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Sacha Briquet
Sacha Briquet (1930–2010) was a French actor, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography He notably played the character of Albert Travling in the children's television program L'Île aux enfants. He signed a book of memories, ''Comédien, pourquoi pas?'', published by AJ in 1974. Selected filmography * ''Demain nous divorçons'' (1951) * '' Under the Paris Sky'' (1951) - (uncredited) * ''Le clochard milliardaire'' (1951) * ''Le divertissement'' (1952) * '' La Tour de Nesle'' (1955) - Un assassin (uncredited) * ''Pas de pitié pour les caves'' (1955) - Gégène * ''L'éveil de l'amour'' (1955) * ''Marie Antoinette Queen of France'' (1956) - (uncredited) * ''Printemps à Paris'' (1957) - Le pickpocket * ''Sénéchal the Magnificent'' (1957) - Le représentant en télévision * ''Mademoiselle et son gang'' (1957) - Émile - le serveur (uncredited) * '' First of May'' (1958) - Un inspecteur en civil (uncredited) * ''Miss Pigalle'' (1958) * '' Archimède le clochard'' (1959) - Jean-Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residential neighbourhoods, as well as many corporate headquarters and a handful of foreign embassies. It is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. Together with the 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris, the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent and prestigious residential area in the whole of France. It has the 2nd highest average household income in France, at €112,504 per year (in 2020). 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 not until 1222 that the little settlement of Neuilly, established on the banks of the Seine, was mentioned for the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
''The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers'' (French: ''Les plus belles escroqueries du monde'') is a 1964 film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors. Cast *Mie Hama as Bar Hostess (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko") *Ken Mitsuda as the Rich Client (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko") *Nicole Karen as the French tourist (segment "La rivière de diamants") *Jan Teulings as Dutch man (segment "La rivière de diamants") *Gabriella Giorgelli (segment "La Feuille de Route") *Guido Guiseppone (segment "La Feuille de Route") *Giuseppe Mannajuolo (segment "La Feuille de Route") *Jean-Pierre Cassel as Alain des Arcys (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel") *Francis Blanche as Mr. Umlaut (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel") *Catherine Deneuve as Swindler (segment "L'homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel") *Jean Seberg as Patricia (segment "Le Grand escroc") *Charles Denner Charles Denner (29 May 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Accompanist
''The Accompanist'' (French: ''L'Accompagnatrice'') is a 1992 French film directed by Claude Miller from a novel by Nina Berberova, and starring Romane Bohringer, Yelena Safonova and Richard Bohringer. Plot In 1942 Nazi-occupied Paris, a young and impoverished accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's possessive husband and manager, Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, the highly impressionable Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on the role of maid as well as accompanist, living life vicariously through Irene's triumphs and affairs, especially romantic. When Irene relocates to London, Sophie goes along, much to the discomfort of Charles. Cast * Romane Bohringer: Sophie Vasseur * Richard Bohringer: Charles Brice * Yelena Safonova: Irène Brice * Samuel Labarthe: Jacques Fabert * Julien Rassam: Benoît Weizman * Bernard Verley: Jacques Ceniat * Nelly Borgeaud Nelly Borg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eye Of The Widow
''Eye of the Widow'' (french: SAS : L'Œil de la veuve) is a 1991 French-American action film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, the last of his career. It was released in France on October 17, 1991, and in the Philippines on October 14, 1992. Plot The movie starts with the dangerous and cold-blooded arms dealer Kharoun, who is getting rid of his competitors and adversaries with his army of highly trained killers. The next one on his list is Prince Malko, which location he already has tracked down and planned to attack. But Malko survives the bombing of his castle and flees to the CIA headquarters in New York where he learns that Kharoun owns the serum for a biological mass destruction weapon. After a second murder attempt on Malko, he decides to face Kharoun and goes in for a counterattack. Production It was written by Joshua Sauli as an adaptation of two Gérard de Villiers' novels of his '' SAS series'' about the Austrian secret agent Malko Linge. It stars Richard Young as Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel Du Paradis
''Hôtel du Paradis'' is a 1986 French drama film directed by Jana Boková. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Fernando Rey – Joseph * Fabrice Luchini – Arthur * – Frédérique * Georges Géret – Dr. Jacob * Hugues Quester – Maurice * Marika Rivera – Marika * – Sarah * Raúl Gimenez – Emilio * Juliet Berto – Prostitute * Sacha Briquet – Georges * Lou Castel – Tramp * Michael Medwin – English producer * Sheila Kotkin – Sheila * Aurelle Doazan – Dream Girl * Max Berto – Max * Pascal Aubier – Head Waiter * Alex Joffé * Artus de Penguern Artus de Penguern (13 March 1957 – 14 May 2013) was a French director, writer and actor of Breton Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally ** Breton people ** Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Cel ... – Patric * – Lucienne Bayer * Gilberte Géniat – Caretaker * * – Barbara * Remi Deroche – Harry * Catheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiane Balasko
Josiane Balasko (born Josiane Balašković; 15 April 1950) is a French actress, writer, and director. She has been nominated seven times for César Awards, and won twice. Career One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian in 1995's ''Gazon maudit'' ('' French Twist''). She won the 1996 César Award (shared with Telsche Boorman) for best screenplay, and was also nominated as best director. The movie itself was nominated for best film. Balasko's other César nominations for best actress were for '' Too Beautiful for You'' (1989), ''Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes'' (1993), and '' That Woman'' (2003). 1973–1980: The beginning Balasko began her career in 1973 and was 23 years old when she first appeared on screen, in the short ''L'Agression'', with Patrick Bouchitey. She was in the movie ''L'an 01'', directed by Jacques Doillon. After an absence of three years she returned to the screen in 1976 in the film ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coluche
Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci (, ; 28 October 1944 – 19 June 1986), better known under his stage name Coluche (), was a French stage comedian and cinema actor. He adopted ''Coluche'' as a stage name at age 26, when he began his entertainment career. He became known for his irreverent attitude towards politics and the establishment, and he incorporated this into much of his material. He was one of the first major comedians to regularly use profanities as a source of humor on French television. He also founded the charity " Les Restaurants du Cœur" which still provides free meals and other products to people in need. Early life Colucci was born on 28 October 1944, just weeks after the Liberation of Paris, in a hospital in the 14th arrondissement of the city. His mother, Simone Bouyer (called "Monette"), worked as a florist in the Boulevard du Montparnasse. His father, Honorio Colucci, from Casalvieri in Lazio, Italy, was a painter and decorator. His father died in 1947 at age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury (born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. Life and career Max-Gérard Houry-Tannenbaum was the only son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist of Russian-Jewish origin, and French Jewish Marcelle Houry, a journalist and art critic. Tannenbaum was absent from the life of Oury and he was raised in an unobservant house of his mother and maternal grandmother Berthe Goldner. Mulvey, Michael. (2017). "What Was So Funny about ''Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob'' (1973): A Comedic Film between History and Memory", ''French Politics, Culture & Society'', 35(3), pp. 24-43 , p. 29 Oury studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française before World War II, but fled with all his family (mother, grandmother and unofficial wife, actress ) to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish persecutions by the Vichy government. When in 1942 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vengeance Du Serpent à Plumes
''The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent'' (french: La vengeance du serpent à plumes) is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Coluche, Maruschka Detmers, Luis Rego and Josiane Balasko. Plot On arrival in Paris, Paco, an international terrorist, is arrested, while his mistress Laura joins his accomplices. They all belong to terrorist and anarchist splinter group, Ravachol-Kropotkin, led by Paco. Meanwhile, Louie (Loulou) Dupin learns that his grandmother is dead and he is the sole heir of her Paris apartment. He also goes to Paris. Upon his arrival, he is pleasantly surprised to find two young women in his apartment: Valérie and Laura. Although he originally intended to make them leave, Laura charms him and changes his mind. She and her partners (including Valérie and her boyfriend who specializes in explosives) wish to keep their homes which are also hiding places for weapons and ammunition, and key points for their next attack. His seduction Loulou is not d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ave Maria (1984 Film)
''Ave Maria'' is a 1984 French drama film directed by Jacques Richard, who co-wrote screenplay with Paul Gégauff. Plot Fifteen-year-old Ursula awakens to sensuality with Paul, a teenager of her age. She lives in a small village, in a fairly closed environment, strongly steeped in religion. The inhabitants of this village live under the domination of the defrocked priest Adolphe Éloi, whom everyone calls "the Holy Father". The latter and his companion Berthe Granjeux, "the Holy Mother", try to subdue the young girl who is truly the only one who does not accept their tyranny. They try to make her feel guilty, and it is out of revolt that the teenager imposes herself and opposes them with increasingly perverse tendencies. On Christmas Eve, Adolphe Éloi’s "faithful" are on trial. During this night dedicated to exorcism, Ursula must undergo an avalanche of corporal punishment intended to cleanse her of all her sins. Primary cast * Anna Karina - Berthe Granjeux * Féodor Atkine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ne Jouez Pas Avec Les Martiens
''Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens'' or Don't Play with Martians is a 1967 in film, 1967 comedy film starring Jean Rochefort and Macha Méril shot in Crozon. Synopsis The incompetent journalist René Mastier and photographer Paddy working for the Gazette de Paris, who having blundering a assignment in Rio de Janeiro. Their editor of the newspaper recalls them to Paris and instructs them to cover the birth of quintuplets on the island of Locmaria off the coast of Brittany. Their arrival on the island is not easy. Their equipment falls overboard as they disembark. The locals are not very hospitable. They must stay in an unheated room. They end up meeting Doctor Créache, the island's doctor, as well as nurse Yvonne who confess to them that the pregnant girl is not married and that the father is unknown. Outraged by this news, the editor of the newspaper orders Mastier to find him a husband for the Woman for Story sake. In the evening, Yvonne, who adores telling unsou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin (1968 Film)
''Benjamin'' (original title: ''Benjamin ou les Mémoires d'un puceau''; U.S title: ''The Diary of an Innocent Boy'') is a 1968 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville who co-wrote the screenplay with Nina Companéez. Plot In the eighteenth century, seventeen-year-old virgin Benjamin comes with his old servant to stay at the estate of his aunt, Countess de Valandry, who is having an affair with Count Philippe. Benjamin is pursued by various women, including the beautiful Anne, who really loves Philippe. Cast * Michèle Morgan as Countess de Valandry. * Catherine Deneuve as Anne * Pierre Clémenti as Benjamin * Michel Piccoli as Count Philippe * Francine Bergé as Marion *Anna Gaël as Célestine * Catherine Rouvel as Victorine *Jacques Dufilho as Camille *Odile Versois as Married woman Production Filming began in June 1967. The day before filming began, Catherine Deneuve's sister and fellow actress Françoise Dorléac had died in a car accident. "It was a painful time in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
