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Serge Merlin
Serge Merlin (born Serge Merle; 29 December 1932 – 16 February 2019) was a French actor. He became internationally known for his role in the film ''Amélie'' (2001), which received widespread critical acclaim. Filmography Film See also * List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery * List of French actors This is a list of notable actors and actresses from France. ''(Persons are listed alphabetically according to their surname.)'' A * Carole Achache * Kev Adams * Isabelle Adjani * Fatima Adoum * Renée Adorée * Anouk Aimée * Madame Al ... * List of members of the Order of Arts and Letters References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Merlin, Serge 1932 births 2019 deaths 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres French male film actors French male stage actors French male television actors Male actors from Paris People from Oran Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Oued Tlélat
Oued Tlélat is a town and commune in Oran Province, Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger .... According to the 1998 census it has a population of 13289. References Communes of Oran Province {{Oran-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads them to arrest criminals and enable them to be convicted in court. A detective may work for the police or Private investigator, privately. Overview Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is a licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, by examining and evaluating clues and personal records in order to uncover the identity and/or whereabouts of criminals. In some Police, police departments, a detective position is obtained by passing a written test after a person completes the requirements for being a police officer. In many other police systems, detectives are college graduates who join directly from civilian life without first serving as uniformed officers. Some argue that detectives do a compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the north. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical Macedonia (region), region of Macedonia. Skopje, the capital and largest city, is home to a quarter of the country's population of over 1.83 million. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonians, a South Slavs, South Slavic people. Albanians in North Macedonia, Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks in North Macedonia, Turks, Romani people in North Macedonia, Roma, Serbs in North Macedonia, Serbs, Bosniaks in North Macedonia, Bosniaks, Aromanians in North Macedonia, Aromanians and a few other minorities. The region's history begins with the Paeonia (kingdom), kingdom of Paeonia. In the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter. His films combine fantasy, realism, and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations. Jeunet debuted as a director with the acclaimed 1991 black comedy ''Delicatessen (1991 film), Delicatessen,'' collaborating with Marc Caro. Jeunet then co-wrote and -directed with Caro again on ''The City of Lost Children'' (1995). His work with science fiction and horror led him to direct ''Alien Resurrection'' (1997), the fourth film in the Alien (franchise), ''Alien'' film series and his first and thus far only experience with an American film. In 2001, Jeunet achieved his biggest success with the release of ''Amélie'', which won him international acclaim; the film reached BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century. Jeunet is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important directors in modern French cinema, and his critical and commercial succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marc Caro
Marc Caro (born 2 April 1956) is a French filmmaker and comics artist, best known for his projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Biography Marc Caro was born in Nantes, the native town of Jules Verne, who made a great impact on him, influenced his love for science fiction and his artistic style. During the 1970s he worked as an editor and designer at '' Métal hurlant'', drew comics for '' L'Écho des savanes'' and '' Fluide Glacial'' along with Gilles Adrien who would also join Caro on his movie projects. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Denys Granier-Deferre
Denys Granier-Deferre (born 27 December 1949, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French film director. Biography Denys Granier-Deferre is the son of Pierre Granier-Deferre with whom he started cinema as his assistant, notably on his father's movie ''Le Chat'' (1971). He then worked with different French directors before writing and filming his first movie, ''Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt!'', in 1982. Filmography ;As director and writer *1982 : '' Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt!'' *1984 : '' Réveillon chez Bob'' *2010 : ''Pièce montée A ''pièce montée'' (, ; plural ''pièces montées'') is a kind of decorative confectionery centerpiece in an architectural or sculptural form used for formal banquets and made of such ingredients as "confectioner’s paste" (also known as ''p ...'' References External links * French film directors 1949 births Living people People from Boulogne-Billancourt {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Frédéric Dard
Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard (29 June 1921, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France – 6 June 2000, in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland)) also known under the pen name San-Antonio, was a French writer. Known as an author of crime fiction and as a humorist, he was notable for his ability to blend the two genres. Though Dard also wrote serious fiction, his most successful books used a humorous tone. During his lifetime, Dard was the world's best-selling French-language author. He published more than four hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the ''San-Antonio'' book series. Dard used San-Antonio both as a pen name and as the name of the titular hero of his main series. The ''San-Antonio'' books eventually became so popular that Dard started using that pen name even for books that did not belong to the series. Biography Frédéric Dard was born to a working-class family: his father was a metalworker and his mother worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Éric Barbier
Éric Barbier (born 29 June 1960 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French film director and screenwriter. Filmography Actor * 1994: ''Le Péril jeune'' by Cédric Klapisch Awards and nominations References Bibliography * External links * * 1960 births Living people 21st-century French male writers 21st-century French screenwriters French film directors French male screenwriters People from Aix-en-Provence Institut des hautes études cinématographiques alumni {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Le Brasier
''Le Brasier'' is a French film directed by Éric Barbier, released in 1991. This was the first full-length feature film directed by Barbier. Based around the social struggles of a mining area in the 1930s, ''Le Brasier'' was the first French film to have a budget of more than 100 million francs, the highest budget in the history of French cinema at that point. The film was a commercial disaster, selling less than 40,000 tickets in the Paris region. Synopsis Details * Original title: ''Le Brasier'' * Director: Éric Barbier * Writers: Éric Barbier, Jean-Pierre Barbier * Length: 122 minutes * Format : Colour * Photography : Thierry Arbogast * Executive producer: Jean-François Lepetit * Release date: France: 30 January 1991 Starring * Jean-Marc Barr as Victor * Maruschka Detmers as Alice * Thierry Fortineau as Emile * François Hadji-Lazaro as Gros * Serge Merlin as Betaix * Tolsty as Piotr Pavlak * Jean-Paul Roussillon as Dalmas Shooting * The film was shot in three coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Testament (Wiesel Novel)
''Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné'' (1980), translated into English as ''The Testament'' (1981) is a novel by Elie Wiesel. ''The Testament'', to be followed by ''The Fifth Son'', and '' The Forgotten'' mark a thematic change in Elie Wiesel's telling of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Wiesel moves into telling the story of three children of the survivors. The novel takes the form of the memoirs of a Russian Jewish poet, Paltiel Kossova, whose idealism leads him to turn from his Jewish religious heritage towards communism.CS Monitor 1981From Wiesel, an eloquent, transfixing parable; The Testament, by Elie Wiesel. Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel./ref> The novel won the Prix du Livre Inter The Prix du Livre Inter is a prize for best French novel of the year. It is awarded by the radio channel France Inter France Inter () is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. It is the successor to Paris Inter, later known as ..., and Prix des Bibliothà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
A Love In Germany
''Eine Liebe in Deutschland'' (''A Love in Germany'') is a 1983 feature film directed by Andrzej Wajda. The film is based on the novel by Rolf Hochhuth about a woman who commits adultery with a prisoner of war while her husband serves as a soldier during World War II. ''A Love in Germany'', featuring many popular German actors, was produced by German film producer Artur Brauner and German broadcaster ZDF. Synopsis The story takes place in the German village of , at the border to Switzerland. A man and his son visit the village to find out about an incident in the life of the man's mother, Pauline Kropp, in 1941 in this village. However, they are met with mistrust by the local population. In 1941, the owner of the local fruit-and-vegetables shop has been called up. His shop has a key function for the town's supply situation. His customers know from World War I how rationing can make the owner of such a shop very rich if only he's egoistic enough to get corrupted by well-heeled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
