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Joseph Bercholz
Joseph Bercholz (1898–1981) was a Russian-born French film producer. In the 1930s he established the production company Les Films Gibé with Édouard Gide. During the Second World War he left for America where he produced a couple of films in Hollywood for Republic Pictures before returning to France to resume production.Crisp p.168 Selected filmography * ''Return at Dawn'' (1938) * ''Gargousse'' (1938) * '' Abused Confidence'' (1938) * ''Nine Bachelors'' (1939) * ''The Man Who Seeks the Truth'' (1940) * ''Behind City Lights'' (1945) * ''Steppin' in Society'' (1945) * '' Pastoral Symphony'' (1946) * ''Good Lord Without Confession'' (1953) * ''Napoleon Road'' (1953) * ''Elena and Her Men'' (1956) * ''Marie Antoinette Queen of France ''Marie Antoinette Queen of France'' (french: Marie-Antoinette reine de France and also known as ''Shadow of the Guillotine'') is a 1956 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote the screenplay with Pierre Erlange . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing dynasty, Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the Russian Empire Census, 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastoral Symphony (film)
''Pastoral Symphony'' (French: ''La Symphonie pastorale'') is a 1946 French drama film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar and Jean Desailly.Crisp p.122 The film is based on the novella ''La Symphonie Pastorale'' by André Gide and adapted to the screen by Jean Aurenche.It was shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris with sets designed by the art director René Renoux. Location shooting took place around Rossinière in Switzerland. The film's score was by Georges Auric. At the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, it won the ''Grand Prix'' (equivalent of the Palme d'Or) and the Best Actress award for Michèle Morgan. It was the film chosen to be shown at the opening gala of the Cameo cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland, in March 1949, and a rare surviving print with English subtitles was shown there again in 2009 to celebrate the film's 60th anniversary, courtesy of the BFI. Plot summary The pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Film Producers
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Russian Film Producers
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1981 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kills 150 people. Japan suffers a less serious earthquake on the same day. * January 25 – In South Africa the largest part of the town Laingsburg is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, '' J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper '' L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Oldest Profession
''The Oldest Profession'' (french: Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde) is a 1967 internationally co-produced comedy film. It features contributions from six different film directors, each one doing a segment on prostitution through the ages. Plot *''The Prehistoric Era'' – the cavewoman Brit is unable to attract a visiting trader until the wall painter Rak has the idea of making up her face. *''Roman Nights'' - in Ancient Rome, the emperor Flavius makes an excuse to leave the empress Domitilla and go with the poet Menippus to a brothel. There he meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who proves to be his wife. *''Mademoiselle Mimi'' - during the French Revolution, Philibert asks to visit Mimi and from her window watches an old aristocrat being guillotined, saying it was his childless uncle. Promising to pay her as soon as the lawyers have settled the estate, he disappears. *''The Gay Nineties'' – in Paris in the 1890s, Nini goes to bed with a lonely old man and, looking throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandrin (1962 Film)
''Mandrin'' is a 1962 French-Italian historical adventure film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Georges Rivière, Silvia Monfort, Jeanne Valérie and Dany Robin.Oscherwitz & Higgins p·378 It is based on the life of the celebrated smuggler and brigand Louis Mandrin who operated during the reign of Louis XV. The film's sets were designed by the art director Anatol Radzinowicz. Location shooting took place around the town of Zakopane in southern Poland as well as the Château de Vigny outside Paris. Cast * Georges Rivière as Louis Mandrin * Silvia Monfort as Myrtille * Jeanne Valérie as Antoinette * Georges Wilson as Bélissard * Dany Robin as La baronne d'Escourt * Maurice Baquet as Court-Toujours * Jess Hahn as Bertrand le braco * Armand Mestral as Sigismond de Moret * Albert Rémy as Grain de sel * André Versini as Le marquis d'Ulrich * Gil Baladou as Le ménestrel * Tadeusz Bartosik as Le gitan Marco * Leon Niemczyk as Le traître Grandville * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is At Stake
''Love Is at Stake'' (French: ''L'amour est en jeu'') is a 1957 French comedy drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Robert Lamoureux, Annie Girardot and Jacques Jouanneau.The A to Z of French Cinema p.187 The film's sets were designed by the art director Auguste Capelier. Cast * Robert Lamoureux as Robert Fayard * Annie Girardot as Marie-Blanche Fayard * Jacques Jouanneau as Damiano * Gabrielle Fontan as Emilie * Robert Rollis as Le portier * Pierre Doris as Le publiciste * Louis Massis as L'huissier * Leila Croft as Zizi * Valerie Croft as Zaza * Jean Parédès as De Bérimont * Jeanne Aubert as Mme. Brémond * Yves Noël Yves may refer to: * Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France * Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona * ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 Fre ... as Roger Fayard References Bibliography * Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Antoinette Queen Of France
''Marie Antoinette Queen of France'' (french: Marie-Antoinette reine de France and also known as ''Shadow of the Guillotine'') is a 1956 French-Italian historical drama film directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote the screenplay with Pierre Erlanger and Bernard Zimmer. The film stars Michèle Morgan and Richard Todd. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Jean Delannoy) at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. Cast *Michèle Morgan as Marie-Antoinette *Richard Todd as le comte Axel de Fersen * Jacques Morel as Louis XVI *Aimé Clariond as Louis XV * Jeanne Boitel as Mme Campan * Guy Tréjan as La Fayette *Marina Berti as a comtesse de Polignac * Marcelle Arnold as Mme. Adélaïde * Jane Marken as Mme Victoire *Jacques Dufilho as Marat * Daniel Ceccaldi as Drouet * Madeleine Rousset as Mme de Tourzel * Suzy Carrier as Mme Elisabeth * Paul Bonifas as Herman *Jacques Bergera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena And Her Men
''Elena and Her Men'' is a 1956 film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Ingrid Bergman and Jean Marais. The film's original French title was ''Elena et les Hommes'', and in English-speaking countries, the title was ''Paris Does Strange Things''. It is the third addition to the trilogy, preceded by ''The Golden Coach'' (1953) and '' French Cancan'' (1955). A restored copy has been released in the 21st century. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. Location shooting took place around the city including in Saint-Cloud and the Castle of Ermenonville. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean André. Plot Produced in 1956, and set in 1890 France, ''Elena and Her Men'' tells the story of a young, beautiful, and free-spirited Polish princess in fin de siècle Paris who specializes in granting people good luck. Elena's family has run out of money, and in order to save them, she agrees to marry a wealthy, older family friend. No sooner has she agreed to thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon Road
''Napoleon Road'' (French: ''La route Napoléon'') is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Pierre Fresnay, Henri Vilbert and Claude Laydu. It was partly shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff. Synopsis A chancer organises a series of package tours along a route said to have been taken by Napoleon in 1815 when in fact the Emperor never set foot there. The local inhabitants back up his story as they hope to cash in on the tourist boom. Cast * Pierre Fresnay as Édouard Martel * Henri Vilbert as Blaise * Claude Laydu as Pierre Marchand * René Génin as Le curé * Mireille Ozy as Stella * Raphaël Patorni as Bonvent * Fernand Sardou as Le maire de Bourg-sur-Bléone * Henri Arius as Le boucher * Fransined as Le pharmacien * Nicolas Amato as Figuières * Maurice Bénard as Le ministre * Pierrette Caillol as La femme dudocteur * Lucien Callamand as Sabatier- le garde-champêtre * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
