Gérard Calvi
Nacimiento : 1922-07-26, Paris, France
Muerte : 2015-02-20
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Gérard Calvi (born Grégoire Krettly; 26 July 1922 – 20 February 2015) was a French composer.
Interested in music from an early age, Calvi's first composing work was for the French production The Patron in 1949. From here he provided music for various French films, most notably Gangster Boss, as well as the show La Plume de Ma Tante, which was nominated for Best Musical at the 13th Tony Awards.
He composed music for three Asterix films: Asterix the Gaul, Asterix and Cleopatra and The Twelve Tasks of Asterix.
He also composed the memorable Asterix theme for the first film, which was dispensed with by the time the music for The Twelve Tasks of Asterix was composed in 1976.
His last work was for the feature film The Crab Revolution in 2004. He died in 2015, aged 92.
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In the Gironde estuary, a tragedy affects a species of crabs: they can't turn. Everything changes when they find a leader.
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Mr. Bennett is a model citizen, a tender father and an irreproachable husband, he yearns for a quiet life. On a weekend he receives a visit from a strange man called Pédro Juarez. Mr. Bennett’s past suddenly resurfaces and his peaceful existence is turned upside down ...
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Photographer Maurice Martin turns into a woman named Héloïse every night at 8 p.m.
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Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
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Corre el año 50 A.C. En la Galia, ocupada por los romanos, un pequeño poblado galo resiste de forma victoriosa a los insistentes ataques de los invasores. César sabe que hay que hacer algo para evitar verse humillado y ridiculizado. Por ello obliga a los habitantes del poblado a que elijan dos representantes que deberán superar doce pruebas que sólo los dioses podrían resistir. Lo que no sabe César es que los dos galos elegidos: Astérix, el guerrero, y Obélix, el portador de menhires, cuentan con la ayuda de la poción mágica cuya fórmula secreta solamente conoce el druida Panorámix.
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Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.
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In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
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Cleopatra quiere demostrar a Julio César que los egipcios son capaces de construir mejor que los romanos y, para ello, encarga a Numerobis, el arquitecto, que proyecte un palacio y lo construya en el plazo de tres meses. Numerobis se siente incapaz de hacerlo, por lo que pide ayuda a su amigo el druida Panorámix. Este parte hacia Alejandría en busca de su amigo, y lo hace acompañado por Astérix y Obélix. Juntos sortearán un sinfín de peligros, visitarán la Esfinge y las Pirámides, navegarán por el Nilo, incluso pasarán un rato en la cárcel...
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El propietario de una empresa de diseño y venta de yates decide echar a su diseñador más famoso. En seguida se da cuenta de que ha tomado la decisión de manera precipitada pues comprende que lo necesita para cerrar un importante trato con unos italianos. No le queda más remedio que tragarse su orgullo e ir en su busca, para lo que tendrá que dirigirse a un pueblo de la Francia profunda, donde las cosas no harán más que empeorar.
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El propietario de una empresa de diseño y venta de yates decide echar a su diseñador más famoso. En seguida se da cuenta de que ha tomado la decisión de manera precipitada pues comprende que lo necesita para cerrar un importante trato con unos italianos. No le queda más remedio que tragarse su orgullo e ir en su busca, para lo que tendrá que dirigirse a un pueblo de la Francia profunda, donde las cosas no harán más que empeorar.
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En el año 50 antes de Cristo toda la Galia ha sido ocupada por los romanos... ¿Toda? no; una pequeña aldea de irreductibles galos resiste incansable al invasor. En el campamento romano próximo de Petibonum, Caius Bonus está muy enfadado porque sus patrullas, cada vez que se encuentran con alguno de los habitantes del pequeño pueblo galo, son derrotadas y dispersadas. Ello es debido a que los galos toman una poción mágica que les hace invencibles, cuya fórmula secreta sólo es conocida por el druida Panoramix. Los romanos secuestran al druida, pero no consiguen que les revele la fórmula secreta. Entretanto, Astérix, que ha echado de menos a Panorámix, se introduce en el campamento romano para liberarle...
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A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
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Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are fake and Chartier decides to get help from his good friend Simon Templar.
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Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En la Francia ocupada por las tropas alemanas, un matrimonio que colabora con la Resistencia tiene que tomar una terrible decisión: cuál de sus vecinos será ejecutado por los nazis en represalia por la muerte de un oficial alemán. (FILMAFFINITY)
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En la Francia de 1789, un enmascarado apodado “el tulipán negro”, ataca y saquea a la nobleza en favor de los pobres. El jefe de la policía del Rosellón, convencido de que el terrible bandido no es otro que el conde Guillaume de Saint Preux, le tiende una trampa y consigue herirle una mejilla. Ahora resultará muy fácil reconocerlo. Pero, en una fiesta a la que acude toda la nobleza, el supuesto culpable aparece con el rostro incólume. Mientras tanto, las clases altas siguen siendo despojadas de sus riquezas.
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El duro jefe de una empresa está a punto de retirarse. Siente que ha llegado el momento de pasarle el testigo a otro. Cuando se conoce la noticia, algunos de los empleados comienzan a hacer méritos para convertirse en los elegidos. Pero una nueva legislación laboral condiciona la marcha del antiguo jefe y la elección del nuevo. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Marcel trabaja en una fábrica y es un tío bastante normal. Una viuda lo lía para que le compre un moderno coche americano. Al principio no quiere, pero finalmente acaba aceptando. Desde que se hace con el coche todo son problemas y gastos. No sólo tendrá que lidiar con el automóvil sino también con su mujer que está que se sube por las paredes. (FILMAFFINITY)
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The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
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Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.
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Hubert Franier, an honest hospital extern, should never had got into trouble had he not been infatuated with Véra, a beautiful but stupid creature, who led him down the wrong path. Because of her and her friends, Hubert, who naively thought he was taking part in a practical joke, was actually a party to a car theft. Because of him, Monsieur Pierre, a good-natured caretaker, is in hospital. Racked with remorse, Hubert decides to hide from the police and finds refuge at his friend Louis'. Louis is a very sociable artist and his flat is the meeting place of many a colorful character. There, Hubert gets to know Candy, a Black American saxophonist, as well as Boubou, a Black little boy. He also meets Marie-Lou, a bar girl who dreams of becoming a nurse.
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A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
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Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which upsets Jules Petitpas, a single inventor, her eccentric but kind-hearted neighbor. Jules pledges to help her by creating a potion that will cure her. Unfortunately he dies before being able to achieve his aim. But a promise is a promise, and the good man comes back to the land of the living as an ... ectoplasm! And he manages to involve a whole tribe of ghosts to assist him in the noble task of saving the young lady. All is well that ends well.
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Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
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Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
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The carefree Bertrand, gamekeeper for a castellan, puts himself in danger when he discovers that his boss is the leader of a gang of counterfeiters.
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Agnès de Louvigny, aviator, crashes with her plane on the villa of Martial Simonet, a fashion designer nicknamed La Patronne. But tourists are busy in front of the villa.
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In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous.
