Claude Rich

biography:
Claude Rich (8 February 1929 – 20 July 2017) was a French stage and screen actor. He began his career in the theater before his film debut in 1955.

He married actress Catherine Renaudin on 26 June 1959. They had two daughters, Delphine (an actress) and Nathalie (a painter), and an adopted son, Remy.

In 1996, he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Radetzky March

overview: At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court.

character: Dr. Demant

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The Red and the Black

overview: Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle, or insanity-that will bring about his downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical picture of French Restoration society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui.

character: Marquis de la Môle

original_name: Le Rouge et le Noir

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The Accursed Kings

overview: A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy.

character: Le cardinal Deuze

original_name: Les Rois maudits

Le Grand Secret

overview: A young woman searches for her biologist lover who disappeared after an Indian scientist made a discovery that could endanger humanity.

character: Samuel Frend

original_name: Le Grand Secret

Orient Express

overview: A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.

character: Wiesner

original_name: Orient-Express

Balzac

overview: As Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was driven by the desire to achieve something great. With the support of Laure de Berny, he started printing and publishing without much success, but it was with his pen that he achieved fame, thanks to the constant support of Madame de Berny. Balzac became a writer that readers devoured.

character: maitre Plissoud

original_name: Balzac

Spécial cinéma

overview: Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.

character: Self

original_name: Spécial cinéma

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

overview: A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

original_name: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Champs-Elysées

original_name: Champs-Elysées

Discorama

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Vivement dimanche

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30 millions d'amis

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Midi trente

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Les Cent Livres des Hommes

overview: Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

character: Récitant / Narrator

original_name: Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Français

biography:
Claude Rich, né le 8 février 1929 à Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) et mort le 20 juillet 2017 à Orgeval (Yvelines), est un acteur français.

Il a notamment reçu deux César, celui du meilleur acteur en 1993 pour Le Souper et un César d'honneur en 2002.

Claude Rich passe les premières années de sa vie à Strasbourg, jusqu'en 1935, puis il emménage avec sa mère et ses trois frères et sœurs à Paris, au 95, boulevard Saint-Michel après la mort de son père, ingénieur de métier, victime à 40 ans de la grippe. Sa mère espère qu'il deviendra prêtre, et bien qu'il ne choisisse pas la voie de la prêtrise, elle ne lui en tiendra pas rigueur, car elle-même ayant voulu être sculptrice, elle l'aidera beaucoup dans son désir d'être acteur. La foi de sa mère laissera néanmoins des traces, car son père étant d'origine alsacienne et sa mère d'origine bordelaise, il se définit comme chrétien-alsacien.

Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, vers 1943-1944, il vit aussi en pension à Neauphle-le-Vieux, à l’École du Gai Savoir de Michel Bouts où sa passion du théâtre est née. Pendant que son frère est engagé dans la 1re armée de de Lattre, Claude Rich assiste à la Libération de Paris.

Il commence à travailler comme employé de banque, suit en parallèle les cours Dullin, le Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche, et intègre le Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, promotion de 1953 dont il sort avec le deuxième prix (par ailleurs, aucun premier prix n'est décerné cette année-là). C'est là qu'il se lie d'amitié avec plusieurs élèves qui deviendront tous d'illustres acteurs: Jean Rochefort, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bruno Cremer. Ensemble ils forment ce qui fut appelé la «bande du Conservatoire».

Claude Rich fait ses débuts au théâtre de la Renaissance, et participe au film Les Grandes Manœuvres de René Clair, ce qui lance sa carrière cinématographique en 1955.

Il interprète fréquemment des rôles secondaires de jeune premier dans les années 1960, notamment en donnant la réplique à Lino Ventura dans Les Tontons flingueurs (1963) de Georges Lautner ou à Louis de Funès dans Oscar (1967). En 1968, Alain Resnais lui propose l'un des plus grands rôles de sa carrière dans le film de science-fiction Je t'aime, je t'aime, dans lequel il interprète un homme voyageant dans son passé après une tentative de suicide. Le réalisateur l'a choisi pour son timbre de voix qu'il apprécie particulièrement.

Durant les décennies 1970 et 1980, il retourne à sa passion première, le théâtre, notamment dans Hadrien VII pour lequel il est récompensé par le Prix du Syndicat de la critique, ainsi que dans un passage très remarqué à la Comédie-Française pour le rôle-titre de Lorenzaccio d'Alfred de Musset, mis en scène par Franco Zeffirelli (1976). Cela ne l'empêche pas d’apparaître plusieurs fois sur grand écran, notamment dans La Femme de Jean (1974) dans un rôle atypique, Adieu poulet (1975), Le Crabe-Tambour (1977) et La Guerre des polices (1979).

En 1989, il joue Talleyrand dans la pièce Le Souper de Jean-Claude Brisville, aux côtés de Claude Brasseur. L’adaptation cinématographique de cette pièce lui permet d'effectuer un retour en force au cinéma en 1992. Sa prestation sera récompensée par le César du meilleur acteur en 1993. ...

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Клод Риш

biography: Клод Робер Риш - французский актёр, известный, в основном, по ярким эпизодическим ролям. Лауреат премии «Сезар» за лучшую мужскую роль (1993). Клод Риш записался на актёрские курсы Шарля Дюллена вопреки желанию родителей, которые хотели, чтобы он стал страховым агентом. После курсов Дюллена он с лёгкостью поступил в Консерваторию. Кинодебют актёра состоялся в фильме Рене Клера «Большие манёвры». До начала 1960-х годов Риш был занят в ролях второго плана, пока Жан Ренуар не доверил ему крупную роль в фильме «Пришпиленный капрал», где его партнёрами по съёмкам стали такие молодые звёзды, как Жан-Пьер Кассель и Клод Брассёр. В 1963 году Клод Риш был приглашён Жоржем Лотнером в картину «Дядюшки-гангстеры». После были работы «Нынче вечером или никогда» Мишеля Девиля, «Дьявол и десять заповедей» Жюльена Дювивье, «Соратники маргаритки» Жан-Пьера Моки. В 1965 году вместе с Джин Сиберг сыграл главную роль в комедии - Миллиард за биллиард / Un.milliard.dans.un.billard. В то же время Риш продолжал играть и в театральных постановках, в том числе и по собственным пьесам. В 1980-е годы актёр стал избирательнее относиться к предложениям и в 1992 году получил премию «Сезар» за роль в картине «Ужин» Эдуара Молинаро. Далее роли второго плана стали основными в его кинобиографии. Он появлялся в «Дочери д’Артаньяна», «Рождественском пироге», в «Астериксе и Обеликсе: миссия Клеопатра» и в других фильмах. В 2008 году за работу в фильме «На Бога надейся, а сам не плошай» актёр вновь номинировался на «Сезар».

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title: A Cursed Monarchy

overview: It is the early 1300's and the treasury of France, under the rule of Philippe IV (Philippe le Bel or Philippe the Beautiful), is empty. The king decides the only solution is to raid the treasures of the Knights Templar (amongst others) and concocts various charges of treason, heresy and deviance against the Knights and their Grand Master Jacques de Molay. Having confessed under torture to the crimes of which he is accused, de Molay is condemned to be burned at the stake. With his dying breath he curses the king, the king's advisor (Guillaume de Nogaret), the pope (Pope Clement V) and the thirteen succeeding generations of their families. There follows one of the most dramatic periods in French history, half a century of political intrigue, murder, treason, war and famine, which ultimately culminates in the 100 Years War.

character: Cardinal Deuze

original_title: Les Rois maudits

title: D'Artagnan's Daughter

overview: It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.

character: Duca di Crassac

original_title: La Fille de d'Artagnan

title: Oscar

overview: This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.

character: Christian Martin, prétendant de la fille Barnier

original_title: Oscar

title: Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

overview: History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

character: Panoramix

original_title: Astérix & Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre

title: The Bride Wore Black

overview: Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

character: Bliss

original_title: La mariée était en noir

title: Is Paris Burning?

overview: Near the end of World War II, General Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he's unable to maintain control of the city. After much contemplation, Choltitz ignores orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, alongside Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a leader organise his forces.

character: General Leclerc

original_title: Paris brûle-t-il?

title: Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

overview: Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.

character: Claude Ridder

original_title: Je t'aime, je t'aime

title: Male Hunt

overview: A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.

character: Julien

original_title: La Chasse à l'homme

title: The Burning Court

overview: A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.

character: Stéphane Desgrez

original_title: La Chambre ardente

title: It Happened in Aden

overview: During a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince.

character: Price

original_title: C'est arrivé à Aden...

title: Private Fears in Public Places

overview: Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?

character: Arthur (voix)

original_title: Cœurs

title: Crooks in Clover

overview: An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

character: Antoine Delafoy

original_title: Les Tontons flingueurs

title: With a Little Help from Myself

overview: Besieged matriarch Sonia tries to make certain her daughter's nuptials come off flawlessly even as events spiral out of control is in this dark comedy helmed by François Dupeyron. With Sonia's wayward eldest son under arrest on drug charges, she then discovers that her no-account hubby has gambled away the money set aside for the reception. Will Sonia and her family triumph or crumble in the face of adversity?

title: Staircase C

overview: Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.

title: Ladies Man

overview: Sentimental events of a rich industrialist which turn to the criminal case.

title: The Elusive Corporal

overview: An upper-class corporal is captured by the Germans during their 1940 invasion of France. Assisted and accompanied by characters as diverse as a morose dairy farmer, a waiter, a myopic intellectual, a working-class Parisian, and a German dental assistant, the corporal tries to escape from prison camps, sometimes making it a few yards, sometimes reaching the border.

title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room

overview: Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?

title: Stavisky...

overview: Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But when his great scam involving millions is exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.

title: Neither Seen Nor Recognized

overview: In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

title: Crime Is Our Business

overview: Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

title: Park Benches

overview: As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.

title: President

overview: State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.

title: Captain Conan

overview: The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.

title: The Supper

overview: France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.

title: La femme de Jean

overview: Nadine's existence changes dramatically when her husband leaves her after 15 years. With the help of her seventeen-year-old teenage son Rémi, who is paternal and protective, she goes back to work.

title: Creezy

overview: Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat tarnished by his adulterous relationship with Creezy, a fashion model seen on every magazine cover. Ready to sacrifice his family for his career, he is eventually faced with the ultimate choice: his career ambitions or a lifetime with his beautiful girlfriend, who has recently mysteriously disappeared.

title: The Accompanist

overview: In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on the role of maid as well as accompanist, living life vicariously through Irene's triumphs and affairs.

title: Season's Beatings

overview: Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?

title: The Giraffe's Neck

overview: A clever little girl convinces her grandfather to visit her grandmother, whom she has never met.

title: Actors

overview: A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris.

title: Tonight or Never

overview: A theatrical director's relationship with his aspiring actress girlfriend begins to unravel when she fails to land a role in his play.

title: From Behind

overview: Frédérique's mother has died recently leaving her the family stud farm. She's never met her father, doesn't even know his name. But she finds it on the back of an old photo. She sets off for Paris. She stays with her gay dancer pal Marc. Marc and friends decide to go to their favourite gay bar... but it's men only. So Frédérique becomes Frédéric, an effeminate gay boy... Frédérique follows her father. Pierre Arroux is an art curator - and gay. She introduces herself to him, but as Frédéric. So while Frédéric is quite an awkward young man and an embarrassment to his father, Frédérique is secretly meeting with her old boyfriend now living in Paris..

title: Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête

overview: Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in...

title: Above the Clouds

overview: Henri Lanvern is shooting a film in Thailand. One evening, at the end of the shooting, he sees a friend of the war, General Cao Ba Ky, escaped from a communist re-education camp. No more news from Lanvern since.

title: The Cost of Living

overview: Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film "choral". Pourquoi certains dépensent-ils de manière convulsive là où d'autres retiennent l'argent comme la partie la plus vitale de leur être ? On croit parler d'argent, mais c'est d'amour dont il s'agit.

title: 10 jours en or

overview: When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road trip that will change both of their lives.

title: The Seven Deadly Sins

overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.

title: Desire

overview: Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.

title: Tell Me Yes...

overview: Handsome pediatric doctor feels unfulfilled, until his affection for a 12-year-old opens him to a romantic view of the world. When she falls ill, he must get closer to her, and a conflict of interests and ethics arise. His medical reputation is at stake.

title: France images d'une révolution

overview: On the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, this film is a tribute to the French nation, through historical reconstructions of the Revolution and the First Empire, as well as reports on the successes of France modern, the presence of France in the world, its history and its soil.

title: The Buddies

overview: Seven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and memorable drinking bouts. Bénin is the mastermind, Broudier the enforcer and Lesueur the prankster. One evening, a grandiose plan was hatched: to wreak havoc in two peaceful sub-prefectures: Ambert and Issoire. Broudier begins: in the middle of the night, disguised as a minister, he wakes up a barracks in Ambert and sets in motion a thunderous maneuver. The next day, disguised as a Dominican, Bénin climbed to the pulpit of the cathedral and delivered a sermon insulting Christian doctrine. The same day, in Issoire, the local authorities were preparing to unveil a statue of Vercingetorix. But the statue came to life, pelting the crowd with tomatoes: it was Lesueur. With their minds at rest, the friends headed off to the Côte-d'Or for a vacation. But already, one of them begins to perform a new prank.

title: The Red and the Black

overview: In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a noble who had hired him as tutor to his children.

title: All the Gold in the World

overview: Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...

title: Drummer-Crab

overview: "Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.

title: Champagne for Savages

overview: A diverse group of friends gather to celebrate a witless woman's birthday in this comedy drama set in France during World War II. The guests include an uncle who is a Nazi collaborator, a blind war veteran, a simpering physician, an arrogant educator, a patriotic girl, and the husband of the guest of honor. When some German soldiers are killed outside the house, the group is told by the Gestapo that they must choose among themselves two who will be shot if the killer is not caught. If two victims are not chosen, all seven at the party will be captured. Things sound pretty grim, but the black comedy begins when all seven try to save themselves by any means possible.

title: Hitch-Hike

overview: Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'll have many happy and less happy encounters. On the way to Paris, men of various ages offer to shorten her wait by the roadside. Some try to take advantage of her, while another, in a fit of madness, tries to stab her. Despite these assaults, Agathe continues her journey, heading for Valence and then Aix-en-Provence.

title: All Together

overview: Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.

title: Promotion canapé

overview: Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

title: Love and the Frenchwoman

overview: The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.

character: Charles, le jeune marié (segment "Le Mariage")

title: 1914 the Glorious Summer

overview: An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.

title: Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

overview: If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.

title: Pope John XXIII

overview: This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope".

title: Mitsou

overview: During the First World War, the Empyrée Montmartre, a Paris music-hall, is dedicated to patriotic revues whose star is the charming Mitsou. The young artist is not without talent but she is mainly well-connected. She is indeed the cherished mistress of Pierre Duroy-Lelong, a rich industrialist. One night, thanks to Petite-Chose, an ebullient singer-dancer and her co-star, she gets to know a handsome army, Lieutenant Bleu. Mitsou falls madly in love with him and Lieutenant Bleu is physically attracted to her. The trouble is that Bleu comes from a distinguished family and cannot put up with her lack of culture and artistic bad taste...

original_title: Mitsou ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles...

title: Looking for Hortense

overview: Damien, a Chinese civilization professor, lives with his wife, Iva, a stage director, and their son Noé. The couple's relationship has drifted into routine that has drained it of love. Damien finds himself trapped one day by Iva, who orders him to ask his father, a senior member of the French Council of State, for help in preventing Zorica, a woman Iva knows, from being deported. But Damien and his father don't get on and are barely ever in touch with each other. This dangerous mission throws Damien into a spiral that will turn his life upside down.

title: Order of the Daisy

overview: Matou is an innocuous, gentle-looking man. He is married to a formidable, even a frightening woman, who is as dissatisfied with him as he is with her. He knows everything there is to know about restoring and authenticating manuscripts, particularly ancient ones, through his job at the museum. One day, it occurs to him that his skills could be put to use in a more personal way, and he embarks on a private career of re-arranging the documents of people who have had the misfortune to be married to the wrong people.

title: Belmondo, itinéraire...

overview: Documentary on the career of Jean-Paul Belmondo.

title: Lautrec

overview: The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He suffered from suffered from congenital health conditions traditionally attributed to inbreeding. His lifestyle and work are a testimony of the late-19th-century parisian bohemian lifestyle, as he was commissioned to produce a series of posters for the Moulin Rouge cabaret opening. As an alcoholic, he was addicted to absinthe. The movie related his love affair with the french painter Suzanne Valadon.

title: The Police War

overview: Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.

title: Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

overview: Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother strongly disapproves of Sibilla and his continual galavanting, but Rene disregards her and goes anyway. While in Spain, Sibilla falls for a handsome young toreador who also captures the interest of Rene, though it is hard to say whether his feelings for the bullfighter are fatherly or more romantic. It is also unclear as to whether Sibilla and the bullfighter are lovers either. Thus an enigmatic romantic triangle forms until Rene and Sibilla suddenly decide to wed. The character of Rene seems to be closely patterned after Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

title: La Revanche

overview: Jeanne Jouvert, a crime writer, has won the Quai des Orfèvres prize. Her publisher devises a clever publicity ploy that results in her husband, Alfred, head of the anti-gang squad, being honored in her place. The policeman finds himself quite comfortable as a best-selling author and takes advantage of the situation. Tired of having been submissive for too long, Jeanne plans her revenge. She asks for help from her friend Anne Beaufort, herself disappointed by her husband, who pretends to help Third World countries by selling them weapons. The two of them will prove what they are capable of by organizing a hold-up of the central post office in Paris.

title: The Ark and the Deluge

overview: A naturalist fiction film organized around one of the most essential principles of life, "water", it is not an animal documentary but a fresco of nature. The elements, precipitations, minerals, landscapes, plants and animals are apprehended without hierarchy while water constitutes the main protagonist of the film. Epic, poetic, lyrical sometimes, water reveals the splendor of certain landscapes, the strangeness of the behavior.

title: Tales from the Zoo

overview: In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He's a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, Philippine. On her eighth birthday, Armand picks her up from her repressive boarding school and takes her to Fernand's to celebrate. Father and son quarrel, and Armand leaves, only to be arrested and shot for violating curfew. In grief, the curmudgeonly Fernand does not tell Philippine, but invents a life for Armand as a captain of the Resistance. Fernand takes her from school to live with him and his sensible wife. Along the way, Philippine finds out the truth and Fernand discovers courage.

title: Mata Hari, Agent H21

overview: Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.

title: Été brûlant

overview: At the beginning of the century. To punish him for his failure at school, Count Ivan Petrov takes his son Alexander to spend the two summer months in their Crimean estate, far from any distraction. For the 18-year-old, this is the beginning of a long period of isolation, one-on-one with a father whose severity he fears. Once on the spot, Ivan announces to his son the imminent arrival of his cousins Katia, whom he loves in silence, and Natacha, accompanied by their mother Elena. The joy of Alexander is short-lived, Natacha learning to him immediately that Katia comes in fact to celebrate her engagement with Nicolai. His dismay increases when he discovers that it is his father who arranged this marriage, of which Katia does not seem to be very happy.

title: With What Love, With How Much Love

overview: After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andre discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best friend. Andre decides to forgive them, but as time passes he realizes that he wants to win Francesca back and decides to play all his cards during his rival's absence.

title: Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move

overview: Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing.

original_title: Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa

title: Maria Chapdelaine

overview: A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.

title: Galilée ou L'Amour de Dieu

overview: Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernicus' thesis that the Earth revolves around the sun.

title: Mon père avait raison

overview: After being abandoned by his wife, a man raises his son alone for twenty years.

title: Diamonds Are Brittle

overview: Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high life, and his best friend Roger, a little-known inventor, is equally despairing. After careful consideration, a solution emerges: a cleverly organized hold-up will enable them to live in luxury for the rest of their lives. Bernard soon makes the acquaintance of Bettina and her mother, Madame Ralton, professionals in the "heist" business.

title: Voltaire et l'affaire Calas

overview: A Protestant businessman, Jean Calas, is tortured to death for allegedly killing his son to stop him becoming a Catholic. Voltaire launches a Europe-wide campaign to win rehabilitation for Calas and compensation for his family.

title: Clarissa

overview: Vienna before the First World War: Clarissa Schuhmeister grows up in the monastery. Strict discipline determines her life until she meets the Frenchman Léonard and falls in love with him. Just when she expects a child from him, the First World War tears the happy couple apart. Out of pragmatism, Clarissa marries Gottfried, a deserter, with whom she makes a painful yet realistic agreement so that he will not be sent back to war. But she never feels love for him because she can not forget Léonard.

title: L'Or du duc

overview: A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.

title: Le Grand Secret

title: How Do You Like My Sister?

overview: The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him reciprocate her love, and succeeds.

title: Ladygrey

overview: Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.

title: La Polka des menottes

overview: Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.

title: Les Mots pour le dire

overview: A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.

title: Monsieur le Président Directeur Général

overview: In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates.

title: A Golden Widow

overview: A woman learns that she is sole legatee of her forgotten rich uncle, but there is a small problem: she's got to be a widow to latch onto the dough or the fortune will go to a vague sect...

title: Le Futur aux trousses

overview: A large company offers consumers to acquire a "second identity", having the character traits that individuals would not normally adopt. Because of all these uninhibited behaviors, anarchy is quick to take hold.

title: Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII

overview: The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

title: Rien, voilà l'ordre

overview: In the psychiatric clinic Rhien, residents and caregivers maintain unique and funny relationships.

title: Copacabana Palace

overview: For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the famous carnival festivities. Three (sympathetic) accomplices are beaten to a punch in the hotel vault; three charming stewardesses are looking for entertainment, but their three Carioca host, musicians Tom Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, and João Gilberto, are married; a man, separated from his wife, wants to catch her in the act of adultery.

title: Balzac: A Life of Passion

overview: This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.

title: Colonel Chabert

overview: When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

title: The Devil and the Ten Commandments

overview: The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

title: The Nameless Star

overview: The tranquility of a Romanian village is shattered by the arrival of a beautiful unknown coinciding with the discovery of a new star by a modest professor of astronomy ...

title: Unfair Competition

overview: Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.

title: The Irony of Chance

overview: A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise concerns the assassination of a German officer by a young member of the Resistance.

title: Le Diable Rouge

title: Un habit pour l'hiver

title: Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon

overview: In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front.

title: The French Detective

overview: When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?

title: L'Énigme blanche

overview: Like every year, five old friends come together in a chalet in the middle of a Canadian snow desert. Henri, his wife Apolline, brother-in-law Maxence, Jean and Paul are waiting for cozy evenings with board games and good food - a typical ski holiday. But on the first day Henri announces that he knows about the affair between Apolline and Jean. An oppressive mood spreads in the secluded hut until the spiral of jealousy and sadism kills one from its midst.

title: Bouquet final

title: The Dead Queen

overview: Royal romance and epic tragedy feature in this historical drama about Pedro I of Portugal and his lover, Ines de Castro. Their legendary, doomed love story is explored, as well as the darkness surrounding Pedro's powerful, sadistic father.

title: Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs

original_title: Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs

title: Constance aux enfers

overview: Rear Window meets Estate violenta. The middle-aged Constance watches a young couple that lives across the courtyard; the girl plays loud pop music and goes out of her way to be unpleasant to the classically educated and piano-playing Constance. Then one day Constance sees the boyfriend strangle the little tart in a fit of jealousy. He sees her, too, and has nobody else to turn to for help. Constance keeps silent about the murder and offers the young Hugo a place in her bed. Then the blackmail notes start to arrive...

title: Greed

overview: A group of university students in Paris dream of a night of love with Suzon, whose rates are staggering. To raise the money, they organize a lottery among themselves so that at least the winner will enact their fantasy.

title: The Grand Manoeuvre

overview: Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

title: The Separation

overview: On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to last nearly ten months and occupy 48 sessions in the Chamber of Deputies. They have to study the bill of separation of the Churches and the State. This law, which founded laicity in France, was adopted on December 9, 1905.

title: The Customer of the Off Season

overview: An ex-SS officer and his gorgeous wife find a refuge living in Eilat. A mysterious stranger appears from their past.

original_title: אורח בעונה מתה

title: Un matin rouge

overview: During the world war two in a French village a teacher and a female pupil have been killed by the Gestapo because of an informer.Now forty years later former pupils , now adults will meet together in a villager to find out who was the pupil who denounced the teacher to the Germans and also to take a decision about it.

title: Les Joueurs

overview: Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new inn. He is accosted by three men, also cheaters, who offer to join forces with him to ruin their new prey: young Glov, heir to a rich landed estate.

title: How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

overview: Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.

original_title: Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre, le comankonafé

title: The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland

overview: "This book is a descent into the soul of a child." On November 26th, 1865, Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was published. In this 1973 broadcast, we discover the genesis of this "masterpiece of the absurd" and delve into the depths of a child's soul, thanks to Jean Gattegno's fascinating analysis. As a bonus, Claude Rich reads us an excerpt from Alice's adventures.

original_title: Les Cent Livres - Alice au pays des merveilles

title: La Chasse ou l'Amour ravi

title: The Perfume of the Lady in Black

overview: Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.

title: Autour de Pinget

title: Un habit pour l'hiver

title: A Cursed Monarchy

title: Oscar

title: D'Artagnan's Daughter

title: Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

title: The Bride Wore Black

title: Is Paris Burning?

title: Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

title: Male Hunt

title: The Burning Court

title: It Happened in Aden

title: Private Fears in Public Places

title: Crooks in Clover

title: With a Little Help from Myself

title: Staircase C

title: Ladies Man

title: The Elusive Corporal

title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room

title: Stavisky...

title: Neither Seen Nor Recognized

title: Crime Is Our Business

title: Park Benches

title: President

title: Captain Conan

title: The Supper

title: La femme de Jean

title: Creezy

title: The Accompanist

title: Season's Beatings

title: The Giraffe's Neck

title: Actors

title: Tonight or Never

title: From Behind

title: Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête

title: Above the Clouds

title: The Cost of Living

title: 10 jours en or

title: The Seven Deadly Sins

title: Desire

title: Tell Me Yes...

title: France images d'une révolution

title: The Buddies

title: The Red and the Black

title: All the Gold in the World

title: Champagne for Savages

title: Drummer-Crab

title: Hitch-Hike

title: All Together

title: Promotion canapé

title: Love and the Frenchwoman

title: 1914 the Glorious Summer

title: Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

title: Pope John XXIII

title: Mitsou

title: Looking for Hortense

title: Order of the Daisy

title: Belmondo, itinéraire...

title: Lautrec

title: The Police War

title: La Revanche

title: The Ark and the Deluge

title: Tales from the Zoo

title: Mata Hari, Agent H21

title: Été brûlant

title: With What Love, With How Much Love

title: Maria Chapdelaine

title: Galilée ou L'Amour de Dieu

title: Mon père avait raison

title: Diamonds Are Brittle

title: Voltaire et l'affaire Calas

title: Clarissa

title: L'Or du duc

title: Le Grand Secret

title: How Do You Like My Sister?

title: Ladygrey

title: La Polka des menottes

title: Les Mots pour le dire

title: Monsieur le Président Directeur Général

title: A Golden Widow

title: Le Futur aux trousses

title: Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII

title: Rien, voilà l'ordre

title: Copacabana Palace

title: Balzac: A Life of Passion

title: Colonel Chabert

title: The Devil and the Ten Commandments

title: The Nameless Star

title: Unfair Competition

title: The Irony of Chance

title: Le Diable Rouge

title: Un habit pour l'hiver

title: Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon

title: The French Detective

title: L'Énigme blanche

title: Bouquet final

title: The Dead Queen

title: Constance aux enfers

title: Greed

title: The Grand Manoeuvre

title: The Separation

title: The Customer of the Off Season

original_title: אורח בעונה מתה

title: Un matin rouge

title: Les Joueurs

title: The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland

title: La Chasse ou l'Amour ravi

title: The Perfume of the Lady in Black

title: Autour de Pinget

title: Un habit pour l'hiver


George Seaton

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

George Seaton (April 17, 1911 – July 28, 1979) was an American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theatre director.

Born George Stenius in South Bend, Indiana, Seaton moved to Detroit after graduating from college to work as an actor on radio station WXYZ. John L. Barrett played The Lone Ranger on test broadcasts of the series in early January 1933, but when the program became part of the regular schedule Seaton was cast in the title role. In later years he claimed to have devised the cry "Hi-yo, Silver" because he couldn't whistle for his horse as the script required.

Seaton joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a contract writer in 1933. His first major screen credit was the Marx Brothers comedy A Day at the Races in 1937. In the early 1940s he joined 20th Century Fox, where he remained for the rest of the decade, writing scripts for Moon Over Miami, Coney Island, Charley's Aunt, The Song of Bernadette, and others before making his directorial debut with Diamond Horseshoe in 1945. From this point on he was credited as both screenwriter and director for most of his films, including The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Miracle on 34th Street, Apartment for Peggy, Chicken Every Sunday, The Big Lift, For Heaven's Sake, Little Boy Lost, The Country Girl, and The Proud and Profane.

But Not Goodbye, Seaton's 1944 Broadway debut as a playwright, closed after only 23 performances, although it later was adapted for the 1946 film The Cockeyed Miracle by Karen DeWolf. In 1967 he returned to Broadway to direct the Norman Krasna play Love in E Flat, which was a critical and commercial flop. The musical Here's Love, adapted from his screenplay for Miracle on 34th Street by Meredith Willson, proved to be more successful.

Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay twice, for Miracle on 34th Street (which also earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay) and The Country Girl, and was nominated for Oscars three additional times. He received The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1961.

Seaton died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.

In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Ed Sullivan Show

original_language: en

The Oscars

overview: An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

original_name: The Oscars

job: Director

department: Directing

Deutsch

biography: George Seaton (eigentlich George Edward Stenius) war ein US-amerikanischer Drehbuchautor, Dramatiker, Filmregisseur und -produzent sowie Theaterregisseur. Seaton leitete mehrere Branchenorganisationen und war dreimal Präsident der Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Präsident der Writers Guild of America West und der Screen Directors Guild sowie Vizepräsident des Motion Picture Relief Fund. Seine Drehbücher brachten ihm zwei Oscars, 1948 für Das Wunder von Manhattan und 1955 für Ein Mädchen vom Lande. Beide Filme inszenierte er auch. Sein größter Erfolg wurde 1970 der Katastrophenfilm Airport, der mehrere Fortsetzungen nach sich zog und das Genre neu belebte.

Latviešu

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iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: Grace Kelly: The American Princess

overview: A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.

character: Self (archive footage)

original_title: Grace Kelly: The American Princess

title: The Country Girl

overview: An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.

original_title: The Country Girl

job: Screenplay

title: The Country Girl

department: Writing

job: Producer

title: The Country Girl

department: Production

title: Miracle on 34th Street

overview: Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.

original_title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: Airport

overview: An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.

original_title: Airport

title: Airport

title: The Tin Star

overview: An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

original_title: The Tin Star

title: Miracle on 34th Street

overview: Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: A Day at the Races

overview: Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil. There are a few problems. Hackenbush, who was recently put in charge of the sanitarium, isn't really a doctor, he's a veterinarian.

original_title: A Day at the Races

title: The Counterfeit Traitor

overview: Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

original_title: The Counterfeit Traitor

job: Writer

title: The Counterfeit Traitor

title: The Proud and Profane

overview: In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, Howard, in the Battle of Guadalcanal. There, Ashley falls for the gruff, seductive Marine Lt. Col. Colin Buck, but struggle and tragedy follow when the widow learns about the reality of Buck's life back home.

original_title: The Proud and Profane

title: The Proud and Profane

job: Story

title: The Proud and Profane

title: Teacher's Pet

overview: A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.

original_title: Teacher's Pet

title: The Big Lift

overview: The Berlin Air Lift from the point of view of two Air Force NCOs who navigate romance in a bombed out post WW2 Germany.

original_title: The Big Lift

title: The Big Lift

job: Adaptation

title: Moon Over Miami

overview: After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan, the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil and Jeff, who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.

original_title: Moon Over Miami

title: 36 Hours

overview: Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

title: 36 Hours

title: What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

overview: A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.

title: The Winning Ticket

overview: A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

title: Showdown

overview: Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.

title: Little Boy Lost

overview: A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.

title: For Heaven's Sake

overview: An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.

title: For Heaven's Sake

title: The Doctor Takes a Wife

overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

title: Diamond Horseshoe

overview: Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad's chagrin wants to be a crooner, and soon comes between Dad and his girlfriend Claire. So glamorous dancer Bonnie is enlisted to distract Junior. Which does Bonnie want more, the fur coat or true love? Plot is a framework for numerous Ziegfeld style stage productions.

title: The Pleasure of His Company

overview: Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marry a California rancher. Though Pogo's ex-wife remains unimpressed, Jessica quickly falls for her father's charismatic offensive. Soon, however, his reappearance causes complications for the bride-to-be, and she must decide whether or not to go ahead with the wedding.

title: Junior Miss

overview: A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.

title: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

overview: In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.

title: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

title: Little Boy Lost

title: Chicken Every Sunday

overview: A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

title: The Hook

overview: Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.

title: Apartment for Peggy

overview: Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.

title: That Night in Rio

overview: An entertainer in Rio impersonates a wealthy aristocrat. When the aristocrat's wife asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.

title: The Eve of St. Mark

overview: Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz and his hometown girlfriend Janet discuss their future plans.

title: What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

title: What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

title: Miracle on 34th Street

overview: A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.

title: Anything Can Happen

overview: A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan.

title: The Meanest Man in the World

overview: Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.

title: Twilight of Honor

overview: A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of a murder that he has already confessed to. He asks his mentor, a retired, legendary lawyer for help.

title: Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot

overview: Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot tells the story of Virginia's role in American Independence (up to the point of voting to propose independence at the Second Continental Congress), from the point of view of John Fry (played by a young Jack Lord), a fictional Virginia planter elected to the House of Burgesses.

title: The Magnificent Dope

overview: Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?

title: Chicken Every Sunday

title: Teacher's Pet

title: Student Tour

overview: A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

title: Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

overview: Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.

title: The Rat Race

overview: An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.

title: But Not for Me

overview: Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.

title: The Bridges at Toko-Ri

overview: A U.S. Navy pilot and his squad are assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges deep behind enemy lines during the Korean War.

title: Somebody Loves Me

overview: Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.

title: A Day at the Races

title: Coney Island

overview: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: Diamond Horseshoe

title: Junior Miss

title: Anything Can Happen

title: The Song of Bernadette

overview: In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl is insane, doing their best to suppress her and her followers, while the church wants nothing to do with the matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the town, ultimately transforming their lives.

title: Rhubarb

overview: Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.

title: Charley's Aunt

overview: In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

title: Showdown

title: The Counterfeit Traitor

title: Miracle On 34th Street

overview: In this charming TV adaptation of the 1947 film classic, a kindly old gentleman (Ed Wynn) working as a Macy's department store Santa causes a commotion when he claims to be the real St. Nick. Forced to prove his sanity, he is taken to court where he must convince the judge and his friends that he actually is Santa Claus. The faith of one skeptical little girl (Susan Gordon) and a Christmas miracle are the keys to his true identity.

title: Airports

overview: Edited together from all four Airport movies by Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (A History of Violence, Infested) and veteran genre fellow screenwriter Adam Rifkin (Small Soldiers, Mouse Hunt), Airports is an exercise in narrative truncation for both newcomers and fans alike in the vein of Soderbergh’s Psychos edit.

title: The Miracle on 34th Street

overview: One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real thing.

title: Apartment for Peggy

title: Grace Kelly: The American Princess

title: The Country Girl

title: The Country Girl

title: The Country Girl

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: Airport

title: Airport

title: The Tin Star

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: A Day at the Races

title: The Counterfeit Traitor

title: The Counterfeit Traitor

title: The Proud and Profane

title: The Proud and Profane

title: The Proud and Profane

title: Teacher's Pet

title: The Big Lift

title: The Big Lift

title: Moon Over Miami

title: 36 Hours

title: 36 Hours

title: What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

title: The Winning Ticket

title: Showdown

title: Little Boy Lost

title: For Heaven's Sake

title: For Heaven's Sake

title: The Doctor Takes a Wife

title: Diamond Horseshoe

title: The Pleasure of His Company

title: Junior Miss

title: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

title: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

title: Little Boy Lost

title: Chicken Every Sunday

title: The Hook

title: Apartment for Peggy

title: That Night in Rio

title: The Eve of St. Mark

title: What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

title: What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: Anything Can Happen

title: The Meanest Man in the World

title: Twilight of Honor

title: Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot

title: The Magnificent Dope

title: Chicken Every Sunday

title: Teacher's Pet

title: Student Tour

title: Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

title: The Rat Race

title: But Not for Me

title: The Bridges at Toko-Ri

title: Somebody Loves Me

title: A Day at the Races

title: Coney Island

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: Diamond Horseshoe

title: Junior Miss

title: Anything Can Happen

title: The Song of Bernadette

title: Rhubarb

title: Charley's Aunt

title: Showdown

title: The Counterfeit Traitor

title: Miracle On 34th Street

title: Airports

title: The Miracle on 34th Street

title: Apartment for Peggy