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Vladimir Cosma
Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist. He was born into a family of musicians. His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferruccio Busoni. Career After receiving first prizes for violin and composition at the Bucharest Conservatoire of Music, he arrived in Paris in 1963 and continued his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, working with Nadia Boulanger. As well as for classical music, he discovered early on a passion for jazz, film music and all forms of popular music. From 1964 he made a number of international tours as a concert violinist and began to devote himself more and more to composing. He wrote various compositions including: ''Trois mouvements d'été'' for symphony orchestra, ''Oblique'' for violoncello and string orchestra, music for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became the capital of Romania in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical (mostly Eclectic, but also Neoclassical and Art Nouveau), interbellum ( Bauhaus, Art Deco and Romanian Revival architecture), socialist era, and modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of 'Paris of the East' ( ro, Parisul Estului) or 'Little Paris' ( ro, Micul Paris). Although buildings and districts in the historic city centre were heavily damaged or destroyed by war, earthquakes, and even Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Richard
Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; 16 August 1934) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Pierre Richard is considered by many, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest and most talented French comedians in the last 50 years. He is also a film director and occasional singer. Early life Pierre Richard was born in a bourgeois family from Valenciennes. He is the grandson of Léopold Defays who was the director of the company Escaut-et-Meuse. His name comes from the stage name of Pierre Richard-Willm who was his mother's favorite actor. Pierre Richard spent his childhood and a part of his teenage years in his native city where he was a student at the Henri-Wallon high school. Skipping classes regularly to go to the cinema, it was Danny Kaye in ''Up in Arms'' that revealed his vocation. This was received with only a moderate enthusiasm by his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Fugitifs
''Les Fugitifs'' is a French 1986 comedy film, directed by Francis Veber. It was remade in 1989 as ''Three Fugitives,'' also directed by Veber. Plot After serving a five-year sentence for 14 bank robberies, Jean Lucas (Depardieu) is released from prison. He intends to end his criminal lifestyle, but on his release day, when he goes to the bank to open an account, he is taken hostage by François Pignon (Richard), who takes too much time robbing the bank, allowing the police to appear, and accidentally shoots Jean in the leg. However, Lucas' former nemesis, police commissioner Duroc (Maurice Barrier), doesn't believe he is a hostage, given their common past. Lucas forces François to go to the police and confess to being the robber so that Lucas' name would be cleared, but once they arrive at the police station, the police mistake Lucas as the robber, forcing him to escape. François follows, and ends up taking him to Dr. Martin (Jean Carmet), a senile veterinarian friend of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chèvre
''La Chèvre'' (English title: ''Knock on Wood'', literal translation: ''The She-goat'') is a 1981 French buddy cop comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu. It is the first of three films featuring Richard and Depardieu as a comic duo. An American remake of this film was made in 1991, starring Martin Short and Danny Glover, entitled ''Pure Luck''. Plot ''La Chèvre'' features Depardieu as the tough-guy private detective Campana, hired to find Marie, the daughter of a rich businessman, who has mysteriously disappeared while vacationing in Mexico. The case turns out to be complicated – several attempts to find her have already failed. A psychologist, Meyer, who works for the businessman, suggests a plan. Marie is known to be extremely unlucky and accident-prone; the psychologist advises sending someone equally accident-prone to find her, on the theory that what happened to her may also happen to him, and thus, following her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'As Des As
''L'as des as'' (''The Ace of Aces''; alternate English title: ''The Super Ace'') is a 1982 French-German action comedy film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Gérard Oury. ''The Ace of Aces'' was a huge public success, reaching five and a half million spectators in France, which was the second best box office (after The Brain) for Jean-Paul Belmondo. Plot In 1916, during World War I, a German and a French fighter ace by the names of Gunther von Beckman (Hoffman) and Jo Cavalier (Belmondo) manage to drag each other out of the sky. An argument and subsequent fistfight about who is to be whose prisoner is interrupted by an artillery barrage on their position, forcing both to work together in order to survive. In a humorous side scene, Corporal Adolf Hitler (Meisner) is berated by his frustrated First Lieutenant Rosenblum for his clumsiness. In 1936, 20 years later, Jo and his team of boxers travel to Germany to participate in the Olympic Games in Berlin. On the train J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Bal (1983 Film)
''Le bal'' ( it, Ballando ballando, , meaning "The ball") is a 1983 Italian-Franco-Algerian film without dialogue directed by Ettore Scola that represents a fifty-year story of French society by way of a ballroom in France. Cast None of the characters is named. * Étienne Guichard as Le jeune étudiant de province / Le jeune professeur (The young provincial student, the young teacher) * Régis Bouquet as Le patron de la salle / Le paysan (The owner of the hall, the peasant) * Chantal Capron as Le mannequin (The model) * Francesco De Rosa as Toni, le jeune serveur (Toni, the young waiter) * Arnault LeCarpentier as Le jeune typographe / L'étudiant (The young typist, the student) * Liliane Delval (Liliane Léotard) as La fille aux cheveux longs / L'alcoolique (The girl with long hair, the alcoholic) * Martine Chauvin as La jeune fleuriste / L'étudiante (The young florist, the student) * Danielle Rochard as La livreuse d'une modiste, La refugiée, (The milliner's deliverywoman, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Boum
''La Boum'' (English title: ''The Party'' or ''Ready for Love'') is a 1980 French teen romantic comedy film directed by Claude Pinoteau and starring Sophie Marceau, appearing in her film début. Written by Danièle Thompson and Pinoteau, the film is about a thirteen-year-old French girl finding her way at a new high school and coping with domestic problems. The film earned 4,378,500 admissions in France and was an international box-office hit. The music was written by Vladimir Cosma, with Richard Sanderson singing the song "Reality". A sequel, ''La Boum 2'', was released in 1982. Plot François, a dentist, and his wife Françoise, an illustrator, move to Paris and place their daughter Vic, aged 13, in one of the capital's best schools. Making friends, her free time becomes a whirl of discos, cinemas, and parties. François is contacted by Vanessa, a former lover, who insists he spends another night with her and, when he tries to go home, rings Françoise to say he is in hospital. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Aventures De Rabbi Jacob
''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' (french: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, ) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Louis de Funès and Claude Giraud. It follows a bigoted businessman and a kidnapped revolutionist who disguise themselves as rabbis to escape from assassins. One of De Funès' most popular and iconic movies, it has become a cult classic. Plot Rabbi Jacob ( Marcel Dalio) is one of the most beloved rabbis of New York. One day, the French side of his family, the Schmolls, invite him to celebrate the bar mitzvah of young David, and he boards a plane for his native France after more than 30 years of American life. His young friend Rabbi Samuel accompanies him. In Normandy (northern France), the rich businessman Victor Pivert (Louis de Funès) is also on his way to a wedding; his daughter (Miou-Miou) will be married the next day. Pivert is a dreadful man: bad-tempered, rude and bigoted, with a well-honed racism against Blacks, Jews, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diva (1981 Film)
''Diva'' is a 1981 French thriller film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from the novel ''Diva'' by Daniel Odier. It eschewed the realist mood of 1970s French cinema and instead adopted a colourful, melodic style, later described as '' cinéma du look''. The film made a successful debut in France in 1981 with 2,281,569 admissions, and had success in the U.S. the next year, grossing $2,678,103. ''Diva'' became a cult classic and was internationally acclaimed. Plot A young Parisian postman, Jules, is obsessed with opera, and particularly with Cynthia Hawkins, a beautiful and celebrated American soprano who has never allowed her singing to be recorded. Jules attends a recital at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, where Hawkins sings the aria "''Ebben? Ne andrò lontana'' from the opera '' La Wally''. He illicitly makes a high-quality bootleg recording of her performance using a Nagra professional tape-recorder. Afterwards, he steals the gown she was wearing fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire
''The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe'' (french: Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire) is a 1972 French spy comedy film directed by Yves Robert and written by Robert and Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort and Mireille Darc. Pierre Richard reprised his rôle of François Perrin in the sequel titled ''The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe'', released in 1974, and ''La Chèvre'', released in 1981. The film was remade in English as ''The Man with One Red Shoe'' (1985), starring Tom Hanks and Dabney Coleman. Plot Bernard Milan, the second-in-command of France's Counter-Espionage department, is out to discredit his chief Louis Toulouse so that he can supplant him. When a French heroin smuggler who has been arrested in New York claims that the drug smuggling was a secret mission on the orders of French Counter-Espionage (actually on Milan's orders), the resulting bad press reflects on Toulouse, who cannot prove that Milan was respon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Poiré
Jean-Marie Poiré (; born 10 July 1945) is a French film director, and screenwriter. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré. Filmography As director * ''Les petits câlins'' (''The Little Wheedlers'') (1978) * ''Retour en force'' (''Return in Bond'') (1980) * ''Les Hommes préfèrent les grosses'' (''Men Prefer Fat Girls'') (1981) * ''Le Père Noël est une ordure'' (1982) * ''Papy fait de la résistance'' (1983) * ''Twist again à Moscou'' (''Twist Again in Moscow'') (1986) * ''Mes meilleurs copains'' (1989) * ''L'Opération Corned-Beef'' (1991) * ''Les Visiteurs'' (''The Visitors'') (1993) * ''Les Anges gardiens'' (''Guardian Angels'') (1995) * ''Les Visiteurs II, Les Visiteurs II: Les Couloirs du temps'' (''The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time'') (1998) * ''Just Visiting (film), Just Visiting'' (2001) (as Jean-Marie Gaubert) * ''Ma femme s'appelle Maurice, Ma femme... s'appelle Maurice'' (''My Wife Maurice'' aka. ''My Wife's Name Is Maurice'') (2002) * ''The Visitors: Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
