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Michel Abramowicz
Michel Abramowicz is a French photographer and cinematographer. Career He studied at the Paris Diderot University. Since then he has shot feature films, commercials and video clips. The DVD version of Taken was distributed with a feature commentary to which he contributed. Selected filmography * 1990: La fille des collines * 1991: Annabelle partagée * 1993: Une journée chez ma mère * 1993: * 1995: État des lieux * 1997: La ballade de Titus * 2000: Capitães de Abril * 2002: Sueurs * 2003: Michel Vaillant * 2005: Empire of the Wolves * 2007: Ha-Sodot * 2008: Taken * 2008: Bonjour Sagan * 2010: From Paris with Love * 2010: The Matchmaker ''The Matchmaker'' is a 1954 play by Thornton Wilder, a rewritten version of his 1938 play ''The Merchant of Yonkers''. History The play has a long and colorful history. John Oxenford's 1835 one-act farce ''A Day Well Spent'' had been exte ... * 2011: The Thing * 2016: Past Life * 2019: The Courier External links * * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residential neighbourhoods, as well as many corporate headquarters and a handful of foreign embassies. It is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. Together with the 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris, the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent and prestigious residential area in the whole of France. It has the 2nd highest average household income in France, at €112,504 per year (in 2020). History Originally Pont de Neuilly was a small hamlet under the jurisdiction of Villiers, a larger settlement mentioned in medieval sources as early as 832 and now absorbed by the commune of Levallois-Perret. It was not until 1222 that the little settlement of Neuilly, established on the banks of the Seine, was mentioned for the first t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ha-Sodot
''The Secrets'' ( he, הסודות) is a 2007 Israeli drama film directed by Avi Nesher. Synopsis Noemi is a young devoted Jewish girl who has just lost her mother and who is close to celebrate a marriage imposed by her father. Maybe as a result of the recent lost or maybe because of her interest in the Scriptures, but also because of her lack of feelings towards the future husband (with whom she does not even like to spend time in the same room), the young girl asks her father for the possibility to keep studying the Torah by following a girl's seminary. Arrived at Safed college, she immediately makes friend with the other students except for the rebellious Michelle, who seems to lack every interest in studying. Yet, the seminary students are assigned the task of helping the city's needy people as part of their spiritual formation and Noemi and Michelle are told to work together. The two of them are sent to take care of old Mrs Anouk, an old lady suffering from cancer and hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Births
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier (2019 Film)
''The Courier'' is a 2019 action thriller film directed by Zackary Adler, from a screenplay by Andy Conway and Nicky Tate. It stars Olga Kurylenko, Gary Oldman, Amit Shah, Alicia Agneson, Greg Orvis, Craig Conway, William Moseley and Dermot Mulroney. The film was released in the United States on November 22, 2019, by Lionsgate and in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2019, by Signature Entertainment. Plot Ezekiel Mannings, a wealthy businessman and notorious crime lord who is under house arrest in New York, seeks the elimination of Nick Murch, the only witness who can tie him to a murder. Murch is sequestered in a heavily guarded safe room in London in order to give evidence against Mannings over a video link to the United States. An unnamed female courier and former special ops soldier delivers a package to the safe room, unaware that the package contains a cyanide gas weapon intended to kill Nick. She rescues Nick from the attack and discovers that his protection detail has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Past Life (film)
''Past Life'' (Hebrew: החטאים) is a 2016 Israeli drama film written and directed by Avi Nesher and starring Nelly Tagar and Joy Rieger. It is based on Baruch Milch's memoir ''Can Heaven Be Void?'' The film is the first of Nesher's planned trilogy. Plot Two Israeli sisters, one a classical music composer and singer, and the other a budding journalist, try to find out what their father did during World War II in Poland, after a Polish woman runs up to one of them in a Berlin concert venue and calls her the daughter of a murderer. Cast * Nelly Tagar as Nana Milch-Kotler * as Sephi Milch * as Baruch Milch *Evgenia Dodina as Lusia Milch * as Jeremy Kotler * as Thomas Zielinski * as Agnieszka Zielinska Reception The film has a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com awarded ''Past Life'' three stars. Joseph Friar of ''The Victoria Advocate'' also gave ''Past Life'' three stars. Peter Goldberg of ''Slant Magazine'' gave ''Past Life'' two and a half sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Matchmaker (2010 Film)
''The Matchmaker'' ( he, פעם הייתי, lit. "Once I Was") is a 2010 Israeli film written, directed and produced by Avi Nesher, based on the novel ''When Heroes Fly'' by award-winning author Amir Gutfreund. It premiered as an official selection at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and later that year won the Silver Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival. It received seven nominations for Israel's Ophir Awards in 2010, including Best Picture, where Adir Miller also won in the Best Actor category and Maya Dagan won in the Best Actress category. Cast * Tuval Shafir as Arik Burstein * Adir Miller as Yankel Braiyd * Maya Dagan as Clara Epstein * Dror Keren as Meir the Librarian * Dov Navon as Yozi Burstein * Yarden Bar-Kochva as Nili Burstein * Neta Porat as Tamara * Bat-El Papura as Sylvia * Kobi Faraj as Moshe Abadi * Yael Leventhal as Tikva Abadi * Tom Gal as Benny Abadi * Eyal Shechter as Arik Burstein (adult) * Yaakov Bodo as Adv. Segalson * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Paris With Love (film)
''From Paris with Love'' is a 2010 English-language French action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The screenplay was co-written by Luc Besson. The film was released in the United States on February 5, 2010 by Lionsgate Films and internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures. Plot James Reese, a personal aide to the U.S. ambassador in France, lives comfortably in Paris with his girlfriend Caroline, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA. Due to a shortage of operatives in France, he is eventually partnered with field agent Charlie Wax. However, Reese finds Wax detained by French Customs as Wax refuses to surrender cans of his favorite energy drink. Despite the apparent triviality of the situation, Wax continues to verbally abuse French Customs until Reese uses his diplomatic authority to allow Wax's luggage through customs. Once in the car, Wax apologizes for his behavior and reveals tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagan (film)
''Sagan'' is a 2008 French biographical film, directed by Diane Kurys, starring Sylvie Testud as French author Françoise Sagan and Pierre Palmade as a dancer and a society man, Jacques Chazot, who was very well known in France. The film starts in the mid-1950s as Sagan (then still known under her real name Quoirez) closes a publishing deal for her controversial debut novel '' Bonjour Tristesse''. The film then follows Sagan's road to fame, her drug abuse, alcoholism, and gambling, her hedonistic lifestyle spending too much and becoming poor, as well as several complex love affairs with both men and women. Cast * Sylvie Testud - Françoise Sagan * Pierre Palmade - Jacques Chazot * Jeanne Balibar - Peggy Roche * Arielle Dombasle - Astrid * Lionel Abelanski - Bernard Frank * Guillaume Gallienne - Jacques Quoirez * Denis Podalydès - Guy Schoeller * Bruno Wolkowitch - Philippe * Chantal Neuwirth - Madame Lebreton * Alexis Michalik - Denis Westhoff Awards and nominations *César A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Of The Wolves
''Empire of the Wolves'' (French: ''L'Empire des loups'') is a 2005 movie directed by Chris Nahon, written by Christian Clavier, Jean-Christophe Grangé, Chris Nahon and Franck Ollivier, and starring Jean Reno, Arly Jover, and Jocelyn Quivrin. Plot Arly Jover plays Anna Heymes, a stylish 31-year-old Parisian housewife, who experiences nightmares and hallucinations related to a series of gruesome murders in the city. At the same time, a duo of policemen, the unorthodox Schiffer (Jean Reno) and the cautious officer Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin), work to unravel the mystery surrounding the murders. The plot thickens when Anna discovers that she has been subjected to intensive reconstructive surgery, which concealed her Turkish heritage. A series of events escalates into a confrontation with the Turkish mafia and the death of Anna's would-be assassin. Cast * Jean Reno as Jean-Louis Schiffer * Arly Jover as Anna Heymes * Jocelyn Quivrin as Paul Nerteaux * Laura Morante as Mathilde Urano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitães De Abril
''April Captains'' ( pt, Capitães de Abril) is a 2000 film telling the story of the '' Carnation Revolution'', the military coup that overthrew the corporatist dictatorship (known as the '' Estado Novo'') in Portugal on 25 April 1974. Although dramatised, the plot is closely based on the events of the revolution and many of the key characters are real - such as Captain Salgueiro Maia and Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano. This European co-production was directed by Maria de Medeiros. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film opens on the evening of 24 April 1974, as a young conscript soldier (Daniel) kisses farewell to his girlfriend (Rosa) before boarding a train from Lisbon back to his Army base at Santarém. Both are fearful that he will be sent to fight in the Portuguese Colonial War. Late and depressed, Rosa then travels by tram to Antónia's flat to babysit for her daughter Amelia. On arriving back (late) at his base, Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Vaillant (film)
''Michel Vaillant'' (also released as Need for Speed) is a 2003 French movie starring Sagamore Stévenin and Diane Kruger. It depicts events around the 24 hours of Le Mans race, based largely on a comic about the Michel Vaillant character. The racing sequences were shot during the 2002 24 Hours of Le Mans. Plot For decades, Vaillante, run by the Vaillant family, has had a long history of success in various motor racing disciplines. Their most famous driver is Michel Vaillant, son of the team's founder and owner, Henri, and younger brother of the team's manager, Jean-Pierre. One night, Michel's mother Élisabeth has a nightmare of her son's death in an accident at the 24 Hours of Le Mans involving a car bearing the number 13 operated by Leader, a team with which Vaillante had a historic rivalry for more than a quarter of a century. Henri comforts her, assuring that the Vaillante team is not planning to race at Le Mans, that Leader has quit racing for 5 years, and that no one will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Ballade De Titus
''La ballade de Titus'' is a 1997 French comedy film, directed by Vincent De Brus. Plot Burlesque fable addressing a serious subject : the right to difference through the adventures of Titus from a young age was locked in the basement by his adoptive parents with only companions a television, a VCR and five hundred cartoons cassettes. We find him twenty years later in the clinic of the terrible Dr. Schrink. But there, thwarting the plans of the wicked, he meets the love and glory soon. Cast * Michel Courtemanche as Titus * Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Doctor Shrink * Catherine Jacob as Louise * Natacha Lindinger as Jeanne * Antoine Duléry as Monsieur Marsan * Myriam Moszko as Madame Marsan * Sylvie Lachat as Josiane Médiocre * Patrick Paroux as Delile * Christian Pereira as Rouget * Marie-Christine Adam as The Minister * Suzanne Drouet as The Secretary * Macha Model as The Journalist Production The movie was first released in Germany, 17 July 1997, and then in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
