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Let There Be Light (1998 Film)
''Let There Be Light'' (original title: ''Que la lumière soit !'') is a 1998 comedy fantasy film directed by Arthur Joffé, starring an ensemble cast. Cast * Hélène de Fougerolles as Jeanne * Tchéky Karyo as Harper * Ticky Holgado as Angel René * Bruce Myers as The Rabbi * Lorella Cravotta as Rachel * Gordon Tootoosis as Indian God * Catherine Jacob as God Suzanne * Patrick Bouchitey as Pilot God * Arielle Dombasle as Blond God * Élie Semoun as Seller God * Yolande Moreau as Contractual God * Frédéric Mitterrand as Driver God * Julien Guiomar as God Father * François Morel as Gravedigger God * Sergio Castellitto as Tourist God * Michel Galabru as Southern God * Arthur Joffé as Shower & Phone God * Patrick Poivre d'Arvor as Journalist God * José Garcia as The Journalist * Éric Blanc as Guardian God * Jacques Weber as Professor Lang * Rufus as Harper's driver * Zinedine Soualem as Dustman God * Michael Lonsdale as Monsignor Loublié * Justine Johnston as The Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Joffé
Arthur Joffé (born 20 September 1953) is a French film director, the son of the director and screenwriter Alex Joffé.Philippe Rège, ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors'', volume 1, p538 He was awarded the Palme d'Or du court métrage at the 1982 Cannes film festival for his short film '' Merlin ou le cours de l'or''. Festival de Cannes website He was also the recipient of the Youth Prize in Cannes for his film ''''. Arthur Joffé was born on 20 September 1953 in Paris. His first full-length feature film was '''', starring |
Bruce Myers (actor)
Bruce Myers (12 April 1942 – 15 April 2020) was a British actor and director. Partial filmography *'' No Blade of Grass'' (1970) - Bill Riggs *''Meetings with Remarkable Men'' (1979) - Yelov *'' Measure for Measure'' (1979, TV movie) - Angelo *'' The Awakening'' (1980) - Dr. Khalid *''Eaux profondes'' (1981) - Cameron *''Casting'' (1983, TV series) *''Dorothée, danseuse de corde'' (1983, TV movie) - Georges *''Prime Risk : adolescent dans le parking'' (1985) *''Le Génie du faux'' (1985, TV movie) *''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' (1988) - Czech Editor *''La Révolution française'' (1989) - Couthon (segment "Années terribles, Les") *''The Mahabharata'' (1990, TV mini-series) - Ganesha / Krishna *''Présumé dangereux'' (1990) - Andreï Sletotchkine *''Henry & June'' (1990) - Jack *'' Toutes peines confondues'' (1992) - Scandurat *''La joie de vivre'' (1993) - Karl *''Fausto'' (1993) - Roger *''Le Tailleur autrichien'' (1993, Short) - Franz Reichert *''The Browning Vers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinedine Soualem
Zinedine Soualem (born 17 April 1957) is a French actor. He has appeared in at least five films directed by Cédric Klapisch. Personal life Soualem is Algerian by ancestry, and was at one point married to the actress Hiam Abbass Hiam Abbass ( ar, هيام عباس, he, היאם עבאס; born 30 November 1960), also Hiyam Abbas, is a Palestinian actress and film director. Personal life Hiam Abbass was born in Nazareth, Israel, to a Muslim Arab family. She was raised .... They have two daughters, Lina and Mouna. Theatre Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Soualem, Zinedine 1957 births Living people French male film actors French people of Algerian descent French male television actors 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors People from Thiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufus (actor)
Rufus (born 19 December 1942) or Zio Vittorio is the stage name of Italian-French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known to international film audiences for his performance as Raphaël, the father of Amélie Poulain in ''Amélie'' (2001). Career After three years at medical school, he became a theatre manager. He has appeared in numerous French TV series and productions, including most of the films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He played the lead role in the movie ''Train de vie'' (1998), an award-winning tragicomedy about the Holocaust. Personal life He lives in Neauphle-le-Château in the Yvelines département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the regions of France, admin ... and has three children; his daughter Zoé Narcy and his son Basile Narcy are themselves actors. Filmography Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Weber
Jacques Weber is a French actor, director, and writer. Life and career Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for ''Tartuffe''. In 1972, he was Haroun in ''Faustine et le Bel Été'' and played the role of Hugo in '' État de siège'' by Costa-Gavras. He was seduced by Claude Jade in '' Le Malin Plaisir'' (1975), and by Anicée Alvina in '' Une femme fatale'' (1976). The young actor with much ''sex-appeal'' (he appeared in ''Le Malin Plaisir'' completely naked) was in '' Bel Ami'' (1983) after the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant in the adaptation by Pierre Cardinal. On television, he was, among others, '' Le Comte de Monte-Cristo'' by Denys de La Patellière and Judge '' Antoine Rives'' in the show by Gilles Béhat. Noticeable on film as Comte de Guic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Blanc
Éric Degbegni, better known as Éric Blanc (born October 13, 1965 in Cotonou, Benin), is a French Impressionist and comedian. His father was a professional magistrate and his mother was a pediatric nurse. He lived in Cotonou until 1975, when his family move to Paris in exile after Général Kérékou's coup d'état. He discontinued his law courses for the stage. In 1986 he began his career with an engagement at the Caveau de la République, a venue for new humorists in Paris, performing imitations of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the TV host Frédéric Mitterrand, and the French tennis player Yannick Noah. He has played on different TV shows as ''la Classe'' on France 3. He has performed one-man shows in the Bataclan and the Bobino theatres in Paris. Filmography * '' L'œil au beur(re) noir'' (1987) * '' Black mic-mac 2'' (1988) * '' À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur'' (1988) * '' L'Invité surprise'' (1989) * '' Thank You Satan'' (1989) * '' L'un contre l'au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Poivre D'Arvor
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (PPDA; né Patrick Jean Marcel Poivre, ; born 20 September 1947) is a French TV journalist and writer. He is a household name in France, and nicknamed "PPDA". With over 30 years and in excess of 4,500 editions of television news to his credit, he was one of the longest serving newsreaders in the world until he was fired in 2008. He presented his last newscast on TF1 on 10 July 2008. Since 2021, a total of 27 women have accused Patrick Poivre d'Aror of sexual assault or rape that would have allegedly happened during decades prior. Seventeen women filed a formal complaint. Among them, eight did so for alleged rape. Biography Patrick Poivre was born in Reims, France. He obtained his Baccalauréat at 15, the year he became a father. He then studied Oriental Languages at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and Law. Poivre claims to be descended directly from Jacques Poivre, brother of Pierre Poivre, an 18th-century nobleman in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Castellitto
Sergio Castellitto (born 18 August 1953) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Biography Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953, to parents from Molise and Abruzzo, Southern Italy. After graduating from the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1978, he began his theatrical career in Italian public theater with Shakespeare's ''Measure for Measure'' at the Teatro di Roma and with roles in other plays such as ''La Madre'' by Brecht, ''Merchant of Venice'', and ''Candelaio'' by Giordano Bruno. At the Teatro di Genova he starred in the roles of Tuzenbach in Chekhov's ''Three Sisters'' and Jean in Strindberg's ''Miss Julie'', both under the direction of Otomar Krejka. In the coming years, he also starred in such theatrical productions as ''L'infelicità senza desideri'' and ''Piccoli equivoci'' at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He also appeared in ''Barefoot in the Park'' by Neil Simon. During his years in the theatre, he worked alongside man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Morel (actor)
François Morel (born 10 June 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known for appearing in sketch television series '' Les Deschiens'' (1993-2002). Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morel, Francois 1959 births French male film actors Living people French male screenwriters French screenwriters 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French film directors People from Orne Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Guiomar
Julien Guiomar (3 May 1928 in Morlaix, Finistère, Brittany – 22 November 2010 in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine), was a French film actor. The actor had retired to the Dordogne at Monpazier. The person who incarnated Colonel Vincent in " Papy fait de la resistance", Jacques Tricatel in " L'Aile ou la cuisse," who had donned the police colonel's uniform in "Z", of Costa-Gavras, Who died at the age of 82 from heart disease in the night of 21–22 November at the Saint-Hilaire clinic where he had been hospitalized. The man, born in Morlaix, was also very fond of the south-west. "It was an exceptional being, simple, a very easy approach," says an Agenais of the world of the spectacle who had participated in a show organized for the 80 years of the comedian in Dordogne Périgord. Filmography * '' Le Roi de cœur'' (''King of Hearts'') (directed by Philippe de Broca) (1966) as Monseigneur Marguerite * ''Le Voleur'' (''The Thief of Paris'') (directed by Louis Malle) (1967) as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Mitterrand
Frédéric Mitterrand (born 21 August 1947) is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director. Biography Born in Paris, he is the nephew of François Mitterrand, who was the president of France from 1981 to 1995, and the son of engineer Robert Mitterrand (1915–2002) and Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, the co-founder of "La Cagoule". He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and studied history and geography at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and political science at Sciences Po. He taught economics, history and geography at EABJM from 1968 to 1971. In 1978, he was a film critic at ''J'informe''. From 1971 to 1986, he ran several art film cinemas in Paris (Olympic Palace, Entrepôt and Olympic-Entrepôt). He also had roles in a number of film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élie Semoun
Élie Semoun (born Élie Semhoun on 16 October 1963) is a French comedian, actor, director, writer and singer. Life and career Élie Semoun was born in France, to a Sephardic Jewish family of Moroccan-Jewish and Algerian-Jewish descent. In 1980 at the age of 17, Semoun wrote two collections of poems and two plays. Beginning in 1988, he had regular appearances on the television series '' Vivement lundi!'' on TF1, where he played a horse mounted on rollers. His comedy career began in 1990 with his partner Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, with whom he wrote and performed daring, skits with scathing takes generally taboo subjects such as racism and poverty, often playing up contrasts between himself and his partner in terms of origin, color, and religion. Their first show was held at Café de la Gare in 1991. The duo acquired a certain notoriety in 1992 after several appearances on their fellow comedian Arthur's show ''Emission Impossible'', where they were noticed for their particular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
