Anne Wiazemsky
Also Known As: 안느 비아젬스키
Biography: Princess Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 - 5 October 2017) was a French actress, of the Russian Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov. Through her mother, she is the granddaughter of François Mauriac. She appeared in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966) and in Godard's films La Chinoise (1967) and Week End (1967). She was married to Jean-Luc Godard between 1967 and 1979; they divorced. Wiazemsky is also an author. She has written several novels: Canines (1993), Une Poignée de Gens, Aux Quatre Coins du Monde and Hymnes à l’Amour (1996). The 2003 film All the Fine Promises, directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and starring Valérie Crunchant and Bulle Ogier, is based on Hymnes à l'Amour. Her 2007 novel, Jeune Fille, is based on her experience starring in Au hasard Balthazar at the age of 18. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Wiazemsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, West Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: May 14, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 05, 2017
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La Chinoise
Overview: Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume and Veronique, form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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The Last Train
Overview: Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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Raphael or the Debauched One
Overview: In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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Au Hasard Balthazar
Overview: The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-25
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Theorem
Overview: A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-07
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Tout Va Bien
Overview: A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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Weekend
Overview: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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La Passion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-23
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Rendez-vous
Overview: Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involved with three men: a mild-mannered real-estate agent who offers her stability, a bad-boy actor who lives dangerously on the edge, and an intense theater director who casts her in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” As opening night approaches, the emotional extremes of Nina’s love life fuel her art.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-05-15
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Qui trop embrasse...
Overview: How couples unite, interact, separate, reunite or find other partners. The links in this chain begin with Christian and Nathalie, who are coworkers and friends. Christian discovers that his lover Francoise is having an affair, and Nathalie advises him to give his feelings some time to heal, about two years. Nathalie is angry that her lover Mark does not want to see her more often, while he is jealous of the men in her past. Meanwhile, Francoise finds out that her new lover is not that interested in her anymore, and after they split, she encounters him with someone else. As romance fluctuates like the lunar tides, the myth of one true love takes a beating.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-06-11
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Godard Cinema
Overview: Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-05
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Pigsty
Overview: Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-02
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Sympathy for the Devil
Overview: While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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Vladimir and Rosa
Overview: Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and the defendants become a microcosms of the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-16
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The Seed of Man
Overview: During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in the area, and use that time to conceive a child.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-27
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L'Enfant Secret
Overview: Jean-Baptiste, a filmmaker, and Elie, an actress, fall in love. To fight their unhappiness, they cling to their children: Jean-Baptiste to his film and Elie to her young son.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-02
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L'inchiesta
Overview: The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric clinic. Not a simple Italian thriller but a "Russian doll", an open story with different levels of reading and interpretation, in which the distance between the madness of authenticity of feelings and the sprawling social normality that leads to 'annulment of the person and loneliness. Collaborators on the subject and the script of the film are Bernardo Bertolucci and Enzo Carra.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-04
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She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
Overview: A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-09
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Return from Africa
Overview: A young Swiss couple, Vincent and Françoise, plan to leave Geneva and settle in Africa: a friend of theirs living in Algeria promises to give them a job there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Godard by Godard
Overview: Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic returns, of a filmmaker who never looks back on his past, never makes the same film twice, and tirelessly pursues his research, in a truly inexhaustible diversity of inspiration. Through Godard’s words, his gaze and his work, the film tells the story of a life of cinema; that of a man who will always demand a lot of himself and his art, to the point of merging with it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-17
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Capricci
Overview: After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned picture, the old Arden to allow the latter's wife, Alice to live with her lover Mosbie.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-15
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Frogs
Overview: On an island in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by men and women-frogs, Nora, a beautiful Russian spy, wants revenge for the betrayal of her lover, the artist Tibor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Bonnot's Gang
Overview: The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Struggle in Italy
Overview: The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-29
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Overview: The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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Memória Cubana
Overview: Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the general direction of Santiago Álvarez, these moviemakers witnessed almost everything: from the shivers of the Cold War to Bola de Nieve's piano solos; from the discovery of the killing fields in Cambodia to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In 2009, the original negatives of Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos were declared part of the "world memory" by UNESCO.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-09-27
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Wind from the East
Overview: A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-19
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Voices
Overview: Documentary about Jean-Luc Godard filming Sympathy for the Devil with The Rolling Stones.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
Overview: Short film, going behind-the-scenes of shooting for One Plus One (1968) in London, featuring an interview with Godard sitting beside a tree. Many crew members from this shoot were then borrowed by him, playing the press in the film's Eve Democracy sequence. Originally broadcast on the BBC programme 'Release' (30th Nov. '68).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-30
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Ville étrangère
Overview: An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself emotionally distanced from his world. He feels absolutely nothing as he attends to his daily routine. He gradually begins to behave in an increasingly strange manner. The story is based on Moment of True Feeling, a novel by Peter Handke.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-24
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George Who?
Overview: The film depitcs the life of the French author George Sand.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Flesh Color
Overview: This film was presented to the Cannes Film Festival in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-09-12
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The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Overview: A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-20
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The Big Departure
Overview: This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the movie has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. We follow the cat man into a bizarre fantasy universe presented in negative exposure that reverses color values (black is white and vice versa) and written words. The cat man steals a car and then picks up a young girl he promises to take to “Heaven.” Heaven turns out to be a country chateau inhabited by several more animal mask wearing weirdoes...
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-15
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Lamiel
Overview: Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through her, as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Defiant and rebellious, Lamiel goes to Paris to escape boredom and to know love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Les Gauloises bleues
Overview: The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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The Extradition
Overview: Throughout the late 19th century and in the early part of the 20th, Russians of a wide variety of political persuasions contemplated various forms of revolution. Throughout the same period, they often had to seek asylum in other countries. This movie concerns Sergei (Roger Jendly), a revolutionary who kills a student in Russia and flees to Switzerland. Though he has the gifts and abilities to unify various revolutionary groups within Russia, once he has been forced to flee, they have no interest in him. When his presence in Switzerland threatens a trade agreement with the Tsar, he is tracked down and expelled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Overview: This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Les Anges 1943, histoire d'un film
Overview: Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film is a documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2004, devoted to Robert Bresson's film Angels of Sin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-19
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Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-16
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Civil Wars in France
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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Les vieilles lunes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-07
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The Imprint of Giants
Overview: The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-05
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My Heart Is Red
Overview: A poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-23
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Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
Overview: A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring interviews and discussions with Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, Marguerite Duras and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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The Hospital of Leningrad
Overview: A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-28
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