlette Merry : Dolly * Marcel Bozzuffi : Raymond * Guy Tréjan : Maurice * : sister of Agnè * Albert Rémy : José * Jean Daurand : inspector * José Lewgoy José Lewgoy (16 November 1920 – 10 February 2003) was a Brazilian actor. He is recognizable to many art-house cinema fans for his role as Don Aquilino in Werner Herzog's 1982 film ''Fitzcarraldo''. Biography He was born in Veranópolis, ... : Caraco External links ''Escapade''at Louisjourdan.net * French adventure films 1957 adventure films 1957 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gervaise (film)
''Gervaise'' is a 1956 French film directed by René Clément based on the 1877 novel ''L'Assommoir'' by Émile Zola. It depicts a working-class woman in the mid-nineteenth century (played by Maria Schell) trying to cope with the descent of her husband (played by François Périer) into alcoholism. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards. Schell won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1956 Venice Film Festival for her performance. It won the 1957 BAFTA for Best Film and Best Actor. Cast * Maria Schell: Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, a patient and courageous laundrywoman * François Périer: Coupeau, Gervaise's husband, a roofer * Suzy Delair: Virginie Poisson, an old rival who hates Gervaise * Armand Mestral: Lantier, Gervaise's former lover * Jany Holt: Mme Lorilleux, Coupeau's ill-tempered sister * Mathilde Casadesus: Mme Boche, the concierge * Florelle: Maman Coupeau, Coupeau's aged mother * Micheline Luccioni: Clémence, a laundrywo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If All The Guys In The World
''If All the Guys in the World'' (original French title: ''Si tous les gars du monde'') is a 1956 French adventure film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring André Valmy, Jean Gaven, Marc Cassot, Georges Poujouly, Doudou Babet. Plot A French fishing trawler crew in the North Sea becomes incapacitated after eating contaminated food while in the middle of a storm. The story follows the efforts of an international collection of amateur radio operators to deliver an antidote. Cast * André Valmy as Le capitaine Pierre Le Guellec * Jean Gaven as Jos - le second * Marc Cassot as Marcel * Georges Poujouly as Benj - le mouusse * Doudou Babet as Mohammed (as Doudou-Babet) * Hélène Perdrière as Christine Largeau (as Hélène Perdrière de la Comédie Française) * Claude Sylvain as Totoche * Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis (as J.L. Trintignant) * Andrex (actor), Andrex as Le docteur Largarrigue * Yves Brainville as Le docteur Jégou * Jean Clarieux as Riri * Mimo Billi as A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Of No Importance
''People of No Importance'' (french: Des gens sans importance) is a 1956 French drama film directed by Henri Verneuil. Set entirely among ordinary working people, it tells the story of an unhappily married long-distance lorry driver who starts an affair with a young waitress at a restaurant where he stops frequently, but tragedy intervenes. Plot Jean is a long-distance lorry driver whose usual run is from Paris, where he lives with his unsympathetic wife and children, to Bordeaux. A favourite stop is La Caravane, a roadside restaurant where he is attracted to Clo, a pretty and affectionate young woman who is estranged from her family and survives by waitressing. Anxious to be with him, she gives up her job and goes to Paris, where she finds work as a chambermaid in a sordid hotel used by prostitutes. She also finds that she is pregnant, which the hotel manager resolves by sending her for an illegal abortion. Jean meanwhile has been sacked, partly because his tachograph showed too mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Dossier (film)
''Black Dossier'' (french: Le Dossier noir) is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by André Cayatte. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Jacques Arnaud arrives in a small town somewhere in the province. Soon a citizen reports to him that strangers have broken into his house where they stole a mysterious "black dossier". This file had been given to him by a recently demised citizen named Le Guen. The content of this file included information on the town's foremost businessman who behind his proper façade seems to be a ruthless fraudster. Arnaud has the corps of Le Guen exhumed and proof is found that this man has died of poisoning. Cast * Jean-Marc Bory as Judge Jacques Arnaud * Danièle Delorme as Yvonne Dutoit * Bernard Blier as Commissaire Noblet * Lea Padovani as Françoise Le Guen * Antoine Balpêtré as Dutoit * Paul Frankeur as Charles Broussard * Nelly Borgeaud as Danièle Limousin * Noël Roquevert as Commissaire Franconi * Daniel Cauchy as Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huis Clos (1954 Film)
''No Exit'' (french: Huis clos, links=no, ) is a 1944 existentialist Existentialism ( ) is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the problem of human existence and centers on human thinking, feeling, and acting. Existentialist thinkers frequently explore issues related to the meaning, purpose, and value ... French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944. The play begins with three characters who find themselves waiting in a mysterious room. It is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous phrase "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Being and Nothingness#Part 3, Chapter 1: The look, look and the perpetual ontology, ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object from the view of another consciousness. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
''Touchez pas au grisbi'' (, French for "Don't touch the loot"), released as ''Honour Among Thieves'' in the United Kingdom and ''Grisbi'' in the United States, is a 1954 French-Italian crime film based on a novel by Albert Simonin. It was directed by Jacques Becker and stars Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll, and Marilyn Buferd. The film was screened in competition at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. The film is the first installment of the so-called "Max le Menteur trilogy", which are all based on novels by Simonin, but feature different characters; it was followed by '' Le cave se rebiffe'' and ''Les tontons flingueurs'', both of which are more comedic than ''Grisbi''. Plot Max, a principled middle-aged Parisian gangster, has dinner at Madame Bouche's restaurant, a hangout for criminals, with his longtime-associate Riton, their much younger burlesque-dancer girlfriends, and Max's protege Marco. The group then goes to crime-boss Pier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tour Of The Grand Dukes
''The Tour of the Grand Dukes'' (French: ''La Tournée des grands ducs'') is a 1953 French musical comedy film directed by André Pellenc and starring Raymond Bussières, Denise Grey and Christian Duvaleix as well as featuring the singer Lily Fayol.Price p.168 Synopsis Gaston is in love with Brigitte, the daughter of a baroness, who teasingly tells him that she has another lover in Paris. He heads off to the capital to find and confront his rival under the pretext of trying to recruit performers for a charity gala. He is robbed on the way and ends up lost in the world of cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining o ...s. All the other characters come looking for him. Cast References Bibliography * Dicale, Bertrand. ''Louis de Funès, grimaces et gloire''. Grasset, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauties Of The Night (1952 Film)
''Les Belles de nuit'' (US title: ''Beauties of the Night'') is a 1952 French language motion picture fantasy directed and written by René Clair who co-produced with Angelo Rizzoli. The film stars Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida and Magali Vendeuil. It was nominated the Venice Film Festival for Golden Lion (René Clair). Plot Impoverished piano teacher and composer Claude (Gérard Philipe) fantasizes about seducing beautiful rich women. One night a promising dream turns into a nightmare in which he's chased by the violent husbands and brothers of his lovers. He gets up and tries to stay awake for fear of feeling haunted again. Then he meets his neighbour Suzanne (Magali Vendeuil) who resembles a woman from his dream. Cast *Gérard Philipe as Claude *Martine Carol as Edmee *Gina Lollobrigida as Leila / Cashier *Magali Vendeuil as Suzanne *Marilyn Buferd as Madame Bonacieux / Postal clerk *Raymond Bussières as Roger the mechanic * Raymond Cordy as Suz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Are All Murderers
''We Are All Murderers'' (french: Nous sommes tous des assassins, also known as ''Are We All Murderers?'') is a 1952 French film written and directed by André Cayatte, a former attorney. It tells the story of René, a young man from the slums, trained by the French Resistance in World War II to kill Germans. He continues to kill long after the war has ended, as it is all he knows. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. Plot René Le Guen (Marcel Mouloudji) is a former resistance fighter trained as a young man as a professional killer. After World War II, he has no qualms in applying these skills and is arrested for murder. Convicted and condemned to death, he is held in a prison cell with other murderers sentenced to death. Men to be guillotined are taken out at night, so they wait in fear and only sleep after dawn. While Le Guen's lawyer (Claude Laydu) tries to achieve a pardon for his client, three of Le Guen's fellow inmates are execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
