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Shéhérazade (1963 Film)
''Shéhérazade'' or ''Scorching Sands'' is a 1963 adventure film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Anna Karina as the title character. The cast also featured Gérard Barray, António Vilar and Giuliano Gemma The film is loosely based on the ''One Thousand and One Nights''. The film's sets and costumes were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. Plot Baghdad in the year 809. The city is ruled by the Caliph, Haroun-al-Rashid, to whom the beautiful and spiritual Scheherazade has been promised. Ambassadors of Charlemagne arrive in Baghdad to ask the Caliph for free access to the Christian holy sites. Among these envoys from the west is the knight Renaud Villecroix, who falls in love with her. The grand vizier, enemy of the Caliph, ambushes a traveling party and takes Scheherazade prisoner, threatening to cut off her head. Renaud saves her and flees into the desert with her. Cast * Anna Karina as Shéhérazade * Gérard Barray as Renaud de Villecroix * An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Pierre Gaspard-Huit (29 November 1917 – 1 May 2017) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1963 film '' Shéhérazade'', which starred Anna Karina. He was once married to actress Claudine Auger when she was 18, and he was 41 years old.Tom Lisanti and Louis Paul, ''Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers (2002), p. 46 She acted in several of his films. Filmography * '' La Vie tragique d'Utrillo'' (1949) * '' L'Herbe à la Reyne'' (1951) * '' La Fugue de Monsieur Perle'' (1952) (co-directed with Roger Richebé) * ''The Little Czar'' (1954) * '' Sophie and the Crime'' (1955) * '' Maid in Paris'' (1956) * '' The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful'' (1956) * (1957) * '' Christine'' (1958) * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1961) * '' Shéhérazade'' (1963) * ''Gibraltar'' (1964) * '' Living It Up'' (1966) * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1968) (co-directed with Jean Dréville and Sergiu Nicolaescu Sergiu Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Fernández (actor)
Félix Fernández García (26 September 1897 – 4 July 1966) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 1969. Filmography References External links * * 1897 births 1966 deaths Spanish male film actors {{Spain-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Calvo
José Calvo (March 3, 1916 – May 16, 1980) was a Spanish film actor best known for his roles in western films and historical dramas. He made around 150 appearances mostly in films between 1952 and his death in 1980. He entered film in 1952 and was prolific as an actor throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He made many appearances in crime dramas, often with a historical theme and appeared in a high number of western films. In 1964 he starred as the innkeeper Silvanito in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western production ''A Fistful of Dollars'' as one of Clint Eastwood's few "amigos" in the town of San Miguel. He later appeared in westerns such as ''Day of Anger'' (1967) opposite Lee Van Cleef, '' Anda muchacho, spara!'' (1971) and '' Dust in the Sun'' (1973) etc. However, after the Spaghetti Western era of the late 1960s, in the 1970s he returned to appearing in primarily Spanish films and in contrast to the roles which dominated much of his career did appear in several Spanish comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Albaicín
Ignacio Rafael García Escudero (5 June 1919 – 3 September 1981), known as Rafael Albaicín, was a Spanish matador and film actor. In 1948 he began as matador in Las Ventas, taught by Cagancho. He also played the piano and violin, and he designed his traje de luces. As an actor, he appeared in '' Shéhérazade'' (1963), ''Vamos a matar, compañeros'' and '' The Ceremony''. He also played himself in '' Watch Out, We're Mad!'' (1974), a bandit in ''Navajo Joe ''Navajo Joe'' is a 1966 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Burt Reynolds as the titular Navajo Indian who opposes a group of bandits responsible for killing his tribe. Plot Having massacred an Indian village with ...'' (1966), and Alberto in '' Catlow'' (1971), He died on 3 September 1981 at the age of 62 in Madrid. Filmography References External links * {{Authority control 1919 births 1981 deaths Spanish Romani people Spanish bullfighters Spanish male film actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Rey
Fernando Casado Arambillet (20 September 1917 – 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel ('' Viridiana'', 1961; '' Tristana'', 1970; '' Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'', 1972; '' That Obscure Object of Desire'', 1977) and as the drug lord Alain Charnier in '' The French Connection'' (1971) and '' French Connection II'' (1975), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century. The debonair Rey was described by ''French Connection'' producer Philip D'Antoni as "the last of the Continental guys". He achieved his greatest fame after he turned 50: "Perhaps it is a pity that my success came so late in life", he told the ''Los Angeles Times''. "It might have been better to have been successful while young, like El Cordobés in the bullring. Then your life is all befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Mistral
Modesto Llosas Rosell (24 November 1920 – 20 April 1972), known professionally as Jorge Mistral, was a Spanish film actor. During the 1940s, he became a star in films produced by CIFESA. In the 1950s, he lived and worked in Mexico and appeared in Luis Buñuel's '' Abismos de pasión'' in 1954. Later, in the 1960s, he directed three films. Early life Jorge Mistral was born Modesto Llosas Rosell on 24 November 1920 in Aldaia, province of Valencia, Spain. His father was from Puerto Rico and his mother from Catalonia. Death Suffering from cancer, Mistral committed suicide with a gunshot while living in Mexico City, Mexico. Filmography * ''La Llamada del mar'' (1944) * ''Ángela es así'' (1945) * '' White Mission'' (1946) * '' The Emigrant'' (1946) * '' The Gypsy and the King'' (1946) * ''Mar abierto ''(1946) * ''Las Inquietudes de Shanti Andía ''(1947) * ''Héroes del 95'' (1947) * ''La Nao capitana'' (1947) * '' Lady in Ermine'' (1947) * ''Pototo, Boliche y Compañía ''(19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fausto Tozzi
Fausto Tozzi (29 October 1921 – 10 December 1978) was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978. He wrote the script for '' The Defeated Victor'', which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed one film, ''Trastevere''. Life and career Born in Rome, after graduating in accountancy Tozzi made several humble jobs, including peddler and bird taxidermist. He was introduced in the cinema industry by Sergio Amidei, for whom he worked as a stenographer. Through Amidei, Tozzi met Renato Castellani, with whom he collaborated as a screenwriter for '' Professor, My Son'' (1946) and '' Under the Sun of Rome'' (1948, based on a Tozzi's original story). In the early 1950s, he also started working as an assistant director and as an actor, sometimes being cast in main roles. His typical roles were of hardmen and villains. He was also active on stage, where he is best known for the role of Gnecco in '' Ruga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilù Tolo
Marilù Tolo (born Maria Lucia Tolo; 16 January 1944) is an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1960 and 1985. Life and career Tolo was born in Rome, and at a very young age worked as an assistant of Mario Riva in the RAI variety show ''Il Musichiere''. She made her film debut at 16 years old in Alberto Lattuada's ''Sweet Deceptions''. Tolo was among the shortlisted actresses who performed screen tests for the supporting antagonistic role of Ursa in ''Superman'' (1978), a role which she narrowly lost out on to Sarah Douglas. The screen tests were released as a special feature on the 2001 DVD home video re-release of the film. She was also a fashion model, and a close friend of Italian stylist Valentino. Valentino said in an interview to Italian newspaper ''La Repubblica'' that Tolo was the only woman he had ever really loved. Selected filmography * '' Howlers in the Dock'' (1960) - Marilù * ''I piaceri del sabato notte'' (1960) - La sartina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vizier
A vizier (; ; ) is a high-ranking political advisor or Minister (government), minister in the Near East. The Abbasids, Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was at first merely a helper but afterwards became the representative and successor of the ''dapir'' (official scribe or secretary) of the Sasanian Empire, Sassanian kings. In modern usage, the term has been used for government Minister (government), ministers in much of the Middle East and beyond. Several alternative spellings are used in English, such as ''vizir'', ''wazir'', and ''vezir''. Etymology Vizier may be derived from the Arabic ''wazara'' (), from the Semitic root ''W-Z-R''. The word is mentioned in the Quran, where Aaron is described as the ''wazir'' (helper) of Moses, as well as the word ''wizr'' (burden) which is also derived from the same root. It was later adopted as a title, in the form of ''wazīr āl Muḥammad'' () by the proto-Shi'a leaders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlemagne
Charlemagne ( ; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was List of Frankish kings, King of the Franks from 768, List of kings of the Lombards, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814. He united most of Western Europe, Western and Central Europe, and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier. Charlemagne's reign was marked by political and social changes that had lasting influence on Europe throughout the Middle Ages. A member of the Frankish Carolingian dynasty, Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. With his brother, Carloman I, he became king of the Franks in 768 following Pepin's death and became the sole ruler three years later. Charlemagne continued his father's policy of protecting the papacy and became its chief defender, remo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harun Al-Rashid
Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rāshīd (), or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Hārūn al-Rāshīd (), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809. His reign is traditionally regarded to be the beginning of the Islamic Golden Age. His epithet ''al-Rashid'' translates to "the Just", "the Upright", or "the Rightly-Guided". Harun established the legendary library Bayt al-Hikma ("House of Wisdom") in Baghdad in present-day Iraq, and during his rule Baghdad began to flourish as a world center of knowledge, culture and trade. During his rule, the family of Barmakids, which played a deciding role in establishing the Abbasid Caliphate, declined gradually. In 796, he moved his court and government to Raqqa in present-day Syria. Domestically, Harun pursued policies similar to those of his father Al-Mahdi. He released many of the Umayyads and 'Alids his brother Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
