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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] |
Riom
Riom (; Auvergnat ''Riam'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. History Until the French Revolution, Riom was the capital of the province of Auvergne, and the seat of the dukes of Auvergne. The city was of Gaulish origin, the Roman ''Ricomagus''. In the intensely feudalized Auvergne of the 10th century, the town grew up around the collegiate Church of Saint Amabilis (Saint Amable), the local saint, who was the object of pilgrimages. Riom was the capital of the dukes of Auvergne. In the 14th century the city benefitted from the patronage of Jean, duc de Berry, who rebuilt the Ducal Palace and the Saint-Chapelle. In 1531, Riom and Auvergne reverted to the Crown of France. In 1942, Riom was the site of the Vichy government's abortive war-guilt trials, called Riom Trials. Population Sights In 1985 Riom received the French classification of ''Ville d'Art et d'Histoire'' recognizing its sixteen c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshé Mizrahi
Moshé Mizrahi ( he, משה מזרחי; 5 September 1931 – 3 August 2018) was an Israeli film director. Biography He was born in Egypt, migrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1946, and studied filmmaking in France in 1950. He directed the Oscar-winning 1977 film ''Madame Rosa'' starring Simone Signoret. The film, which was about a former prostitute in Paris who survived Auschwitz, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on behalf of France. He directed 14 films in both Israel and France, three of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; '' I Love You Rosa'', ''The House on Chelouche Street'' and ''Madame Rosa'', with the last of these winning the award. In September 1994, he was honored by the Haifa Film Festival for his lifetime contribution to Israeli cinema. His landmark film '' Les Stances à Sophie'' went practically unseen until it was re-released in 2008 and its jazz soundtrack album of the same name (but lacking the accent) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Giovanni
José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film '' Classe tous risques'', overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. In his films as well as his novels, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world, he often championed the underworld but was always careful to hide his own links with the Nazi occupiers of France during World War II. Biography Youth Of Corsican descent, Joseph Damiani received a good education, studying at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the Lycée Janson de Sailly. His father, a professional gambler who was sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner (; 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard. Lautner's ventures into other genres were less successful though the thriller Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo was a big commercial hit in France in 1981. He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr. Biography Career Filmography As director * 1958: ''La Môme aux boutons'' * 1960: '' Arrêtez les tambours'' * 1960: ' * 1961: '' Le Monocle noir'' * 1962: '' Le Septième juré'' * 1962: '' En plein cirage'' * 1962: '' L'Œil du Monocle'' * 1963: '' Les Tontons flingueurs'' * 1964: ''Salad by the Roots'' * 1964: ''Le Monocle rit jaune'' * 1964: ''Les Barbouzes'' * 1965: '' Les Bons Vivants'', co-directed with Gilles Grangier * 1966: ' * 1966: ' * 1967: ' * 1968: ' * 1968: ' * 1971: ''Road to Salina'' * 1971: ' * 1972: ' * 1973: ' * 1973: '' Quelques m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Jean-Daniel Pollet (; 1936–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge. Career Pollet was born on 20 June 1936 in La Madeleine, Nord, in France. His film career started in 1958, when he did a short film set in Paris called ''Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse''..., in which Pollet filmed the movements of dancers' silhouettes. Pollet built on the images and themes from this first film in many of his later works, by incorporating elements of popular comedies imbued with both burlesque and melancholic elements. In the early 1960s, Pollet began exploring another approach to filmmaking with the film ''Méditerranée (1963 film), Méditerranée'', which he made over two years with Volker Schlöndorff. Pollet tried to create a form of poetic film, using text ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian De Chalonge
Christian de Chalonge (born 21 January 1937) is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1971 film '' The Wedding Ring'', which starred Anna Karina. Selected filmography * '' The Wedding Ring'' (1971) * ''L'Argent des autres'' (1978) * '' Malevil'' (1981) * '' The Roaring Forties'' (1982) * ' (1990) * ''The Children Thief ''The Children Thief'' (french: Le Voleur d'enfants) is a 1991 French drama film directed by Christian de Chalonge. Cast * Marcello Mastroianni - Bigua * Ángela Molina - Desposoria * Michel Piccoli - M. Armand * Nada Strancar - Rose * Cécil ...'' (1991) References External links * 1937 births Living people French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters People from Douai Best Director César Award winners {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedding Ring (1971 Film)
''The Wedding Ring'' (french: L'Alliance) is a 1971 French mystery film directed by Christian de Chalonge and starring Anna Karina. Cast * Anna Karina as Jeanne * Jean-Claude Carrière as Hugues * Isabelle Sadoyan as Hélène * Tsilla Chelton as Madame Duvernet * Paule Emanuele as Madame Sedaine * André Gille as Monsieur Sedaine * Rufus as The pigeons' breeder * Jean Wiener * Pierre Risch * Pierre Julien * Georges Poichet * Pascal Korner * Jean-Claude de Goros Jean-Claude is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Jean-Claude Ades, an Italian electronic music producer * Jean-Claude Alibert (died 2020), a French racing driver * Jean-Claude Amiot (born 1939), a French compose ... * Antonio Pérez References External links * 1971 films 1970s mystery films French mystery films 1970s French-language films Films directed by Christian de Chalonge Films with screenplays by Jean-Claude Carrière 1970s French films {{mystery-film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Becker (director)
Jean Becker (born 10 May 1933) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He is son of the director Jacques Becker. Accessed 18 March 2014. Filmography References External links * 1933 births Living people Film directors from Paris French male film actors French male television actors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French people of Irish descent French people of Lorrainian descent 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors {{France-film-director-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964) and ''The Young Girls of Rochefort'' (1967). Career After working with the animator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donkey Skin (film)
''Donkey Skin'' (french: Peau d'âne; also known in English as ''Once Upon a Time'' and ''The Magic Donkey'') is a 1970 French musical fantasy comedy film directed by Jacques Demy, based on ''Donkeyskin'', a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a king who wishes to marry his daughter. It stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais, with music by Michel Legrand. ''Donkey Skin'' proved to be Demy's biggest success in France, with a total of 2,198,576 tickets sold. ''Donkey Skin'' is distributed on DVD in North America by Koch-Lorber Films. It is also available in Blu-ray format as part of Criterion's ''The Essential Jacques Demy'' collection. In France, the film is considered a cult classic. Plot The king promises his dying queen that after her death he will only marry a woman as beautiful and virtuous as she. Pressed by his advisers to remarry and produce an heir, he comes to the conclusion that the only way to fulfill his promise is to marry his own daughter, the princess. Follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Dassin
Julius "Jules" Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, where he continued his career. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Directors' Guild. Dassin received a Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his film ''Du rififi chez les hommes''. He was later nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen for his film ''Never on Sunday'', and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his Broadway production of ''Illya Darling''. Biography Early life Julius Dassin was born on December 18, 1911, to Bertha Dassin (née Vogel) and Samuel Dassin, a barber, in Middletown, Connecticut. His parents were both Jewish immigrants from Odessa, Russian empi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promise At Dawn
''Promise at Dawn'' (french: La Promesse de l'aube) is a 1970 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Dassin's wife. It is based on the 1960 novel ''Promise at Dawn'' (french: La Promesse de l'aube) by Romain Gary and the subsequent play by Samuel A. Taylor. Plot The film follows author Romain Gary as he recalls his growing up with his Lithuanian-born mother. The two leave Vilnius, Lithuania for France, where they settle in Paris. As twenty years pass, they encounter social change, age, different convictions, poverty and the slow approach of World War II. Cast * Melina Mercouri as Nina Kacew * Assi Dayan as Romain age 25 * Didier Haudepin as Romain age 15 * François Raffoul as Romain age 9 * Despo Diamantidou as Aniela (as Despo) * Jean Martin as Igor Igorevitch * Fernand Gravey as Jean-Michel Serusier * Jacqueline Porel as Madame Mailer * Elspeth March as Fat Woman * Maria Machado as Nathalie Lissenko * Julie Dassin as Romain's Friend * René ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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