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Ralph Habib
Ralph Habib (Paris, 29 June 1912 – Paris, 27 June 1969) was a French film director of Lebanese origin. He started his film career with Pathé. He later worked as assistant director notably Jean Dréville and Jean-Paul Le Chanois before directing his own films. Filmography *1951 : ''Rue des Saussaies'' *1952 : ''La Forêt de l'adieu'' *1953 : '' Les Compagnes de la nuit'' *1954 : '' La Rage au corps'' (English title ''Tempest in the Flesh'') *1954 : '' The Bed'' *1954 : ''Crainquebille'' *1955 : '' Men in White'' *1956 : '' La Loi des rues'' (English title ''Law of the Streets'') *1956 : ''Women's Club'' *1957 : '' Escapade'' *1959 : ''The Black Chapel'' based on the novel ''Die schwarze Kapelle'' by Olaf Herfeldt **French title - ''R.P.Z. appelle Berlin'' **German title - ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'' **Italian title - ''I sicari di Hitler'' *1960 : ''The Nabob Affair '' *1966 : Le Solitaire passe à l'attaque *1967 : ''Hotel Clausewitz ''Hotel Clausewitz'' (German: ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanese People
The Lebanese people ( ar, الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: ', ) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon. The term may also include those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state. The major religious groups among the Lebanese people within Lebanon are Shia Muslims (27%), Sunni Muslims (27%), Maronite Christians (21%), Greek Orthodox Christians (8%), Melkite Christians (5%), Druze (5.2%), Protestant Christians (1%). The largest contingent of Lebanese, however, comprise a diaspora in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Africa, which is predominantly Maronite Christian. As the relative proportion of the various sects is politically sensitive, Lebanon has not collected official census data on ethnic background since 1932 under the French Mandate. It is therefore difficult to have an exact demographic analysis of Lebanese society. The largest concentration of people of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Chapel
''The Black Chapel'' (German: ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'') is a 1959 political thriller film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck and Ernst Schröder. It is based on the novel ''Die schwarze Kapelle'' by Olav Herfeldt. It is a co-production between West Germany, Italy (where the film is known as ''I sicari di Hitler'') and France (where it was released with the title ''R.P.Z. appelle Berlin''). It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin with location shooting in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Beni Montresor. Plot Europe, in the spring of 1940. After the lightning victory over Poland, Hitler's Wehrmacht drew up plans of attack for the overthrow of Western and Northern Europe. Several high-ranking officers fear that Hitler's excessive policy of conquest will ultimately plunge Germany into the abyss and therefore intend to contact Great Britain through diplomatic channels. After careful consideratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Deaths
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1912 Births
Year 191 ( CXCI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 944 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 191 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 Parthia * King Vologases IV of Parthia dies after a 44-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Vologases V. China * A coalition of Chinese warlords from the east of Hangu Pass launches a punitive campaign against the warlord Dong Zhuo, who seized control of the central government in 189, and held the figurehead Emperor Xian hostage. After suffering some defeats against the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo forcefully relocates the imperial capital from Luoyang to Chang'an. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo orders his troops to loot the tombs of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stowaway (1958 Film)
''The Stowaway'' is a 1958 French-Australian film directed by Australian director Lee Robinson and French Lebanese director Ralph Habib. It was shot on location in Tahiti. There are French and English versions of the film. The French version is known as ''Le Passager clandestin''. Synopsis A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti. Major Owens, a middle aged Englishman with a shady past, discovers the island on which Marechal lives but is murdered by the criminal Mougins. Mougins sets out for the island with Colette, a night club singer who is Marechal's former mistress. She is rescued by Jean, who had earlier helped Colette stow away on the boat to Tahiti. Jean and Mougins fight and Mougins falls overboard and is eaten by a shark. Jean and Collette decide to give up the search for Marechal and live on the islands. Cast * Martine Carol as Colette * Roger Livesey as Major Owens * Arletty as Gabrielle * Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Robinson (director)
Lee Robinson (22 February 1923 – 22 September 2003) was an Australian producer, director and screenwriter who was Australia's most prolific filmmaker of the 1950s. Biography Robinson was born in Petersham, New South Wales and left school aged 12. He worked at the ''Daily Telegraph'' has a copy boy, and wrote short stories prior to the war. He first entered film as a member of the Australian Army History Unit where he filmed Australian troops in Rabaul and East Timor. After the war he was going to work for the ABC as a scriptwriter when he received an offer to join the Australian Information Service film unit (later Film Australia) where he directed a film on Albert Namatjira called ''Namatjira the Painter'' (1946). Robinson made several films in the Northern Territory such as '' Outback Patrol'', '' The Pearlers'' and ''Crocodile Hunters'' as well as a short film with actors in a studio called '' Double Trouble'' (1951). The high quality and Australian subject matter of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Clausewitz
''Hotel Clausewitz'' (German: ''Pension Clausewitz'') is a 1967 West German comedy film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Wolfgang Kieling, Maria Brockerhoff and Friedrich Schoenfelder. Plot The main character of the story, Stemmka, through an inheritance, becomes the owner of a Berlin brothel, called "Pension Schölermann". In order to refresh the "establishment", Stemmka immediately hires two attractive young ladies. One of these, Marlies, whose fiancé Werner is stuck in East Berlin and was prevented from escaping to the West. Not only is the brothel used for erotic encounters, it becomes the meeting place of the intelligence services. Among the clients are a West-German nuclear scientist, a Stasi officer, a representative of the CIA and his communist opponent from beyond the Iron Curtain. Marlies wants to rescue Werner from the power of the Stasi and therefore agrees to cooperate with the GDR. For this reason, she passes on the secrets she learns from pillow talk to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nabob Affair
''The Nabob Affair'' (French: ''Au voleur!'', German: ''Affäre Nabob'') is a 1960 French-West German comedy film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Paul Guers, Perrette Pradier and O.E. Hasse.Rège p.489 Cast * Paul Guers as Serge * Perrette Pradier as Amenita * O.E. Hasse as Le Nabab * Sonja Ziemann as La milliardaire * Mary Marquet as L'hôtelière * Georges Alban as Commissar * Gérard Darrieu * Jean-Pierre Lorrain * Jean-Pierre Zola Jean-Pierre or Jean Pierre may refer to: People * Karine Jean-Pierre b.1977, White House Deputy Press Secretary for President Joe Biden 2021- * Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet (1766–1823), French statesman and Peer of France * Eugenia Pierre ... as Hotel director References Bibliography * Philippe Rège. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1960 films 1960s crime comedy films West German films 1960s French-language films Films directed by Ralph Habib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escapade (1957 Film)
''Escapade'' is a 1957 French adventure film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Louis Jourdan, Dany Carrel, and Roger Hanin. Premise Some gangsters use a young girl to get to a recently released convict who hid $10 million from a robbery just before he was caught. Cast * Louis Jourdan : Frank Raphaël * Dany Carrel : Agnès Mercenay * Roger Hanin : Olivier * Lise Delamare : Miss Mercenay * Jean-Loup Philippe : Philippe * Félix Martin : Angelo * Arlette Merry : Dolly * Marcel Bozzuffi : Raymond * Guy Tréjan : Maurice * : sister of Agnè * Albert Rémy : José * Jean Daurand : inspector * José Lewgoy José Lewgoy (16 November 1920 – 10 February 2003) was a Brazilian actor. He is recognizable to many art-house cinema fans for his role as Don Aquilino in Werner Herzog's 1982 film ''Fitzcarraldo''. Biography He was born in Veranópolis, ... : Caraco External links ''Escapade''at Louisjourdan.net * French adventure films 1957 adventure films 1957 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pathé
Pathé or Pathé Frères (, styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French people, French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896. In the early 1900s, Pathé became the world's largest film equipment and production company, as well as a major producer of phonograph records. In 1908, Pathé invented the newsreel that was shown in cinemas before a feature film. Pathé is a major film production and distribution company, owning a number of cinema chains through its subsidiary Les Cinémas Pathé Gaumont and television networks across Europe. It is the second-oldest operating film company behind Gaumont Film Company, which was established in 1895. History The company was founded as Société Pathé Frères (Pathé Brothers Company) in Paris, France on 28 September 1896, by the four brothers Charles Pathé, Charles, Émile, Théophile and Jacques Pathé. During the first part of the 20th century, Pathé became the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Club (1956 Film)
''Women's Club'' (French: ''Club de femmes'') is a 1956 French-Italian drama film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Nicole Courcel, Dany Carrel and Ivan Desny.Bock & Bergfelder p.84 Cast * Nicole Courcel as Nicole Leroy * Dany Carrel as Sylvie * Ivan Desny as Laurent Gauthier * Jean-Louis Trintignant as Michel * Giorgia Moll as Gina * Vanja Orico * Guy Bertil as Daniel * Jean Martinelli as M. Mouss * Jean-Marc Tennberg as M. Morel * Noël Roquevert as Le notaire * Maurice Gardett as Le voisin * Béatrice Altariba as Dominique * Françoise Delbart as Chounette * Vega Vinci as Françoise * Chantal de Rieux as Françoise * Sophie Grimaldi as Jacqueline * Jacqueline Dorian as Geneviève * Claudine Bleuse as Mireille * Margaret Rung * Fédora as Fédora * Mijanou Bardot as Micheline * Pierre Repp as L'huissier * Agnès Laurent * Daniel Ceccaldi * Marie-José Nat * Dominique Boschero Dominique Boschero (born 27 April 1937) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Of The Streets
''Law of the Streets'' (french: La Loi des rues) is a French drama film from 1956 directed by Ralph Habib, written by Jean Ferry and starring Raymond Pellegrin and Louis de Funès. Cast * Raymond Pellegrin : 'Jo le Grec", a procurer * Silvana Pampanini : Wanda, a prostitute * Jean-Louis Trintignant : Yves Tréguier, called: "Le Breton", young orphan * Jean Gaven : André Remoulin dit : "Dédé la Glace", the friend of Yves * Lino Ventura : Mario * Josette Arno : Zette, Yves' lover * Fernand Ledoux : Le père Blain, bistro keeper * Jean-Marc Tennberg : Marcel * Mary Marquet : Mme Blain * Roland Lesaffre : Le Grêlé * Marius Laurey Le Rat * Robert Dalban : trucker * Louis de Funès Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. He is France's favourite actor, according to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, having played over 150 roles in fil ... : "Paulo les chiens" References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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