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Robert Castel (actor)
Robert Castel (21 May 1933 – 5 December 2020) was a French actor. Biography Castel was born in Bab El Oued on 21 May 1933. He was the son of Lili Labassi, a singer-songwriter of Chaabi music. He started his career as a musician, accompanying his father in Franco-Arabic songs. He began his acting career in the troupe of the Centre régional d'art dramatique in Algiers. He played the role of Robert in the play on the people of the Pied-Noir, titled ''La Famille Hernandez''. He began his film career at the age of 24 with ''Les Amants de demain'', directed by Marcel Blistène and ''Un témoin dans la ville'', directed by Édouard Molinaro. He continued his acting career for the remainder of the 20th Century, ending his career with the 2017 documentary ''Les Magnifiques'', which featured Charley Marouani, Enrico Macias, and Philippe Clair. The documentary covered pop culture in France from the 1960s to the 1980s. Castel was the widower of Pied-Noir actress Lucette Sahuquet, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bab El Oued
Bab El Oued is a neighbourhood in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, along the coast north of the city centre. As of 2008, the population of the commune of Bab El Oued was 64,732. History During the existence of French Algeria, Bab El Oued was established as the main neighbourhood of poor ''pied-noirs'', including many poor fishermen. Towards the end of the Algerian War, the neighbourhood became the stronghold of the Organisation armée secrète, until OAS attacks on the French Army led them to assault and purge the neighbourhood, during the siege of Bab el Oued in March 1962. Soon after, Algeria became independent, and the '' pied noir'' population fled the country. The neighbourhood was then settled by Muslim Algerians. The neighbourhood again gained notoriety during the leadup to the Algerian Civil War (which broke out in 1991) as a stronghold of the Islamic Salvation Front The Islamic Salvation Front (; , FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unvanquished (film)
''The Unvanquished'' (; ; also known as ''Have I the Right to Kill?'') is a 1964 film noir directed by Alain Cavalier and starring Alain Delon opposite Lea Massari. The film's background is the Algerian War and Alain Delon plays Thomas Vlassenroot, a deserter of the French Foreign Legion in Algeria during the 1961 uprising. When a former lieutenant who now works for the OAS proposes to him to kidnap lawyer Dominique Servet (played by Massari), Thomas agrees. Caught giving Dominique water, Thomas goes on the run after a shoot out with his OAS colleagues, who subsequently begin to hunt them down. The film was not a completely happy experience for Alain Delon. He sustained physical injuries while filming and the reception of the picture by the French public was not good. The censors insisted on a number of cuts which compromised the artistic integrity of the film. Synopsis Thomas Vlassenroot, a citizen of Luxembourg, after his divorce, decides to enlist in the French Foreign L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jews (film)
''The Jews'' (original title: ''Ils sont partout'', or "They Are Everywhere") is a 2016 French-language film directed by Yvan Attal. The film deals with antisemitism in France. Synopsis Yvan hears himself saying that he exaggerates and is paranoid when he talks about the growing antisemitism. He decides to consult his shrink to talk about his Identity (social sciences), identity and understand what it means today to be French nationality, French and Jews, Jewish. During the dialogue, crossed stories, cynical and provocative, are exposed in the form of leaflets. Cast *Benoît Poelvoorde as Boris *Valérie Bonneton as Eva *Dany Boon as Pascal *Charlotte Gainsbourg as Mathilde *Grégory Gadebois as a Talmudist #1 *Denis Podalydès as a Talmudist #2 *Gilles Lellouche as Norbert *François Damiens as Roger *Yvan Attal as Yvan *Freya Mavor as Marie *Émilie Gavois-Kahn as Rabbi's wife References External links * 2016 films 2010s French-language films Films about antisemitism F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Gusto
''El Gusto'' is a Franco-Irish-Algerian documentary film realised and produced by Safinez Bousbia, released on January 11, 2012 in France, which centers on the reunion of Jewish and Muslim members of an Algerian music group.Everett, S. S., & Crowley, P. (2017). The Many (Im) possibilities of Contemporary Algerian Judaïtés. Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988–2015, 63-80. Background ''El Gusto'' chronicles the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim Chaabi musicians torn apart by war for 50 years, and reunited for an exceptional concert. The film took seven years to produce. Music A studio album, ''Abdel Hadi Halo & The El Gusto Orchestra of Algiers'', was produced by Damon Albarn in Algeria for his own Honest Jon's label. It was distributed by EMI in 2007. The musical supervision of the film, production of its album and the continuation of the adventure was then provided by . Cast * Mamad Haïder Benchaouchi : in his own role. * Abdel Hadi Halo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Taxi
''Hassan Taxi'' () is a 1982 Algerian Arabic-language comedy film directed by Mohamed Slim Riad. Cast * Rouiched as Hassan Terro * Robert Cestel * Fatiha Berber * Mustapha Chougrani * Lucette Sahuquet * Seloua Synopsis Hassan Terro (Rouiched) who is exhausted and worn out by the long years of post-independence gets a taxi license as a former fighter travelling through the streets of Algiers Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ..., the capital of Algeria and experiences the most incredible adventures in humorous sense. References External links * allmmovie.com* 1982 films 1982 comedy films 1980s Arabic-language films Algerian comedy films Arabic-language comedy films {{Algeria-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Bahut Va Craquer
Le bahut va craquer (''Schools Falling Apart'') is a film directed by Michel Nerval released in 1981. A Parisian School: The young girl Beatrice ( Fanny Bastien), who lives alone with her mother (Dany Carrel) is pregnant. The school's headmaster (Michel Galabru) decides to decriut Bea at the door. The other Students unite to sequestering the headmaster in company of the tutor in math (Darry Cowl) and the teacher of philosophy (Claude Jade) ... The principal, the math teacher and the teacher of philosophy will become the hostages of students and pay for their misunderstanding. Cast * Michel Galabru as Principal * Claude Jade as Teacher of Philosophy * Darry Cowl as Teacher of Math * Robert Castel as Teacher of English * Henri Guybet as A Pawn * Fanny Bastien as Bea * Dany Carrel as Bea's Mother * Caroline Béranger as Véronique * Eric Civanyan as Francis * Katia Tchenko as Francis's sister * Jacques Monod as Police Inspector * Anne Benoît Anne Benoît is a French actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Je Suis Timide Mais Je Me Soigne
''Je suis timide mais je me soigne'' is a French comedy film directed by Pierre Richard released in 1978. Plot Pierre Renaud, receptionist in a big hotel, suffers from a crippling shyness. When he falls in love with Agnès, winner of a contest, he decides to overcome his shyness and follows Agnès during all her trip. Cast * Pierre Richard as Pierre Renaud * Aldo Maccione as Aldo Ferrari * Mimi Coutelier as Agnès * Jacques François as Monsieur Henri * Catherine Lachens as the female truck driver * Robert Dalban as the garagist * Jacques Fabbri as the truck driver * Robert Castel (actor), Robert Castel as Trinita * Jean-Claude Massoulier as Gilles * Francis Lax as the wine waiter * Hélène Manesse as Irène Additional information *The film was a commercial success, Pierre Richard reformed his collaboration with Aldo Maccione the next year in the film ''C'est pas moi, c'est lui''. *The film took place in Vichy in the department of Allier, in Nice on the Promenade des Anglai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Common Man (film)
''The Common Man'' () is a 1975 French drama film directed by Yves Boisset and produced by Sofracima. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Jury Grand Prix, Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. In the United States, the film was released under the title ''Rape of Innocence''. Plot Georges Lajoie is a cafe owner in Paris, on Place d'Aligre. The Lajoies and their son Léon, a high school graduate, are leaving with their new caravan to spend their summer vacation, as they do every year, on the Provençal coast, at the "Camping-Caravaning Beau-soleil" run by Loulou, a Pied-Noir. There, the Lajoies meet the Schumachers, bailiffs in Strasbourg, and the Colins, underwear sellers at the markets. These good Frenchmen from the North spout off platitudes, notably about the supposed laziness of "people from the South," but nevertheless want to make friends with the Vigorellis, Italians who are new to the campsite. Vigorelli is a construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Plumard En Folie
''Le Plumard en folie'' (meaning "the crazy feather bed") (or ''Le Lit... Ze Bawdy Bed '') is a 1974 Canadian-French comedy film directed by Jacques Lemoine and Georges Combret and starring Alice Sapritch, Michel Galabru and Jacques Préboist.Pratley p.127 Cast References Bibliography * Gerald Pratley Gerald Arthur Pratley (September 3, 1923 – March 14, 2011) was a Canadian film critic and historian. Piers Handling"Gerald Arthur Pratley" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', September 18, 2011. A longtime film critic for the Canadian Broadcasting Cor .... ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. External links * 1974 films 1970s sex comedy films French sex comedy films Canadian sex comedy films 1970s French-language films Films directed by Georges Combret 1974 comedy films French-language Canadian films 1970s Canadian films 1970s French films {{1970s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Men In Town (1973 Film)
''Two Men in Town'' ( a.k.a. ''Two Against the Law'') is a 1973 Franco-Italian film directed by José Giovanni. The film was remade in 2014. Synopsis Germain Cazeneuve left the police to work as a prison trainer, teaching inmates how to live once out of jail and how to stay out. He stands guarantor when Gino Strabliggi, a printer by trade, is paroled two years before his twelve-year sentence for bank robbery expires. Germain and his family offer friendship to Gino and his wife Sophie, who has waited faithfully for ten years, until two criminals racing along a country road kill Sophie by accident. Gino gets a steady job as a printer and meets Lucy, a bank employee, who moves into his flat. On a regular visit to the police station to renew his parole, he is seen by Inspector Goitreau who originally arrested him and immediately follows him. As he stops for petrol, some old associates spot him and give him the address of their hideout. Goitreau, suspecting Gino is part of their pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |