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Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier (; 11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. Life and career Blier was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He is notable for being one of France's most versatile and sought-after character actors, performing interchangeably in comedies and dramas. His complete filmography includes 175 titles. He often appeared in Italian films too, particularly in the last decade of his life. He was awarded an Honorary César (the French Oscar Oscar, OSCAR, or The Oscar may refer to: People and fictional and mythical characters * Oscar (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters named Oscar, Óscar or Oskar * Oscar (footballer, born 1954), Brazilian footballer ...) in 1989, 24 days before he died. Personal life Blier was born in Buenos Aires ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area 16.7 million, making it the List of metropolitan areas, twentieth largest metropolitan area in the world. It is known for its preserved eclecticism, eclectic European #Architecture, architecture and rich culture, cultural life. It is a multiculturalism, multicultural city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of Immigration to Argentina, im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Richebé
Roger Richebé (3 December 1897 – 10 July 1989), born Roger Gustave Richebé, was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born in Marseille and died in Ville-d'Avray. Selected filmography * ' (1930) (producer) * '' La donna di una notte'' (1930) (producer) * ''On purge bébé'' (1931) (producer – uncredited) * '' Queen of the Night'' (1931) * ''La Chienne'' (1931) (producer – as Les Etablissement Branuberger-Richebé) * '' Mam'zelle Nitouche'' (1931) (producer) * '' The Lovers of Midnight'' (1931) (producer) * '' American Love'' (1931) (producer) * ''Fantômas'' (1932) (producer) * '' Fanny'' (1932) (producer) * '' Baleydier'' (1932) (producer) * '' The Agony of the Eagles'' (1933) (director) * '' Minuit, place Pigalle'' (1934) (director) * '' I Have an Idea'' (1934) (director) * '' Koenigsmark'' (1935) (producer) * '' L'amant de Madame Vidal'' (1936) (producer) * '' The Secret of Polichinelle'' (1936) (producer) * '' Le mort en fuite'' (1936) (produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Jour Se Lève
''Le jour se lève'' (, "The day rises"; also known as ''Daybreak'') is a 1939 French film directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, based on a story by Jacques Viot. It is considered one of the principal examples of the French film movement known as poetic realism. An original feature of the film is its structure, a long flashback, a procedure that was rarely used at the time - and this two years before the release of Orson Welles' '' Citizen Kane''. The set for the bedroom, built by Alexandre Trauner, includes all four sides of the room (rather than the usual three) to allow circular shots and emphasise the sense of confinement. In 1952, it was included in the first British Film Institute's '' Sight & Sound'' top ten Greatest Films of All Time list. Synopsis Foundry worker François shoots and kills Valentin. François then locks himself in his apartment. He is soon besieged by the police, who fail in an attempt to shoot their way into the room. As they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Lamač
Karel Lamač (27 January 1897 – 2 August 1952) was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. He directed more than 100 films in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Life Lamač was born 27 January 1897 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. His parents were Karel Lamač sr. (1863–1938), opera singer and a pharmacist, and Františka Lamačová (née Prusíková, 1860–1949). In his childhood Lamač was interested in pharmacy, electrical engineering, stage magic and acting. Before WWI he went to apprentice in camera manufacturer company Ernemann in Dresden. During the war he was a combat cameraman. After the war he became a technical director of film laboratory in Excelsiorfilm. He started working in movies in 1918, first as an actor, later as a writer and a director. Among his best movies of this period are crime drama '' The Poisoned Light'', comedy ''Catch Him!'' and drama '' White Paradise''. In 1923 he wrote a book ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place De La Concorde (1939 Film)
''Place de la Concorde'' is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Karel Lamac and starring Albert Préjean, Dolly Mollinger and Armand Bernard. Oscherwitz & Higgins p.355 It takes its title from the Place de la Concorde, a major public square in Paris. Synopsis After her dress gets caught in the door of the train, a Hungarian-born young woman from the provinces accidentally finds herself carried all the way to Paris. There she meets a chauffeur who is secretly a duke in disguise. Cast * Albert Préjean as Le duc Gus de la Rochefouquet * Dolly Mollinger as Rosy Farkas * Armand Bernard as Altesse * René Lefèvre as Ripotot * Raymond Cordy as Charles, le chauffeur * Geneviève Callix as Paulette * Marcelle Praince as La mère de Marion * Jeanne Fusier-Gir as La lectrice de poème à la radio * Midlarsky as Le barman * Maurice Baquet as Papillon * Claire Gérard as La femme du chef de gare * Denise Cayrol as Marion * Bernard Blier as Brioche * Émile Saint-Ober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Final Accord (1938 Film)
''Final Accord'' (French: ''Accord final'') is a 1938 French-Swiss musical comedy film directed by Douglas Sirk and Ignacy Rosenkranz and starring Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry and George Rigaud.Crisp p.360 It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location around Montreux in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss. Cast * Käthe von Nagy as Hélène Vernier * Jules Berry as Le baron Larzac * George Rigaud as Georges Astor * André Alerme as Fradin * Raymond Aimos as Le chauffeur de taxi * Georges Rollin as Paul Lissa * Jacques Baumer as Le professeur Hennard * Josette Day as Suzanne Fabre * Nane Germon as Marie Poupard * Maurice Baquet as Serge Didot * Bernard Blier as Mérot * Yves Brainville as Chenal - l'ami de Georges * Michel Vitold Michel Vitold (1914–1994) was a Russian-born French stage and film actor.Durgnat p.141 Selected filmography * '' Orage'' (1938) - Georges (uncredited) * '' Adrienne Lecouvreur'' (1938) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Carné
Marcel Albert Carné (; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include ''Port of Shadows'' (1938), ''Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939), ''Les Visiteurs du Soir'' (1942) and ''Children of Paradise'' (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the List of films considered the best, great films of all time. Biography Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, ''Hebdo-Films'', and working for ''Cinémagazine'' and ''Cinémonde'' between 1929 and 1933.Richard Roud "Marcel Carné and Jacques Prevert" in Roud ''Cinema: A Critical Dictionary: Volume One, Aldrich to King'', London: Secker & Warburg, 1980, p.189-92, 189, 191 In the same period he worked in silent film as a camera assistant with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carné had already directed ''Nogent, Eldora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel Du Nord
''Hôtel du Nord'' is a 1938 French drama film directed by Marcel Carné that stars Arletty, Louis Jouvet, Annabella, and Jean-Pierre Aumont. It tells the story of two couples in Paris, one being a prostitute and her pimp and the other two young lovers without regular jobs. A work of poetic realism, cinematography, music, and dialogue add a poetic dimension to the lives and surroundings of working-class people. Plot At the Hôtel du Nord in a working-class district of Paris, a first communion party unites many of the occupants. Among them is the prostitute Raymonde, whose pimp Edmond stays in their room to develop some photographs he has taken. A young couple, Renée and Pierre, enter and take a room for the night. Once alone, they run through their plan to kill themselves because they can't afford to marry and set up home. Pierre shoots Renée with a pistol, but he can't then kill himself. Hearing the shot, Edmond breaks into the room and tells the boy to flee. Later, he recovers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director, screenwriter, set designer and costume designer who worked in films for over 50 years. He made films characterised by bourgeois Realism (arts), realism, anti-clericalism and sexual frankness, often from literary sources. His career was frequently marked by controversy. Even though he was considered left-wing during most of his life, in his late 80s he was elected to the European Parliament as a member for the far-right National Rally, National Front: he stepped down two months later after making antisemitism, antisemitic statements. Early life Claude Autant-Lara was born on 5 August 1901 at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise. Édouard Autant, his father, was an architect, and his mother, Louise Lara, was an actress from the Comédie-Française. They were founders of the cultural group "Art et Action", which gave their son an early introduction to the theatre.Joël Magny"Autant-Lara, Claude (1901–2000)" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Lehmann
Maurice Lehmann (May 14, 1895 – May 17, 1974) was a French actor, director and producer of the stage and screen. He starred in the 1923 film ''Koenigsmark (1923 film), Koenigsmark'' in which he played the title role.Goble p.36 In 1956 Cannes Film Festival, 1956 he was appointed president of the jury in the Cannes Film Festival. Biography He entered as a boarder at the Comedie-French from 1916 to 1919. He then managed theaters in the Porte Saint-Martin, the Ambigu, the Renaissance, Essaouira, Mogador, Edward VII and the Empire. Selected filmography * ''Koenigsmark (1923 film), Koenigsmark'' (1923) * ''Pasteur (film), Pasteur'' (1935) * ''The Gutter (1938 film), The Gutter'' (1938) * ''The Lady of the Camellias (1953 film), The Lady of the Camellias'' (1953) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1895 births 1974 deaths French film directors French film producers French male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gutter (1938 Film)
''The Gutter'' or ''The Stream'' (French: ''Le ruisseau'') is a 1938 French drama film directed by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara and starring Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Gaby Sylvia and Ginette Leclerc. Rège p.622 It is based on the 1907 play of the same title by Pierre Wolff. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location around Le Havre in Normandy. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. The play had previously been adapted as a 1919 American silent film ''The Virtuous Model'' and a 1929 French silent '' Le Ruisseau''. Cast * Françoise Rosay as Régina Berri * Michel Simon as Le comte Edouard de Bourgogne dit 'L'Escargot' * Gaby Sylvia as Denise * Ginette Leclerc as Ginette * Georges Lannes as Ricardo * Paul Cambo as Paul Prébant * Bernard Blier Bernard Blier (; 11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. Life and career Blier was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curtain Rises
''The Curtain Rises'' () is a 1938 French crime film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin and Odette Joyeux.Andrew p.144 It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jacques Krauss and Alexandre Trauner. Cast * Louis Jouvet as Le professeur Lambertin * Claude Dauphin as François Polti * Odette Joyeux as Coecilia * Janine Darcey as Isabelle * André Brunot as Monsieur Grenaison * Madeleine Lambert as Élisabeth * Roger Blin as Dominique * Noël Roquevert as Pignolet * Julien Carette as Lurette * Marcel Dalio as le juge d'instruction * Bernard Blier as Pescani * Yves Brainville as Sylvestre * André Roussin as Giflard * Robert Pizani Robert Pizani (26 April 1896 – 17 June 1965) was a French stage and film actor whose 45-year career encompassed leading roles in numerous plays, revues and operettas as well as dozens of films. In operetta Pizani's roles in oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
