Denys de La Patellière
Nacimiento : 1921-03-08, Nantes, France
Muerte : 2013-07-21
Historia
Denys de La Patellière (8 March 1921 in Nantes, France – 21 July 2013) was a French film director and scriptwriter.
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Self (archive footage)
This year, Michel Audiard would have turned 100. To celebrate the life and work of the French screenwriter and director, Gaumont opens their vault and reveals some unknown information on the legendary witty dialogues writer.
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Director
During WWII, a young captain of the German aviation falls for a Swedish girl who works for the Red Cross and organizes the escape of Jews outside Germany.
Director
Director
Acusado de cuatro asesinatos, el peligroso criminal Georges Gassot se fuga del hospital psiquiátrico en el que se encuentra recluído con la ayuda de su hermano Francois. Juntos buscan refugio en la ciudad de Marsella, donde Gassot conoce a una prostituta, Gerda, de la que muy pronto se enamora y junto a la cual pretende comenzar una nueva vida. Les sigue la pista el tenaz comisario Le Guen, quien criticado por el uso de antiguos métodos policiales tradicionales, intentará demostrar que aún son efectivos. Muy lejos de redimirse, Gassot comete nuevos homicidios en Marsella, vuelve a París para resolver un ajuste de cuentas y continúa con su vida salvaje y decadente, hasta que se ve obligado a tomar una dramática decisión...
Writer
A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live.
Director
A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live.
Director
Un marchante de arte especializado en la compra y venta de cuadros siempre está al acecho de alguna obra rara. Y finalmente la encuentra en el lugar que menos se hubiera podido imaginar. Se trata de un autorretrato de Modigliani que adorna la espalda de un antiguo legionario.
Screenplay
Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love, despite her arranged marriage to an older politician.
Director
Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love, despite her arranged marriage to an older politician.
Writer
A young Gallic heiress Christine is looking for her long-lost brother in Algeria. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes in her way from every nook and cranny.
Director
A young Gallic heiress Christine is looking for her long-lost brother in Algeria. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes in her way from every nook and cranny.
Director
Screenplay
Paul, conocido por la policía como "El Diamantes", es hoy día un respetado hombre de negocios. Sin embargo, sus actividades no son del todo legales... (FILMAFFINITY)
Adaptation
Paul, conocido por la policía como "El Diamantes", es hoy día un respetado hombre de negocios. Sin embargo, sus actividades no son del todo legales... (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Paul, conocido por la policía como "El Diamantes", es hoy día un respetado hombre de negocios. Sin embargo, sus actividades no son del todo legales... (FILMAFFINITY)
Screenplay
Brassac is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone, Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather."
Director
Brassac is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone, Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather."
Writer
El joven Marco Polo inicia su viaje a la lejana China, con el objetivo de brindar ayuda a Kublai Khan y combatir a la rebelión que se oponen al gobierno de este emperador. Los rebeldes están encabezados nada menos que por su propio hijo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
El joven Marco Polo inicia su viaje a la lejana China, con el objetivo de brindar ayuda a Kublai Khan y combatir a la rebelión que se oponen al gobierno de este emperador. Los rebeldes están encabezados nada menos que por su propio hijo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.
Adaptation
When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death as a deliverance. At the funeral, she meets Judith, widow too, and she soon realises that her husband had been leading a double life. A short while later, the pharmacy is broken into, but nothing is stolen. Police Inspector Laforêt is put in charge of the case. Isabelle becomes suspicious when Judith offers to buy the pharmacy.
Director
After WWII, a young man without perspective arrives in Rome. Living in a loft, he gradually discovers the city becoming a tour guide.
Director
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
Screenplay
Cerca de Tobruk, donde se ha librado una cruenta batalla entre tropas aliadas y los alemanes, con numerosas bajas, cuatro hombres, aliados, logran escaparse, a través del desierto, con un vieje jeep. Este es atacado por la aviación y deben proseguir a pie. Cuando están exhaustos, se toparán con un gupo de alemanes, a quienes matarán. A todos menos a uno a quien toman por prisionero.Se trata de un capitán, condecorado con la Cruz de Hierro. Al principio su relación será de claros enemigos, pero poco a poco irán conociéndose y haciéndose, cada vez más, camaradas.
Director
Cerca de Tobruk, donde se ha librado una cruenta batalla entre tropas aliadas y los alemanes, con numerosas bajas, cuatro hombres, aliados, logran escaparse, a través del desierto, con un vieje jeep. Este es atacado por la aviación y deben proseguir a pie. Cuando están exhaustos, se toparán con un gupo de alemanes, a quienes matarán. A todos menos a uno a quien toman por prisionero.Se trata de un capitán, condecorado con la Cruz de Hierro. Al principio su relación será de claros enemigos, pero poco a poco irán conociéndose y haciéndose, cada vez más, camaradas.
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Writer
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
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Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Screenplay
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Writer
La Francia de Luis XV está en guerra con la emperatriz de Austria, María Teresa. Hernri La Tour, aventurero y cómico de la legua metido en el conflicto de forma fortuita, recibe el encargo del conde de Saint Server, mortalmente herido, de cuidad de su..
Director
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.
Screenplay
Un pintor pobre, Robert Mabillon, rescata una tarde al millonario Eric Fréminger, cuando intentaba lanzarse debajo de las ruedas de un coche. Tras haberse emborrachado, Mabillon propone renovar su lujosa residencia en Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, en la riviera francesa. No obstante, Fréminger lo convence para que se convierta en su chófer. Esa misma noche, Mabillon es testigo de una violenta disputa entre su anfitrión y su seductora esposa, Hélène. Poco tiempo después, recibe la vista de esta última, con el pretexto de marcharse a sus respectivos hogares.
Director
Un pintor pobre, Robert Mabillon, rescata una tarde al millonario Eric Fréminger, cuando intentaba lanzarse debajo de las ruedas de un coche. Tras haberse emborrachado, Mabillon propone renovar su lujosa residencia en Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, en la riviera francesa. No obstante, Fréminger lo convence para que se convierta en su chófer. Esa misma noche, Mabillon es testigo de una violenta disputa entre su anfitrión y su seductora esposa, Hélène. Poco tiempo después, recibe la vista de esta última, con el pretexto de marcharse a sus respectivos hogares.
Director
A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a Japanese countess. He is first horrified, but finally accepts the situation because it brings him economical advantages.
Director
Bourgeois melodrama about the family of a wealthy businessman in La Rochelle, who dismisses the marriage of his only daughter with a journalist.
Scenario Writer
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his best to uphold the traditions of nobility in an ever-changing world. The Marquis' children prefer the trappings of modern society and pop culture and regard their father as a relic. This cultural clash nearly results in tragedy when two of the Marquis' offspring substitute recklessness for common sense.
Director
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his best to uphold the traditions of nobility in an ever-changing world. The Marquis' children prefer the trappings of modern society and pop culture and regard their father as a relic. This cultural clash nearly results in tragedy when two of the Marquis' offspring substitute recklessness for common sense.
Screenplay
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even so, young Gerard (Pierre Trabaud) becomes convinced that Maurice has never truly lost his calling. Becoming a priest himself, Gerard devotes his life to bringing Maurice back into the fold. Things don't turn out quite as Gerard hopes, however; he has not reckoned with the possibility that Maurice may have been driven into insanity by his raging self-hatred.
Assistant Director
Roberto, a 10-year-old boy, is drawn to music. An old organist discovers his gifts, and begins his musical education which will lead him to the head of an orchestra.
Editor
Filme que a través de escenas combinadas entre seres humanos y marionetas, revive la historia imaginada por Lewis Carroll de una niña atrapada en un mundo extraño y maravilloso por igual.