Christophe Salengro
Birthday: Born in 1953-08-09 in Lens, France
Deathday: 2018-03-30
Christophe Salengro was a French actor, dancer and director. A famous character since his first appearances in advertisements in the 1980s, he established himself as an artist within Philippe Decouflé's company DCA and from 1993 to 2018 as the president of Groland, in a series of satirical programs broadcast on Canal+ .
TV Credits
Groland
Character: Président de la présipauté du Groland
Parodic news programme focusing on the fictional country Groland (full name: Presipality of Groland), airing on French television channel Canal+....
Chroniques animales
Character: Narrateur
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Movie Credits
Groland - 15 ans d'âge... bête
Character: Président
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Enfin la fin
Character: Dancer
A group a young artists are making one last film before the final destruction....
Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Character: Pierrot
This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film....
Louise-Michel
Character: Le gogo dancer
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss....
KO Kid
Character: L'arbitre
An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action, a little surreal, making it an experimental film....
L'Ami du jardin
Character: le commissaire
An ordinary night in the village of Beugneux. Mademoiselle Tronchet discovers her brother Léon - a notary and a great collector of garden gnomes - hanging from the beams of the attic. It could be the start of a police intrigue....
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Character: Self (archive footage)
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of creative little films would seduce and build our collective memory. Kitschy or cult spots, humor, slogans, music, stars, gimmicks, grand spectacle or sex appeal: during its golden age, how did advertising convince? Thierry Ardisson has brought together almost 400 advertising clips to relive the era of the conquest of minds and wallets....
Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
Character: Le vautour
Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period...
Formidable
Character:
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Radio corbeau
Character: Gérard, le serveur
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town....
The Truth About Charlie
Character: Morgue Attendant
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. Stuck in ever-increasing danger and with four men pursuing her, another stranger offers assistance - but who can she trust?...
GrolandSat
Character: président Salengro
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Dance Challenge
Character: Hippolyte
A musical comedy set to a hip-hop beat, the feature debut from actress-turned-director Blanca Li finds a dedicated young breakdancer abandoning his comfortable life in a bid for fame in the U.S.A. Dropping out of school and leaving home to escape his overbearing mother, 18-year-old David dedicates all of his time to perfecting his moves with his dance team, the Urban Cycle Breakers. As David and his team begin gearing-up to face-off against a rival group of intimidating dancers, his dreams of fi...
Groland le gros métrage
Character: The President
Noël and Guy, two young Frincheux girls, tired of their condition of eternal unemployed interim, decided to become the Steve Jobs and Larry Page of the Presidency Grown....
On braque pas les banques avec des fourchettes en plastique
Character: Gilles Tagliani
It is the year 2027 and the world has suffered an unspecified socio-economic catastrophe. The aftermath is so severe that even major cities are reduced to apocalyptic wastelands where food water and shelter are scarce. A scavenger named Gilles along with his teenage son try to find their way amongst the desolate remnants of Paris. All the while they must avoid capture outside the strict, daily curfew enforced by the masked agents of a shadow government and their ferocious dogs....
Les 20 ans de Groland
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The City of Lost Children
Character: Soldier
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process....
Guardian of the Night
Character: Vidéoman
With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young man who works as a cop at night. The catch is that Yves turns to petty crime during the day, partly to impress Aurore (Aurelle Doazan), a nurse he idolizes from afar. His criminal hobby seems hard to understand, since it's doubtful that they will really get him anywhere with Aurore; besides, she already has a boyfriend. Nevertheless, Yves starts out b...
Nouvelles neuves du monde de Moustic
Character:
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Groland - Les Présipales 2001
Character: Président Salengro
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His Name Was Vian
Character: Miqueut
In a cinema, the day of the premiere of J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (adapted from his novel), Boris Vian has a heart attack. During his discomfort, he relives the major stages of his life: the meeting with Raymond Queneau, the nights of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the scandal of J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, his love stories with Michelle Léglise then Ursula Kubler or his relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. Through his memories, Boris Vian relives all his “parallel lives”....
Bankable
Character: Monsieur Kremer
The wealthy Deville family loses their fortune at the same time the unassuming Ricci family suddenly become internet millionaires; things look bleak until their mutual banker suggests Mr. Deville goes to work for the Riccis!...
Caramba
Character:
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Ile Flottante
Character: Christophe Salengro
Île flottante is not an island, nor a dessert, but a somewhat unusual cinema, floating, that's for sure! While in his booth, a young projectionist, nervous about launching his first screening, panics a little, at the entrance to the building, whose contours are difficult to make out in the foggy night, a queue forms, resembling a huge centipede of impatient people....