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The Fire Within
''The Fire Within'' (french: Le Feu follet , lit. "The Manic Fire" or "Will-O'-the-Wisp") is a 1963 drama film written and directed by Louis Malle. It is based on the 1931 novel ''Will O' the Wisp'' by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, which was inspired by the life of poet Jacques Rigaut. The film stars Maurice Ronet and features Léna Skerla, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Bernard Tiphaine, Bernard Noël, Jeanne Moreau (who had previously worked with Ronet and Malle in ''Elevator to the Gallows''), Jacques Sereys, and Alexandra Stewart in supporting roles. The score consists of music composed by Erik Satie and performed by pianist Claude Helffer. Plot Alain Leroy has been living and receiving treatment for his alcoholism at Dr. La Barbinais' rehabilitation clinic in Versailles for the past four months. He is separated from his American wife, Dorothy, who is in New York, where he also lived while they were together, and spends his first night away from the clinic to have a tryst with Lydia, one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Malle
Louis Marie Malle (; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both Cinema of France, French cinema and Cinema of the United States, Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "a filmmaker difficult to pin down," Malle's filmography encompassed a variety genres ranging from documentaries, to romances, to period dramas, and thrillers; often detailing provocative or controversial subject matter. His most famous works include the crime thriller ''Elevator to the Gallows'' (1958), the romantic drama ''The Lovers (1958 film), The Lovers'' (1958), the World War II drama ''Lacombe, Lucien'' (1974), the period drama ''Pretty Baby (1978 film), Pretty Baby'' (1978), the romantic crime film ''Atlantic City (1980 film), Atlantic City'' (1980), the dramedy ''My Dinner with Andre'' (1981), and the autobiographical ''Au revoir les enfants'' (1987). He also co-directed the landmark underwater documentary ''The Silent World'' with Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Helffer
Claude Helffer (18 June 1922 – 27 October 2004) was a French pianist. Early life Helffer was born in Paris, and began piano lessons at the age of five and from the age of ten until the outbreak of World War II he studied with Robert Casadesus. During the War he entered École Polytechnique and fought for the French Resistance during World War II. After the War, he studied theory and composition with René Leibowitz. Career He made his debut in Paris in 1948 and from 1954 appeared regularly in the concerts of the Domaine musical. Helffer gave many premières of new works and was the dedicatee of several notable works, including ''Erikhthon'' ( Xenakis, 1974), Concerto ( Boucourechliev, 1975), ''Stances'' (Betsy Jolas, 1978), Concerto no. 1 (Luis de Pablo, 1980), ''Envoi'' ( Gilles Tremblay, 1982), and ''Modifications'' (Michael Jarrell, 1983). Conductors he collaborated with included Boulez, Bour, Gielen, Leibowitz, Maderna, Marriner, Martinon, Van Otterloo, Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Serre
Henri Serre (born 26 February 1931) is a French actor who is best known for his role as Jim, a "vivid, melancholy, and finally tragic figure" in François Truffaut's ''Jules and Jim''. Other appearances include ''The Fire Within'', ''Section spéciale'' and '' Mister Frost''. Partial filmography * ''Women of Paris'' (1953) * '' Le combat dans l'ile '' (1961) * '' La Meule'' (short film) - René Allio, 1962) * ''Jules et Jim'' (''Jules and Jim'', 1962) * '' Il Processo di Veronal'' (1963) * ''Le Feu follet'' (''The Fire Within'', Louis Malle, 1963) * '' Atout cœur à Tokyo pour O.S.S. 117'' (1966) * ''Fantômas contre Scotland Yard'' (''Fantomas Against Scotland Yard'', 1967) * ''Romance of a Horsethief'' (1971) * '' Le Sourire vertical'' (1973) * ''Section spéciale'' (Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Bouteille
Romain Bouteille (24 March 1937 – 31 May 2021) was a French playwright, actor, comedian, and singer. Biography Romain Bouteille is the author of nearly thirty plays of anarchist inspiration. In 1968, he met Coluche. Together, they founded the troupe Café de la Gare. The same year, he separated from his partner Sotha who married Patrick Dewaere. Both are members of the troupe. Bouteille was married to the actress Saïda Churchill, with whom he has lived for thirty years. After spending three years in Marseilles where their son Shams was born, in 1997, they settled in Beauce, in Étampes. In December 2014, together they created a fifty-seat theater, a sort of “Left Bank” cabaret called Les Grands Solistes. About fifty artists, including François Rollin, Albert Meslay, Clair Jaz, Didier Porte, Marc Gélas, Fred Saurel, Paul Adam (actor), Paul Adam, Vincent Roca, Christophe Guybet, but also, in another register, Jean Vocat, Frédéric Hulné, Prune Lichtlé, have already hap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organisation Armée Secrète
The ''Organisation Armée Secrète'' (OAS, "Secret Armed Organisation") was a far-right French dissident paramilitary organisation during the Algerian War. The OAS carried out terrorist attacks, including bombings and assassinations, in an attempt to prevent Algeria's independence from French colonial rule. Its motto was ' ("Algeria is French and will remain so"). The OAS was formed from existing networks, calling themselves "counter-terrorists", "self-defence groups", or "resistance", which had carried out attacks on the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) and their perceived supporters since early in the war. It was officially formed in Francoist Spain, in Madrid in January 1961, as a response by some French politicians and French military officers to the 8 January 1961 referendum on self-determination concerning Algeria, which had been organised by President de Gaulle. By acts of bombings and targeted assassinations in both metropolitan France and French Algerian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Mottet
Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 in Lyon, France – 31 October 2017 in Paris, France) was a French actor. Biography Alain Mottet appeared in dozens of films, often in secondary roles. He appeared in three films with José Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in ''L'Affaire de la malle à Gouffé''. In 1969, in ''L'Armée des ombres'', he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned. For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series ''Vidocq'' in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker including on several episodes of ''Au théâtre ce soir''. One of his most notable TV roles was as Shazénian in the fairytale ''Shéhérazade'', shown at the end of 1971: on a flying horse, he walks with Claude Jade into the night sky. In parallel to his screen career, he also continued to work on stage, most notably in plays by Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Kübler
Ursula Vian-Kübler (6 September 1928 – 18 January 2010) was a Swiss ballerina and actress. Biography Ursula Kübler was born on 6 September 1928 in Zürich, Switzerland, to Alva Giertz and Arnold Kübler. She joined the Oper Zürich as a dancer. After a career as a dancer at the opera, she danced for Maurice Béjart, before becoming a company member at the Paris Opera Ballet. After retiring from ballet, Kübler worked as a film, stage, and television actress. She met Boris Vian at a cocktail party at Gallimard in 1950, and the two started an affair. Vian later divorced his wife, and Kübler married him on 8 February 1954. In 1963, she founded the Boris Vian Association, which was renamed the Boris Vian Foundation in 1981. In 1971, she signed the Manifesto of the 343, a petition created as an act of civil disobedience arguing for the legalization of abortion in France. She died on 18 January 2010 in Eus Eus ( in both French and Catalan) is a commune in the Pyrénées-O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Dupuy
René Dupuy (17 May 1920 – 1 August 2009) was a French actor, theater director and theater manager. A student at the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique in Paris, René Dupuy was later theater manager of: * the Théâtre Gramont from 1954 to 1973, * the Théâtre de l'Athénée from 1966 to 1972, * the Théâtre Fontaine from 1972 to 1985. He was professor of dramatic art at the . Theatre Comedian * 1950: ''Henri IV'' by William Shakespeare, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon * 1950: ''Le Cid'' by Corneille, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon * 1950: '' Le Bal des voleurs'' by Jean Anouilh, directed by André Barsacq, Théâtre des Arts * 1951: '' The Prince of Homburg'' by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon * 1956: ''Irma la douce'' by Marguerite Monnot, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont * 1958: ''Édition de midi'' by Mihail Sebastian, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont * 1963: '' You never can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Dol
Mona Dol (28 May 1901 – 29 December 1990) was a French actress. Born Amélie Alice Gabrielle Delbart in Lille, she died in Paris in 1990. Selected filmography * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1935) * '' The Gardens of Murcia'' (1936) * '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' (1941) * ''Miss Bonaparte'' (1942) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) * ''First on the Rope'' (1944) * '' Night Shift'' (1944) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * ''Dropped from Heaven'' (1946) * ''Pastoral Symphony'' (1946) * ''Messieurs Ludovic'' (1946) * ''The Marriage of Ramuntcho'' (1947) * ''The Bouquinquant Brothers'' (1947) * ''Une si jolie petite plage'' (1949) * ''Thus Finishes the Night'' (1949) * '' Manèges'' (1950) * ''Two Pennies Worth of Violets'' (1951) * ''His Father's Portrait'' (1953) * ''The Fire Within ''The Fire Within'' (french: Le Feu follet , meaning "The Manic Fire" or "Will-o'-the-Wisp") is a 1963 drama film written and directed by Louis Malle, based on the 1931 novel ''Will O' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Deschamps
Hubert Deschamps (13 September 1923 – 29 December 1998) was a French actor. He was the son of the museum curator Paul Deschamps (1888–1974) and uncle of the French stage director Jérôme Deschamps. Selected filmography * ''The Strollers'' (1950) * '' Street Without a King'' (1950) - Le monsieur qui vend son assiette (uncredited) * ''Bernard and the Lion'' (1951) - François, le domestique du baron * ''Atoll K'' (1951) - Le fonctionnaire (uncredited) * ''Les amours finissent à l'aube'' (1953) * '' Les hommes ne pensent qu'à ça'' (1954) - L'homme fortuné / Un marcheur * ''Les Impures'' (1954) - Le gendarme à l'hôtel Stella (uncredited) * ''Papa, Mama, the Maid and I'' (1954) - Le spectateur qui n'a pas dîné (uncredited) * ''Stopover in Orly'' (1955) - Un douanier * ''French Cancan'' (1955) - Isidore, le garçon de café (uncredited) * ''Fernand cow-boy'' (1956) - Le maire * ''Short Head'' (1956) - Le serveur 'Gay Paris' * ''L'ami de la famille'' (1951) * ''Nous a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gatsby
''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts First-person narrative, first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King, and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore (Long Island), North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text, but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's cover art greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated aspects of it into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Café De Flore
The Café de Flore () is one of the oldest coffeehouses in Paris, celebrated for its famous clientele, which in the past included high-profile writers and philosophers. It is located at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue Saint-Benoît, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, 6th arrondissement. The nearest underground station is Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris Métro), Saint-Germain-des-Prés, served by Paris Métro Line 4, line 4 of Paris Métro. The coffeehouse still remains a popular hang-out spot for celebrities and its status attracts numerous tourists. History The café was opened in the 1880s, during the French Third Republic, Third Republic. The name is taken from a sculpture of Flora (mythology), Flora, the goddess of flowers and the season of spring in Roman mythology, located on the opposite side of the boulevard. Authors Joris-Karl Huysmans and Remy de Gourmont were two of the first well-known regulars. In the late 19th century, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
