Popeck
Also Known As: Jean Herbert, Jean Hébert, Popek, Judka Herpstu
Biography: Popeck (born Judka Herpstu; 18 May 1936) is a French actor and stand-up comedian. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania, Judka Herpstu was born in Paris. He was among the children saved from the Holocaust by the OSE, but his mother was murdered in Auschwitz. He studied acting at the Cours Simon and started his career on stage under the name Jean Herbert. In 1968, Herpstu created the character of Popeck, a grumpy Eastern-European immigrant dressed in a 3-piece suit, wearing a bowler hat and speaking French with a strong Yiddish accent. Sketches featuring Popeck made Herpstu known to the larger public, and the actor identified with his character so far as to finally adopt the name Popeck for himself in 1978. In addition to his work on stage, Popeck has acted in movies. He had a small role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. Source: Article "Popeck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: May 18, 1935
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Overview: In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Cousin, Cousine
Overview: Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-11-19
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The Station
Overview: A good-natured, albeit a bit pedantic stationmaster works at a railway station in the middle of nowhere. One night, a beautiful high-society woman enters the station to buy a ticket. Waiting for her train, the two talk and eventually grow close. However, the mood quickly changes when the woman's fiancée arrives and tries to prevent her from leaving with increasingly violent means.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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L'humour c'est mieux à deux
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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Simon Konianski
Overview: Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest's brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a "nice little Jewish girl" for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father's last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his "Goy dancer", his six-years-old son, his father's body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone. The journey will be nothing like a cruise down the Nile!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-29
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Scènes de ménages - Ça s'enguirlande pour Noël
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-19
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La rêverie ou le mariage de Sylvia
Overview: Sylvia Juszczyk, a Jewish woman in her forties who has been divorced for five years, is a dentist whose long working days are not the only source of happiness. She is in love with a young man who is unemployed because his skills are not adapted to the job market.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-09
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Popeck à l'Olympia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-04-17
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Sixty
Overview: 60 comedians in 60 minutes, that's what Kyan Khojandi has to offer tonight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-06
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Popeck - C'est la dernière fois... !
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-15
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The Restroom Robbery
Overview: Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-22
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Adam et Ève
Overview: Movie producer Léon Blachurpe is about to produce a big budget movie about Adam and Eve. In order to get the money, he agrees to hire ex movie star La Maldiva to play the lead part, but she's old and ugly, so the scenes are actually shot with the stunt woman !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-06-03
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T'es folle ou quoi ?
Overview: Dominique Lombardi is news director of a regional TV station. A homosexual, he has a secret relationship with his young protégé, Jean-François Sevran, a journalist and news anchor. To conceal their relationship, the two live in the same building and have set up a trapdoor so they can see each other without bumping into their nosy plumber neighbor on the stairs. As a young man, Jean-François is searching for himself, until the day he meets Florence, the new sub-prefect of his district, whom he is to interview.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-06
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The Hornet's Nest
Overview: A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret singer. A getaway ensues.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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The Mad Dog
Overview: Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Halles market and an empty theatre.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-02
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L'Amour foot
Overview: The arrival of an unruly young man in the football team of a small town in France is turning the life of the Mayor upside down. Some revelations about him may well cost him his re-election by a population averse to bribes and scandals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Themroc
Overview: Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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The Pianist
Overview: The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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Il était une fois... « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-14
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Les Chevaliers du fiel : Les fous rires de 2017
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Face à face
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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Ruben fête ses 25 ans
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-01
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The Companions of Baal
Overview: Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.
Genres: Crime Adventure Horror TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-11
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Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons
Overview: Divisional Inspector Bricot sends two detectives to the French Riviera to dismantle a drug deal in a carnival mask factory. However, knowing the low efficiency of his subordinates' work, he goes down to Nice to conduct the investigation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-09
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Père Noël et fils
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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The Jews
Overview: Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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Banana's Boulevard
Overview: Six friends start playing music under the name of Forbans, firmly determined to succeed. They soon find themselves in Martinique, embroiled in a series of abracadabre adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-22
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A Child's Battle
Overview: A young French boy deals with the effects of war. Conflicts arise as his trusted neighbor and advisor is taken away by the Germans and the boy loses respect for his father, who tries to appease the German soldiers lodging in the family home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-25
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Shabbot Shalom!
Overview: The mayor of a suburban town must try to deal with cultural clashes with the local hassidic jewish community, while trying to mend his relation to his emotionally-distant son.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-04
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Popeck: fini de rire, on ferme!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-15
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Cellini: A Violent Life
Overview: The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-05-02
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