''François Villon'' is a 1945 French
historical
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drama film
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directed by
André Zwoboda
André Zwoboda (1910–1994) was a French screenwriter, producer and film director.Rège p.476
Selected filmography
Director
* '' Life Belongs to Us'' (1936)
*''Farandole'' (1945)
* ''François Villon'' (1945)
* '' The Seventh Door'' (1947)
* ...
and starring
Serge Reggiani
Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-French actor and singer. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight.
After studying acting at the Conservatoire des arts cinématog ...
,
Jean-Roger Caussimon
Jean-Roger Caussimon (24 July 1918 – 19 October 1985) was a French singer-songwriter and film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985 but is better known for having worked with poet-singer Léo Ferré.
Discography Studio albu ...
and
Henri Crémieux
Henri Crémieux (19 July 1896 – 10 May 1980) was a French actor. He appeared in more than a hundred films between 1930 and 1980.
Selected filmography
External links
*
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1896 births
1980 deaths
Male ac ...
. It portrays the life of the fifteenth century writer
François Villon
François Villon (Modern French: , ; – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these ex ...
.
[Harty p.106] The film was inspired by the play ''If I Were King'' by
Justin Huntly McCarthy
Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 – 20 March 1936) was an Irish author, historian, and nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1884 to 1892, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
He was the son of J ...
.
Cast
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Serge Reggiani
Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-French actor and singer. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight.
After studying acting at the Conservatoire des arts cinématog ...
as François Villon
*
Jean-Roger Caussimon
Jean-Roger Caussimon (24 July 1918 – 19 October 1985) was a French singer-songwriter and film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985 but is better known for having worked with poet-singer Léo Ferré.
Discography Studio albu ...
as Le grand écolier
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Henri Crémieux
Henri Crémieux (19 July 1896 – 10 May 1980) was a French actor. He appeared in more than a hundred films between 1930 and 1980.
Selected filmography
External links
*
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1896 births
1980 deaths
Male ac ...
as Maître Piédoux
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Pierre Dargout as Thibaud
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Guy Decomble
Guy Decomble (1910–1964) was a French film and television actor. A character actor he played in a number of supporting parts in postwar cinema. One of his better known roles is as the teacher in ''The 400 Blows'' by François Truffaut.Paietta p ...
as Denisot
*
Claudine Dupuis
Claudine Dupuis (born Andrée Esther Chaloum; 1 May 1924 in Paris – 26 May 1991 in Lisieux) was a French actress. She starred as the "garrulous prostitute Manon" in Henri-Georges Clouzot's ''Quai des Orfèvres'' in 1947. Other films incl ...
as Huguette du Hainaut
*
Jacques-Henry Duval as Tuvache
*
Renée Faure
Renée Faure (born Reneé Paule Nanine Faure; November 4, 1918 – May 2, 2005) was a French stage and film actress.
Early life
Renée Faure was born Reneé Paule Nanine Faure on November 4, 1918 in Paris, France. Her father was René Faur ...
as Catherine de Vauselles
*
Gabrielle Fontan
Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 – 8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1927 and 1959.
Selected filmography
* '' Misdeal'' (1928)
* '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929)
* '' The La ...
as La Villonne
*
Micheline Francey
Micheline Francey (October 19, 1919 – January 1, 1969) was a French film actress.Hayward p.115
Selected filmography
* ''The Chess Player'' (1938)
* ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939)
* ''Le Corbeau'' (1943)
* ''Madly in Love'' (1943)
* ''A Cage o ...
as Guillemette
*
Gustave Gallet
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Art, entertainment, and media
* ''Primeval'' (film), a 2007 American horror film
* ''Gustav'' (film series), a Hungarian series of animated short cart ...
as Guillaume de Villon
*
Léon Larive
Léon François Larive (28 June 1886 – 20 July 1961) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1923 and 1961.
Selected filmography
* ''Two Timid Souls'' (1928)
* ''The Great Passion'' (1928)
* ''La Passion de Jea ...
as Turgis
*
Frédéric Mariotti
Frédéric Mariotti (1 April 1883 – 22 February 1971) was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned more than four decades through the early silent film era into the early 1950s.
Biography
Frédéric Mariotti was born in Marseille an ...
as Arnoulet
*
Albert Michel
Albert Michel (1909–1981) was a French stage, film and television actor.Paietta p.40
Selected filmography
* ''Je chante'' (1938) - Un laitier (uncredited)
* ''Ne bougez plus'' (1941) - Clanpinet
* ''Chèque au porteur'' (1941)
* ''Fièvres'' ( ...
as Le paysan accusé
*
Albert Montigny
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Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Albert ...
as Ratier
*
Jean Morel as Alain
*
Denise Noël
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* Denise (given name), people with the given name ''Denise''
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* Denise, Mato Grosso, a municipalit ...
as Margot
*
Julienne Paroli
Julienne Paroli (1 August 1882 – 26 September 1959) was a French film actress.Buache p.164
Selected filmography
* ''Montmartre'' (1931) - Mme Esther (uncredited)
* ''Women's Club
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as La mère
*
Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant.
Pérès was ...
as Le Goliard
*
Albert Rémy
Albert Rémy (9 April 1921 – 26 January 1967) was a French actor best known for his supporting roles in François Truffaut's first two feature films. He played Antoine Doinel's father in ''The 400 Blows'' and Charlie Koller's (Charles Aznavour ...
as Perrot
*
Michel Vitold
Michel Vitold (1915–1994) was a Russian-born French stage and film actor.Durgnat p.141
Selected filmography
* '' Orage'' (1938) - Georges (uncredited)
* ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' (1938) - Le tueur
* ''The Curtain Rises'' (1938) - Gabriel, un élà ...
as Noël, le borgne
*
Jean Carmet
Jean Carmet (25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor.
Life and career
Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internatio ...
as Un compagnon de François
References
Bibliography
* Harty, Kevin J. ''The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Asian Films about Medieval Europe''. McFarland, 1999.
External links
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1945 films
1940s historical drama films
Films about François Villon
French historical drama films
1940s French-language films
Films directed by André Zwoboda
Films set in the 15th century
Cultural depictions of François Villon
French black-and-white films
Cultural depictions of Louis XI of France
1945 drama films
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