Jean-Claude Petit
Nacimiento : 1943-11-14, Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France
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Jean-Claude Petit (born 14 November 1943) is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. He did the string arrangements for Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu album, as well as orchestrating the backing parts to some French pop singles in the mid-to-late 1960s, including those of Erick Saint-Laurent and yé-yé girls Christine Pilzer and Monique Thubert.
In 1973 he composed La leçon de Michette. The song was popular in Italy due to its use in the soundtrack of a well-known Carosello (the Italian TV spot broadcast) from 1973 to 1976.
As a music ghostwriter for director Michel Magne, Petit did not get credit for his film scores until he was 36.
1979 saw his first major film soundtrack commission (Alexandro Jodorowsky's Tusk), but he had been releasing solo records at least a decade earlier, including at least four for the Chappell Music Library, as well as his album Chez Jean-Claude Petit, released in the early 1970s. In 1976 he collaborated with Pierre Delanoë, Toto Cutugno, Vito Pallavicini in a very popular and funky music for Mireille Mathieu called Ciao Bambino, Sorry. In addition, he was a frequent collaborator with French film music composer Jack Arel: the pair's most well-known production, "Psychedelic Portrait", was featured in an episode of the cult TV series The Prisoner. His highly acclaimed score for Cyrano de Bergerac remains perhaps his best known work internationally. In 1995 he was nominated for a Victoires de la Musique award in soundtrack of the year for L'Etudiante Etranger. Jean Claude conducted and arranged for American Orchestra leader Billy Vaughn in the 1970s: At least two of Billy's Paramount LPs "An Old Fashioned Love Song" PAS 6025 and "Greatest Country Hits" give Jean Claude credit as arranged/conductor. The 'Greatest Country Hits' Lp Paramount PAS 6044 also includes a Jean Claude original "Walk A Country Mile".
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Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.
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Desde su nacimiento en El Cairo en 1933 hasta su primera actuación en el Olympia de París en 1956, desde su matrimonio con Lucien Morisse, jefe de la joven emisora de radio Europe nº1, a las fiesta en discotecas, desde sus viajes iniciáticos en la India al éxito mundial de ‘Gigi l’Amoroso’ en 1974, esta película es el retrato íntimo de una mujer absoluta, compleja y solar. Una mujer moderna en una época que lo era menos… A pesar de su suicidio en 1987, Dalida sigue iluminando con su eterna presencia.
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Hijo de enólogos, Charlie Maréchal dejó Borgoña para convertirse en un gran enólogo en París; es también autor de una guía de éxito cuyas críticas hacen temblar a todos los viticultores. Al mismo tiempo, en los viñedos familiares, su padre pierde el gusto por el vino y sus errores lo llevan a la quiebra. Entonces, Charlie vuelve a Borgoña, donde se esforzará en demostrarle a su padre que es digno de esas tierras.
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Alice es una mujer de 40 años, dinámica, hermosa y loca por el arte contemporáneo. Ella trabaja en un banco parisino con sus dos mejores amigos, Penélope e Isabelle.
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Three years after simultaneously parting with a philanderer husband and experiencing a dramatic fall during a horse jumping contest, Alexandra Balzan, a Parisian architect, regains an appetite for life and love after a chance encounter with an aging misanthrope of a master horseman and his horse
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The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
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Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Guadeloupe who fought against the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte to preserve his freedom. A hero despite himself, Ignace's life and struggle were subsequently consigned to oblivion by his enemies. His treatment has left a bittersweet taste in the mouths of the people of Guadeloupe.
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Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign action movies.
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En 1832, el cólera devasta la Provenza francesa. Al mismo tiempo, los italianos intentan librarse del control de Austria. En medio de esta situación, el coronel Angelo Pardi, un joven oficial italiano, encuentra a Pauline de Theus, una bella mujer que busca a su marido.
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A French football playing exchange student falls in love.
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An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
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The Castle of Olive Trees is the ancestral home of the "Laborie de Sauveterre". Located at "Châteauneuf-du-Pape", it holds many mysteries and legends. Like every summer "Estelle Laborie" goes there to take some time off. But this summer she take an important decision: run from Paris and stay here at the castle definitively. Little does she knows that her arrival will awake a lot of drama and secrets, beginning with this enigmatic "Pierre Séverin" who wants to demolish the castle to the ground, to make an amusement parc "Cigaleland". She will learn unfortunately that this "Pierre Séverin" is also knowned as "Marceau" the little boy of the steward of the castle when her father was the master of the domain. That steward also died in terrible circumstance. However Estelle decides to face this vengeance and save the castle with the aid of archaeologist "Raphaël Fauconnier"...
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Una mujer joven, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) escandaliza a su pueblo irlandés en la década de 1950 al tener un bebé fuera de matrimonio y negarse a nombrar al padre. Ella tiene una rara belleza y todos los hombres de la ciudad la desean, especialmente el sargento Hegarty (Albert Finney). La llegada de una compañía dramática agita aún más las cosas, especialmente cuando se enamora de uno de los "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
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This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.
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Mientras en Turquía se lleva a cabo el juicio contra Soghomon Tehlirian por el asesinato del ministro del interior Talaat Pacha, el barco en el que viajaba la familia Zakarian, con otros cientos de exiliados, llega a Marsella donde empezarán una nueva vida. Sus tropiezos, sus dificultades para establecerse con dignidad y los ingentes esfuerzos de Hagop Zakarian (Omar Sharif), su esposa Araxi (Claudia Cardinale) y dos comprometidas tías, para sacar adelante al pequeño Azad, es lo que se verá en esta primera parte que termina con "588 Rue Paradis".
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After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
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Cyrano es un brillante poeta y un hábil espadachín que expresa su amor por la bella Roxane a través de Christian, el apuesto soldado a quien ella ama. Cyrano es jactancioso y fanfarrón, de genio vivo pero a la vez ingenioso e irónico, noble y orgulloso. Pero esconde una herida secreta que le atormenta: su agudo sentido del ridículo, su fealdad y su susceptibilidad le han impedido ser amado por Roxane. Sin embargo, ya que su amada ama a otro, él ayudará a su rival escribiendo en su nombre apasionadas cartas de amor.
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Francia, siglo XVII. Han transcurrido casi veinte desde el encuentro del joven D'Artagnan con Athos, Porthos y Aramis, los tres mosqueteros del rey. Tras la muerte de Milady de Winter, su hija Justine conspira con el cardenal Mazarino para controlar la Corona. Los mosqueteros tendrán que unir sus fuerzas para salvar a Francia de su maligna influencia.
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Nunca digas nunca. Jeremie (Patrick Chesnais), casada con un comisario de policía, desea fervientemente tener un hijo. A pesar de que ya tiene a una dulce y hermosa hija de 20 años, engendrada con su primer marido, quiere volver a sentirse viva. Sin embargo, el doctor les confirma a la pareja que no podrán tener niños juntos. ¿Nunca digas nunca? El matrimonio opta por un complejo y largo proceso que les dará la solución: la adopción. Mientras barajan las posibilidades que tienen, la hija de Jeremie les presenta a Joanna, una adolescente embarazada que está dispuesta a darle a su hijo una vida mejor en sus mano.
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Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him.
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Manon, la hija de Jean de Florette, ha crecido. Sabe que Le Papet y Ugolin son responsables de la muerte de su padre. Su venganza comienza cuando revela a todo el pueblo secretos guardados desde hace años. Segunda parte de la película "El manantial de las colinas".
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En un pueblo rural francés, un terrateniente codicioso llamado Le Papet y su sobrino Ugolin, conspiran para bloquear la única fuente de agua potable de una propiedad colindante a la suya. Tras matar a su propietario, esperan que el nuevo heredero, en vista del poco valor que tendría la propiedad (han sellado el manantial para que nadie sepa de su existencia), se vea obligado a vender a bajo precio. El heredero es un recaudador de impuestos de ciudad, jorobado, con mujer e hija. A pesar de no contar con agua, éste quiere establecerse y comenzar a cultivar y criar animales.
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En un pueblo rural francés, un terrateniente codicioso llamado Le Papet y su sobrino Ugolin, conspiran para bloquear la única fuente de agua potable de una propiedad colindante a la suya. Tras matar a su propietario, esperan que el nuevo heredero, en vista del poco valor que tendría la propiedad (han sellado el manantial para que nadie sepa de su existencia), se vea obligado a vender a bajo precio. El heredero es un recaudador de impuestos de ciudad, jorobado, con mujer e hija. A pesar de no contar con agua, éste quiere establecerse y comenzar a cultivar y criar animales.
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Russian spy boss in Geneva spends a night interrogating two spies to see who is a traitor.
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Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up murdered in his neighbourhood, and the killer leaves a note signed "Billy Ze Kick."
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Una serie de bocetos humorísticos sobre la vida: "Una noche para recordar", "Cumbre de enfrentamiento" y "¿Un libro? ¡Eso es personal!"
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An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...
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Un psicópata es testigo del suicidio de una joven. En su mente enferma, empieza a convencerse de que él la ha asesinado y a enviar cartas a los periódicos con detalles del "asesinato". Cuando la policía está a punto de capturarle, conoce a una muchacha y la idea de un crimen real empieza a destruir su ya perturbada mente...
