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Jérôme Deschamps
Jérôme Deschamps (born 5 October 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is an actor, director and stage author, as well as a cinema actor and director associated with the Famille Deschiens troupe founded by Macha Makeïeff in 1978. In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Théâtre national de Nîmes, leaving that post for the equivalent at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in June 2007, where he remained until 2015. Life Deschamps is the nephew of Hubert Deschamps and his mother was the distant half cousin to Micheline Winter who married Jacques Tati, Upon the release of the animated film '' The Illusionist'' this non-biological relationship to Tati has been openly challenged by the grandchildren of Jacques Tati in a published letter to Roger Ebert.The grandchildren of Jacques Tati's dismiss the relationship Dechamps claims he has to Tati ''Roger Ebert's Journal''; "The secret of Jacques Tati" 2010-05 He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand where he met Patrice Chéreau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the Bois de Boulogne, the area is composed of mostly select residential neighbourhoods, as well as many corporate headquarters and a handful of foreign embassies. One of the most affluent areas of France, it is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. Together with the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris, the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent residential area in France. , it is the commune with the fourth highest median per capita income (€52,570 per year) in France. History Originally, Pont de Neuilly was a small hamlet under the jurisdiction of Villiers, a larger settlement mentioned in medieval sources as early as 832 and now absorbed by the commune of Levallois-Perret. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of Literary realism, realism and the fantastique, and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of social alienation, alienation, existential anxiety, guilt (emotion), guilt, and absurdity. His best-known works include the novella ''The Metamorphosis'' (1915) and the novels ''The Trial'' (1924) and ''The Castle (novel), The Castle'' (1926). The term '':en:wikt:Kafkaesque, Kafkaesque'' has entered the English lexicon to describe bizarre situations like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German- and Yiddish-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Poiret
Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992), was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play ''La Cage aux Folles (play), La Cage aux Folles''. Early career Poiret was born in Paris, and first rose to prominence in 1951 playing the role of Fred Transport, one of the heroes of Pierre Dac and Francis Blanche's radio series ''Malheur aux Barbus''. In 1952, he met his future co-star of ''La Cage'' Michel Serrault at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre. They starred in the sketch "Jerry Scott, Vedette Internationale". In 1961, Poiret, as a member of the French cinematic society Pathé, wrote and recorded "La Vache à Mille Francs", a parody of "La Valse à Mille Temps" by Jacques Brel. In 1973, he married actress Caroline Cellier, with whom he had one child. ''La Cage aux Folles'' In 1973, Poiret wrote and starred in the stage play ''La Cage aux Folles (play), La Cage aux Folles''. Its La Cage aux Folles ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Roussillon
Jean-Paul Roussillon (5 March 1931 – 31 July 2009) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1954 and 2008. He starred in the film '' Playing 'In the Company of Men''', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. He won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in '' A Christmas Tale''. For years Roussillon had been battling lung cancer and died on 31 July 2009 in Auxerre, France. Partial filmography * ''La chair et le diable'' (1954) – Apo Ancelin * '' Deadlier Than the Male'' (1956) – Amédée * ''L'amour descend du ciel'' (1957) – Jean * '' The Fox of Paris'' (1957) – Francois, Yvonne's Brother * ''Le mariage de Figaro'' (1959) – Grippe-Soleil * ''La 1000eme fenêtre'' (1960) – Boutain * '' Weekend at Dunkirk'' (1964) – La gouape / Blackguard * ''Une affaire d'hommes'' (1981) – Le juge Dauzat * '' The Trout'' (1982) – Verjon * ''La guerre des demoiselles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Billetdoux
François Billetdoux (7 September 1927 – 26 November 1991) was a French dramatic author and novelist. Biography His works describe the world with a fierce humor of a somewhat burlesque style, which sometimes turns into black humor. Billetdoux was born in and died in Paris. He was President of the Société des gens de lettres in 1972. His daughter, Raphaële Billetdoux Raphaële Billetdoux (born 28 February 1951 in Paris) is a French novelist. Biography She is the daughter of François Billetdoux, and was a companion of the political journalist Paul Guilbert (died July 2002). She was an assistant editor on fea ... is also a writer. In 1989 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie Française. Plays *'' À la nuit la nuit'' (1955) **''Night in the night'', Jelm Mountain Publishers, 1980, * ''Le comportement des époux Bredburry'' (1955) * Tchin-Tchin (1959) translated into English by Willis Hall 1960 retitled Chin-Chin * ''Va donc chez Thorpe'' (1961) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Rouleau
Raymond Rouleau (; 4 June 1904 – 11 December 1981) was a Belgian actor and film director. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1928 and 1979. He also directed 22 films between 1932 and 1981. Rouleau studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he met Tania Balachova. They immigrated to Paris together and collaborated with a variety of directors at the cutting edge of French theatre, including Charles Dullin and Gaston Baty. They married in France and separated in 1940. He subsequently married the actress Françoise Lugagne. Partial filmography * '' L'Argent'' (1928) - Jantrou * '' The Nude Woman'' (1932) - Pierre Bernier * '' Suzanne'' (1932) * ''Le jugement de minuit'' (1933) - L'inspecteur Berry * ''Une vie perdue'' (1933) * '' Volga in Flames'' (1934) - Schalin * ''Vers l'abîme'' (1934) - Rist * '' Beautiful Days'' (1935) - Boris - le deuxième amoureux de Sylvie * '' Donogoo'' (1936) - Pierre * ''Rose'' (1936) * '' The Heart Disposes'' (1936) - Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; ; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal. Biography Giraudoux was born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, where his father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the Minister of Transport (France), Ministry of Transport. Giraudoux studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, Sceaux and upon graduation traveled extensively in Europe. After his return to France in 1910, he accepted a position with the Minister of Foreign Affairs (France), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Légion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ondine (Giraudoux)
''Ondine'' is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella ''Undine'' by the German Romantic Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man. The subsequent marriage of people from different worlds is, of course, folly. Characters *Auguste *Eugenie *Ondine *Hans *The Old One *Lord Chamberlain *The Superintendent of the Theatre *The Trainer of the Seals *Violante *Angelique *Bertha *Bertram *The King *A Servant *First Fisherman *First Judge *Second Judge *The Kitchen Maid Plot summary Act 1 The play opens in a fisherman's hut near a lake in the forest. Outside a storm rages. Here live the old fisherman Auguste and his wife Eugenie. And here lives Ondine whom the old couple found as a baby at the edge of the lake, and broug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival D'Avignon
The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival (), is an annual arts festival held in the France, French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest existent festival in France. Alongside the official festival, the "In" one, a number of shows are presented in Avignon at the same time of the year and are known as the "Off". In 2008, some 950 shows were performed during three weeks. The Birth of a Festival 1947, The Week of Scenic Arts Art critic Christian Zervos and poet René Char organized a modern art exhibition held in the main chapel of the Pope's Palace in Avignon. In that setting, they asked Jean Vilar, actor, director, theatre director, and future festival founder, to present ''Meurtre dans la cathédrale'' which he adapted in 1945. After refusing, Vilar proposed three plays: William Shakespeare's Richard II (play), Richard II, a play almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote ''The Threepenny Opera'' with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic ''Lehrstücke'' and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the . When the Nazi Party, Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Brecht fled his home country, initially to Scandinavia. During World War II he moved to Southern California where he established himself as a screenwriter, while also being surveilled by the FBI. In 1947, he was part of the first group of Hollywood film artists to be subpoenaed by the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
