Roger Planchon
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Biography: Roger Planchon (born 12 September 1931 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, died on 12 May 2009 in Paris), was a French playwright, director, and filmmaker. Roger Planchon spent his childhood in the Ardèche, notably in Dornas. He found its inspiration from his rural origins and this issue was a recurring theme in his writings. He started on stage in 1949 after winning an amateur theater. In 1952, he founded the Théâtre de la Comédie, located in the rue des Marronniers, in Lyon. He was the director of the Théâtre de la Cité of Villeurbanne since 1957 (which became the Théâtre National Populaire in 1972). Roger Planchon transposed many works by Brecht, Molière, Shakespeare, and many works of contemporary authors, including Arthur Adamov and Michel Vinaver, but also opened the Théâtre National Populaire to Patrice Chéreau, then Georges Lavaudant. As films, he directed George Dandin ou le Mari confondu by Molière, Louis, enfant roi, which was entered at Cannes, and another one by Lautrec. In 2002, Christian Schiaretti succeeded him as director of the TNP; he created his own company with which he continued to write and direct until his death. He died on 12 May 2009 after a heart attack, he is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery (22nd division). Source: Article "Roger Planchon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Chamond, Loire, France
Birthday: September 12, 1931
Deathday: May 12, 2009
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Gender: Male
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The Return of Martin Guerre
Overview: Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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A Man Escaped
Overview: A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-11
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La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Overview: La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-01
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Dossier 51
Overview: A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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The Seventh Target
Overview: Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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Radio corbeau
Overview: This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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The Big Brother
Overview: The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-08
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A Strange Passion
Overview: French film based on the story Der Findling by german author Heinrich von Kleist.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-21
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The Year of Awakening
Overview: A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-16
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Celluloid and Marble
Overview: Celluloid and Marble is based on Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma", discussing film in relation to the other arts, maintaining that, in an age of cultural self-consciousness, cinema was “the last refuge of poetry” - the only contemporary art form from which metaphor could still spring naturally and spontaneously.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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Leclerc, un rêve d'Indochine
Overview: In Hanoi, a French couple who had come to adopt a baby met Maï, an old woman who had a love affair with a French officer in 1945. She tells how, sent by de Gaulle to restore order, Leclerc negotiates with Ho Chi Minh, against the advice of d'Argenlieu, the high commissioner.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-14
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Legitimate Violence
Overview: In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-01
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Legitimate Violence
Overview: In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-01
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Camille Claudel
Overview: The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-07
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I... For Icarus
Overview: Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Jean Galmot, aventurier
Overview: Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-24
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The Others
Overview: Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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Danton
Overview: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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Roads to the South
Overview: France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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Molière
Overview: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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