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Marie-Octobre
''Marie-Octobre'' is a 1959 French drama mystery film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier and Robert Dalban. It is based on the eponymous novel by Jacques Robert. The entire action takes place in real time over 99 minutes. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. It is also known by the alternative title ''Secret Meeting'' The film was remade in 2008 by director Josée Dayan, starring Nathalie Baye. Plot A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin (Danielle Darrieux). The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Robert (writer)
Jacques Robert (27 June 1921 – 11 August 1997) was a French author, screenwriter and journalist. Biography Jacques Robert was born on 27 June 1921 in Lyon, France. He started his writing career as a journalist. In May 1945 Jacques Robert was the only Western journalist to descend into Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany. During his career he wrote more than 40 books and novels. Around 20 of his novels have been adapted for cinema, notably '' The Long Teeth'' directed by Daniel Gélin, '' Marie-Octobre'' directed by Julien Duvivier and '' Someone Behind the Door'' with Charles Bronson and Anthony Perkins. Jacques Robert was also a prolific screenwriter for film and television. He died in Rouen in 1997 at the age of 76. Publications * ''L'Invitation à la vie'' (1942) * ''Les Tragédiennes'' (1944) * ''Marie-Octobre'' (1948) * ''Les Dents longues'' (1950) * ''La Machination'' (1951) * ''Le Désordre et la Nuit'' (1955) * ''Une tragédie parisienne'' (1957) * ''Le Gigolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Baye
Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye (; born 6 July 1948) is a French film, television, and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for ''Every Man for Himself (1980 film), Every Man for Himself'' (1980), ''Strange Affair (1981 film), Strange Affair'' (1981), ''La Balance'' (1982), and ''The Young Lieutenant'' (2005). Her other films include ''Day for Night (film), Day for Night'' (1973), ''Catch Me If You Can'' (2002), ''Tell No One'' (2006), and ''The Assistant (2015 film), The Assistant'' (2015). In 2009, she was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Early life Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy to Claude Baye and Denise Coustet, two painters. At 14, she joined a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States. On returning to France, she continued with dance but also registered for the Simon Course and was admitted to the Conservatoire, from wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Meurisse
Paul Meurisse (; 21 December 1912 – 19 January 1979) was a French actor who appeared in over 60 films and many stage productions. Meurisse was noted for the elegance of his acting style, and for his versatility. He was equally able to play comedic and serious dramatic roles. His screen roles ranged from the droll and drily humorous to the menacing and disturbing. His most celebrated role was that of the sadistic and vindictive headmaster in the 1955 film ''Les Diaboliques (film), Les Diaboliques''. Early life and career Meurisse was born in Dunkirk, on the north-east coast of France. He grew up on the island of Corsica, to where his bank manager father had been transferred when Meurisse was a small child. After leaving school, Meurisse moved to Aix-en-Provence, where he became a solicitor's clerk. But his passion was for the stage, and he acquired evening work in the chorus of music hall revues. In 1936, Meurisse moved to Paris, where he found work in musical thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (; 1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer. Beginning in 1931, she appeared in more than 110 films. She was one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career was among the longest in film history. Life and career Darrieux was born in Bordeaux, France, during World War I, the daughter of Marie-Louise (Witkowski) and Jean Darrieux, a medical doctor who was serving in the French Army. Her mother was born in Algeria. Her father died when she was seven years old. Raised in Paris, she studied the cello at the Conservatoire de Musique. At 14, she won a part in the musical film '' Le Bal'' (1931). Her beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability led to numerous other offers; the film ''Mayerling'' (1936) brought her to prominence. In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriter Henri Decoin, who encouraged her to try Hollywood. She signed a seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lino Ventura
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised in Paris, Ventura worked as a professional wrestler before an injury ended his career. He made his film debut as a gangster in the 1954 Jacques Becker film '' Touchez pas au grisbi'' and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed '' Army of Shadows'' (1969). He was nominated for a Cesar Award for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Ivernel
Daniel Ivernel (3 June 1920 – 11 November 1999) was a French film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1947 and 1981. Filmography References External links * 1920 births 1999 deaths French male film actors Actors from Versailles Male actors from Île-de-France Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 20th-century French male actors 1999 suicides Suicides in Paris {{france-film-actor-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Wakhévitch
Georges Wakhévitch (; Georgy Leonidovich Vakhevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a Russian-born French art director. The son of a naval engineer, he immigrated to France in 1921. He grew up in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s. Wakhévitch also designed sets and costumes for the theatre, the ballet, and the opera. His designs usually used vivid colours and successful sets for Royal Opera House, Covent Garden included ''Boris Godunov (opera), Boris Godunov'', ''Otello'', ''Die Meistersinger'' and London's first ever staging of Verdi's ''Macbeth (Verdi), Macbeth'' in 1960. He also provided Paris in 1956 with new sets for Gounod's ''Faust (opera), Faust'', replacing some in use for over half a century. He was the father of avant-garde composer Igor Wakhévitch. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Reggiani
Serge Reggiani (born Sergio Reggiani; 2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-French actor and singer. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight. After studying acting at the Conservatoire des arts cinématographiques, he was discovered by Jean Cocteau and appeared in the wartime production of '' Les Parents terribles''. He then left Paris to join the French Resistance. His first feature film was ''Les portes de la nuit'' (" Gates of the Night"), released in 1946. He went on to perform in 80 films in total, including '' Casque d'or'', ''Les Misérables'' (1958), '' Tutti a casa'', '' Le Doulos'', '' Il Gattopardo'', '' La terrazza'', '' The Pianist'' (1998). Reggiani also triumphed in the theatre in 1959 with his performance in Jean-Paul Sartre's play '' Les Séquestrés d'Altona''. In 1961, Reggiani co-starred with Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier in the film '' Paris Blues'', filmed on location in Paris. In 1965, at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Guers
Paul Guers (19 December 1927 – 27 November 2016) was a French film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1955 and 1996. He starred in the 1963 film '' Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance''. He was born in Tours, France and died in Montsoreau. Selected filmography * ''Les chiffonniers d'Emmaüs'' (1955) - André * '' Tower of Lust'' (1955) - Gaultier d'Aulnay * '' Sophie and the Crime'' (1955) - Claude Broux * '' If Paris Were Told to Us'' (1956) - Le comte de Villars (uncredited) * '' The Twilight Girls'' (1957) - Gilles Mareuil * ''Les violents'' (1957) - Philippe de Coppet * ''Fumée blonde'' (1957) - David Baker * ''A Tale of Two Cities ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long impr ...'' (1958) - Charles Darnay * '' Toto in Paris'' (1958) - Pierre, figlio di Duclos * '' Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ''Pépé le Moko'', ''Little World of Don Camillo'', ''Panic (1946 film), Panic (Panique)'', ''Voici le temps des assassins, Deadlier Than the Male'' and ''Marianne de ma jeunesse''. Jean Renoir called him, a "great technician, [a] rigorist, a poet". Early years It was as an actor, in 1916 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon under the direction of André Antoine, that Duvivier's career began. In 1918 he moved on to Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, as a writer and assistant of, amongst others, André Antoine, Louis Feuillade and Marcel L'Herbier. In 1919 he directed his first film. In the 1920s several of his films had a religious concern: , ''The Abbot Constantine (1925 film), L'abbé Constantin'' and ''La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin'' � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Frankeur
Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 – 27 October 1974) was a French actor who had a successful Hollywood career and appeared in films by Jacques Tati'','' such as ''Jour de fête'' and Luis Buñuel, including ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' and '' The Phantom of Liberty''). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur. Selected filmography * '' Portrait of Innocence'' (1941) - Le secrétaire du commissaire (uncredited) * '' Sideral Cruises'' (1942) - Le premier bonimenteur * '' Fantastic Night'' (1942) - Le patron du bistrot * ''Le mariage de Chiffon'' (1942) - Le mécanicien de Max * ''Une étoile au soleil'' (1943) * ''Le voyageur de la Toussaint'' (1943) - (uncredited) * ''Madame et le mort'' (1943) * '' Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) - Edouuard - le cordonnier (uncredited) * ''Night Shift'' (1944) - Un réparateur de ligne * ''Children of Paradise'' (1945) - L'inspecteur de police * '' A Cage of Nightingales'' (1945) - (uncredited) * '' Girl with Grey Eyes'' (1945) * '' Star Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dalban
Robert Dalban (born Gaston Barré; 19 July 1903 – 3 April 1987) was a French actor. His work included stage acting, roles in TV shows and dubbing American stars. Moreover, he was a fixture in French cinema for many decades. Selected filmography *1934: '' Gold in the Street'' (by Curtis Bernhardt) - L'homme à la gare (uncredited) *1937: ''Passeurs d'hommes'' *1939: '' Deuxième bureau contre Kommandantur'' (by René Jayet et Robert Bibal) - Un officier allemand *1945: '' Boule de suif'' by Christian-Jaque : Prussian man called Oskar *1945: '' The Last Judgment'' *1947: ''Quai des Orfèvres'' by Henri-Georges Clouzot : car thief Paulo *1947: ''Les jeux sont faits'' by Jean Delannoy : Georges' *1949: ''Berlin Express'' by Jacques Tourneur : chief of the French secret service' *1949: ''Manon'' by Henri-Georges Clouzot : hotel keeper *1949: '' The Walls of Malapaga'' by René Clément : mariner *1950: '' A Man Walks in the City'' by Marcello Pagliero: Laurent *1951: '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
