Léon Barsacq
Nacimiento : 1906-10-18, Feodosiya, Crimea, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Muerte : 1969-12-23
Historia
Léon Barsacq (18 October 1906 – 23 December 1969) was a Russian-born and naturalized French production designer, art director and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Longest Day. He was the brother of French theatre director André Barsacq and the father of film actor Yves Barsacq.
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Set Decoration
In the absence of her royal husband Theseus, thought to be dead, Phaedra declares her love to Hippolyte, Theseus's son from a previous marriage.
Set Decoration
Un hombre (Alain Delon) ha perdido la memoria como consecuencia de un accidente de coche. Está internado en un hospital, donde lo cuidan una mujer (Senta Berger) que dice ser su esposa y el médico de la familia (Sergio Fantoni). (FILMAFFINITY)
Art Direction
Un hombre (Alain Delon) ha perdido la memoria como consecuencia de un accidente de coche. Está internado en un hospital, donde lo cuidan una mujer (Senta Berger) que dice ser su esposa y el médico de la familia (Sergio Fantoni). (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Rusia, 1909. Rasputin, un monje, accede a la Corte Imperial tras salvar la vida del hijo de la Emperatriz Alexandra. Cuando estalla la guerra, muchos ven en él un opositor y se confabulan para matarle.
Art Direction
Karla, la viuda de un magnate del petróleo, vuelve a su ciudad natal. Ahora que es rica y poderosa, se propone vengarse de los que la despreciaron y, sobre todo, del hombre que la abandonó por otra.
Art Direction
Cinco hombres deciden juntar una gran suma de capital para poder entrar en un importante trato, en el cual adquirirán una cantidad de droga que posteriormente les permitirá enriquecerse. Sin embargo, cuando el trato está apunto de realizarse, uno de los compinches intercepta el dinero y mata a uno de sus amigos para tapar sus pistas. Los demás serán entonces acosados por las dudas y la confusión general, generando una situación que sólo puede desembocar en una oleada violencia.
Art Direction
Cuatro historias, basadas en cuatro fábulas de Lafontaine, muestran a una mujer que intenta recuperar a su marido; a un infeliz que quiere suicidarse; a un hombre celoso que llega a asociarse con su rival, y a una pareja que se queda encerrada en un apartamento.
Art Direction
Reconstrucción con todo lujo de detalles de uno de los episodios claves para el desarrollo de la II Guerra Mundial: el desembarco en las playas de Normandía llevado a cabo por las tropas aliadas en junio de 1944.
Production Design
En 1865, el joven Octave Mouret llega a París dispuesto a hacer una gran fortuna aprovechando tanto sus encantos físicos como sus exquisitos modales de caballero. Seduce a cuantas mujeres considera necesario para sus fines, y así va escalando posiciones en el escalafón social. Adaptación de una novela de Émile Zola a la que Duvivier le da a la vez un toque romántico y cínico.
Production Design
Juju, un borracho patán que siente la necesidad de ser importante para alguien, y su amigo El Artista son forzados a punta de pistola a alojar a un fugitivo, Pierre Barbier, en la casa destartalada de Juju. La necesidad de ser necesitado es tal en Juju que deja de beber y cuida de Pierre. Pero un día Juju descubre que Pierre ha estado haciendo el amor con su chica María....
Production Design
Based on the book by Belgian XIX century author Charles de Coaster.
Art Direction
El Senador Cartwright ha sido enviado a París para llevar a cabo ciertas investigaciones sobre la conducta de los soldados americanos que desempeñan sus funciones en Francia. Ya en el país, solicita la ayuda del embajador americano, cuya hija se encargará de mostrarle la ciudad a la hija del Senador. Durante ese paseo, el descubrimiento del amor puede cambiar substanciamente el futuro de la joven.
Production Design
Armande de la Verne (Gérard Philipe), un célebre mujeriego, apuesta que puede seducir a cualquier mujer. La elegida es la divorciada Marie-Louise Rivere (Michèle Morgan). La amenaza de la guerra es el telón de fondo de las "maniobras" de seducción. Mientras intenta ganar la apuesta, el Don Juan se enamora locamente de la bella y decidida Marie-Louise.
Production Design
In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries Duroy.
Art Direction
El director de un colegio, el señor Delasalle, convive con su esposa y su amante, la profesora Horner. Pero las dos mujeres, cansadas de sufrir la constante tiranía y malos tratos del hombre que comparten, deciden que esa situación no puede continuar.
Production Designer
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.
Production Design
Durante un paseo por el Sacromonte, la gitana Violeta leyó en la mano de la joven Eugenia de Montijo su futuro como emperatriz. Algún tiempo después, Violeta se establece en Paris como doncella personal de la Emperatriz de Francia. En la corte vive Don Juan de Ayala, un primo de Eugenia que intenta seducir a la hermosa gitana.
Production Design
Un modesto profesor de piano opta por evadirse a través de sus sueños de la triste realidad que lo rodea. En primer lugar se traslada al reinado de Luis XIII. En cada una de las épocas que visita obtendrá el amor de una mujer.
Production Design
La historia de cinco chicas, de entre las 200 que se presentan a la convocatoria de un anuncio para un modesto puesto de secretaria, en una lluviosa mañana en Roma. (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
Production Design
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.
Production Design
Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili and grows fonder and fonder of her every day of his life. The trouble is that the lady bestows her favors to two different lovers : wealthy married man Chardeuil and good-looking but listless young Antonio. He now considers his duty to make Lili recover her dignity.
Production Design
A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.
Set Decoration
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
Production Design
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
Set Decoration
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
Production Design
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
Art Direction
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
Production Design
París, 1820. Dos jóvenes artistas, Baptiste Debureau y Frédéric Lemâitre, debutan en el teatro de los Funámbulos y entablan amistad. Un día, Garance, una misteriosa y atractiva mujer, irrumpe en sus vidas. Mientras que el tímido Baptiste no se atreve a declararle su amor, Frédéric la convierte en su amante. Sin embargo, al estar implicada en una serie de crímenes, la mujer desaparece.
Production Design
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
Production Design
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
Production Design
Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.
Production Design
La Revolución Francesa vista a través de los ojos de sus participantes directos (desde los campesinos hasta el propio Luis XVI) es el tema de este drama de época dirigido por el maestro Jean Renoir.
Production Design
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Production Design
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
Production Design
The adaptation of a french novel from 1864 describes the idyllic life of a convinced bachelor, Fritz Kobus, in a village in Alsace. With help by the local rabbi, he does get married to young Suzel in the end.
Costume Design
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
