''Le Courage d'aimer'' is a comedy-drama film directed by
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 ...
released on 29 June 2005. It is the result of a recutting of the first part ('' Les parisiens'') of an unfinished trilogy - ''Le Genre humain'' with the scenes from the film that would have constituted the second film, called ''Le Bonheur, c'est mieux que la vie''.
Synopsis
A picture of
humankind
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in
Paris
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"a la Lelouch" : singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers, etc.
Starring
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Mathilde Seigner
Mathilde Seigner (born 17 January 1968) is a French actress.
Early life
Seigner was born in Paris. She is the granddaughter of actor Louis Seigner (1903–1991). She is the sister of Emmanuelle Seigner and a niece of Françoise Seigner.
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as Anne / Clémentine
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Maïwenn
Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco (; born 17 April 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.
Early life
Maïwenn Le Besco was born on 17 April 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, the daughter of artist Cather ...
as Shaa
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Massimo Ranieri
Giovanni Calone (born 3 May 1951), known professionally as Massimo Ranieri, is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and theatre director.
Biography Early life
Ranieri was born in Borgo Santa Lucia, Naples, the fifth of eight children ...
as Massimo
* Michel Leeb as Michel Gorkini
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Arielle Dombasle
Arielle Dombasle (born April 27, 1953)Dombasle's year of birth has been a subject of much debate, and various sources have given dates ranging from 1953 to 1958. is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough ro ...
as Sabine Duchemin
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Line Renaud
Line Renaud (born Jacqueline Ente on 2 July 1928) is a French singer, actress and AIDS activist.
In her 80 year career, she has appeared in 86 films and TV films, released 25 albums and 114 singles. She has also appeared in 12 plays and written ...
as Line
* Yannick Soulier as Sami
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Pierre Arditi
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is a French actor, whose career in film, stage, and television has spanned six decades. He is known for his collaboration with director Alain Resnais in nine films, including '' Mélo'' (1986) and '' Smoking ...
as Pierre
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Ticky Holgado
Ticky Holgado (24 June 1944 – 22 January 2004), pseudonym of Joseph Holgado, was a French actor and a frequent collaborator with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
With ''Delicatessen'' (1991) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Ticky Holgado saw ...
Grégori Derangère
Grégori Derangère (born 27 March 1971) is a French actor.
Career
Derangère was born in Montpellier where his parents finished their medicine studies. He moved to Moscow and French Guiana during his childhood and then to Paris.
He studied ...
as The real estate agent
* Lise Lamétrie as Lise
* Eric Viellard as Francesco
* Cyrielle Claire as Patricia
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Agnès Soral
Agnès Soral (born 8 June 1960) is a Franco-Swiss actress, comedian and writer.
Early life
Her family settled in Meudon in the 1960s before the expropriation by the state of forest land owned by her father, who works as a legal adviser.
Perso ...
as A spectator
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André Falcon
André Falcon (28 November 1924 – 22 July 2009) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2008.
Filmography
References
External links
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1924 births
2009 deaths
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Cristiana Reali
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Biography
Reali was born in São Paulo, Brazil, the daughter of the Brazilian journalist Elpídio Real ...
as The jewelry saleswoman
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Antoine Duléry
Antoine Duléry (born 14 November 1959 in Paris) 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 medi ...
as A restaurant owner
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Mireille Perrier
Mireille Perrier (born 14 November 1959) is a French actress and stage director.
Career
She debut in theater with the ''Compagnie du Hasard'' in 1977, where she remained a member for two years.
Her first starring role was in Leos Carax's '' ...
as The woman on the docks
* Alexandra Kazan as Sylvie
* Thiam Aïssatou as Joséphine
* Pierre Santini as Jean-Claude Bénichou
* Salomé Lelouch as Bénichou's assistant
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Alessandra Martines
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as Alessandra
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Olivier Minne
Olivier Minne (born 18 March 1967 in Ixelles, Belgium) is a Belgian-born French television presenter, actor and producer.
Biography
Minne was born in Belgium, the son of a Belgian father and a French mother. Minne studied in Brussels, at a Jesu ...