Léonie Simaga
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Biography: Léonie Simaga, born in 1978 in Marseille, is a French actress and director, member of the Comédie-Française from 2010 to 2015. Her father and mother met in Rennes during their studies. She, from Brittany, is preparing to teach French. He, from Mali, is an agricultural engineer. His Breton grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Le Gall, died during the liberation of Brest in 1944, was decorated with the Legion of Honor. After her baccalaureate obtained at the House of Education of the Legion of Honor, she entered hypokhâgne, then khâgne in Parisian high schools and then obtained her diploma from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris4 (class of 20025). She also holds a degree in history. She studied theater at the Asnières Studio-theater, then at the National Higher Conservatory of Dramatic Art from 2002 to 2005. She played at the Comédie-Française in Esther by Racine, then in 2004, in Papa must eat by Marie NDiaye . She was hired as a resident in 2005. She notably performed the role of the Infanta in Corneille's Le Cid during the 2005-2006 season, and in 2007 played the role of Chimène in the same play, alternating with the role of Lucietta in Goldoni's play Il campiello. She became a member of the Comédie-Française on January 1, 2010. Léonie Simaga also directs several productions for the Comédie-Française such as, in 2007, Pour un oui ou pour un non by Nathalie Sarraute and, in 2014, Othello by William Shakespeare. She left the Comédie-Française at the end of 2015.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marseille, France
Birthday: November 30, 1977
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Gender: Female
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Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Overview: Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial soldiers, in the Free Army out of loyalty to France and the idea of freedom that it embodies for him. A writer, he participated in the bubbling life of Saint-Germain with Césaire, Senghor and Sartre, debating tirelessly on the destiny of colonized peoples. As a doctor, he revolutionized the practice of psychiatry, seeking in the relations of domination of colonial societies the foundations of the pathologies of his patients in Blida. Activist, he brings together through his action and his history of him, the anger of peoples crushed by centuries of colonial oppression. But beyond this exceptional journey which makes sensitive the permanence of French colonialism in the Lesser Antilles at the gates of the Algerian desert, he leaves an incomparable body of work which has made him today one of the most studied French authors across the Atlantic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-07
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Summer of revolution
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-26
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Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Overview: Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performance in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), the Chicago-born actress never quite fitted into the Hollywood mould and wanted to do things her own way.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-05
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Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Overview: There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This documentary traces the progression of colonial history from the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 to the systematic elimination of cultural traditions, religions and lifeways which would occur sporadically through genocides and warfare until the early 20th century throughout the African continent—surveying the inquiries and movements for historical justice, the relationships between European institutions and colonial violence and following enduring struggles against these organisations to regain what was taken.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-05
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All About Actresses
Overview: A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgotten ones... Filming everything, with or without their consent, the director gets caught up in the game and lets herself be devoured by these women, who are as fragile as they are manipulative.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-28
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Mon pote
Overview: The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-01
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Avant la catastrophe - La Chute de la République de Weimar (1930-1933)
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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The Green Perfume
Overview: In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, Le Parfum vert, that seems to have ordered the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-21
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Save Our School
Overview: A delightful and ebullient comedy on Paris’ first suburban “green school”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-28
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Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Overview: The story of the city of Newark, in the state of New Jersey, USA; unlikely capital of the struggle for civil rights in the legendary sixties of the convulsive twentieth century, told through the eyes of writers Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, who were born and grew up there, in the ominous shadow of the immense New York.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-07-30
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The Peace and Love Process
Overview: Marie and Simon, a couple with two children, are deeply in love despite constant fights in their paired life. To save their marriage, they come up with a chart of Ten Rules to seek love and peace.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-07
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Respire
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Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-12
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Meurtres a Albi
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-07-19
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Just Love!
Overview: Silvia’s father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she’s promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-08-16
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L'Orientalisme
Overview: Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th century, it marked the interest and curiosity of artists and writers for the countries of the West (the Maghreb) or the Levant (the Middle East). Orientalism was born from the fascination of the Ottoman Empire and followed its slow disintegration and the progression of European colonizations. This exotic trend is associated with all the artistic movements of the 19th century, academic, romantic, realistic or even impressionist. It is present in architecture, music, painting, literature, poetry... Picturesque aesthetics, confusing styles, civilizations and eras, orientalism has created numerous clichés and clichés that we still find today in literature or cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-08-27
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Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Overview: Victim of a terrible plot, Captain Dreyfus was sentenced in December 1894 to deportation for high treason. His wife Lucie made a pact with him: to live, whatever the cost, while awaiting rehabilitation. During five years, the Dreyfus spouses exchanged hundreds of letters. They became a weapon of survival for Alfred. This film is the story of the correspondence of a man and a woman who unwittingly became the unsung heroes of the case that bears their name.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-03
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Edvard Munch : Un cri dans la nature
Overview: The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is the author of a powerful body of work that is rooted in symbolism and expressionism. His most famous painting, "The Scream", painted in 1893, has become the symbol of existential anguish. He obsessively sought to express his most violent emotions in the face of death and love, bringing them together in a great whole, the "Frieze of Life". Nature, in perpetual movement, the bearer of vital momentum, helped him to exalt his anguish of living through its colors and undulating lines.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-10
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Les Secrets du Paquebot
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Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-09
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Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-10
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Jeune Femme
Overview: Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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A Season in France
Overview: An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-25
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Alice and the Mayor
Overview: The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Then follows a dialogue between two diametrically opposed personalities who will turn their certainties upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-18
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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Overview: How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family “The Rainbow Tribe”, adopting twelve children from four corners of the world? This is the fabulous story of the first black superstar, Josephine Baker.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-22
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Closed Circuit
Overview: Hired to oversee the security of a superstore, Pierre soon discovers a dark secret and becomes a threat to the system he helped create.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime TV Movie Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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Little Tickles
Overview: Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-14
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Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Overview: A staging of Marivaux's play "The Game of Love and Chance" by Galin Stoev.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-13
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