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Pierre Nay
Pierre Nay (1898–1978) was a French film actor who appeared in 42 French films between 1928 and 1940.Jung & Schatzberg p.223 Selected filmography * '' Le Roi des resquilleurs'' (1930) * ''Venetian Nights'' (1931) * '' 77 Rue Chalgrin '' (1931) * ''Under the Leather Helmet'' (1932) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * ''The Concierge's Daughters'' (1934) * ''The Call of Silence'' (1936) * ''Ultimatum'' (1938) * ''Rail Pirates'' (1938) * '' Mirages'' (1938) * ''The Rules of the Game ''The Rules of the Game'' (original French title: ''La règle du jeu'') is a 1939 French Satire, satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien ...'' (1939) References Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. External links * 1898 births 1978 deaths French male film actors Male actors from Paris {{France-actor-stub ... [...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] |
The Call Of Silence
''The Call of Silence'', also screened as ''The Call'' (French: ''L'Appel du Silence''), is a 1936 French drama film directed by Léon Poirier and starring Jean Yonnel, Pierre de Guingand and Jacqueline Francell. It is a biography based on the life of the Catholic missionary Charles de Foucauld. Plot Charles de Foucauld travels the Sahara as a missionary. He is killed by local bandits. Cast * Jean Yonnel as Charles de Foucauld * Pierre de Guingand as Général Laperrine * Jacqueline Francell as Mademoiselle X * Alice Tissot as La femme du notaire * Suzanne Bianchetti as La femme du monde * Pierre Juvenet as Le colonel * Thomy Bourdelle as Un général * André Nox * Pierre Nay as Le marquis de Morès * Fred Pasquali * Auguste Bovério * Alexandre Mihalesco * Fernand Francell * Jeanne Marie-Laurent * Georges Cahuzac * Jean Kolb * Henri Defreyn * Maurice Schutz * Victor Vina * Émile Saint-Ober * Maurice de Canonge * Pierre Darteuil * Pierre Athon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ** Soviet Union, Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rules Of The Game
''The Rules of the Game'' (original French title: ''La règle du jeu'') is a 1939 French Satire, satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot, Pierre Magnier and Renoir. Renoir's portrayal of the wise, mournful Octave anchors the fatalistic mood of this pensive comedy of manners. The film depicts members of upper-class French society and their servants just before the beginning of World War II, showing their moral callousness on the eve of destruction. At the time, ''The Rules of the Game'' was the most expensive French film made: Its original budget of 2.5 million French franc, francs eventually increased to more than 5 million francs. Renoir and cinematographer Jean Bachelet made extensive use of Deep focus, deep-focus and long shots during which the camera is constantly moving, sophisticated cinematic techniques in 1939. Renoir's career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirages (1938 Film)
''Mirages'' (French: ''Mirages'' or ''Si tu m'aimes'') is a 1938 French drama film directed by Alexandre Ryder and starring Arletty, Jeanne Aubert and Michel Simon.The A to Z of French Cinema p.396 Synopsis It portrays the romance between a woman emerging as a star at the Folies Bergère in Paris and Pierre, an engineer who goes to work on a project in French Algeria. Cast * Arletty as Arlette * Jeanne Aubert as Jeanne Dumont * Michel Simon as Michel * Jean-Louis Barrault as Pierre Bonvais * Pierre Nay as Charles * Nicole Vattier as Lucie * Tirmont as Le ténor * Paul Derval as Le directeur * Triel as Le régisseur * Marcel Mouloudji Marcel André Mouloudji (16 September 1922 – 14 June 1994) was a French singer and actor who was born in Paris and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He sang songs written by Boris Vian and Jacques Prévert. Personal life Mouloudji was born to Algeria ... as Groom References Bibliography * Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Pirates
''Rail Pirates'' (French: ''Les pirates du rail'') is a 1938 French adventure film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Charles Vanel, Suzy Prim and Erich von Stroheim. It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and on location in the Camargue. The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild. It is based on a novel of the same title by the Belgian writer Oscar Paul Gilbert, who also contributed to the screenplay.Goble p.180 Synopsis Henri Pierson, an engineer on a railway running through Yunnan in China, tries to resist a series of bandit attacks on the train. Things come to a head when his wife Marie is taken as a hostage but the local warlord. Cast * Charles Vanel as Henri Pierson * Suzy Prim as Jeanne Rolland * Erich von Stroheim as Tchou King * Marcel Dalio as Le mercenaire * Simone Renant as Marie Pierson * Héléna Manson as Madame Teysseire * Lucas Gridoux as Le général Tsai * Georges Tourreil as Teysseire * Jean Périer as Le Docteur Bure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultimatum (1938 Film)
''Ultimatum'' is a 1938 French historical drama film directed by Robert Wiene and Robert Siodmak and starring Dita Parlo, Erich von Stroheim and Abel Jacquin. The film's plot is set in 1914 against the backdrop of the July Crisis between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. It focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries. It was the final film of Wiene, who had been a leading director of German cinema particularly noted for his work on expressionist films during the silent era. He died shortly before the film's completion, and it was finished by Siodmak. Production and reception Wiene had been forced into exile from Germany following the Nazi rise to power. During the four years since his previous film '' A Night in Venice'' (1934) he had been struggling to raise financing in London and Paris for his projects and had not made a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Concierge's Daughters
''The Concierge's Daughters'' (French: ''Les filles de la concierge'') is a 1934 French comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Jeanne Cheirel, Paul Azaïs and Josette Day.Waldman p.135 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. Synopsis The three daughters of the concierge Madame Leclerc set out to find husbands. Cast * Jeanne Cheirel as Madame Leclerc * Paul Azaïs as Albert * Josette Day as Suzanne Leclerc * Ghislaine Bru as Lucie Leclerc * Marcel André as Gaston Rival * Youcca Troubetzkov as Henry Robertson * Pierre Nay as Jacques * Maximilienne as Mme Fallempin * Germaine Aussey Germaine Aussey (born Germaine Adrienne Agassiz, December 18, 1909 in Paris – March 15, 1979 in Geneva) was a French actress who worked with, among others, René Clair, Julien Duvivier, Paul Fejos, Jean Grémillon, Marc Allégret, and ... as Ginette Leclerc * Émile Saint-Ober as Edgar References Bibliography * Waldman, Harry. ''Maurice Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tunnel (1933 French-language Film)
''The Tunnel'' (french: Le Tunnel) is a 1933 French-German science fiction film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud and Robert Le Vigan. It was the French language version of the German film '' The Tunnel'', with a different cast and some changes to the plot. Both were followed in 1935 by an English version. Such Multiple-language versions were common in the years immediately following the introduction of sound, before the practice of dubbing had come to dominate international releases. Germany and France made a significant number of films together at this time. The film is an adaptation of Bernhard Kellermann's 1913 novel '' Der Tunnel'' about the construction of a vast tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean connecting Europe and America. The film's Jewish director Bernhardt had fled Germany following the Nazi takeover, but returned briefly to shoot exterior scenes after being granted special permission by the German government.Phillips p.51 Cast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Leather Helmet
Under may refer to: * "Under" (Alex Hepburn song), 2013 * "Under" (Pleasure P song), 2009 *Bülent Ünder (born 1949), Turkish footballer *Cengiz Ünder (born 1997), Turkish footballer *Marie Under Marie Under ( – 25 September 1980) was one of the greatest Estonian poets. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 separate years. Early life Under was born in Reval (now Tallinn), Estonia to school teachers ... (1883–1980), Estonian poet * Under (restaurant), underwater Norwegian restaurant {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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