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La Zizanie
''La Zizanie'' is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, written by Zidi and Michel Fabre, and starring Louis de Funès and Annie Girardot. The English title is ''The Spat''. Plot Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze (Louis de Funès), an industrialist in depolluting materials and systems, has signed a contract with a Japanese enterprise to order 3000 of his CX-22 machines, saving his business from bankruptcy. However, his workers quickly make him realise that he doesn't have enough space to store and create the new CX-22. Realising his mistake, Daubray-Lacaze starts invading the house with all sorts of machines, and even placing workers in his bedroom. His wife, Bernadette (Annie Girardot) tries to ignore these inconveniences, but breaks after her husband destroys her whole garden to store his machines. Furious, she quits Guillaume, and presents herself to the municipal elections against her own husband. Cast * Louis de Funès as Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze * Annie Girardot as Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Zidi
Claude Zidi (born 25 July 1934) is a French film director and screenwriter noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then a cinematographer, and he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971. He won the César Award for Best Director for '' My New Partner'', for which he was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best .... Filmography as director External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zidi, Claude 1934 births Living people French male screenwriters French screenwriters Film directors from Paris Best Director César Award winners French people of Algerian descent French comedy film directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneviève Fontanel
Geneviève Fontanel (27 June 1936 – 17 March 2018) was a French stage and film actress. Early life and education Geneviève Fontanel was born on 27 June 1936. Career Fontanel was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1 September 1958 to 31 July 1962. Awards In 1999, she received the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees 1980's * 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in '' Kean'' ** Anne Alvaro in '' Tonight We Improvise'' (''Ce soir on improvise'') ** Catherine Arditi in '' Adriana Monti'' ** Lucienne Hamon in ... for her performance in "Délicate balance", and the next year she was again nominated for her performance in Raisons de famille. She was nominated for the César Awards 1978 for Best Supporting Actress for her role in '' L'Homme qui aimait les femmes''. Death Fontanel died on 17 March 2018. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fontanel, Genevieve 1936 births 2018 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s French-language Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – '' The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and '' Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – '' Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and '' The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Claude Zidi
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Comedy Films
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1978 Films
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1978 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows: Events * February 6 – David Begelman resigns as president of Columbia Pictures. * March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial. After recovery a few weeks later, the casket is sealed in a concrete vault prior to reburial. * March – Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for '' The Empire Strikes Back'', but dies only two weeks later. * June – Daniel Melnick becomes head of Columbia Pictures after the David Begelman scandal. * June 4 – '' Grease'', starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, has its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. It becomes the highest-grossing musical ever and Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film. * July 20 – Alan Hirschfield is fired as president and CEO of Columbia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario David (actor)
Mario David (1927–1996) was a French film and television actor.Neupert p.116 A character actor he appeared on screen from the 1950s to the 1990s in supporting roles. Selected filmography * '' Love Is Not a Sin'' (1952) - L'agent dans l'escalier (uncredited) * '' The Tour of the Grand Dukes'' (1953) - Une attraction au 'Balajo' (uncredited) * '' The Pirates of the Bois de Boulogne'' (1954) - L'athlète qui court au mois * ''Ah! Les belles bacchantes'' (1954) - L'Homme à 'La création du Monde' (uncredited) * ''Cherchez la femme'' (1955) * ''Impasse des vertus'' (1955) * '' Gas-Oil'' (1955) - Un client des Serin (deleted scenes) * ''Une fille épatante'' (1955) - Mario * '' More Whiskey for Callaghan'' (1955) - Amédée * '' Naughty Girl'' (1956) - The Friesian * ''Pardonnez nos offenses'' (1956) * ''L'Homme et l'Enfant'' (1956) - Alec * ''Et par ici la sortie'' (1957) - Honoré * ''Nous autres à Champignol'' (1957) - Gino un sportif de Fouzy * '' The Tricyclist'' (1957) - Dabek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Staquet
Georges Staquet (1932, in Bruille-lez-Marchiennes – 2011) was a French actor. Partial filmography * '' The Day and the Hour'' (1963) - L'aubergiste (uncredited) * '' Bande à part'' (1964) - Legionary * ''Marie Soleil'' (1964) * '' Pierrot le Fou'' (1965) - Franck (uncredited) * '' Paris brûle-t-il?'' (1966) - Capitaine Dronne * ''Weekend'' (1967) - Le conducteur du tracteur (uncredited) * ''Time to Live'' (1969) - Enrico * ''Atlantic Wall'' (1970) - Hippolyte, Le chef des résistants * ''Le Tueur'' (1972) * ''L'oeuf'' (1972) - Eugène * ''Das Attentat'' (1972) - L'officier de police Fleury * ''Le Sex Shop'' (1972) - Emile * '' Les Rois maudits'' (1972-1973, TV Mini-Series) - Lormet * ''Sans sommation'' (1973) - Flic en filature 1 * ''La bonne année'' (1973) - Le commissaire de police à Paris * ''R.A.S.'' (1973) - Adjudant Marcellin * '' Hail the Artist'' (1973) - Charles * ''France société anonyme'' (1974) - Le petit nerveux * ''Un jour, la fête'' (1975) * '' If I Had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques François
Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François (; 16 May 1920 – 25 November 2003), known as Jacques François was a French actor. During a sixty-year career (1942–2002) he appeared in more than 120 films and over 30 stage productions. Biography During World War II, he served as a captain in the French 1st Army (France), First Army under General de Lattre. In 1948 he went to Hollywood with a view to playing the lead in ''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' (Max Ophüls, 1948) but the part went to Louis Jourdan. After appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the playwright Jacques Pierre Barredout in ''The Barkleys of Broadway'' (1949) he returned to France. François regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French. Filmography References External links * 1920 births 2003 deaths Male actors from Paris French male film actors French male stage actors French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni 20th-century French male actors {{France-stage-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Moreau (actor)
Jean Jacques Moreau (31 July 1923 – 9 January 2014) was a French mathematician and mechanician. He normally published under the name J. J. Moreau. Moreau was born in Blaye. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris, then became a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He was appointed Professor of Mathematical Models in Physics at Poitiers University and later Professor of General Mechanics at University of Montpellier II. He was emeritus professor in the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil, a joint research unit of the university and the CNRS. Moreau's principal works have been in non-smooth mechanics and convex analysis. He is considered one of the founders of convex analysis, where several fundamental and now classical results have his name (Moreau's lemma of the two cones, Moreau's envelopes, Moreau-Yosida's approximations, Fenchel-Moreau's theorem, etc.). He founded the Convex Analysis Group in the 1970s at Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Fechner
Christian Fechner (26 July 1944 – 25 November 2008) was a French film producer, screenwriter and director. After starting off as an illusionist, he became a music producer with French singer Antoine. He transformed Antoine's musicians, les Problems, into a band named Les Charlots. Fechner produced such films as ''Les bidasses en folie'', ''Stadium Nuts, Les fous du stade'', ''Bons baisers de Hong Kong'', ''Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine'', ''Papy fait de la résistance'', ''Les Spécialistes'', ''Marche à l'ombre (film), Marche à l'ombre'', ''The Children of the Marshland'', ''La Tour Montparnasse Infernale'', ''Chouchou (film), Chouchou''. In 2005, he produced ''Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie'' (and marked his last great success making nearly $151,211,264 at the box office. Christian Fechner died of cancer on 25 November 2008. Fechner had two children: film producer Alexandra Fechner and Maxime Fechner, owner of the fashion brand Kymerah. Filmography P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
