Wadeck Stanczak
Also Known As: Wadeck Stanzak
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arpajon, Seine-et-Oise [now Essonne], France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 30, 1961
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Male
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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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Scene of the Crime
Overview: In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance, the murderer and the boy's mother form an alliance. All this takes place in four days during which the boy has his first communion, his separated parents face each other amidst grandmother's hopes they'll reunite, the grandfather just wants to go fishing, the school's chaplain complains about the boy's behavior, and the convicts' shared girlfriend comes, gun in hand, to help them escape to Tangier. The mother's surprising decisions complete the story.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-16
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Disorder
Overview: Three young friends steal some music equipment for their struggling post-punk band and, in a panic, kill the shop’s owner. Assayas’ debut feature examines, with characteristic restraint and acuity, the psychological fallout as the band unravels—and each of its members grapple with their own feelings of guilt, paranoia, and despair.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-12
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Les carnassiers
Overview: Alice, a young Portuguese woman, escapes from a psychiatric hospital where she is locked up under the orders of her father-in-law who intends to take away her inheritance. On her way to France, she falls victim to a truck driver who she kills to defend herself. A few moments after this murder she meets Bernie, a young boxer, who will take care of her, going so far as to hide her from the eyes of the police and the detectives in the pay of her stepfather. He is preparing for the title of world champion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-10
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Le Pantalon
Overview: Lucien is a young soldier in the French army during the First World War. Recently married and with a young daughter, his only aim is to get through the war unscathed and get back to his wife and daughter. But this world is turned upside down by a pair of trousers.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-08
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Outlaws
Overview: A handful of teenagers, boys and girls, escape from a reform school and go round town. They go to a ball, the owner asks them to pay the bill.This man is very unpleasant, he hates the youth of today and he is a racist.The incident turns into free -for-all, then into a massacre.The runaways become chased criminals. One of the boys want to take his mates to a deserted village where they would find a refuge. Policemen and farmers are hot on their heels .
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Chimère
Overview: Lovers Beatrice Dalle and Wadeck Stanczak can't quite cope with the situation when Dalle becomes pregnant. Stanczak fears that his future as an architect will be scuttled by any parental responsibilities. For her part, Dalle wants to keep the baby, but she also wants to keep Stanczak. Attempting to smooth the waters is the couple's mutual friend Francis Frappat. Chimere was the second feature-film project for director Claire Devers, who rose to prominence on the strength of her award-winning maiden effort Black and White.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-26
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Missus
Overview: Italian Made-for-TV film by Alberto Negrin.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-20
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The Return of Casanova
Overview: After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-12
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C'est jamais loin
Overview: In Dieppe, a taciturn young man is fascinated by a woman whom he has only seen in the street. One day, he leaves Dieppe and Lola, the girl he was living with. He becomes a truck-driver. In the Middle East, Christian's travels end in a prison in the heart of the desert. There he meets Eliot who lives an isolated life within the prison environment. Since Eliot talks, Christian who was mute up to that point, listens then speaks too. But Eliot receives letters from a woman: Marie. And Christian starts dreaming that she's the woman he saw on the streets of Dieppe.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-10
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The Colors of the Devil
Overview: A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-22
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Furia
Overview: In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on public spaces. But when his lover Elia is arrested for committing the same crime, Theo allows himself to be captured hoping to somehow be reunited with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-01
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Retour à Fonteyne
Overview: Rivalries divide the sons of the owner of a wine estate in Cognac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-10
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CASTING
Overview: Short film by Michael Klier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Other
Overview: A man who survives an earthquake is convinced that there is another man still stuck in the debris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-09
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Cellini: A Violent Life
Overview: The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-05-02
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La lumière du lac
Overview: An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an elderly man with a penchant for growing sunflowers and an unhappy neighbor girl with emotional problems. Love blossoms for the unlikely couple who somehow realize their liaison is doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-23
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Return to Algiers
Overview: Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-12
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The Horsemen of the Storm
Overview: Marie (Marlene Jobert) is a pretty female physician who attracts the strong romantic interest of two brothers during World War I in this uninspired drama by Gérard Vergez. The brothers meet her when she is on duty in Turkey -- one brother is stationed there and the other becomes her ambulance driver. Since Marie has just lost her husband in combat, she is not at first open to another relationship but finally begins an affair with the older brother. Jealousy rears its ugly head, and the younger and older brother start to compete for her favors. She is eventually separated from the two brothers after the oldest -- imprisoned for supposed sympathy with the Russians -- is sprung from jail. Marie is later imprisoned herself, and it will be a long time before she is able to find out the fate of those she knew during the days of combat, including the two brothers.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-15
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Brigade des mineurs
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-30
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La nuit de l'océan
Overview: After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an ambiguous relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-06-03
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Ennemis intimes
Overview: Baudin (Michel Serrault) and Tayar (Wadeck Stanczak) become trapped in a movie theater while trying to fend off a gang of marauding juvenile thugs. The two agree to settle their personal differences in their fight over a pretty female in order to halt the violent siege.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-09
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