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Irène Tunc
Irène Tunc (25 September 1935 – 16 January 1972) was a French actress and model. She was crowned Miss France in 1954. She was the wife of film director Alain Cavalier and she died in a car crash in 1972. She appeared in 35 films and television shows between 1955 and 1971. Filmography References External links * 1935 births 1972 deaths French film actresses Road incident deaths in France Miss France winners French female models People from Nord (French department) Actresses from Hauts-de-France 20th-century French actresses Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 {{France-film-actor-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravissimo (film)
''Bravissimo'' is a 1955 Italian film, starring Alberto Sordi and directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. Plot Ubaldo Impallato is a precarious elementary music teacher, for years in vain in search of a steady job, who to make ends meet with after school. Among the children entrusted to him there is also Gigetto, who unlike the other companions has a singular characteristic: at the age of six he can sing with a wonderful baritone voice. The teacher, who in the meantime has become his tutor in spite of himself since his father ended up in prison, accidentally realizes this extraordinary gift of the little one hearing him interpret The barber of Seville (Ubaldo at first thinks he hears a singer on the radio) and decides to seize the opportunity. Thanks to an excellent performance in a television program for young talents, Gigetto is an immediate success and promises to become a real gold mine. With the help of a theatrical impresario, he is even offered Verdi's Rigoletto, in the role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noi Siamo Due Evasi
''Noi siamo due evasi'' is a 1959 Italy, Italian Crime film, crime-comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli. Cast * Ugo Tognazzi: Bernardo Cesarotti * Magali Noël: Odette * Raimondo Vianello: Camillo Gorini * Sandra Mondaini: Isabella * Titina De Filippo: Baroness Holz * Irène Tunc: Silvia * Maurizio Arena: Francesco Curti * Mirko Ellis: Philippe * Fred Buscaglione: Himself * José Jaspe * Olimpia Cavalli * José Calvo References External links * 1959 films 1950s crime comedy films Italian crime comedy films Films directed by Giorgio Simonelli Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli 1959 comedy films 1950s Italian films {{comedy-crime-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Deaths
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908 in science#Astronomy, 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' catches fire and sinks in Hong Kong's Victoria harbor while undergoing conversion to a floating university. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's Colonial empire, colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of . * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two English Girls
''Two English Girls'' (; UK title: ''Anne and Muriel''), is a 1971 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by Henri-Pierre Roché. It stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude, Kika Markham as Anne, and Stacey Tendeter as Muriel. Truffaut restored 20 minutes of footage, which fills out the characters, before his death in 1984. The novel was first published in English in 2004, translated by Walter Bruno and published by Cambridge Book Review Press, Cambridge, Wisconsin. Plot The film begins in Paris around the year 1902. The narrator (Truffaut himself) explains that Claude Roc and his widowed mother are visited by Anne Brown, daughter of an old friend. Anne invites Claude to spend the summer on the coast of Wales with her widowed mother and sister, Muriel. While she enjoys Claude's company, her hope is that he may be a husband for her introverted sister, who has problems with her eyesight. In the event, Claude and Muri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chamade (film)
''La Chamade'' (also titled ''Heartbeat'' in English) is a 1968 romantic drama film directed by Alain Cavalier from a screenplay he co-wrote with Françoise Sagan, based on Sagan's 1965 novel of the same name. It stars Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli, with Roger Van Hool, Jacques Sereys, Philippine Pascal and Irène Tunc. The film follows a young woman (Deneuve) who finds herself torn between her older, wealthy lover (Piccoli) and a working-class man her own age (Van Hool). Plot In Paris, 25-year-old Lucile is the beautiful, carefree mistress of Charles, a wealthy, kind-hearted, middle-aged businessman. She refuses to work and enjoys a life of luxury and comfort thanks to Charles, but does not feel true love for him. When she meets Antoine, a charming but penniless young publisher's reader who is the lover of an older socialite named Diane, the two instantly fall in love and begin an affair, regularly spending the afternoons together at his one-room apartment. While Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Je T'aime, Je T'aime
''Je t'aime, je t'aime'' ("I Love You, I Love You") is a 1968 French science fiction film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Jacques Sternberg. The plot centres on Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) who is asked to participate in a mysterious experiment in time travel when he leaves the hospital after a suicide attempt. The experiment, intended to return him after one minute of observing the past, instead causes him to experience his past in a disjointed fashion. The film was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the countrywide wildcat strike that occurred in May 1968 in France. While seldom ranked among Resnais's best works, ''Je t'aime, je t'aime'' has received positive reviews since its release. It has been cited as an influence on the 2004 Michel Gondry film ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind''. Plot Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) is leaving hospital after an attempt at suicide by shooting himself through his hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live For Life
''Live for Life'' () is a 1967 French film directed by Claude Lelouch starring Yves Montand, Candice Bergen and Annie Girardot. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had a total of 2,936,035 admissions in France and was the 7th highest-grossing film of the year. Plot Robert Colomb (Yves Montand) is a famous TV newscaster, married to Catherine (Annie Girardot), but continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice (Candice Bergen). He takes her along on an assignment in Kenya and later establishes an "arrangement" with her in Amsterdam. He is then assigned to Vietnam, tells Candice their affair is over and discovers that is more than acceptable to her as she is tired of him. Returning from a Vietnamese prison, he decides to return to Catherine, but discovers she has made a new life for herself. Cast * Yves Montand as Robert Colomb * Candice Bergen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Adventure (1967 Film)
''The Last Adventure'' () is a 1967 French-Italian adventure drama film directed by Robert Enrico and based on a novel by José Giovanni. Two men, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura, and a girl, Joanna Shimkus, escape setbacks in France to go in search of sunken treasure off the coast of Africa. Synopsis Outside Paris, three people are pursuing their separate dreams. Roland is building his own racing car, but it blows up under test. His friend Manu is a stunt pilot, who loses his licence. They are befriended by Laetitia, an artist mounting her first exhibition, at which not a single work sells. Their dreams in ruins, and virtually broke, the three pool what's left of their resources and head for a place on the African coast where an aircraft full of loot came down in the sea. As they are searching for the wreck, a man climbs aboard their boat and says he was the pilot. He helps them find the sunken plane, but after hauling up the treasure their boat is approached by men claiming to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gardener Of Argenteuil
''The Gardener of Argenteuil'' (; ) is a 1966 crime comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, and Pierre Vernier. It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and on location around Paris, including Argenteuil where much of the film takes place. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul-Louis Boutié. Cast * Jean Gabin as Le père Tulipe M. Martin * Liselotte Pulver as Hilda * Curd Jürgens as Le Baron Edouard de Santis * Pierre Vernier as Noël * Alfred Adam as L'homme en robe de bure * Noël Roquevert as Le patron du restaurant * Jean Tissier as Albert * Mary Marquet as Dora * Jeanne Fusier-Gir as L'Altesse * Serge Gainsbourg as Patrick Gérard * Claude Nicot as Le patron d'Hilda * Henri Rellys as Le cocher * Katrin Schaake as Patricia * Edmond Ardisson Edmond Ardisson (23 October 1904, in Marseille – 30 November 1983, in Jouarre) was a French people, French actor. He appeared in more than ninety fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet And Sour (1963 Film)
''Sweet and Sour'' () is a 1963 French-Italian comedy film directed by Jacques Baratier and starring Guy Bedos. The film was selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Jean Babilée as Oscar * Guy Bedos as Gerard * Jean-Paul Belmondo as Raymond * Claude Brasseur as Plumber * Françoise Brion as Striptease Girl * Sophie Daumier as Jackie * Jacques Dufilho as Monsieur Alfonso * Anna Karina as Ginette * Jean-Pierre Marielle as Rakanowski * Andréa Parisy as Striptease Girl * François Périer as Legrand * Jean Richard as Lepetit * Simone Signoret as Genevieve * Alexandra Stewart as Anna * Roger Vadim as He * Romolo Valli as Monsieur X. * Monica Vitti as She * Marina Vlady as Callgirl * Élisabeth Wiener as Frederique * Georges Wilson as Casimir * Pascale Roberts as Spogliarella * Macha Méril as The striptisist * Tsilla Chelton Tsilla Chelton (21 June 1919 – 15 July 2012) was a French actress of theatre and film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Morin, Priest
''Léon Morin, Priest'' () is a 1961 French drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was adapted by Melville from Béatrix Beck's novel '' The Passionate Heart'' (French: ''Léon Morin, prêtre''), which won the Prix Goncourt in 1952. Set during WWII in Occupied France, the film stars Emmanuelle Riva as a jaded, lapsed Catholic mother and widow of a Jewish husband, who finds herself falling in love with a young, altruistic priest, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo. For his work in the film, Belmondo was nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actor. Plot Barny is a young mother raising her daughter, named France, in a small town in the French Alps during the Occupation of France. She works correcting assignments for a Parisian correspondence school that has moved to the town. Her Jewish husband was killed in the war, and, sexually-frustrated, she finds herself attracted to Sabine, the administrative secretary at the school. As a jaded lapsed-Catholic-turned-ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
