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Peter Kassovitz
Peter Kassovitz (born 7 January 1938) is a Hungarian-French film director and scriptwriter. Personal life He was born to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary. He fled the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father of French film director Mathieu Kassovitz Mathieu Kassovitz (; born 3 August 1967) is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for '' See How They .... Filmography References External links * 1938 births Living people French film directors Hungarian Jews Hungarian emigrants to France {{France-film-director-stub ...
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La Haine
''La Haine'' (, ; released in the United States as ''Hate'') is a 1995 French crime drama film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui, the film chronicles a day and night in the lives of three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the suburbs of Paris. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them, Hubert: "", "hatred breeds hatred". Kassovitz was awarded the Best Director prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Plot ''La Haine'' opens with a montage of news footage of urban riots in a ''banlieue'' in the commune of Chanteloup-les-Vignes near Paris. A local man, Abdel Ichaha, is in intensive care having been gravely injured in police custody. In the ensuing riots the local police station is besieged, and a police officer loses his revolver. The film depicts approximately twenty consecutive hours in the lives of three friends of Abdel, all young men from immigrant families, in the afterma ...
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French Film Directors
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1938 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. Gene ...
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Top Floor, Left Wing
''Top Floor, Left Wing'' (''Dernier étage, gauche, gauche'') is a 2010 French comedy film. It won the Panorama FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. Plot Three men in a banlieue are mistaken for terrorists and get targeted by a French SWAT team. Cast * Hippolyte Girardot as François Echeveria * Mohamed Fellag as Mohand Atelhadj * Aymen Saïdi as Salem (Akli) Atelhadj * Lyes Salem as Hamza Barrida * Thierry Godard as Commandant Villard * Michel Vuillermoz as the prefect * Judith Henry as Anna Echeveria * Julie-Anne Roth Julie-Anne Roth (born 31 March 1973) is a French actress. From 1996 to 1999 Roth studied at the CNSAD. She appeared in more than sixty films since 1989. Selected filmography References External links * * 1973 births Living people ... as Lieutenant Saroyan References External links * French comedy films 2010s French films {{2010s-France-film-stub ...
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White Palms (film)
''White Palms'' ( hu, Fehér tenyér) is a 2006 Hungarian film directed by Szabolcs Hajdu. It was Hungary's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ..., but was not accepted as a nominee. See also * List of submissions to the 79th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film References External links * 2000s Hungarian-language films 2006 films 2006 drama films Gymnastics films Hungarian drama films Films directed by Szabolcs Hajdu {{2000s-drama-film-stub ...
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H (TV Series)
''H'' is a French sitcom with seventy-one 22-minute episodes. The series was created by :fr:Abd-el-Kader Aoun, Abd-el-Kader Aoun, Xavier Matthew and :fr:Éric Judor, Éric Judor, and produced by Phillippe Berthe, Édouard Molinaro, Jean-Luc Moreau and :fr:Charles Némès, Charles Némès. It ran from 24 October 1998 to 20 April 2002 on Canal+. In Canada, it is shown weekly on TV5 Québec Canada, TV5] The title "H" comes from the three words that characterize the series: ''Humour, Histoire et Hôpital'' (Humour, narrative, Story and Hospital). Premise The lives of the carelessly incompetent medical team at a hospital in the Parisian suburbs explode in surreal humour as they go about their daily duties. Cast * Jamel Debbouze as Jamel Driddi * Éric Judor as Aymé Cesaire * Ramzy Bedia as Sabri Saïd * Catherine Benguigui as Béatrice "Béa" Goldberg (seasons 1 and 2) * Sophie Mounicot as Clara Saulnier * Jean-Luc Bideau as Professor Maximilien « Max » Strauss * Linda Hardy as ...
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Valladolid International Film Festival
The Valladolid International Film Festival, popularly known as Seminci (short for ; ), is a film festival held annually in Valladolid, Spain. First held in 1956 as ('Valladolid Religious Film Week'), the Seminci is one of the longest-standing film festivals in Spain. It stands out in the area of films d'auteur and independent films. The Seminci conventionally takes place every October, about a month later than the San Sebastián Film Festival, the most prestigious film festival in Spain. History The first edition of the festival began on 20 March 1956 under the name of Semana de Cine Religioso de Valladolid with a goal of promoting Catholic moral values in conjunction with the celebration of Holy Week in Valladolid. For the first two years it was not competitive and no prizes were awarded. In 1958 the Don Bosco gold and silver awards and the Special Mention appeared, which the following year were replaced by the Lábaro and the Ciudad de Valladolid Award, respectively. The f ...
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Golden Trailer Awards
The Golden Trailer Awards are an American annual award show for film trailers founded in 1999. The awards also honor the best work in all areas of film and video game marketing, including posters, television advertisements and other media, in 108 categories. It has been called "the Hollywood Awards show for the post-MTV era" and by its founders as celebrating "the people who condense 120 minutes into a two-minute minor opus." Overview The 1st Golden Trailer Awards ceremony was held on September 21, 1999 in New York and had 19 categories. This jury consisted of Quentin Tarantino, Stephen Wooley, Jeff Kleeman and David Kaminow (from Miramax). The cofounders, sisters Evelyn Watters and Monica Brady, promoted their inaugural festival by screening the nominated trailers inside a gold-painted Airstream trailer at the 2000 Sundance festival. The ceremonies moved to Los Angeles in 2002. Notable jurors in subsequent years have included Pedro Almodovar, Joel Siegel, Ben Stiller, B ...
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Jakob The Liar
''Jakob the Liar'' is a 1999 American war comedy-drama film directed by Peter Kassovitz, produced by Steven Haft, Marsha Garces Williams and written by Kassovitz and Didier Decoin. The film is based on the book of the same name by Jurek Becker. The film stars Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban. The film is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust and tells the story of a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym who attempts to raise the morale inside the ghetto by sharing encouraging rumors that he claims he has heard on a radio. It is a remake of the 1975 East German-Czechoslovak film '' Jakob der Lügner''. Plot In Poland of early 1944, a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym is summoned to the German headquarters after being falsely accused of being out after curfew. While waiting for the commander, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast speaking about Soviet offensives. Returned to the gh ...
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Métisse (film)
''Métisse'' (also known as ''Café au lait'') is a 1993 French film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Plot Lola, a young West Indian Métis, is pregnant. However, she does not know which of her two lovers is the father: Felix, a poor Jewish bicycle courier, or Jamal, the son of affluent African diplomats. When she refuses to get a paternity test, the two men fight to prove to her that they would be a better father. Cast * Julie Mauduech as Lola Mauduech * Hubert Koundé as Jamal Saddam Abossolo M'bo * Mathieu Kassovitz as Félix *Vincent Cassel as Max * Héloïse Rauth as Sarah *Andrée Damant as Maurice's mother *Peter Kassovitz Peter Kassovitz (born 7 January 1938) is a Hungarian-French film director and scriptwriter. Personal life He was born to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary. He fled the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father ... as University professor References External links * * * 1993 films French romantic comedy ...
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