Bernard Pivot
Also Known As: Bernard Claude Pivot
Biography: Bernard Pivot was a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. In 1985, Pivot created the Championnats mondiaux d'orthographe (world spelling championships). He has been Chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2019.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lyon, Rhône, France
Adult: No
Birthday: May 05, 1935
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 06, 2024
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Belmondo, le magnifique
Overview: With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-03
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Au secours ! Les mots m'ont mangé
Overview: A writer explains how he feels eaten by words.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-07
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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Dorothée : Le Show
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Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-26
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Paris Rendez-vous
Overview: Théodore, a strange and shy parisian man, discovers a song with supernatural power. An old jazz classic from the 1920s which will be make instantaneously make two people love each other. He has to find this song to seduce Amandine, the love of his life. His investigation leads him to New York City, where he meets a community of young jazzmen.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-11
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Overview: In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Maso and Miso Go Boating
Overview: The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Going and Coming Back
Overview: Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-27
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Valérian, histoire d'une création
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-07-25
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Un fil à la patte
Overview: Bois d'Enghien, engaged to a young girl from a good family, has to break up with Lucette Gautier, his mistress, a dilettante of salons. Not having been able to tell her of his break-up, he finds her at her fiancée's house, invited for the event. A Mexican general, jealous of his rivals, arrives and complicates the situation, as does a notary clerk, Bouzin, a singer in his spare time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-28
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Days of Darkness
Overview: Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-26
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I Betrayed Hitler
Overview: During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encryption machine, an impossible task to accomplish without the invaluable information that Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a disenchanted but greedy German citizen, had been handing over to the French secret services since 1931.
Genres: History Documentary War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-27
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Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
Overview: Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Overview: The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-24
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The Gods Must Be Daring
Overview: A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-04-30
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Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Overview: Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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Mitterrand et la télé
Overview: May 10th, 1981. François Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic. The “soviet tanks” supposedly coming upon the Champs-Élysées dressed in red, feared by some, did not march. Serge Moati takes a personal look at this episode, focusing on the relationship the president had with television, that he witnessed and played a role in.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-11
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Delphine and Carole
Overview: In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-14
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Football Rebels
Overview: Five stories that tell how a handful of football stars took the risk of losing everything and put their fate in the balance to make a difference by becoming the symbol of a fight.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-14
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