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Le Feu Follet
''The Fire Within'' (, ; "The Manic Fire" or "Will-O'-the-Wisp") is a 1963 drama film written and directed by Louis Malle. It is based on the 1931 novel ''Will O' the Wisp'' by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, which was inspired by the life of poet Jacques Rigaut. The film stars Maurice Ronet and features Léna Skerla, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Bernard Tiphaine, Bernard Noël, Jeanne Moreau (who had previously worked with Ronet and Malle in '' Elevator to the Gallows''), Jacques Sereys, and Alexandra Stewart in supporting roles. The score consists of music composed by Erik Satie and performed by pianist Claude Helffer. Plot Alain Leroy has been living and receiving treatment for his alcoholism at Dr. La Barbinais' rehabilitation clinic in Versailles for the past four months. He is separated from his American wife, Dorothy, who is in New York, where he also lived while they were together, and spends his first night away from the clinic to have a tryst with Lydia, one of Dorothy's friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Malle
Louis Marie Malle (; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "a filmmaker difficult to pin down", Malle made documentaries, romances, period dramas, and thrillers. He often depicted provocative or controversial subject matter. Malle's most famous works include the crime thriller '' Elevator to the Gallows'' (1958), the romantic drama '' The Lovers'' (1958), the World War II drama '' Lacombe, Lucien'' (1974), the period drama '' Pretty Baby'' (1978), the romantic crime film '' Atlantic City'' (1980), the dramedy '' My Dinner with Andre'' (1981), and the autobiographical '' Au revoir les enfants'' (1987). He also co-directed the landmark underwater documentary '' The Silent World'' with Jacques Cousteau, which won the 1956 and the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Malle is one of only four directors to have won the Golden Lion twice. His other a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Helffer
Claude Helffer (18 June 1922 – 27 October 2004) was a French pianist. Early life Helffer was born in Paris, and began piano lessons at the age of five. From the age of ten, until the outbreak of World War II, he studied with Robert Casadesus. During the war, he entered École Polytechnique and fought for the French Resistance during World War II. After the war, he studied theory and composition with René Leibowitz. Career He made his debut in Paris in 1948 and from 1954 appeared regularly in the concerts of the Domaine musical. Helffer gave many premières of new works and was the dedicatee of several notable works, including ''Erikhthon'' ( Xenakis, 1974), Concerto ( Boucourechliev, 1975), ''Stances'' (Betsy Jolas, 1978), Concerto no. 1 (Luis de Pablo, 1980), ''Envoi'' ( Gilles Tremblay, 1982), and ''Modifications'' (Michael Jarrell, 1983). Conductors he collaborated with included Boulez, Bour, Gielen, Leibowitz, Maderna, Marriner, Martinon, van Otterloo, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Serre
Henri Serre (26 February 1931 – 9 October 2023) was a French actor who was best known for his role as Jim, a "vivid, melancholy, and finally tragic figure" in François Truffaut's ''Jules and Jim''. Other appearances include ''The Fire Within'', ''Section spéciale'' and ''Mister Frost''. Serre died on 9 October 2023, at the age of 92. Partial filmography * ''Women of Paris'' (1953) * '' Le combat dans l'ile '' (1961) * '' La Meule'' (short film) - René Allio, 1962) * ''Jules et Jim'' (''Jules and Jim'', 1962) * ''Il Processo di Veronal'' (1963) * ''Le Feu follet'' (''The Fire Within'', Louis Malle, 1963) * '' Atout cœur à Tokyo pour O.S.S. 117'' (1966) * ''Fantômas contre Scotland Yard'' (''Fantomas Against Scotland Yard'', 1967) * ''Romance of a Horsethief'' (1971) * '' Le Sourire vertical'' (1973) * ''Section spéciale'' (Costa-Gavras, 1974) * ''Club privé pour couples avertis'' (1974) * '' Le Soulier de satin'' (1985) * ''Je t'ai dans la peau Je or JE may refer to: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Bouteille
Romain Bouteille (24 March 1937 – 31 May 2021) was a French playwright, actor, comedian, and singer. Biography Romain Bouteille is the author of nearly thirty plays of anarchist inspiration. In 1968, he met Coluche. Together, they founded the troupe Café de la Gare. The same year, he separated from his partner Sotha who married Patrick Dewaere. Both are members of the troupe. Bouteille was married to the actress Saïda Churchill, with whom he has lived for thirty years. After spending three years in Marseilles where their son Shams was born, in 1997, they settled in Beauce, in Étampes. In December 2014, together they created a fifty-seat theater, a sort of “Left Bank” cabaret called Les Grands Solistes. About fifty artists, including François Rollin, Albert Meslay, Clair Jaz, Didier Porte, Marc Gélas, Fred Saurel, Paul Adam (actor), Paul Adam, Vincent Roca, Christophe Guybet, but also, in another register, Jean Vocat, Frédéric Hulné, Prune Lichtlé, have already hap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organisation Armée Secrète
The ''Organisation armée secrète'' (OAS, "Secret Army Organisation") was a far-right dissident French paramilitary and terrorist organisation during the Algerian War, founded in 1961 by Raoul Salan, Pierre Lagaillarde and Jean-Jacques Susini. The OAS carried out several terrorist attacks, including tortures, bombings and assassinations, all resulting in over 2,000 deaths in an attempt to prevent Algeria's independence from French colonial rule. Its motto was ' ("Algeria is French and so will remain"). The OAS was formed from existing networks, calling themselves "counter-terrorists", "self-defence groups", or "resistance", which had carried out attacks on the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) and their perceived supporters since early in the war. It was officially formed in Francoist Spain, in Madrid in January 1961, as a response by some French politicians and French military officers to the 8 January 1961 referendum on self-determination concerning Algeria, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Mottet
Alain Mottet (30 December 1928 – 31 October 2017) was a French actor. He appeared in many films and on television, usually in a supporting role. He also acted in numerous stage productions. Early life and education Alain Mottet was born on 30 December 1928 in Lyon, France. Career Mottet appeared in dozens of films, often in secondary roles. He appeared in three films with José Giovanni. In 1965, he played the main role in ''L'Affaire de la malle à Gouffé''. In 1969, in ''L'Armée des ombres'', he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned. For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series ''Vidocq'' in 1967. He regularly worked with director Abder Isker, including on several episodes of ''Au théâtre ce soir''. One of his most notable TV roles was as Shazénian in the fairytale ''Shéhérazade'', shown at the end of 1971: on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Kübler
Ursula Vian-Kübler (6 September 1928 – 18 January 2010) was a Swiss ballerina and actress. Biography Ursula Kübler was born on 6 September 1928 in Zürich, Switzerland, to Alva Giertz and Arnold Kübler. She joined the Zurich Opera, Oper Zürich as a dancer. After a career as a dancer at the opera, she danced for Maurice Béjart, before becoming a company member at the Paris Opera Ballet. After retiring from ballet, Kübler worked as a film, stage, and television actress. She met Boris Vian at a cocktail party at Gallimard in 1950, and the two started an affair. Vian later divorced his wife, and Kübler married him on 8 February 1954. In 1963, she founded the Boris Vian Association, which was renamed the Boris Vian Foundation in 1981. In 1971, she signed the Manifesto of the 343, a petition created as an act of civil disobedience arguing for the legalization of abortion in France. She died on 18 January 2010 in Eus, France. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kubler, Urs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Dupuy
René Dupuy (17 May 1920 – 1 August 2009) was a French actor, theater director and theater manager. A student at the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique in Paris, René Dupuy was later theater manager of: * the Théâtre Gramont from 1954 to 1973, * the Théâtre de l'Athénée from 1966 to 1972, * the Théâtre Fontaine from 1972 to 1985. He was professor of dramatic art at the . Theatre Comedian * 1950: '' Henri IV'' by William Shakespeare, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon * 1950: ''Le Cid'' by Corneille, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon * 1950: '' Le Bal des voleurs'' by Jean Anouilh, directed by André Barsacq, Théâtre des Arts * 1951: '' The Prince of Homburg'' by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon * 1956: ''Irma la douce'' by Marguerite Monnot, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont * 1958: ''Édition de midi'' by Mihail Sebastian, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont * 1963: '' You never ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Dol
Mona Dol (28 May 1901 – 29 December 1990) was a French actress. Born Amélie Alice Gabrielle Delbart in Lille, she died in Paris in 1990. Selected filmography * '' Number 33'' (1933) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1935) * '' The Scandalous Couple'' (1935) * '' The Gardens of Murcia'' (1936) * '' School for Journalists'' (1936) * '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' (1941) * ''Miss Bonaparte'' (1942) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) * '' First on the Rope'' (1944) * ''Night Shift'' (1944) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * '' Dropped from Heaven'' (1946) * '' Messieurs Ludovic'' (1946) * '' Pastoral Symphony'' (1946) * '' Messieurs Ludovic'' (1946) * '' The Marriage of Ramuntcho'' (1947) * '' The Bouquinquant Brothers'' (1947) * '' Danger of Death'' (1947) * ''If It Makes You Happy "If It Makes You Happy" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, released as the lead single from her 1996 Sheryl Crow (album), eponymous album in September 1996. The song peaked at nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Deschamps
Hubert Deschamps (13 September 1923 – 29 December 1998) was a French actor. He was the son of the museum curator Paul Deschamps (1888–1974) and uncle of the French stage director Jérôme Deschamps. Selected filmography * ''The Strollers'' (1950) * '' Street Without a King'' (1950) - Le monsieur qui vend son assiette (uncredited) * '' Bernard and the Lion'' (1951) - François, le domestique du baron * '' Atoll K'' (1951) - Le fonctionnaire (uncredited) * ''Les amours finissent à l'aube'' (1953) * '' Les hommes ne pensent qu'à ça'' (1954) - L'homme fortuné / Un marcheur * '' Les Impures'' (1954) - Le gendarme à l'hôtel Stella (uncredited) * ''Papa, Mama, the Maid and I'' (1954) - Le spectateur qui n'a pas dîné (uncredited) * '' Stopover in Orly'' (1955) - Un douanier * '' French Cancan'' (1955) - Isidore, le garçon de café (uncredited) * ''Fernand cow-boy'' (1956) - Le maire * '' Short Head'' (1956) - Le serveur 'Gay Paris' * '' A Friend of the Family'' (1957) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gatsby
''The Great Gatsby'' () is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with socialite Ginevra King and the riotous parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Following a move to the French Riviera, Fitzgerald completed a rough draft of the novel in 1924. He submitted it to editor Maxwell Perkins, who persuaded Fitzgerald to revise the work over the following winter. After making revisions, Fitzgerald was satisfied with the text but remained ambivalent about the book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's dust jacket art, named '' Celestial Eyes'', greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated its imagery into the novel. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Café De Flore
Café de Flore () is one of the oldest coffeehouses in Paris, known for its emblematic shopfront and celebrated for its famous clientele, which in the past included influential writers, philosophers, and members of Parisian high society (tout-Paris). The café is located in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a historic quarter on the Rive Gauche, left bank of the Seine. It sits the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue Saint-Benoît, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, 6th arrondissement. The nearest underground station is Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris Métro), Saint-Germain-des-Prés, served by Paris Métro Line 4, line 4 of Paris Métro. While attracting numerous tourists due to its historic cachet, the coffeehouse remains a popular hang-out spot for Parisians and celebrities alike. History The café appeared in the 1880s, during the French Third Republic, Third Republic; however, the exact opening date remains unknown. The name is taken from a sculpture of Flora (mythology), F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
