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Le Grand Cirque (1950 Film)
Le Grand Cirque may refer to: * ''Le Grand Cirque'', a 1948 wartime memoir by Pierre Clostermann Pierre Henri Clostermann (28 February 1921 – 22 March 2006) was a World War II French people, French fighter pilot. During the conflict he achieved 33 air-to-air combat victories, earning the accolade "France's First Fighter" from General ... * ''Le Grand Cirque'' (film), a 1950 film adaptation of the memoir directed by Georges Péclet * ''Le Grand Cirque'' (1956 painting), by Marc Chagall * ''Le Grand Cirque'' (1968 painting), by Marc Chagall {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Clostermann
Pierre Henri Clostermann (28 February 1921 – 22 March 2006) was a World War II French people, French fighter pilot. During the conflict he achieved 33 air-to-air combat victories, earning the accolade "France's First Fighter" from General Charles de Gaulle. His wartime memoir, ''The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque)'' became a notable bestseller. After the war, he worked as an engineer and was the youngest Member of France's Parliament. Early life Clostermann was born in Curitiba, Brazil, into a French diplomatic family. He was the only son of Madeleine Carlier from Lorraine (region), Lorraine and Jacques Clostermann from Alsace. After receiving flying tuition from German pilot Karl Benitz (died in 1943, Russia), he completed his secondary education in France and gained his private pilot's licence in 1937. World War II On the outbreak of war in 1939 the French authorities refused his application for service, so he travelled to Los Angeles to become a commercial pilot, studying a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Grand Cirque (film)
''Le Grand Cirque'' is a 1950 in film, 1950 French cinema, French war film directed by Georges Péclet. It is based on the memoir of the same name by Pierre Clostermann. Plot Pierre Despont is seconded to a Free French squadron flying with the Royal Air Force, RAF at Biggin Hill Aerodrome, under the command of René Mouchotte. The fearless Despont becomes close friends with fellow pilots Jean Loessig and Jacques Desmarets, but the squadron's dangerous reconnaissance and combat missions in Supermarine Spitfire, Spitfire Mk. IX fighters take their toll on the pilots. Loessig goes missing over Normandy during the D-Day landings while Desmarets is killed on the final day of combat in Europe, leaving his wife a widow. Despont survives the war but is left melancholy by the loss of his friends. Cast *Pamela Skiff as Patricia *Pierre Cressoy as Pierre Despont *Jean Barrère as Jacques Desmarets *Jean Christian as Captain Mouchotte *Roger Saltel as Jean Loessig *Édouard Delmont as Peas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Grand Cirque (1956 Painting)
Le Grand Cirque is an oil and gouache on canvas painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall created in 1956. Description The canvas features acrobats, trapeze artists and clowns. The subject of circus was dear to the artist. Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks. He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings. Among other Post-Impressionist and Modern painters who featured the circus in their works are Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Kees van Dongen, and Fernand Léger. Provenance At least until 1974 ''Le Grand Cirque'' was in a property of Gustave Stern Foundation, New York. In 2007 the painting was acquired from the Gustave Stern Foundation and Sold at Sotheby’s, New York for $13.8 million, becoming a part of private collection in Switzerland. In 2017, the painting was sold for $16 million, to an Asian telephone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
