Ernest Ferny
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 17, 1886
Deathday: May 28, 1939
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Fedora
1934-03-23
Fedora
Overview: Fedora swears to avenge the death of her fiancé, Prince Yarischkine, killed by Ipanoff who fled to Paris. She finds Ipanoff whom she falls in love with and he confesses to having killed her fiancé because Yarischkine was his wife's lover. But learning that her brother was executed because of Fedora, Ipanoff leaves her. Fedora commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Moscow Nights
1934-11-21
Moscow Nights
Overview: During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-21
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Troïka sur la piste blanche
1937-06-18
Troïka sur la piste blanche
Overview: Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase during which the trafficker loses his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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La Bataille silencieuse
1937-09-09
La Bataille silencieuse
Overview: A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he meets Draguicha, a Serbian student who, misled by a group of greedy financiers, is planning a terrorist attack on the Orient Express...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-09
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Aloha, the Song of the Islands
1937-12-16
Aloha, the Song of the Islands
Overview: During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced to land on a lost island in Polynesia. They learn to survive in difficult conditions and fall in love. Back in civilization, their union does not prove obvious. Pierre is already married to Ginette, a movie actress, and Betty is engaged to her cousin Edouard. Moreover, Lord Stanton, her rich father, will not hear of a marriage with Guy. Will love ultimately triumph in spite of everything?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-16
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Nights of Fire
1937-04-16
Nights of Fire
Overview: 19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Boissière
1937-05-27
Boissière
Overview: In 1914, during the First World War, the rich chatelaine de Boissière, with a sulphurous past, took in Jean le Barois, a young soldier lost in territory occupied by the Germans, who was none other than the son of the man she loved, then ruined. The young man, after having despised her, falls madly in love with the woman who pushed his father to suicide.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-27
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Nuits de princes
1938-01-27
Nuits de princes
Overview: In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and the love she feels for a new suitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-27
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Southern Bar
1938-03-23
Southern Bar
Overview: Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities of her husband as a weapons dealer and entrepreneur of revolutions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-23
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Le Patriote
1938-06-05
Le Patriote
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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-05
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The Messenger
1937-09-02
The Messenger
Overview: Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife. When Gilbert takes sick and returns to Paris, he begins to fall in love with Marie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Stolen Life
1939-01-18
Stolen Life
Overview: Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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Le Tigre du Bengale
1938-03-09
Le Tigre du Bengale
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-09
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Tarakanova
1930-03-18
Tarakanova
Overview: Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord. It depicts the life of Princess Tarakanoff, the pretender to the throne of Catherine II in Eighteenth Century Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-03-18
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The Lady of Lebanon
1934-01-01
The Lady of Lebanon
Overview: The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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