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Une Exécution Ordinaire (novel)
''An Ordinary Execution'' () is a 2010 French drama film directed by Marc Dugain based on his 2007 novel. Cast * Marina Hands - Anna * André Dussollier - Joseph Stalin * Édouard Baer - Vassilli * Denis Podalydès - The concierge * Tom Novembre - The hospital director * Grégory Gadebois - Head of service * Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus - Beria * Anne Benoît Anne Benoît is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 60 film and television productions since 1981. Career Benoît was trained at the Conservatoire de Versailles, under the direction of Marcelle Tassencourt. She later attended the Ta ... - Alexandra References External links * * 2010 drama films 2010 films French drama films 2010s French films {{2010s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Dugain
Marc Dugain (born 1957) is a French novelist and film director, best known for (English, '' The Officers' Ward'') (1999), a novel set in World War I. Dugain was born in Senegal and studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble. He worked in finance, created a financial engineering company and was also a teacher and lecturer in finance at Emlyon Business School. His prize-winning first novel was made into a successful film in 2001. Bibliography * '' La Chambre des officiers,'' Éditions JC Lattès, 1999. * '' Campagne anglaise,'' 2000. * '' Heureux comme Dieu en France,'' 2002. * '' La Malédiction d'Edgar'', Gallimard, 2005. * '' Une exécution ordinaire,'' Gallimard, 2007. * '' En bas, les nuages,'' Flammarion Flammarion may refer to: * Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author * Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, second wife of Camille Flammarion * Sylvie Flammarion (1836-1919), French feminist and paci ..., 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Hands
Marina Hands (born 10 January 1975) is a French stage and film actress. Hands is the daughter of British director Terry Hands and French actress Ludmila Mikaël, and the granddaughter of Ukrainian-Greek painter . She studied acting at the Cours Florent and the CNSAD in France, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England. Life and career In 1999, she made her stage debut in '' Le Bel Air de Londres'' by Dion Boucicault, and was nominated for a Molière Award. Her first film was Andrzej Żuławski's ''La Fidélité'' (2000), followed by ''The Barbarian Invasions'' (2003). She then appeared in ''Les Âmes grises'' (2005), for which she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress Cesar or César may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''César'' (film), a 1936 French romantic drama * ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt Places * Cesar, Portugal * Cesar Department, Colombia * Cesar River, in Colombia * Cesar ..., and '' Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Dussollier
André Dussollier (born 17 February 1946) is a French actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. .... Selected filmography Awards and nominations César Awards Lumière Awards Molière Awards References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dussolier, Andre 1946 births Living people People from Annecy Male actors from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes French male film actors French male television actors French male stage actors 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni Best Actor César Award winners Best Supporting Actor César Award winners Magritte Award winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', and the eponym, eponymous ''The Marriage of Figaro (play), Le Mariage de Figaro''. One of his lines became the paper's motto: "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise". The oldest national newspaper in France, is considered a French newspaper of record, along with and ''Libération''. Since 2004, the newspaper has been owned by Dassault Group. Its editorial director has been Alexis Brézet since 2012. ''Le Figaro'' is the second-largest national newspaper in France, after ''Le Monde''. It has a Centre-right politics, centre-right editorial stance and is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Other Groupe Figaro publications include ''Le Figaro Magazine'', ''TV Magazine'' and ''Eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as the fourth Premier of the Soviet Union, premier from 1941 until his death. He initially governed as part of a Collective leadership in the Soviet Union, collective leadership, but Joseph Stalin's rise to power, consolidated power to become an absolute dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, while the totalitarian political system he created is known as Stalinism. Born into a poor Georgian family in Gori, Georgia, Gori, Russian Empire, Stalin attended the Tiflis Theological Seminary before joining the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He raised f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Baer
Édouard Baer (born 1 December 1966) is a French actor, director, screenwriter, film producer and radio personality. In 2001, Edouard Baer played the Egyptian scribe Otis in Alain Chabat's hit comedy Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. Baer's character became a cult figure. The same year, he won the Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ... for the male theatrical revelation 2001 for his role in the play Cravate club, written by Fabrice Roger-Lacan and directed by Isabelle Nanty. In 2009, he participated in the French television programme '' Rendez-vous en terre inconnue''. Theatre Filmography Actor Filmmaker References External links * 1966 births Living people Male actors from Paris French male film actors French male stage actors C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Podalydès
Denis Podalydès (; born 22 April 1963) is a French actor, scriptwriter, and theatre director of Greek descent. Podalydès has appeared in more than 140 films and television shows since 1989. He starred in '' The Officers' Ward'', which was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Podalydès has been nominated for four César Awards: Best Supporting Actor for '' Summer Things'', '' The Conquest'', and '' Sorry Angel'', and Best Original Screenplay for '' Granny's Funeral''. He is the younger brother of filmmaker Bruno Podalydès, with whom he frequently collaborates. Career He is a former student of the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, and became a pensionnaire of the Comédie-Française in 1997, and then a sociétaire in 2000, now considered as one of their major actors. He became the 505th sociétaire on 1st January 2000. Before joining that company he had appeared in '' Sophonisbe'' by Corneille (1988), '' L'Épreuve'' and '' Les Sincères'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Novembre
Tom Novembre (born ''Jean Thomas Couture''; 8 November 1959) is a French actor and singer. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1985. Selected filmography References External links * 1959 births Living people French male film actors {{France-film-actor-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grégory Gadebois
Grégory Gadebois (born 24 July 1976) is a French actor. Career Before his career as an actor begin, he worked as a mover. He studied at the CNSAD in the class of Catherine Hiegel and Dominique Valadié. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 2006 to 2012. In 2012, he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor for ''Angel & Tony'' directed by Alix Delaporte. He received two other nominations, first in 2013 for Best Actor for '' One of a Kind'' and then in 2019 for Best Supporting Actor for '' An Officer and a Spy''. In 2014, he won the Molière Award for Best One Man Show for his work on the play ''Flowers for Algernon'', directed by Anne Kessler. Personal life His mother was a school teacher and told him to start doing theater. He is the eldest of three children. He grew up without the presence of his father. He met his wife, Clémentine, during the filming of ''Angel & Tony ''Angel & Tony'' () is a 2010 French drama film directed by Alix Delaporte. It t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
The Gilles are the oldest and principal participants in the Carnival of Binche in Belgium. They go out on Shrove Tuesday from 4 a.m. until late hours and dance to traditional songs. Other cities, such as Ressaix, Leval, Buvrinnes, Épinois, Waudrez, Anderlues, Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont, Estinnes, Le Roeulx, Manage, Morlanwelz, Seneffe, Nivelles, Charleroi and La Louvière have a tradition of Gilles at carnival, but the Carnival of Binche is by far the most famous. In 2003, the Carnival of Binche was proclaimed one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.Logan p.223 History The earliest documented reference to the Gilles is from 1795, when the revolutionary Directorate attempted to prohibit the wearing of masks. The traditional origins are a matter of speculation; one legend connects them to Mary of Hungary, who as governor of the Netherlands in 1549 organised a Joyous Entry into Brussels for the visit of her brother Charles V, Holy Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ka, ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია} ''Lavrenti Pavles dze Beria'' ( – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War. An ethnic Georgian, Beria enlisted in the Cheka in 1920, and quickly rose through its ranks. He transferred to Communist Party work in the Caucasus in the 1930s, and in 1938 was appointed head of the NKVD by Stalin. His ascent marked the end of the Stalinist Great Purge carried out by Nikolai Yezhov, whom Beria purged. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Beria organized the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia, and after the occupation of the Baltic states and parts of Romania in 1940, he oversaw the deportations of hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
