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Michel Piccoli
Born: 27th Dec 1925 Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Died 12th May 2020
Dept: Acting
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia.
Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning.
Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira...
He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013.
Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International.
Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 273
Film: 254 (93%)
Television: 19 (7%)
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Filmography
Original title: A Vida dos Espelhos
2025
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A commission by Serralves Foundation to ... view
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Original title: C'est pas moi
2024
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, ... view
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(archive footage)
Original title: Godard par Godard
2023
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 r ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Romy, femme libre
2022
Romy Schneider has been En Compétition ever since 1957 with Sissi, before coming back to the Croisette multiple times, notably for Claude Sautet’s ... view
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archive footage
2022
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions w ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Marx può aspettare
2021
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated day ... view
Character:
Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
Original title: François Mitterrand et Anne Pingeot, fragments d'une passion amoureuse
2021
In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His political career was at a standstill and, after 19 years ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Chabrol, l'anticonformiste
2019
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life. ... view
Character:
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2018
In some way, this furiously independent film works as a visual extension of the book “Subjetiva de nadie”, where Vieytes made a very unique fusion ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
2017
"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for us, almost 55 years on from Contempt’s initial releas ... view
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(archive footage)
Original title: L'Extravagant Monsieur Piccoli
2017
A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of rema ... view
Character:
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Original title: La lucida follia di Marco Ferreri
2017
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his stu ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Notre-Dame des Hormones
2015
Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A c ... view
Character:
Narrator
Original title: Le goût des myrtilles
2014
An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: Linhas de Wellington
2012
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal. ... view
Character:
Leópold Scheitzer
Original title: Vous n'avez encore rien vu
2012
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play 'Eurydice'. These a ... view
Character:
Le père
2012
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwov ... view
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Man with the Wine Stain
Original title: Le Mystère Bardot
2012
Who hides behind Brigitte Bardot? Extraordinarily photogenic, a tumultuous love life, the ultimate sex symbol for the 1950s and 1960s, the actress, si ... view
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Dec 2011 (first aired)
Agnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St. Petersburg, Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City to ... view
Character:
Self (5 ep.)
Original title: Agnès de ci de là Varda
2011
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene. ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Habemus Papam
2011
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince ... view
Character:
Melville
Original title: Ritratto di mio padre
2010
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father. ... view
Character:
Self
2009
At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but ... view
Character:
Maurice Reverdy
2009
The life and career of screen siren, Brigitte Bardot. ... view
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Original title: Il était une fois… Le Mépris
2009
Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring int ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Les Plages d'Agnès
2008
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Η Σκόνη του Χρόνου
2008
To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother ... view
Character:
Spyros
Original title: De la guerre
2008
After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that's populated by free-spi ... view
Character:
Le grand Hou
Original title: Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
2007
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak ... view
Character:
Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
Original title: Les Toits de Paris
2007
An old man living in an attic in a rundown part of Paris, becomes increasingly lonely and prey to ill-health. ... view
Character:
Marcel
2007
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives ... view
Character:
Daddy
2007
A special surreal encounter between Nikita Khrouchtchev and the Pope John XXIII. ... view
Character:
Nikita Khrouchtchev
Original title: Ne touchez pas la hache
2007
At a Spanish cloister, a celebrated French general of the Napoleonic Wars recognizes the voice of one of the nuns and recalls how, five years ago, she ... view
Character:
Vidame de Pamiers
2006
38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle de Jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and ... view
Character:
Henri Husson
Original title: Jardins en automne
2006
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileg ... view
Character:
Marie, la mère de Vincent
Original title: Espelho Mágico
2006
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her g ... view
Character:
Prof. Heschel
2006
Georgian director Otar Iosseliani prepares his film Jardins en Automne. Nothing is conventional in the filmmaker's system: Julie Bertuccelli portrays ... view
Character:
Himself
Original title: Tout communique
2005
An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic similarities between it and the other Monsieur Hulot ... view
Character:
Narrator
2004
Film director Agnès Varda reflects on the production of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS, and presents a brief on-set interview with actor Michel Piccoli ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: La Prophétie des grenouilles
2003
It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little g ... view
Character:
Ferdinand (voice)
Original title: La Petite Lili
2003
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overl ... view
Character:
acteur qui joue Simon
Original title: Ce jour-là
2003
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the a ... view
Character:
Harald
Original title: Un homme, un vrai
2003
A shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film director. Five years later, they have two children, she h ... view
Character:
Michel Piccoli
2002
Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminge ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Je rentre à la maison
2001
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law ... view
Character:
Gilbert Valence
Original title: Tout va bien, on s'en va
2000
Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having ... view
Character:
Louis
Original title: A propósito de Buñuel
2000
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Extermina ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Les Acteurs
2000
A self-conscious and self-referential adventure into the (pretend) lives of legendary actors in Paris. ... view
Character:
Michel Piccoli
Original title: در نزدیکی کیارستمی
2000
A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works ... view
Character:
as Self
1999
The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris, is unbearable: he has a wife whom he does not love ... view
Character:
Michel des Assantes
1999
Libero Burro, a former lout from Italy's center-south, dreams of getting rich and takes over a downtown gambling joint in need of a complete overhaul. ... view
Character:
Zio Tony
Original title: Le plus beau pays du monde
1999
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943). ... view
Character:
Récitant (voice)
Original title: Rien sur Robert
1999
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles. ... view
Character:
Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
1998
Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections hig ... view
Character:
Self
1997
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Para ... view
Character:
Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
Original title: Généalogies d'un crime
1997
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies. ... view
Character:
Georges Didier
1996
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male f ... view
Character:
Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
1996
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: Compagna di viaggio
1996
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. ... view
Character:
Cosimo
Original title: Beaumarchais, l'insolent
1996
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities ... view
Character:
Prince de Conti
Original title: L'Univers de Jacques Demy
1995
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes. ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Deux fois cinquante ans de cinéma français
1995
At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated wh ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma
1995
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all ... view
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Simon Cinéma
Original title: L'Ange noir
1994
Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her la ... view
Character:
Georges Feuvrier
Original title: المهاجر
1994
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired o ... view
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Adam - Ram's father
1994
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in th ... view
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1993
When a woman fed-up with life in general commits suicide, what's left ? In the same vein, a lover, a mother, a friend, a few buddies, all orphans, all ... view
Character:
Paul
Original title: La Cavale des fous
1993
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been loc ... view
Character:
Henri Toussaint
Original title: Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans
1993
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort. ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
1993
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season. ... view
Character:
Leonard Wilde
Original title: Le Souper
1992
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle ... view
Character:
Chateaubriand (voice)
Original title: Un voyage dans le temps
1992
In the Visionarium, the Timekeeper is a robot testing a new time machine. Because of the potential dangers, he sends his assistant, the robot 9-Eyes, ... view
Character:
Jules Verne
1992
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love. ... view
Character:
Désiré, l'homosexuel
1992
More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one bein ... view
Character:
Edouard Frenhofer
Original title: Contre l’oubli
1991
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Je ... view
Character:
Self (segment "Pour Nasrin Rasooli, Iran")
Original title: Le Voleur d'enfants
1991
Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who ha ... view
Character:
Mr. Armand
1991
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visit ... view
Character:
Edouard Frenhofer
Original title: Les Équilibristes
1991
A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic ... view
Character:
Marcel Spadice
Original title: L'Amour maudit de Leisenbohg
1991
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted sin ... view
Character:
Le baron de Leisenbohg
Original title: Martha et moi
1990
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying ... view
Character:
Ernst
Original title: Milou en Mai
1990
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate. ... view
Character:
Milou
Nov 1989 (first aired)
A clear-cut and ruthless depiction of the French ruling class between the two World Wars. Whether it's the circles of literature, medicine, journalism ... view
Character:
Noël Schoudler (4 ep.)
Original title: Le Peuple singe
1989
This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse plac ... view
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1988
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate ... view
Character:
L'avocat
1988
Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody ... view
Character:
Batz
Original title: Ya bon les blancs
1988
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger ... view
Character:
Père Jean-Marie
Original title: Maladie d'amour
1987
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; th ... view
Character:
Raoul Bergeron
Original title: L'Homme voilé
1987
Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a ... view
Character:
Kassar
1987
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charlesto ... view
Character:
Damien Malleville
Original title: Das weite Land
1987
Vienna at the turn of the century: The industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter is a vain, self-important man who is used to taking what he wants and who enj ... view
Character:
Friedrich Hofreiter
Original title: La Puritaine
1986
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre d ... view
Character:
Pierre
1986
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them br ... view
Character:
Marc
Original title: Le Paltoquet
1986
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s ... view
Character:
der Tölpel
Original title: Mon beau-frère a tué ma sœur
1986
Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is con ... view
Character:
Étienne Sembadel
Original title: وداعا بونابرت
1985
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The ... view
Character:
Caffarelli
Original title: Partir, revenir
1985
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot th ... view
Character:
Simon Lerner
Original title: Péril en la demeure
1985
A wealthy wife's affair with her daughter's guitar tutor is threatened when the tutor is attacked and rescued by a hired killer, leading him to suspec ... view
Character:
Graham Tombsthay
1985
Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 ti ... view
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1984
Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He becomes the sailor 512. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1984
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the ... view
Character:
French Official
Original title: Viva la vie
1984
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection ... view
Character:
Michel Perrin
Original title: La Diagonale du fou
1984
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political. ... view
Character:
Akiva Liebskind
Original title: Il generale dell'armata morta
1983
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, ... view
Character:
Benetandi
Original title: Le Prix du danger
1983
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired li ... view
Character:
Frédéric Mallaire
Original title: Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt !
1982
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also i ... view
Character:
José Viss
Original title: Une chambre en ville
1982
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady. ... view
Character:
Edmond Leroyer
Original title: Gli occhi, la bocca
1982
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover. ... view
Character:
Tío Agostino
Original title: Oltre la porta
1982
A young woman trapped in a web of dark family secrets finds herself in a dangerous triangle of love, jealousy, and deception, where the truth hides in ... view
Character:
Mr. Mutti
Original title: Passion
1982
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did no ... view
Character:
Michel Boulard
Original title: La Nuit de Varennes
1982
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps. ... view
Character:
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Original title: La Passante du Sans-Souci
1982
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an ... view
Character:
Max Baumstein
1982
The last vestiges of a family that has gone from cherry season to sorrow... Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocrat who, upon returning from ... view
Character:
Léonid
1982
Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to wr ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Espion, lève-toi
1982
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is ... view
Character:
Jean-Paul Chance
Original title: Une étrange affaire
1981
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his fa ... view
Character:
Bertrand Malair
1981
A businessman on vacation comes to file a complaint for murder. He claims to have discovered the body of a young woman who had been stabbed in his hot ... view
Character:
Morrand
Original title: La Confusion des sentiments
1981
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in t ... view
Character:
Professor
Original title: La Fille prodigue
1981
A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his ... view
Character:
Le père
Feb 1981 (first aired)
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1980
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs a ... view
Character:
Joseph
Original title: Der Preis fürs Überleben
1980
Jefferson City, Missouri: Joseph Randolph, a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply ... view
Character:
René Winterhalter
Original title: Salto nel vuoto
1980
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal tho ... view
Character:
Mauro Ponticelli
Original title: Le Mors aux dents
1979
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math w ... view
Character:
Pierre Chazerand
1979
In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it ... view
Character:
Philippe
Original title: Giallo napoletano
1979
Raphael, a restaurant mandolin player with a limp, a father to support, and a lot of debt, accepts a job offered by his friend, Giardino, to play a se ... view
Character:
Victor Navarro
Original title: Le Sucre
1978
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits. ... view
Character:
Grezillo
Original title: La Petite Fille en velours bleu
1978
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl. ... view
Character:
Conrad Brukner
Original title: L'État sauvage
1978
L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of bo ... view
Character:
Orlaville
Apr 1978 (first aired)
Ironic portrait of the strong men of the Chilean military dictatorship commanded by General Augusto Pinochet after September 11, 1973. As a counterpoi ... view
Character:
Self - Le lecteur des écrits d'A. Pinochet (voice) (4 ep.)
Original title: La Part du feu
1978
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their mee ... view
Character:
Robert Hansen
Original title: L'Imprécateur
1977
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundate ... view
Character:
Saint-Ramé
Original title: Des enfants gâtés
1977
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for ... view
Character:
Bernard Rougerie
Original title: Cet obscur objet du désir
1977
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers wi ... view
Character:
Mathieu Faber (voice) (uncredited)
Character:
Ispettore Marchand
1976
A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the tr ... view
Character:
Simon Léotard
Original title: F… comme Fairbanks
1976
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and fall ... view
Character:
Etienne
Original title: Todo modo
1976
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, cl ... view
Character:
Him
Original title: La Dernière Femme
1976
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him wit ... view
Character:
Michel
Feb 1976 (first aired)
A French-language anthology of seven famous, fantastic, and psychological stories by beloved American author Henry James. ... view
Character:
Captain Roger (1 ep.)
Original title: 7 morts sur ordonnance
1975
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means. ... view
Character:
Dr Losseray
1975
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his secon ... view
Character:
Richard
Jan 1975 (first aired)
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker ... view
Character:
Self (3 ep.)
Jan 1975 (first aired)
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (72 ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Jan 1975 (first aired)
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: La Faille
1975
During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. ... view
Character:
L'enquêteur
Original title: E cominciò il viaggio nella vertigine
1974
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg ... view
Character:
Original title: Vincent, François, Paul… et les autres
1974
Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles ... view
Character:
François, médecin
Sep 1974 (first aired)
Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on h ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
Original title: Le Fantôme de la liberté
1974
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. P ... view
Character:
The Second Police Prefect
Original title: Grandeur nature
1974
Michel is a middle-aged man with money and social standing. But he dreams of owning a doll to be his lover. When he finally gets one, he realizes he h ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: Le Trio Infernal
1974
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his l ... view
Character:
Georges Sarret
Original title: Touche pas à la femme blanche
1974
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Pari ... view
Character:
Buffalo Bill
Original title: Un amour de pluie
1974
Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, G ... view
Character:
Mr. Dellerue (voice)
Original title: Le Far West
1973
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throug ... view
Character:
Indian chief
1973
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death. ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: Les Noces rouges
1973
In a small French town, the mayor discovers his wife is cheating on him, a betrayal that eventually leads to murder. ... view
Character:
Pierre Maury
1973
Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He ... view
Character:
Themroc
Original title: La Femme en bleu
1973
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his ti ... view
Character:
Pierre
Original title: César et Rosalie
1972
A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to reconsid ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: L'Attentat
1972
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. ... view
Character:
Colonel Kassar
Original title: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
1972
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by ... view
Character:
Interior Minister
Original title: La cagna
1972
Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married. She dreams of being a close f ... view
Character:
Giorgio's friend
Original title: L'udienza
1972
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope. ... view
Character:
Padre Amerin
Original title: La Décade prodigieuse
1971
Charles Van Horn, son of rich and powerful Théo Van Horn, calls upon his former teacher Paul Régis to help him solve the mystery of his recurring bo ... view
Character:
Paul Regis
Original title: La Poudre d'escampette
1971
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, tran ... view
Character:
Valentin
May 1971 (first aired)
V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Max et les ferrailleurs
1971
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand. ... view
Character:
Max, inspector
Original title: L'invasion
1970
A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest. ... view
Character:
Marcello
Original title: Les Choses de la vie
1970
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy m ... view
Character:
Pierre Bérard
1969
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and ... view
Character:
Jacques Granville
Original title: L'invitata
1969
When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the ... view
Character:
François Desailly
Original title: La Voie lactée
1969
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of chara ... view
Character:
Marquis de Sade
Original title: Dillinger è morto
1969
A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen. ... view
Character:
Glauco
1968
The absurd argument of an old couple in their apartment which is being destroyed by the bombardments of war. ... view
Character:
Him
Original title: La Prisonnière
1968
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gi ... view
Character:
L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)
Original title: La Chamade
1968
The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover. ... view
Character:
Charles
Original title: Diabolik
1968
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and e ... view
Character:
Inspector Ginko
Original title: Benjamin ou les mémoires d'un puceau
1968
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced ... view
Character:
Count Philippe
Original title: Mon amour, mon amour
1967
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as ... view
Character:
Marrades
Original title: Belle de jour
1967
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When he ... view
Character:
Henri Husson
Original title: Un homme de trop
1967
A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being ... view
Character:
L'homme de trop
Original title: Cinéastes de notre temps : Le Dinosaure et le Bébé, dialogue en huit parties entre Fritz Lang et Jean-Luc Godard
1967
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaborati ... view
Character:
Paul Javal (archive footage)
Original title: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
1967
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artis ... view
Character:
Simon Dame
Original title: Romy - Portrait eines Gesichts
1967
Documentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her first career as a young actress in mainstream "Unterhaltun ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: Paris brûle-t-il?
1966
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if ... view
Character:
Edgar Pisani
Original title: Elsa la rose
1966
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Les Créatures
1966
A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book. ... view
Character:
Edgar Piccoli
1966
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her. ... view
Character:
Werner Kreuz
Original title: La Curée
1966
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of ... view
Character:
Alexandre Saccard
Original title: Les Ruses du diable
1966
Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and ... view
Character:
L'antiquaire
Original title: La guerre est finie
1966
On his way from Madrid to Paris, Diego, a chief of the Spanish Communist Party, is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to flee. When he ... view
Character:
Inspector #1
1966
During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given by plastic surgery, he is back and becomes friend ... view
Character:
Capri / Bruno
1965
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through ... view
Character:
Lecoeur
Original title: Compartiment tueurs
1965
Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The po ... view
Character:
René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)
Original title: Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre
1965
This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the ... view
Character:
Dom Juan
1965
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince. ... view
Character:
Georges Sarrassin
Original title: De l'amour
1964
Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her ... view
Character:
Raoul
1964
He's twenty-five. She's thirty-five. He is a young agricultural engineer. She runs a nightclub in Cahors. He's a runner and a pretty boy. She's beauti ... view
Character:
Kafka
Original title: La Chance et l'Amour
1964
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love. ... view
Character:
Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")
1964
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the s ... view
Character:
Texte dit par (voice)
Original title: Le Parti des choses : Bardot et Godard
1964
A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt. ... view
Character:
Self
1964
An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
1964
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job a ... view
Character:
Monsieur Monteil
1964
Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their ... view
Character:
Jean, the Reporter
Original title: Salut les Cubains
1963
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white doc ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Original title: Le Mépris
1963
Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but wh ... view
Character:
Paul Javal
Original title: Le Jour et l'heure
1963
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her fat ... view
Character:
Antoine
1962
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what sh ... view
Character:
Nuttheccio
1962
Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and ... view
Character:
Izquierdo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Original title: Climats
1962
The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Philippe's jealousy drive the couple apart. Philippe ... view
Character:
François
Original title: Le Rendez-vous
1961
A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale. ... view
Character:
Paul
1961
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doct ... view
Character:
Serlon de Savigny
Original title: Le vergini di Roma
1961
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over ho ... view
Character:
Console Publicola
Original title: Le Bal des espions
1960
A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting ... view
Character:
Brian Cannon
1960
Taking the place of the police, whom he finds neither fast nor efficient enough, a journalist named Hugo sets out to find the perpetrator of a murder. ... view
Character:
Hugo Barsac
1960
Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new ... view
Character:
Chvokhniev
Original title: La Bête à l'affût
1959
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. ... view
Character:
Commissioner Jacques Guimard
1959
How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nathaniel Hawthorne's character recounts the night whe ... view
Character:
Tom Brown, jeune
1958
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music- ... view
Character:
Jacques Forestier
Original title: Rafles sur la ville
1958
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Van ... view
Character:
L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
1957
Haute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs. ... view
Character:
Franck Marchal
1957
The incredible story of three promiscuous friends who share more things than they think. Ernest, Jobelin and Marjavel collect pranks and exchange wive ... view
Character:
Pianist
Original title: Les Copains du dimanche
1957
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation cl ... view
Character:
Le directeur de l'aéro-club
Original title: Les Sorcières de Salem
1957
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon ... view
Character:
James Putnam
Original title: La Mort en ce jardin
1956
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown. ... view
Character:
Father Lizzardi
Original title: Les Grandes Manœuvres
1955
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothi ... view
Character:
Officer (uncredited)
Original title: Les mauvaises rencontres
1955
Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a ... view
Character:
un inspecteur
Original title: Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse
1955
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918 ... view
Character:
Maurice Rouger
1955
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin play ... view
Character:
Le Capitaine Valorgueil
Original title: Interdit de séjour
1955
Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a jewelry ... view
Character:
Georges
1954
Georges works in a small-town drugstore. Passionate about music, he writes songs. When Anne-Marie, whom he loves, loses her parents, he leaves with he ... view
Character:
Reverdier
Original title: Destinées
1954
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war w ... view
Character:
Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
Original title: Torticola contre Frankensberg
1952
A comedic take on the Frankenstein story. ... view
Character:
Torticola
1951
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir. ... view
Character:
Slim Spring
Original title: Sans laisser d'adresse
1951
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address. ... view
Character:
Un journaliste aux archives
Original title: Sans laisser d'adresse
1951
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address. ... view
Character:
Un journaliste aux archives (uncredited)
Original title: Le Parfum de la dame en noir
1949
Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much ... view
Character:
Lebel
Original title: Le Point du jour
1949
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young engine ... view
Character:
Georges Gohelle
Original title: Sortilèges
1945
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to b ... view
Character:
Un villageois