The Simple Past (film)
''The Simple Past'' or ''Le passé simple'' is a 1977 French drama film directed by Michel Drach. Plot Cécile has just had a terrible car accident. Her husband François got to the hospital while she is still in a coma. When she wakes up, she does not recognize Francois and forgot all the circumstances of the accident. Cast * Marie-José Nat as Cécile * Victor Lanoux as François * Anne Lonnberg as Josepha * Vania Vilers as Bruno * Roland Blanche as The Renter * Marc Eyraud Marc Eyraud (1 March 1924 – 15 February 2005) was a French film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1956 and 1995. Partial filmography * '' Plucking the Daisy'' (1956) - Un photographe (uncredited) * ''The Man in the Raincoat'' (1957 ... as Doctor Mercier Accolades References External links * 1977 drama films 1977 films French drama films 1970s French films 1970s French-language films {{1970s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michel Drach
Michel Drach (18 October 1930 in Paris – 14 February 1990 in Paris) was a French film director, writer, producer and actor. Life and career Drach was born in Paris, France, the son of Yvonne (Vanderheym) and Maurice Drach. His family was Jewish. After studying painting at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, he became involved in cinema as an assistant to his cousin Jean-Pierre Melville. He directed three short films under his production company Port Royal Films, including the ''Poor Man's Soliloquies'' (1951) and ''Auditorium'' (1957), then made his feature film debut with ''On n'enterre pas le dimanche'' (1959), a study on the existential solitude of a black person in Paris, which coincided with the French New Wave and earned him the Louis Delluc Prize. He married Marie-José Nat who starred in his 1961 film ''Amelie or The Time to Love'', a film which further displayed his humanism. He returned to auteur cinema with '' Elise, or Real Life'' in 1970, which tells the story of a Fr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pierre Uytterhoeven
Pierre Uytterhoeven is a screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966 for his work with Claude Lelouch Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical ... in '' A Man and a Woman''. In 1986 he worked with Lelouch again on the film's sequel, '' A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later''. Filmography * 1977: '' The Simple Past'' (writer) External links * Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Screenwriter-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marie-José Nat
Marie-José Benhalassa (22 April 1940 – 10 October 2019), known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films '' Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc'' and '' Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise'' (1963), directed by André Cayatte. In 1974, she received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film '' Violins at the Ball''. Early life and family Benhalassa was born in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, to a Kabyle Berber father, Abdelkader Benhalassa, and a Corsican mother, Vincentine (Biancarelli).''Who's Who in France'', édition 2015,. . In 1960, she married the actor Roger Dumas and divorced him in 1962. She then married French director Michel Drach with whom she had three sons, David, Julien and Aurélien. They divorced in 1981. She had a relationship of several years with the actor Victor Lanoux. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Victor Lanoux
Victor Robert Nataf (18 June 1936 – 4 May 2017), known professionally as Victor Lanoux, was a French actor known to English-speaking audiences for his role as Ludovic in ''Cousin Cousine'' (1975). Biography Victor Robert Nataf was born to a Tunisian Jew from Sfax and a Catholic mother from Normandy. He was evacuated from Paris during the Second World War. Lanoux refers to the name used during his stay in La Chapelle-Taillefert during the French occupation where he lived until the age of 11, when he returned to Paris. He left school at age 14 to become an apprentice varnisher. He worked a variety of jobs, including the Simca automotive assembly line, until he served in the French Army during the Algerian War and was wounded, being awarded the Medal for War Wounded (Médaille des blessés de guerre). His father got him a job at the Studio de Billancourt. He learned acting by correspondence course, then a real course. Career In 1961 he met Pierre Richard who was looking for som ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Françoise Bonnot
Françoise Bonnot (17 August 1939 – 9 June 2018) was a French film editor with more than 40 feature film credits. Biography Bonnot was the daughter of Monique Bonnot, a film editor noted for several films directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. In her first film credit, Françoise Bonnot was the assistant to her mother on Melville's 1959 film, '' Two Men in Manhattan'' (1959). She and her mother co-edited the 1962 film, '' A Monkey in Winter'', that was directed by Henri Verneuil. At about this time Bonnot married Verneuil; she edited three more of his films in the 1960s. Bonnot edited Melville's 1969 film, '' Army of Shadows'', when her mother became unavailable. This film is about the French resistance fighters during the Second World War, and was a departure from Melville's more characteristic crime and detective films. Bonnot later remarked that Melville “... had known me since I was eight years old. It was like working with my big brother. He was a character––fascinating, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gaumont Distribution
Gaumont SA () is a French film and television production and distribution company headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal Pictures, Universal, Paramount Pictures, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912). Gaumont predominantly produces, co-produces, and distributes films, and in 2011, 95% of Gaumont's consolidated revenues came from the film division. The company is also a producer of TV series through Gaumont Télévision and animation through Gaumont Animation as well as its existing French production features. Gaumont is run by Nicolas Seydoux (chairman) and Sidonie Dumas (CEO). History Originally dealing in photographic apparatus, the company began producing short films in 1897 to promote its make of camera-projector. Léon Ga ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anne Lonnberg
Anne Lonnberg is an American actress and singer of Swedish descent. Life and career Lonnberg was born in Berkeley, California to a Swedish father. She began her acting career in 1965, starring mostly in Greek films. She has appeared throughout her career in a number of American and French films and television series, but only supporting roles. Lonnberg is best remembered for playing the museum guide and one of Drax's girls in the James Bond film '' Moonraker'' (1979). Her last role was in the film ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' (1988), in which she played a Swiss photographer. She has not starred in any other films or series since. Lonnberg has also made a singing career at the time she started acting, and released a few albums and songs where she sings in French and English. Lonnberg is fluent in both English and French, and has lived in France for several years. She is the author of novels with the name Anne de Pasquale. Filmography *1965: ''To nisi tis Afroditis'' * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roland Blanche
Roland Blanche (31 December 1943 – 13 September 1999) was a French actor. Filmography External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blanche, Roland 1943 births 1999 deaths People from Choisy-le-Roi Male actors from Île-de-France French male film actors French male stage actors French male television actors 20th-century French male actors ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marc Eyraud
Marc Eyraud (1 March 1924 – 15 February 2005) was a French film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1956 and 1995. Partial filmography * '' Plucking the Daisy'' (1956) - Un photographe (uncredited) * ''The Man in the Raincoat'' (1957) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * ''Les Misérables'' (1958) - Grantaire * '' Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida'' (1958) - Le douanier espagnol * ''Le mouton'' (1960) - Le passant qui demande du feu (uncredited) * ''Le coeur battant'' (1960) - Le directeur de la galerie * ''Léon Morin, Priest'' (1961) - Anton * ''Par-dessus le mur'' (1961) - Un père * ''The Immoral Moment'' (1962) - Le metteur en scène * ''Ballade pour un voyou'' (1963) - Le radiologue * ''La belle vie'' (1963) - Le photographe (uncredited) * '' Diary of a Chambermaid'' (1964) - Le secrétaire du commissaire * ''A Taste for Women'' (1964) - Rocard * '' Le Bonheur'' (1965) - J. Forestier - le frère de François * ''The Wise Guys'' (1965) - L'éducateur * ''Beatrice'' (1965) - Giaco ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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César Award
Cesar or César may refer to: Arts and entertainment * César (film), ''César'' (film), a 1936 French romantic drama * César (film), ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt Places * Cesar, Portugal * Cesar Department, Colombia * Cesar River, in Colombia * Cesar River, Chile * César (restaurant), a restaurant in New York City People * César (name), including a list of people with the given name and surname * César (footballer, born 1956) (1956–2024), Brazilian football forward * César (footballer, born 1974), Brazilian football midfielder and defender * César (footballer, born May 1979), Brazilian football defender and coach * César (footballer, born July 1979), Brazilian football winger * César (footballer, born 1992), Brazilian football goalkeeper * César (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian football goalkeeper * César (sculptor), César Baldaccini (1921–1998), French sculptor Other uses * César (grape), an ancient red wine grape from northern Burgundy ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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César Award For Best Editing
The César Award for Best Editing () is an award presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma since 1976. Winners and nominees 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Academy Award for Best Editing *BAFTA Award for Best Editing *European Film Award for Best Editor *Magritte Award for Best Editing References * External links * César Award for Best Editing at ''AlloCiné'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Cesar Award For Best Editing César Awards, Editing Film editing awards ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (, KVIFF) is an annual film festival held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe's leading film event. History The pre-war dream of many enthusiastic filmmakers materialized in 1946 when a non-competition festival of films from seven countries took place in Mariánské Lázně and Karlovy Vary. Above all it was intended to screen the results of the recently nationalized Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak film industry. After the first two years the festival moved permanently to Karlovy Vary. The Karlovy Vary IFF first held an international film competition in 1948. Since 1951, an international jury has evaluated the films. The Karlovy Vary competition quickly found a place among other developing festivals and by 1956 FIAPF had already classified Karlovy Vary as a category A festival. Given the creation of the Moscow Fi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |