Gérard Blain

Gérard Blain

Nacimiento : 1930-10-23, Paris, France

Muerte : 2000-12-17

Perfil

Gérard Blain

Películas

Il falso bugiardo
Self (archive footage)
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.
Bandits d'amour
The priest
A young woman who has gone over to the wrong side of the law with her new boyfriend begins having second thoughts about both crime and her new romance in this drama. Helene is an attractive 18-year-old who has fallen for Paul, a 25-year-old drifter, and one evening as they're having drinks in a cafe in the North of France, Paul decides to rob the bank across the street. Though wary, Helene agrees to help, and soon the couple is 40,000 francs richer -- and on the run from the law. The two hop a train to Marseilles, but it isn't long before Helene begins to think the robbery was a bad idea -- and isn't certain if her relationship with Paul is such a good thing either. Paul, however, isn't troubled by any second thoughts, and is very certain about his feelings for Helene -- so much so that he forces a priest to marry them at gunpoint. This is only the most recent manifestation of Paul's volatile personality, and rather than binding Helene closer to him, it only drives her farther away.
Ainsi soit-il
Writer
An honorable man is murdered because he knew too much about the dreadful deeds of the ruling class who puts gain before any human consideration. A happy family is destroyed by this murder. The son plunges into the heart of the tragedy and finds himself facing a double mission: he must honor his dead father by making his killers pay with their own blood and re-establish family harmony.
Ainsi soit-il
Director
An honorable man is murdered because he knew too much about the dreadful deeds of the ruling class who puts gain before any human consideration. A happy family is destroyed by this murder. The son plunges into the heart of the tragedy and finds himself facing a double mission: he must honor his dead father by making his killers pay with their own blood and re-establish family harmony.
Jusqu'au bout de la nuit
Writer
François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and meets up with his family and friends in Lyon. His new love for Maria, a young woman adrift, prompts him to get quick money. François will commit acts of violence that will definitely lose him.
Jusqu'au bout de la nuit
Director
François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and meets up with his family and friends in Lyon. His new love for Maria, a young woman adrift, prompts him to get quick money. François will commit acts of violence that will definitely lose him.
Jusqu'au bout de la nuit
François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and meets up with his family and friends in Lyon. His new love for Maria, a young woman adrift, prompts him to get quick money. François will commit acts of violence that will definitely lose him.
La fortune de Gaspard
Writer
Gaspard is a brilliant pupil who makes a clean sweep of all the prizes every year. He despises his family, and do not want to remain a crude peasant like them. Two businessmen, Mister Fereor and Mister Frolichein, want him to work in their factories. The former wins the contest. Gaspard is a young Turk who wants to make his way of life at any cost. He steals ideas from other young men and becomes an occasional informer. He wins his boss over and, as this tycoon has no son, he is adopted by him even though his biological parents are still alive. But unfair competition threatens Fereor's business and Gaspard is forced to marry Frolichein's daughter, Mina.
La fortune de Gaspard
Director
Gaspard is a brilliant pupil who makes a clean sweep of all the prizes every year. He despises his family, and do not want to remain a crude peasant like them. Two businessmen, Mister Fereor and Mister Frolichein, want him to work in their factories. The former wins the contest. Gaspard is a young Turk who wants to make his way of life at any cost. He steals ideas from other young men and becomes an occasional informer. He wins his boss over and, as this tycoon has no son, he is adopted by him even though his biological parents are still alive. But unfair competition threatens Fereor's business and Gaspard is forced to marry Frolichein's daughter, Mina.
Chasse gardée
A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.
Winter's Child
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.
Natalia
Claude Roitman
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
Jour après jour
Two would be producers launch a singer's career.
Pierre et Djemila
Writer
Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre's father is an Algerian war veteran who tolerates living with the immigrants at the low-income housing project as long as the two factions are separated. Djemila's older brother carries bitter hatred for the French over their invasion of Algeria. Both young lovers fall victim to the intolerance of their families when their relatives discover that the two are engaged in a passionate love affair.
Pierre et Djemila
Director
Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre's father is an Algerian war veteran who tolerates living with the immigrants at the low-income housing project as long as the two factions are separated. Djemila's older brother carries bitter hatred for the French over their invasion of Algeria. Both young lovers fall victim to the intolerance of their families when their relatives discover that the two are engaged in a passionate love affair.
Angel Dust
Broz
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
Un moment d'inattention
The father
Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fidelity, but Laurent's opinions and appetites are starting to shift with the times.
Un dimanche de flics
Emilio
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.
Michel Tournier
Director
La Flambeuse
Henri
Una mujer llegada a la edad madura se aficiona a jugar a las cartas, hasta el punto de descuidar a su marido y sus hijos.
The Rebel
Writer
After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.
The Rebel
Director
After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.
Utopia
Gérard
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found and the city is silent.
Un Second Souffle
Writer
An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman. When he learns that his mistress also has another younger lover, he gets jealous, but tries not to make an issue of it. In the end, he dumps her and returns to his wife, who is not about to stand for his middle-aged immaturity. She leaves him.
Un Second Souffle
An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman. When he learns that his mistress also has another younger lover, he gets jealous, but tries not to make an issue of it. In the end, he dumps her and returns to his wife, who is not about to stand for his middle-aged immaturity. She leaves him.
Un Second Souffle
Director
An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman. When he learns that his mistress also has another younger lover, he gets jealous, but tries not to make an issue of it. In the end, he dumps her and returns to his wife, who is not about to stand for his middle-aged immaturity. She leaves him.
La Machine
Le journaliste
Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.
El amigo americano
Raoul Minot
El marchante americano Tom Ripley (Hopper) intenta poner a prueba la integridad de Jonatham Zimmermann, un humilde fabricante de marcos (Bruno Ganz) que padece una enfermedad terminal. Ripley le presenta a un gánster que le ofrece mucho dinero a cambio de que trabaje para él como asesino a sueldo. En un principio rechaza la oferta, pero, al pensar en el precario futuro que espera a su mujer y a su hijo después de su muerte, acaba aceptando el trato.
A Child in the Crowd
Producer
Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the Resistance, and when the Americans come to stay, he is really in his element with them.
A Child in the Crowd
Writer
Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the Resistance, and when the Americans come to stay, he is really in his element with them.
A Child in the Crowd
Director
Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the Resistance, and when the Americans come to stay, he is really in his element with them.
El pelícano
Writer
Una relación de amor parental y la obsesión.
El pelícano
Una relación de amor parental y la obsesión.
El pelícano
Director
Una relación de amor parental y la obsesión.
The Friends
Writer
Philippe is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed. They have no children. As he is preparing to go on a vacation to the seaside, he strikes up an acquaintance with Paul, a young working-class boy, and decides to bring him along. This is Paul's first glimpse of how the other half lives, with their first-class hotels and so on. When he meets some aristocratic young people at the resort, he tries to put over the fiction that he is of their class, with poor success.
The Friends
Director
Philippe is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed. They have no children. As he is preparing to go on a vacation to the seaside, he strikes up an acquaintance with Paul, a young working-class boy, and decides to bring him along. This is Paul's first glimpse of how the other half lives, with their first-class hotels and so on. When he meets some aristocratic young people at the resort, he tries to put over the fiction that he is of their class, with poor success.
Negresco
Roger
La esposa de un espía internacional llega a Berlín para unas vacaciones. Mientras que su marido está ausente, ella se enamora de un fotógrafo británico.
Sobra un hombre
Thomas
Un grupo de franceses son liberados por la Resistencia, pero sospechan que entre ellos hay un traidor.
La Musica
A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their divorce decree.
Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men
Joë Caligula
Joe, un delincuente de medio pelo, está enamorado de su hermana. Va a París con la intención de montar una guerra de bandas.
M.M.M. 83
Robert Gibson
A secret agent works with a scientist to recover documents outlining a new formula to make fuel.
Un amore
Il cugino
The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for the life he has led so far, which ends in disillusion.
Amori pericolosi
Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits of victory. In the second (The patrol) a soldier of the Foreign Legion neglects his duties for running after a prostitute. The third segment has as its protagonist a general of the belle époque that goes on a date.
Via Veneto
La Via Veneto es una calle elegante de Roma, donde los cafés están llenos de gente rica y famosa. Esta sátira social muestra el fondo amargo al progreso económico en Italia en el período 1960-1970.
How to Make a French Dish
The painter
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and killed during an attempted robbery. She later marries and has a daughter. Unfortunately she alienates herself from her daughter when she has an affair with her daughter's fiance. Her remorse is short lived. The film jumps back to the present with the woman leaving the casino on the arm of a handsome millionaire.
The Eye of the Needle
Gérard Blain: Totò
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
Chicken Soup
Claudio
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
The Virgins
Xavier de Brétevielle
The story of five girls that lose their virginity.
Lo sgarro
Paolo
Hatari!
Charles 'Chips' Maurey
Un grupo de cazadores se desplaza a África para capturar animales y llevarlos a los zoológicos y a los circos de Europa y Estados Unidos. La armonía de la expedición se rompe cuando entre en escena la bella fotógrafa Anna Maria D'Allesandro.
Gold of Rome
Davide
Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.
The Hunchback
Alvaro Cosenza
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
The Dolphins
Anselmo Foresi
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
Run with the Devil
Stefano
En la calle del mismo nombre se entremezclan jóvenes pintores que quieren alcanzar el reconocimiento, y otros jóvenes que sólo desean "llegar".
Los primos
Charles
Charles es un joven provínciano que llega a París para estudiar derecho. Se hospeda con su primo Paul, que tiene piso propio en la ciudad, lo que le permitirá conocerlo y comprobar hasta qué punto sus cáracteres son antagónicos, pues mientras él es serio y responsable, Paul vive únicamente para disfrutar intensamente del presente sin importarle el mañana. Durante su estancia conoce a Florence, una de las amiguitas de Paul.
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
The New Boyfriend (uncredited)
Un hombre recibe la visita de su ex novia e intenta reconquistarla. Claro que él no sabe que ella solo volvió a buscar su cepillo de dientes. (FILMAFFINITY)
El bello Sergio
Serge
François regresa a su pueblo natal en Francia tras una década de ausencia. Nada más llegar nota que el pueblo no ha cambiado demasiado desde su partida, pero sí la gente, especialmente su viejo amigo Serge, quien se ha convertido en un desagradable borracho. En honor a esa vieja amistad que les unía años atrás, François averigurará lo que le sucedió a Serge para que se convirtiera en ese tipo de persona y también le prestará su ayuda para sacarlo de ese estado.
Maridos jóvenes
Marcello
Una comedia en tono agridulce sobre el paso de la juventud despreocupada a la madurez de casarse y sentar la cabeza de una cuadrilla de cinco amigos.
Los mocosos
Gérard
Durante un caluroso verano, cinco niños se dedican a espiar a Bernadette y Gérard, una pareja de amantes. Aprovechando que Gérard se va con una expedición alpinista, los niños mandan a Bernadette una provocativa postal. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le désir mène les hommes
Olivier Jourdans
The lives of three young men and a woman collide in Calais.
Crimen y castigo
Jean Fargeot
Convencido de su propia inteligencia y talento, René Brunel (Robert Hossein) decide probar que está por encima de la moralidad burguesa y asesina a una vieja usurera a sangre fría. El comisario Gallet (Jean Gabin), encargado del caso, le perseguirá de forma implacable y sutil, convencido que tiene algo que ver en el asunto. Esa presión asfixiante sumada a las ideas surgidas en sus conversaciones con Lili Marcelini (Marina Vlady), una prostituta a la que ha conocido hace poco, harán que la conciencia de René caiga sobre él, sin misericordia.
Almas perversas
Gérard Delacroix
Catherine, una ingenua chica de veinte años que acaba de quedarse huérfana, llega a París con una maleta y un dato: el nombre de André Chatelin, renombrado cocinero y dueño de un restaurante en Les Halles, que, además, hace veinte años estuvo casado con su madre. Chatelin, para disgusto de su madre, la acoge en su casa. Poco a poco, la cándida apariencia de la chica deja paso a un comportamiento inquietante. Duvivier desconcertó al público con unos personajes femeninos tremendamente amorales y sórdidos.
Wild Fruit
(uncredited)
Lyon, 1953. Maria Manzana is the oldest of a family with five children and the only one who has a job. Maria's mother is deceased and her father is regularly drunk and violent. One evening when he wants to beat his daughter Christine, Mary helps her sister and accidentally she kills her father. At Maria's advice the family would prefer to flee. Anna, the girlfriend of Mary's brother Michael, accompanies them. Michael doesn't want to leave her behind. A friendly trucker brings Mary and her company to the south. The group then walks on deserted roads to a village, that was abandoned more than 25 years ago due to lack of water.
Son of France
The crew of a tank from the 1st French army took part in the liberation of Strasbourg during the fall of 1944.
Los niños del paraíso
(uncredited)
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.
Children of Chaos
An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
Le bal des passants
(uncredited)
Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later. He then meets his daughter.