Daniel Emilfork
Also Known As: Daniel Zapognikof, Daniel Emilfork Berestein
Biography: Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 – October 17, 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor. Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile. Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Taxandria (1994). He carried on acting up until his death, his last film appearing in 2007. Emilfork's voice and accent when speaking French was extremely striking and unique. He died in Paris, France. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Emilfork licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Providencia, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
Birthday: April 07, 1924
Deathday: October 17, 2006
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Gender: Male
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The City of Lost Children
Overview: A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-17
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What's New Pussycat?
Overview: A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-22
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Ballad for a Hoodlum
Overview: Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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Travels with My Aunt
Overview: At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-17
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Midnight Meeting
Overview: A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Doll
Overview: An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-07
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Fellini's Casanova
Overview: Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-10
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Riff Raff Girls
Overview: Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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Pantalaskas
Overview: An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-08
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Danger in the Middle East
Overview: A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Trans-Europ-Express
Overview: A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Overview: An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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The Devil's Nightmare
Overview: Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-14
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Tower of Lust
Overview: France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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The Beautiful Prisoner
Overview: Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-16
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The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Overview: In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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The Thief of Baghdad
Overview: A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-10
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OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Overview: An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-18
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School for Love
Overview: At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-25
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Riviera
Overview: TV-movie directed by Alan Smithee (John Frankenheimer).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Kill!
Overview: Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-10
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Noon and Midnight
Overview: A woman marries into a family of insane psychopaths in this bizarre French horror film with strong sadomasochistic overtones.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-09
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Subversion
Overview: A blind, paralyzed president uses his remarkable hearing and his corrupt daughter to keep his country in line. His beautiful, clever daughter works her own agenda while striving to be the equal of men. She appoints herself Chief of Firefighters and then commits arson to ensure that her job is needed.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-28
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Overview: In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-06
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Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
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Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-31
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The Spies
Overview: A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-10
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The Motorcycle Cops
Overview: Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Pirates
Overview: The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-08
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Tell Me Whom to Kill
Overview: On the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the courteous challenge of discovering a war treasure lying at the bottom of a bay. But Basta, an old original who alone knew the location of the wreck, is murdered. And Pitou, the jovial nightclub owner, is determined to get his hands on all the loot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Mission to Venice
Overview: An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-23
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Seul... à corps perdu
Overview: An unscrupulous reporter investigates the discovery of a corpse in the trunk of a car stolen by his young brother, a petty criminal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-20
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Who Stole the Body?
Overview: Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the dead man's many female acquaintances. All the seducer's conquests are sifted through, to find the one who left her jewels at the scene of the crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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L'assassin viendra ce soir
Overview: A woman's father, a scientist, receives repeated death threats and eventually ends up dead. Receiving no help from the police, the woman begins to realize that she is next.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-10
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Le commissaire mène l’enquête
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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Meurtres A Domicile
Overview: A murder is committed in the building where Aurélia Maudru, inspector of the judicial police in charge of the investigation, lives.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-13
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Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques
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Genres: TV Movie Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-24
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Overview: Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
Genres: Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-26
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The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Overview: Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a mad herd of rival spies are desperate to get their hands on the device, including a sect of bald, turtleneck-wearing assassins.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Taxandria
Overview: A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-21
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Overview: A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-19
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The Passage
Overview: Film-maker Jean Diaz lives with his son David after separated from his wife. On their way to the new house near the sea, Jean and David have a car accident provoked by The Death (portrayed here like a grim-reaper). The doctor actually can save Jean, but The Death sabotages the equipment with his computer. The Death offers Jean to wake David from his coma, but Jean must make an animation movie against the violence for him.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-03
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Patrice Chéreau, the body at work
Overview: In this documentary, Stéphane Metge, friend and collaborator of Patrice Chéreau, offers a portrait of the artist through archives of his plays, films, and interviews.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Goha
Overview: As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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No Sun in Venice
Overview: Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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The Hand
Overview: Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Lou Didn’t Say No
Overview: Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-21
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Lady L
Overview: Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-17
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Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Overview: Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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Frou-Frou
Overview: A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-19
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Girl on the Third Floor
Overview: A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-02
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Sans famille
Overview: The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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La Parisienne
Overview: The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-16
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The Liquidator
Overview: Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was himself. This leads to complications.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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The Flying Dutchman
Overview: Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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