Jean Marais

biography:
Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French actor and director.

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Le monde est à vous

character: Self

original_name: Le monde est à vous

original_language: fr

Lahaye d'honneur

original_name: Lahaye d'honneur

À bout portant

original_name: À bout portant

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

Joseph Balsamo

overview: Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.

character: Joseph Balsamo

original_name: Joseph Balsamo

Le Grand Échiquier

overview: Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

original_name: Le Grand Échiquier

Bambi

overview: The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

character: Self (archive footage)

original_name: Bambi

original_language: de

Dim Dam Dom

original_name: Dim Dam Dom

Midi trente

original_name: Midi trente

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

overview: A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

original_name: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Midi Première

overview: Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

original_name: Midi Première

Champs-Elysées

original_name: Champs-Elysées

Apostrophes

overview: Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

original_name: Apostrophes

Karatékas and Co

character: l'Empereur

original_name: Karatékas and Co

Discorama

original_name: Discorama

30 millions d'amis

original_name: 30 millions d'amis

Reflets de Cannes

original_name: Reflets de Cannes

Sacrée soirée

original_name: Sacrée soirée

Cérémonie des César

overview: The César Awards are cinematographic awards created in 1976 and presented annually in Paris to professionals of the 7th art in various categories to recognize the best French productions. They are often cited as the French equivalent of the Oscars in the United States.

character: Self - President

original_name: Cérémonie des César

Deutsch

Jean Marais

biography: Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11. Dezember 1913 – 8. November 1998) war ein französischer Schauspieler und Regisseur.

Français

biography:
Jean Villain-Marais, dit Jean Marais, est un acteur français, né le 11 décembre 1913 à Cherbourg, (Manche) et mort le 8 novembre 1998 à Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes). Actif au théâtre comme au cinéma, il est aussi metteur en scène, écrivain, peintre, sculpteur et potier.

Amant de Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais est révélé au théâtre par les œuvres à succès de son pygmalion, Œdipe Roi en 1937, Les Parents terribles l'année suivante et La Machine à écrire en 1941. Le film L'Éternel Retour (1943) de Jean Delannoy, écrit par Cocteau d'après la légende de Tristan et Iseut, l'érige en icône de la jeunesse française, à la beauté éblouissante, en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le poète le dirige ensuite dans ses réalisations — La Belle et la Bête (1946), L'Aigle à deux têtes (1948), Les Parents terribles (1949) et Orphée (1950) — et scénarise Ruy Blas (1948) et La Princesse de Clèves (1961). En parallèle, Marais emporte toujours l'adhésion des critiques au théâtre, notamment dans des pièces du répertoire classique.

À partir des années 1950, redonnant vigueur au cinéma de cape et d'épée, il s'établit comme un populaire héros de films d'aventures en costumes, dans des adaptations de chefs-d'œuvre du genre, généralement sous la direction d'André Hunebelle. Il attire ainsi un large public dans Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1955), Le Bossu (1959), Le Capitan (1960), Le Capitaine Fracasse et Le Miracle des loups (1961), Les Mystères de Paris (1962) ou encore Le Masque de fer (1962). Quinze ans avant Jean-Paul Belmondo, il impressionne en réalisant la plupart de ses cascades. Il se convertit dans les années 1960 aux modernes films d'action et d'espionnage, en particulier avec la lucrative trilogie des Fantomas.

Plus tard, à l'exception de son rôle dans Peau d'âne (1970) de Jacques Demy, Jean Marais tourne moins, faute de propositions, et se consacre plutôt au théâtre, tout en devenant à Vallauris un sculpteur et potier reconnu. Il entretient également la mémoire de Jean Cocteau, bien qu'il n'en soit pas l'héritier. Il reçoit en 1993 un César d'honneur pour l'ensemble de sa carrière.

Jean Alfred Villain-Marais, selon l'extrait de l'acte de naissance no 756/163 de la ville de Cherbourg, est le fils d'Alfred Villain-Marais (1882-1959) et d'Aline Marie Louise Vassord (1887-1973). Il dira avoir toujours considéré «Marais» comme son vrai nom, son père se faisait déjà appeler ainsi. ...

Source: Article "Jean Marais" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA.

Pусский

Жан Марэ

biography:
Жан Марэ (полное его имя - Жан Виллен - Марэ) родился 11 декабря 1913 года в Шербуре (Франция), в семье ветеринарного врача, но отца своего почти не помнил: родители развелись, когда ему было 5 лет, и дальнейшее воспитание Жана и его старшего брата легло на плечи матери, бабушки и тети. Жан был родом из детства, он на всю жизнь остался верен своим детским мечтам и привязанностям. Он был эмоциональным, чувствительным и очень восприимчивым ребёнком. В 4 года, впервые попав в кинематограф, маленький Жан мечтает стать актёром.

Судьба щедро одарила Марэ. Его называли человеком с тысячью талантов. Он был прекрасным актером, каскадером, художником, декоратором, дизайнером, гончаром, скульптором, писателем. И это далеко не полный перечень...

В 1937 году он познакомился с поэтом, художником, сценаристом и режиссёром Жаном Кокто. На долгие 26 лет они станут самыми близкими друг другу людьми.

1939 год. Война. Жан Марэ становится водителем бензовоза и даже получает Военный крест за мужество и отвагу. Он настолько верит в свою необыкновенную удачу, что однажды, презирая опасность, рискует и проезжает на грузовике по заминированному полю. При бомбежках остаётся сидеть в машине с заведенным мотором, не кланяется пулям. Сам Марэ не видит в своем поведении ничего героического. Наоборот, ему казалось это очевидным, нормальным. Его воспоминания о тех днях - вереница анекдотических ситуаций. Он скажет потом: "Я не бежал от героизма, но героизм упорно бежал от меня".

Долгожданная слава приходит к Жану Марэ в 1943 году после фильма "Вечное возвращение", где он снимается со своей собакой - Мулуком, подобранным на войне и ставшим ему верным и любимым другом. Марэ становится звездой, его донимают поклонники и поклонницы. В детстве он мечтал быть кумиром зрителей. "Небо услышало мои молитвы и вняло им, - с улыбкой говорил Марэ. - Как жаль, что я не догадался попросить Бога сделать меня большим актером. Может быть, я был бы им". Недовольный своим высоким от природы голосом, он начинает курить, чтобы понизить его тембр. Голос приобретает характерную хрипотцу и неповторимую индивидуальность. Маре относится к себе слишком критично, никакой звездной болезни. Удивляют в нем его естественность и простота, огромное обаяние, душевность, человечность. Он никогда не казался себе красивым, никогда не был человеком с претензиями, даже во времена своего триумфа. "Всегда доступный другим, он принимал, не протестуя, всех представителей прессы, кроме "дураков", не строил из себя важную персону, подобно другим известным актёрам. Жан Марэ был правдив по отношению к самому себе и по отношению к другим. Но он мог быть и жестоким, когда следовало заступиться за кого-либо из его друзей, плохо переносил, когда ему противоречили", - отмечает его биограф Кароль Вайсвайлер.

С годами дороги Марэ и Кокто расходятся, но это не означает охлаждения отношений, которые из близких становятся дружескими, родственными. У Марэ расправляются крылья. Взяв такой великолепный старт благодаря Жану Кокто, он ищет свой собственный путь. Марэ красив, силен, очень пластичен, а его энергии хватило бы на пятерых. Он еще не знает, какой жизненный марафон ему предстоит, но он готов, он чувствует, что способен на многое.

Жан Марэ ушел из жизни 8 ноября 1998 года в Каннах. Похоронен в Валлорисе на Старом кладбище.

Català

biography: Jean Alfred Villain-Marais (Cherbourg, França, 11 de desembre de 1913 - Canes, França, 8 de novembre de 1998), anomenat Jean Marais, va ser un actor, director escènic, escriptor, pintor, escultor i especialista francès. El 1993, va rebre un César honorífic en reconeixement a la seva trajectòria.

Français

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讓·馬萊

biography: Jean - Alfred Villain - Marais（1913 年 12 月 11 日 - 1998 年 11 月 8 日），法國演員和導演。

Latviešu

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also_known_as:
Жан Марэ
Жан Маре
Jean Alfred Villain-Marais

title: Beauty and the Beast

overview: The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

character: La Bête / Le Prince / Avenant

original_title: La Belle et la Bête

title: Fantomas Unleashed

overview: In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.

character: Fantômas / Fandor / Professeur Lefèvre / Marquis de Rostelli

original_title: Fantômas se déchaîne

title: Fantomas

overview: Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

character: Fantômas / Fandor / Lord Shelton / Vieux gardien de la prison

original_title: Fantômas

title: Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

overview: In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.

character: Fantômas / Fandor / Sir Walter Brown / Giuseppe Luigi

original_title: Fantômas contre Scotland Yard

title: Operation Double Cross

overview: In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist.

title: Orpheus

overview: A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

title: Captain Fracasse

overview: A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.

character: Baron Philippe de Sigognac / Captain Fracasse

title: Donkey Skin

overview: A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

title: The Glass Castle

overview: Evelyne, the young wife of Judge Bertal, falls in love with Remy, who lives in Paris, on holiday in Italy. After following him in the lovers city, she realises Remy is whom she really loves, and decides to return home to inform her husband – but her plane crashes.

title: Thomas the Impostor

overview: In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.

title: Luchino Visconti

overview: A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his writing for "Cinema," his politics, his work with Renoir, his appreciation of Thomas Mann, and his deep knowledge of literature and the arts. Visconti moves constantly between film and the theater, staging plays provocatively, working with Maria Callas at La Scala, and shooting films in theaters. Clips from his films and interviews with actors, crew members, and critics provide details for this portrait of creativity.

title: Stealing Beauty

overview: Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

title: Testament of Orpheus

overview: An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.

title: White Nights

overview: A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

title: King on Horseback

overview: Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV, the Duke of Saint-Sever takes offense at it and challenges Henri to a duel. However, while they fight, a group of Austrian soldiers appear suddenly and the two rivals instantly unite to repel their enemies. Unfortunately, Saint-Sever is mortally wounded and, feeling he is about to die, he entreats his new friend to offer protection to Toinon, his natural daughter, whose life is being threatened...

title: The Storm Within

overview: Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home. Yvonne, Michel's overbearing mother, concocts an elaborate scheme to drive Madeleine away, thus keeping uncomfortable household truths from being exposed.

title: Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

overview: A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also delighted audiences with his dangerous stunts, his laughter, his jokes, and his refreshing ease and impertinence. Cultivating the art of the counterpunch, he spanned half a century of French cinema.

original_title: Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

title: Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas

overview: A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, Chenoua, Tipasa, Oran, Constantine, Candle , the Kabylie, the light, the noises, the music, the events, the last hopes.

title: The Eternal Return

overview: A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France.

title: Leathernose

overview: After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decides to become a Casanova-like seductor. When he meets true love, cynical Roger does not believe in it and lets pure Judith marry an old marquis. But once Judith's husband dies, he sees Judith again, shows her his disfigured face, which does not discourage the young woman from loving him. Nevertheless, he distances himself from her forever

title: Royal Affairs in Versailles

overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.

title: Carmen

overview: Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a version of the famous opera. It was filmed in two versions, French and Italian, with the same screen cast but some different crew, and with Italian voices dubbed in on the Italian version, which have been munged together at IMDb. A third version, with English dubbed under the direction of British actor Noel Howlett, was made subsequently using one of the two (French or Italian) originals for the visual source.

title: Les Miserables

overview: In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.

title: If Paris Were Told to Us

overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.

title: The Battle of Austerlitz

overview: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

title: Julietta

overview: Julietta Valendor is in love with lawyer André Landrecourt. He is unaware of her feelings. He puts her up one day when he has his fiancée, Rosie, staying with him... Based on a novel of Louise de Vilmorin.

title: Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

overview: The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.

title: The Count of Monte Cristo

overview: Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

title: Elena and Her Men

overview: Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.

title: Étienne

overview: Étienne, a very sensitive being, watches helplessly as his mother suffers from his father's infidelities. He tries to seduce his father's next conquest without his knowledge.

title: The Hawk

overview: The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is enfeebled and ill, so she takes pity on him.

title: Bizarre, Bizarre

overview: A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.

character: Le fêtard assommé par un Chinois (uncredited)

title: The Patriot

overview: The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.

title: The Hunchback of Paris

overview: Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompagnied by Henri de Lagardère when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.

title: The Pavilion Burns

overview: Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occurred that compromises the mine. An accident occurs and about fifteen workers, including Denise's fiancé, are buried under rubble in a collapsing shaft.

title: The Royalists

overview: The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to seduce and capture him.

title: Captain Blood

overview: Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.

title: The Image Book

overview: In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.

title: The Iron Mask

overview: The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.

title: The Mysteries of Paris

overview: The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.

title: Life Together

overview: The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.

title: Blood on His Sword

overview: Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?

title: Killer Spy

overview: The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 columns". Unfortunately they platted a slot in the good old France. They should think better...

title: Princess of Cleves

overview: When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.

title: The Saint Lies in Wait

overview: Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are fake and Chartier decides to get help from his good friend Simon Templar.

title: A Girl in a Pocket

overview: A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.

title: Voyage Without Hope

overview: Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo ship is willing to smuggle him out out France for a price but Gohelle has no money. His mistress, Marie-Angel tries to charm the money out of wealthy Alain Ginestier who seems the ideal pigeon but Marie-Angel falls in love with Ginestier.

title: Romulus and the Sabines

overview: The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.

title: Le Jouet criminel

overview: A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man.

title: The Eagle with Two Heads

overview: Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.

title: The Reluctant Spy

overview: Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.

title: Ivory Coast Adventure

overview: An Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs.

title: School for Love

overview: Sophie and Elis, two young women at the Conservatory of Vienna. vie for the affection of head singing teacher Walter.

title: Pontius Pilate

overview: The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.

title: Seven Guys and a Gal

overview: Italy during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta the resolute daughter of an Italian Count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French.

title: The Queen's Lover

overview: Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...

title: Boom on Paris

overview: In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...

title: Miracles Only Happen Once

overview: 1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year for the two lovers : war breaks out before they can get married. They meet again after the war but the enchantment has vanished. They decide to marry but it will be for reason, not for love. Miracles only happen once.

title: Friends of the family

overview: Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to succeed in everything he undertakes... Patate become increasingly jealous of this incredible luck.

title: Typhoon Over Nagasaki

overview: Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...

title: Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or

title: Inside a Girls' Dormitory

overview: In a little town with a renowned college a female student is found after she was hogtied and strangled to death. Inspector Marco is assigned to catch the murderer.

title: Love, Madame

overview: Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.

title: The Invincible Swordsman

overview: Lovers are united by a political and royal coup within the court of King Louis XIII.

title: At World's End

overview: An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recluse Severin has shot them down. A danish special enforcement with a psychiatrist in front is sent off, and they find out, that Severin claims, that he is 129 years old, and it's the flower, which keeps him young. Soon all hunts the white flower, which apparently gives eternal life.

title: Parking

overview: Rock star Orpheus writes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. Torn between her and his sound engineer, Calaïs, he discovers Eurydice has died of an overdose. Desperate, he descends into the Underworld to bargain with Hades.

title: The Adventurer

overview: A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.

title: Voice of Silence

overview: The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the “House of Silence”. For three days, they meditate on their lives.

title: Le Bonheur

overview: Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.

title: Napoleon

overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

title: Soleil éteint

overview: The portrait of three young French people - a teenager, a young man and a young woman - wondering about leaving Algeria.

title: The New Men

overview: Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Clemenceau yield to the entreaties of Lyautey, we are witnessing the arrival of settlers on Moroccan soil with the rapid rise of one of them: the ambitious Bourron.  Similarly it has conquered the land from scratch, Bourron could conquer a woman, Christiane, who followed him not without confessing his love for another man. It is this love that Bourron will use later to acquire a forest of olive trees, which he believed to be the symbol of its success. Christiane accept but never forgive her husband...

title: Federico Fellini's Autobiography

overview: Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...

original_title: Federico Fellini - un autoritratto ritrovato

title: In the Eyes of Memory

overview: Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.

title: Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

overview: This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-Luc Godard, who discusses Cocteau's foray into cinema. The film documents all the artistic media explored by a man who defined himself, first and foremost, as a poet.

title: The Four-Poster Bed

overview: In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.

title: Napoléon II, the Eagle

overview: The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.

title: Diamond Rush

overview: Traumatized by the War of Algeria and by the accidental death of his wife and his son, Manu left the right road. His last caper was the attack of the Antwerp-Tangiers Express, carrying a precious cargo of industrial diamonds. But the whole affair was bungled and all of his accomplices got shot. The only survivor of this disaster, Manu now finds refuge in the mountain house of Lucia, the widow of a smuggler who lives alone there with her little boy.

title: The Provocation

overview: An expedition of archaeology students in Israel.

title: The Secret of Mayerling

overview: On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetsera were found dead. The remains of Rodolphe are discreetly repatriated to Hofburg, while that of Mary is hastily thrown into the depths of a tomb.

title: Every Day Has Its Secret

overview: Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.

title: The Lovers of Midnight

overview: Marcel, rich and alone for Christmas, invite Françoise to celebrate with him. Soon, the fairy tale turns into a bad dream.

title: The Scandal

overview: A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?

title: Screening at the Majestic

overview: More than fifty years after its making, we return to the set of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film "La Belle et la Bete" (Beauty and the Beast). Included are interviews with the the lead actors, the cinematographer, along with excerpts read from the director's journal.

title: Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl

overview: Goubbiah is a Yugoslav sponge fisherman. He loves Trinida, but she is promised to Peppo, the village drunkard. Jao tries to keep Goubbiah away from his daughter.

title: S.O.S. Noronha

overview: In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio station, and his team-mates Mastic and Froment, try to prevent them from entering the concession where the island's governor and his daughter have taken refuge. They manage to repair the radio so as to follow and guide Mermoz as he attempts to cross the South Atlantic for the 53rd time. The aviator is forced to ditch and is picked up by a boat. Their mission accomplished, Coulibaud and his team boarded a British ship that had come to their rescue.

title: Shipwrecked Children

overview: Eight children of a wrecker live together on a strange island, in a supernatural happiness. Until their little paradise is disturbed when an old lady is discovered murdered there. They then embark on the investigation in search of the truth.

title: Damia: Concert en velours noir

overview: Documentary on the singer Damia made for TV.

title: The Whole Town Accuses

overview: François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him.

title: The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

overview: A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.

title: The Call of Destiny

overview: Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism.

title: Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

overview: The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.

title: Cherchez l'idole

overview: After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...

character: Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan's show (uncredited)

title: The World of Jacques Demy

overview: Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy.  A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

title: Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

overview: Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. The star is not one to let others get too close, but when she gives you her confidence, she keeps her word. If Deneuve’s career covers a half-century of cinema, it also bears witness to the force of a generation that experienced the deepest transformation of mores. This portrait reflects her entirely. The story of a mystery and an adventure.

title: The Healer

overview: Pierre Laurent, a former doctor, has established himself as a renowned healer in Brittany. A young girl, Isabelle, who follows his results with admiration, declares her love for him and becomes engaged. The reactions of his former colleagues bring Pierre before the courts. A misunderstanding with Isabelle thwarts the wedding plans. Later, the young girl, suffering from a brain tumor, allows herself to be cured by the healer. Pierre does not cure her, but leads her to her death without suffering.

title: Lien de parenté

overview: In this drama, the popular French film star of the '30s and '40s Jean Marais plays Victor, a disgruntled, cranky old man who is forced to come to terms with the fact that he is now the guardian of his mulatto grandson Clem (Serge Ubrette). Victor is shocked to discover his grandson's mixed heritage when he travels to London to pick him up, but resigns himself to the situation. Once at home in France, the brash Clem manages to steal the heart of the most coveted young woman in town, but that only gets him into trouble with her tough-guy boyfriend and his buddies. Meanwhile, Grandpa is trying to come to grips with his own biases as best he can.

title: Peau d'Âne

overview: Writer / director Jacques Demy and actors Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais are interviewed on the set of 'Le peau d'ane'.

title: Jean Marais par Jean Marais

title: Die 1000 Tode des Yvan Chiffre

title: Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

title: I misteri di Roma

overview: A day in Rome viewed by sixteen different directors under the supervision of the great screenwriter Cesare Zavattini.

title: Deneuve, la reine Catherine

overview: She is said to be cold, secretive and mysterious. She has the reputation of not letting anything of her intimate thoughts, her private life, her joys as well as her torments show through. She managed to protect her family, her loves, her choices from the curiosity of magazines and her public. A tour de force for a sixty year long career with more than one hundred and thirty films shot with the greatest filmmakers in the world. However, the raw material for a very personal account of Catherine Deneuve exists: it can be found in the interviews given by the actress from her beginnings until today. They allow us to discover another Catherine Deneuve.

title: Jacques Demy: The Pink and the Black

overview: Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a showman, establishing him as one of French cinema’s greatest artists.

title: Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

title: Fantomas Unleashed

title: The Secret of Mayerling

title: Beauty and the Beast

title: Fantomas Unleashed

title: Fantomas

title: Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

title: Operation Double Cross

title: Orpheus

title: Captain Fracasse

title: Donkey Skin

title: The Glass Castle

title: Thomas the Impostor

title: Luchino Visconti

title: Stealing Beauty

title: Testament of Orpheus

title: White Nights

title: King on Horseback

title: The Storm Within

title: Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas

title: The Eternal Return

title: Leathernose

title: Royal Affairs in Versailles

title: Carmen

title: Les Miserables

title: If Paris Were Told to Us

title: The Battle of Austerlitz

title: Julietta

title: Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

title: The Count of Monte Cristo

title: Elena and Her Men

title: The Hawk

title: Étienne

title: Bizarre, Bizarre

title: The Patriot

title: The Hunchback of Paris

title: The Pavilion Burns

title: The Royalists

title: Captain Blood

title: The Image Book

title: The Iron Mask

title: The Mysteries of Paris

title: Life Together

title: Blood on His Sword

title: Princess of Cleves

title: Killer Spy

title: The Saint Lies in Wait

title: A Girl in a Pocket

title: Voyage Without Hope

title: Romulus and the Sabines

title: Le Jouet criminel

title: The Eagle with Two Heads

title: The Reluctant Spy

title: Ivory Coast Adventure

title: School for Love

title: Pontius Pilate

title: Seven Guys and a Gal

title: The Queen's Lover

title: Boom on Paris

title: Miracles Only Happen Once

title: Friends of the family

title: Typhoon Over Nagasaki

title: Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or

title: Inside a Girls' Dormitory

title: Love, Madame

title: The Invincible Swordsman

title: At World's End

title: Parking

title: The Adventurer

title: Voice of Silence

title: Le Bonheur

title: Napoleon

title: Soleil éteint

title: The New Men

title: Federico Fellini's Autobiography

title: In the Eyes of Memory

title: Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

title: The Four-Poster Bed

title: Napoléon II, the Eagle

title: Diamond Rush

title: The Provocation

title: The Secret of Mayerling

title: The Lovers of Midnight

title: Every Day Has Its Secret

title: The Scandal

title: Screening at the Majestic

title: Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl

title: S.O.S. Noronha

title: Shipwrecked Children

title: Damia: Concert en velours noir

title: The Whole Town Accuses

title: The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

title: The Call of Destiny

title: Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

title: Cherchez l'idole

title: The World of Jacques Demy

title: Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

title: The Healer

title: Lien de parenté

title: Peau d'Âne

title: Jean Marais par Jean Marais

title: Die 1000 Tode des Yvan Chiffre

title: Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

title: I misteri di Roma

title: Deneuve, la reine Catherine

title: Jacques Demy: The Pink and the Black

title: Fantomas Unleashed

title: Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard