Dorothée Blanck
Also Known As: Dorothée Blank
Biography: Dorothée Blanck was born on February 24, 1934 in Aichach, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). She died on January 16, 2016 in Paris, France.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aichach, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: February 24, 1934
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 16, 2016
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Overview: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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Cloportes
Overview: Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-08
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Il segno del vendicatore
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-16
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A Woman Is a Woman
Overview: Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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L'Opéra-Mouffe
Overview: Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-25
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French Cancan
Overview: Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-09
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Et la femme créa l'amour
Overview: Laurent, a young playboy, lives off his charms, maintained by wealthy women of the world. He becomes the lover of Sonia, a young woman painter, a lover at heart of course. But Sonia has a provincial friend, Clotilde. One day, Clotilde pays Bona a visit. As she has just come into a large inheritance, Laurent courts her and marries her. The young couple embark on a misguided life of easy pleasures and questionable company. Clotilde's nerves crack at this game. Among Laurent's acquaintances, François, a doctor, treats her in his clinic: sleep cure, rest, etc. Meanwhile, Laurent distracts himself with other women. But Clotilde, convalescing, refuses to resume life together. Laurent turns to his former mistress, Sonia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-24
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Le journal d’un fou
Overview: Pascal Canteloup is a proofreader at a newspaper. He is bitter and irritable towards his bosses and the people he works with. He's full of hatred about life. Little by little, he sinks into madness!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-06
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L'or du duc
Overview: A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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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...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Hellé
Overview: Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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4 Days in France
Overview: A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone dating app.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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A Gentle Woman
Overview: When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Josef von Sternberg, A Retrospective
Overview: An interview with film director Josef von Sternberg, produced for Belgium television.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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La famille
Overview: A film by Yvan Lagrange.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-21
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Lola
Overview: A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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I Killed Rasputin
Overview: Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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L'annonciation
Overview: Study of the suffocating materialism of modern society as an expression of prima ry retreat to infantilism.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-29
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Overview: This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
Overview: Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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L'Anniversaire de Paula
Overview: Paula flees to Dunkirk to spend the end year celebrations. She is going to turn 50. She wanders around the city where she used to live, searching "men from her past".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Vice and Virtue
Overview: 1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Commanderie", where Juliette becomes SS Colonel Schonberg's mistress and Justine is detained with other pretty girls who must satisfy the sexual needs of high-ranking nazi officials. Inspired by "Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu" by the marquis de Sade
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
Overview: More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged actors in the same spots, telling stories, and listening to others' reflections on the making of the film. She and they talk about making a film on a low budget, its showing at Cannes, and trying to fix a problem in the last shot. Her assistant directors discuss casting, costumes, sets, and the ways the film changed their approaches to filmmaking.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-12
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Qui êtes-vous Dorothée Blanck ?
Overview: A film about Dorothée Blanck.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
Overview: Six-part documentary on the making of Jacques Demy's 'Le demoiselles de Rochefort'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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