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Frédéric Bouraly
Frédéric Bouraly (born 3 May 1960) is a French actor. Theater Filmography Dubbing Frédéric Bouraly was the French voice of several characters from animation Movies and TV Series. References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouraly, Frederic 1960 births Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French male film actors French male television actors People from Moulins, Allier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moulins, Allier
Moulins (; oc, Molins) is a commune in central France, capital of the Allier department. It is located on the river Allier. Among its many tourist attractions are the Maison Mantin, the Anne de Beaujeu Museum and The National Center of Costume and Scenography. Geography Moulins is located on the banks of the river Allier. History Before the French Revolution, Moulins was the capital of the province of Bourbonnais and the seat of the Dukes of Bourbon. It appears in documented records at least as far back as the year 990. In 1232, Archambaud VIII, Sire de Bourbon granted a franchise to the village's inhabitants. The town achieved greater prominence in 1327, when Charles IV elevated Louis I de Clermont to Duke of Bourbon. Either Louis or the later Peter II, Duke of Bourbon and of Auvergne moved the capital of the province from Bourbon-l'Archambault to Moulins. :''Note: This article in French suggests Pierre II moved the capital, while thlocal tourism website(also i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moods Of Marianne
''The Moods of Marianne'' (french: Les Caprices de Marianne) is an 1833 play by the French dramatist Alfred de Musset. It served as the basis for Jean Renoir's film ''The Rules of the Game'' (1939). The play was first published on 15 May 1833 in ''La Revue des Deux Mondes''. It was played at the Comédie-Française on 14 June 1851. An opera by Henri Sauguet, ''Les caprices de Marianne ''Les caprices de Marianne'' is a two-act opéra comique by Henri Sauguet with a French libretto by Jean-Pierre Gredy after Alfred de Musset. It was first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1954, with the Orchestre de la Société des ...'', was also based closely on the play. Plot References Plays by Alfred de Musset 1833 plays Works originally published in Revue des deux Mondes {{France-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
H (TV Series)
''H'' is a French sitcom with seventy-one 22-minute episodes. The series was created by Abd-el-Kader Aoun, Xavier Matthew and Éric Judor, and produced by Phillippe Berthe, Édouard Molinaro, Jean-Luc Moreau and Charles Némès. It ran from 24 October 1998 to 20 April 2002 on Canal+. In Canada, it is shown weekly on TV5br> The title "H" comes from the three words that characterize the series: ''Humour, Histoire et Hôpital'' (Humour, Story and Hospital). Premise The lives of the carelessly incompetent medical team at a hospital in the Parisian suburbs explode in surreal humour as they go about their daily duties. Cast * Jamel Debbouze as Jamel Driddi * Éric Judor as Aymé Cesaire * Ramzy Bedia as Sabri Saïd * Catherine Benguigui as Béatrice "Béa" Goldberg (seasons 1 and 2) * Sophie Mounicot as Clara Saulnier * Jean-Luc Bideau as Professor Maximilien « Max » Strauss * Linda Hardy as Charlotte, Professor Strauss' daughter (season 3) * Edgar Givry as the Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Firode
Laurent Firode (born 11 March 1963) is a French film director and screenwriter. Life He did Chinese studies. Filmography References External links * 1963 births French male screenwriters French screenwriters Film directors from Paris Living people {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happenstance (film)
''Happenstance'' is a 2000 French film directed by Laurent Firode and starring Audrey Tautou and Faudel. The film is also known as ''The Beating of the Butterfly's Wings'', a literal translation of its original French title, ''Le battement d'ailes du papillon''. The title references the butterfly effect from chaos theory which is quoted at greater length by one of the characters in the film. Synopsis Audrey Tautou plays shop assistant Irène, who on the way to work takes a seat on the Paris metro opposite an older woman who tries to interview her for a marketing survey. On hearing that Irène's birthdate is 11 March 1977, the woman reads her horoscope: today she'll meet her true love, but she must be patient. After she leaves the metro, a young man sitting alongside (Faudel) tells the older woman he was born on the same day and asks her to read the rest of the horoscope. The film then traces a range of characters of diverse ages, ethnicities and social status whose daily li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. Life and career Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist of Russian-Jewish origin, and French Jewish Marcelle Houry, a journalist and art critic. Tannenbaum was absent from the life of Oury and he was raised in an unobservant house of his mother and maternal grandmother Berthe Goldner. Mulvey, Michael. (2017). "What Was So Funny about ''Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob'' (1973): A Comedic Film between History and Memory", ''French Politics, Culture & Society'', 35(3), pp. 24-43 , p. 29 Oury studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française before World War II, but fled with all his family (mother, grandmother and unofficial wife, actress ) to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish persecutions by the Vichy government. When in 1942 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Schpountz
Le schpountz is a 1999 French film directed by Gérard Oury (a remake of the 1938 film '' Heartbeat'' by Marcel Pagnol). Irénée does not want to work in his uncle's grocery shop and spends his time dreaming of becoming an actor. Irénée's chance comes when a crew of movie makers came to his little village. Irénée begins to go overboard to get noticed, which earns him the traditional joke reserved to a "schpountz" (naive person): a phoney contract and a departure for Paris. References External links * 1999 comedy films 1999 films Films based on works by Marcel Pagnol Films directed by Gérard Oury Films set in New York City French comedy films 1990s French-language films Remakes of French films 1990s French films {{1990s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dany Boon
Dany Boon (; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy ''Welcome to the Sticks''. Since then he has been involved as screenwriter or director or both in the films '' Nothing to Declare'' (2011), '' Supercondriaque'' (2014), ''Raid dingue'' (2017) and ''La Ch'tite famille'' (2018). Early life Boon was born Daniel Farid Hamidou in a middle-class family in northern France. His father was born in 1930 in Issers, Algeria, and was Muslim, and died in Lille, France in 1992. He was a boxer and a chauffeur. Boon's mother, Danièle Ducatel, is from northern France. A Catholic, she was a stay-at-home mother. He converted to Judaism (his wife's faith) in 2002. He studied graphic arts at the Institut Saint-Luc in Belgium. Career Boon arrived in Paris in 1989, where he was a mime in the streets for a living while app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Maison Du Bonheur
''La Maison du Bonheur'' (The House of Happiness) is a 2006 French comedy film directed by Dany Boon, adapted from the play ''La Vie de chantier'' (Life on a building site). Plot Charles Boulin is a debt collector for a credit company called Crédilem. After his wife Anne accuses him of being tight-fisted, he decides to surprise her by buying a house in the country... but before he manages to do so the house is snatched up by one of his colleagues. In his disappointment he steals his colleague's bag which contains the signed deeds. As he has already been given several warnings at work, he is sacked on the spot. To reduce renovation costs, Charles Boulin seeks the help of Jean-Pierre Draquart, the shifty estate agent who sold him the second house in his catalogue. This swindler calls up his "best team": Mouloud Mami and Donatello Pirelli - who as workers are both perfectly incompetent. As the renovation progresses, the house gradually turns into ruins. Charles soon finds hims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prosper Mérimée
Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella ''Carmen'', which became the basis of Bizet's opera ''Carmen''. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, and translated the work of several important Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, and was responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called ''The Lady and the Unicorn'', and arranged for their preservation. He was inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include '' The Birthday Party'' (1957), '' The Homecoming'' (1964) and '' Betrayal'' (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include '' The Servant'' (1963), ''The Go-Between'' (1971), '' The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1981), '' The Trial'' (1993) and '' Sleuth'' (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Homecoming
''The Homecoming'' is a two-act play written in 1964 by Harold Pinter and first published in 1965. Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play. Its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for "Best Revival of a Play". Set in North London, the play has six characters. Five of these are men who are related to each other: Max, a retired butcher; his brother Sam, a chauffeur; and Max's three sons: Teddy, a philosophy professor in the United States; Lenny, a pimp who only makes discreet references to his "occupation" and his clientele and flats in the city (London); and Joey, a brute training to become a professional boxer and who works in demolition. There is one woman, Ruth, Teddy's wife. The play concerns Teddy's and Ruth's "homecoming," which has distinctly different symbolic and thematic implications. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
