Jacques Spiesser
Birthday: Born in 1947-06-07 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Deathday: Alive
Jacques Spiesser (born 7 June 1947) is a French actor. After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film, debut in 1972, in Nina Companeez's Faustine et le bel été with Muriel Catala. He is best known to English-speaking audiences for playing the role of Gilles in Priceless. Source: Article "Jacques Spiesser" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Section de recherches
Character: Daniel Pérez
The Section de recherches is a special unit of the Gendarmerie nationale, responsible for the most complex cases. In Bordeaux (from 2006 to 2013) and then in Nice (since 2014), child abductions, disappearances, heinous or sexual crimes are the daily lot of the investigators in this research unit. In the search for witnesses, the team is authorised to extend its investigations beyond France's borders....
Commissaire Magellan
Character: Commissaire Simon Magellan
A French police inspector solves crimes and mysteries while also raising two teenage daughters....
Les Rois maudits
Character: Charles de Valois
A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy....
Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs
Character: le juge (uncredited)
Set in and around Bagdad of the old times ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES is the highly entertaining tale of kind but luckless Ali, played by French superstar Gérard Jugnor who finds himself unwilling in the centre of multiple difficult situations....
Zodiaque
Character: Etienne Lefort
In the Marseille region, a woman returns home for her father's birthday, only to be swept into a chilling investigation. As a string of seemingly random murders unfolds, Esther races against time to uncover the truth behind the elusive Zodiac killer....
La Bicyclette bleue
Character: Adrien Delmas
Léa, the daughter of a wealthy Bordeaux family, is spending happy days at the Montillac family estate at the end of the 1930s. Radiant with youth, she charms all the men who meet her on the blue bicycle offered to her by her father. She is in deep love with Laurent, when she tells him, he lets her down. He is in love with Camille, Lea's best friend. The war sounds the death knell of her carelessness. She takes refuge in Paris. There, she finds Laurent, his secret love, who has just married Camil...
L'Été rouge
Character: Robert Lantier
The rich heiress Hélène de Graf is found dead, murdered. Her lover, Thomas, is the ideal culprit. Accused, tried and imprisoned. After thirteen years Thomas tries to find the killer......
D'Artagnan et les Trois Mousquetaires
Character: Bonacieux
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure....
Le Grand Patron
Character: Vincent Fresnay
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Diane de Poitiers
Character: Philibert de l'Orme
It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death....
Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
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Capitaine Marleau
Character: Thibault Le Preux
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects....
Capitaine Marleau
Character: Octave Duplessis
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects....
Chère Marianne
Character: Coste
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Le Grand Charles
Character: Pierre Pflimlin
Le Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. De Gaulle was played by Bernard Farcy, Winston Churchill by David Ryall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Hardy. Other actors in the cast included Dominic Gould, Sam Spiegel and Jay Benedict....
Les Cordier, juge et flic
Character: Pierre Aubin
The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist....
Claudine
Character: M. Maria
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Collection Fred Vargas
Character: Adrien Danglard
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Une femme en blanc
Character: Barillet
A young surgeon returns to her hometown to work in the local hospital. The relationship to her ex-lover, a well-known chief-surgeon, flames up again but not with happy consequences. The old friends become rivals in personal and professional fields....
Duval
Character: Duval
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My Best Friend
Character: Letellier
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part....
Priceless
Character: Gilles
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch....
Je suis Pierre Rivière
Character: Pierre Rivière
The story about Pierre Riviere, who tired of the constants demands of her mother to her father decides to kill her, but also his brother and his siste...
Black and White in Color
Character: Hubert Fresnoy
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the...
The Hook
Character: Kouznetov
A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money....
Péril imminent: Mortel chahut
Character: Commissioner Jourdan
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Lily Sometimes
Character: Odile, Pierre's Father
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister....
Coco
Character: Le préfet
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah....
De l'histoire ancienne
Character: Didier
Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have him incinerated, following a wish their dad had expressed when he was still alive. But Guy soon starts feeling uncomfortable about this move. Haven't they, by cremating the body of their father, make a hero disappear from man's memory? Haven't they used the same method as the Nazis to get rid of the remains of a hated enemy?...
Preuve d'amour
Character: Bernard
A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer....
Baxter
Character: Michel Ferrer
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family....
The Trout
Character: Galuchat
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors....
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Character: Jacques Steiner
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader,...
The Slap
Character: Rémy Abeillé
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend....
The Blonde with Bare Breasts
Character: Victor Durieux
Julian, 25, and Louis, 12, are two brothers who work and live on a barge in the centre of Paris. They transport gravel and resort to petty crime to make ends meet. They have grown up alone and now they are inseparable, wedded to a life on the river. A receiver of stolen goods offers them the opportunity of a lifetime, to steal a painting by Manet from the Musée d'Orsay. Louis takes charge of the theft and, against the odds, he succeeds in removing it from the gallery and taking it aboard his bar...
C'est la vie
Character: Jean-Louis
Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is dedicated to supporting people at the end of their lives....
In Your Wake
Character: Ruiz
An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him....
Fissures
Character: Le père de Charlotte
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer...
She's One of Us
Character: Danjard
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a s...
Autopsie d’un complot
Character: Jean-Marie Bigot
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After the Reconciliation
Character: Arthur
An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life....
Monsieur Saint-Saëns
Character: Camille Saint-Saëns
The imaginary adventures of musician Sans-Saëns....
Die Jahrhundertlawine
Character: Pfarrer Josef
In the Austrian Alps have found the body of a young woman who died in a skiing accident eight years earlier. Dr. Marc Pelletier decides to return to the scene, as it is the brother of his ex-girlfriend. When he reach the ski resort, a dreadful avalanche buries all the people....
L'Affaire Seznec
Character: Petitcolas
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit....
Marie-Octobre
Character: Roland Herbelin
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre......
Nothing to Report
Character: Rémy March
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, tortur...
The Chalk Circle Man
Character: Adrien Danglard
For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved when a dead woman is found in one of the circles....
A Place On Earth
Character: Monsieur Morin
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter....
Madame Jacques on the Croisette
Character: Jo
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age....
The Missing Granddaughter
Character: Meunier
Eva is a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France, after the Second World War. During the war her whole family was sent to the German extermination camps by French collaborators. Eva survived by chance. Then by chance a new girl enters her class, a girl who resembles Eva's dead daughter....
The Gordji Affair
Character: Edouard Balladur
Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are released. Political scandal in France: there is suspicion that the government had intervened in the case and to have exchanged the liberation of the hostages with that of Gordj. Discredited, the judge commits suicide. Mitterand and Chirac keep lobbing the responsibility of the case to each other....
Seeking Whom He May Devour
Character: Adrien Danglard
A wave of carnage is sweeping through Southern France, with locals blaming the return of wolves. However some begin talking of a werewolf, and Police Captain Adamsberg must investigate....
A Dubious Place
Character: Adrien Danglard
A gruesome discovery is made outside a London cemetery one night. Meanwhile in Paris, Police Captain Adamsberg discovers a body chopped into pieces. Could there be a link?...
Neptunes Thunder
Character: Adrien Danglard
After his brother disappears, police captain Adamsberg re-opens the case for serial killer Trident. But when a new victim is found in Canada, accusations point to Adamsberg. Based on Fred Vargas acclaimed psycho-thriller....
La solitude du pouvoir
Character: Stéphane Prévost
Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, and parrying opposition attacks-not to mention dealing with the tense relationship he has with his daughter....
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Character: Lassagne
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation....
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Character: Florent
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man......
One Summer
Character: Paulo Granral adult
A hired labourer, Joseph, works on a farm inhabited by Monique, a war widow, and Jeanne, her captivating daughter who longs to escape to the big city....
L'Affaire Dominici
Character: Juge Péries
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence....
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
Character: Bonacieux
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and their reckless romantic friend D'Artagnan. Supernatural powers and dark mystical forces add an exciting twist to this classic tale....
Accusé Mendès France
Character: President Perré
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A Man and His Dog
Character: le libraire
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means....
The Last Diamond
Character: Pierre Neuville
Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Florentine", a mythical diamond set auction by its owners. To succeed, he must approach Julia, expert diamond for sale which is a considerable personal and family issue. Beyond a jigsaw particularly daring, Julia Simon will lead to a destiny she could not imagine....
The Devil in the Heart
Character: Éric Bouvier
It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student is far from the post May 68 clichés and the movie walks a fine line off the beaten path. Philippe Lemaire and Emmanuelle Riva are ideally cast as the bourgeois parents who urge their offspring to attend the grandma's Christmas meal....
Le gave
Character: Yves Chabrière
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Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
Character: Otto Von Bismarck
A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa....
The Man Who Sleeps
Character: Man
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him....
Everyday Portabella
Character:
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Nature contre nature
Character:
Sébastien Chantoux, a psychoanalyst, decides to move to the Creuse. Adapting little by little to the local customs, he joined "Troc'en Creuse", an association that promotes exchange between individuals. He proposes, within this framework, psychoanalysis sessions....
Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Character: Pécoul
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies....
Itinéraires
Character: Guy Chartrier
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and ...
Le temps de la désobéissance
Character: le divisionnaire
In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the two policemen will shatter with all the suffering and disappointment that implies....
Mourir d'aimer
Character: Le medecin
Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher....
Mom Lost It!
Character: Sam
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Ariane
Character: The clown sphinx
A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur....
Celle qui reste
Character: Gallard
Alice has lost her father and one leg in a car accident. She lives with her mother (Jeanne) and grandfather in a farm. Summer holidays start and she can't go to the sea with other children of the village. Then she meets Vincent, a younger boy who stayed in the village as well, and Alain, the mayor's son who's back in town to train his athleticism female club. Alice would like to run with her prosthesis but Jeanne doesn't want her to run nor to approach Alain....
Duplicity
Character: Alexandre Caussey
Alice learns of her mother's accidental death while travelling in Canada. The body has been repatriated to France at the request of her husband, Alice's father. But he has supposedly been dead for 22 years. Is it really her father? Why would her mother have lied to her?...
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Character: L'inspecteur
Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a real he-man. Given his diffident, shy nature, it comes as a bit of a surprise that not only does he actually have a girlfriend, but he has managed to get her pregnant. However, she doesn't fit his image of himself, and he can't bring himself to m...
Here Below
Character: L'évêque
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War....
The Irony of Chance
Character: Jean Rimbert
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....
Little Marcel
Character: Marcel
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms....
Un animal doué de déraison
Character: Jacques
A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisoner of her strict education. He then shared his project with a journalist friend, who decided to make it the theme of a novel he imagined in 18th century Brazil......
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Character: Martin
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Le mas Théotime
Character: L'inspecteur
Pascal lives on the land in Provence that his father left him. He is supported by the Alibert family, his tenant farmers, to counter the maneuvers of his cousin Clodius who wants to compromise the irrigation of the vines or contaminate the beehives. It is in this atmosphere of suspicion that Geneviève returns to the country, charged with a mysterious past....
Stavisky...
Character: Michel Grandville
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war....
A City Is Beautiful at Night
Character: The manager
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion....
Quand sort la recluse
Character: Danglard
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears....
Bouquet final
Character: Gabriel
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Serious as Pleasure
Character: L'homme au km 103
"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."...
L’homme imaginé
Character: L'homme
The itinerary full of pitfalls, funny and serious encounters of a young dreamer who lives with an obsession....
All That... for This?!
Character: Zuckmeyer, le directeur de l'hôtel
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge who get on with the trial and who are being unfaithful to their couples....
Le Vrai Coupable
Character: Inspecteur Barton
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Entre vents et marées
Character: Ferdinand Lebovitz
In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband had just sold part of their property to two shady real estate developers who wanted to transform the little fishing village into an ultra-modern marina for wealthy clients....
Sous les vents de Neptune
Character: Adrien Danglard
Commissioner Adamsberg and his team are undergoing training supervised by the Quebec scientific police. He discovers the murder of a young girl....
Mongeville et Magellan : Un amour de jeunesse
Character: Magellan
A commissioner and a former examining magistrate are asked to find a woman, whom they both loved, just disappeared....
Dessine-moi un jouet
Character: Raoul Monge
A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz...
Rembrandt
Character: Joost Van den Vondel
This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort fir...
Life Doesn't Scare Me
Character: Stella's father
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things....
A Bad Encounter
Character: Teacher
Meet the wicked story of a symbiotic friendship between two boys, Wolf and Mando. They meet on a bench in a square and grow together, sharing the same interests: books, girls, politics, spiritualism. And then, little by little, their paths diverge and promises are broken....
Thick Skinned
Character: Gérard
Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison....
Lulu, roi de France
Character: Victor
Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the public assistance, a notary comes to announce that his father died and left him an extraordinary inheritance: a castle, a title of duke and a royal filiation. But problems arise, the deceased duke has left heavy debts and suitors to the title....
Le Sang des Atrides
Character: Le juge Chabrand
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Mon frère Yves
Character: Le commandant
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Lumière
Character: Saint-Loup
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…...
Quatre copains
Character: Charles Biraud
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Bay of Algiers
Character: Louis
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is friend with president Steiger, leader of the French settlers but also with the old Arab Bouarab. One night looking at the Bay of Algiers, Louis is convinced that the world in which he has grown will disappear. The first events of the War of Independence have begun. The young boys and young girls have a good time at the seaside: swimming, dancing, flirting. But, ...