Françoise Berd
Also Known As: Francoise Berd
Biography: Françoise Berd (born Françoise Bernadette Loranger; March 2, 1923 – August 10, 2001) was a Quebec actress and founder of the theatre company L'Égrégore. Berd played the role of the caretaker in the film A Special Day (Una Giornata particulare) by Ettore Scola (1977), alongside Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Description above from the Wikipedia article Françoise Berd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Pacome, Québec, Canada
Birthday: March 02, 1923
Deathday: August 10, 2001
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Gender: Female
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A Special Day
Overview: Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-11
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Parlez-nous d'amour
Overview: A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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La Belle apparence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-30
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A Pacemaker and a Sidecar
Overview: In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-04
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Bar Salon
Overview: Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Agnes of God
Overview: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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Contrecoeur
Overview: Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space, a truck trapped in a snowstorm, and dream of somewhere else to find each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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The Time of the Hunt
Overview: A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Overview: A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-13
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Wind from Wyoming
Overview: Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-26
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J.A. Martin Photographer
Overview: The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Cordélia
Overview: In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-07
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Quintet
Overview: During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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The Lady of Colours
Overview: In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel world: the institution's basement where, in a maze of tunnels, they founded an independent company, with its rituals, spells. A young girl, Agnes, reigns over this underground world that adults seem to tolerate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-29
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Kamouraska
Overview: A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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Piwi
Overview: The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Au pays de Zom
Overview: A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity. A thematic sequel to his movie filmed with Mexican peasants, here Groulx asks, by making a business man sing, a second question on happiness: this time about the ones for whom happiness is linked with the possession of overabundance. He delivers, by developing the theatrical dimension with great emphasis, a social pamphlet with a strong satirical charge that he himself qualified as a "neo-surrealist fantasy".
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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