Claude Autant-Lara
Nacimiento : 1901-08-05, Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France
Muerte : 2000-02-05
Historia
Director de cine francés nacido en Luzarches. Su familia tuvo que exilarse al Reino Unido al comenzar la Primera Guerra Mundial debido a los ideales políticos de su madre. A su regreso en 1919 a Francia, Claude tomó contacto con el cine, comenzando a trabajar como decorador del director Marcel L'Herbier. Sus primeras obras son cortometrajes, como Construire un feu, de 1928, en el que utilizó un objetivo anamórfico predecesor del cinemascope. En 1933 dirigió su primer y polémico largometraje, Ciboulette, que acabó siendo censurada por los productores y relegándole a un segundo plano durante años. En una de sus siguientes películas, Douce, abordó una dura crítica a la familia y a las clases sociales más elevadas, criticando su hipocresía. Su imagen de cineasta polémico continuó con las siguientes películas, pero la crítica de la Nouvelle Vague, en los años 50, lo tildó de director falsamente crítico y de cineasta burgués. Su carrera continuó con películas de menor importancia. Su filmografía incluye El diablo en el cuerpo (1947), El alberge rojo (1951), El rojo y el negro (1954), La travesía de París (1956), El bosque de los amantes (1960), El Conde de Montecristo (1962) y Gloria (1977).
Self
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Director
Two ten-year-old children, Gloria and Jacques, meet at the former's birthday party. It is love at first sight and they vow eternal love. Unfortunately, the First World War breaks out and they are separated. The people around them do not understand the deep feelings that link them to each other. When they meet again after the war, Gloria has become a cabaret dancer whereas Jacques has married in the USA. Nothing seems possible between them any longer...
Writer
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
Director
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
Director
Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members. Albert tries to maintain the delicate balance between the warring factions by helping out the afflicted and not getting involved in political ideology.
Director
Comedia de sketches con varios directores, cada uno de los cuales muestra un paso adelante en la historia de la prostitución, desde la prehistoria hasta nuestros días.
Producer
A sequel to Claude Autant-Lara's 1965 A Woman in White.
Director
A sequel to Claude Autant-Lara's 1965 A Woman in White.
Director
Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights.
Director
ingular comedia negra que consta de tres episodios sobre el mismo tema: la muerte. Los protagonistas son una vieja campesina ("El ciempiés"), un hacendado que vive con sus sirvientes ("La corneja") y los artistas de un circo ("Miss Wilma").
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Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
Director
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Director
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.
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A teenager who suffers from his mother's escapades imagines the life of his father in San Francisco.
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In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been almost ruined by his addiction. The only money the General has is provided by the Marquis de Grieux, an adventurer who intends to marry Zagorianski’s sister, Pauline. In doing so, de Grieux hopes to profit from the vast inheritance that will come the General’s way from his Aunt Antonina, who is presently very ill. Alexei is appalled by this society which lives only for money. He loves Pauline and wants to take her to a healthier place, but when she refuses to marry him, he begins to gamble at the casino…
Director
André, un abogado casado, deberá defender el caso de Yvette, una bella muchacha acusada de hurto. Durante la preparación de su defensa, él se sentirá atraído por ella hasta el punto que no verá que ella no está siendo sincera con él.
Director
Durante la ocupación nazi de París, un torpe e ingenuo estraperlista se ve obligado a pedir ayuda a un extraño individuo que dice ser pintor para poder transportar en varias maletas un cerdo troceado. Juntos tendrán que cruzar la ciudad en plena noche. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.
Writer
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Stendhal. Francia, Siglo XIX. Julian es un tipo sin escrúpulos, capaz de cualquier cosa con tal de ascender en la escala social. Aunque es hijo de un carpintero, en lugar de trabajar como sus hermanos, él se pasa el tiempo leyendo libros.
Director
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Stendhal. Francia, Siglo XIX. Julian es un tipo sin escrúpulos, capaz de cualquier cosa con tal de ascender en la escala social. Aunque es hijo de un carpintero, en lugar de trabajar como sus hermanos, él se pasa el tiempo leyendo libros.
Dialogue
Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.
Adaptation
Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.
Director
Based on the novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into puberty, the two youngsters fall in love.
Director
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
Director
A French/Italian motion picture drama covering the seven deadly sins in seven separate sections.
Screenplay
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
Director
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
Director
Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is called off for military duty, he enlists his playboy friend Marcel to keep an eye on her....something of a problem seeing that he is currently looking for a woman with which to create a sham marriage so he can quickly inherit a large sum of money from his father. Then suddenly the Prince of Palestra enters into the picture and boldly asks for Étienne's romantic favors to assess whether or not he would consider taking her as his bride. What's a free-spirited girl to do?
Costume Design
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Basada en un polémica novela escrita en 1923 por Raymond Radiguet. Narra la relación amorosa entre un adolescente y una joven cuyo marido está en el frente. A pesar de su éxito, tuvo problemas con la censura en varios países. En 1986, el director italiano Marco Bellocchio hizo otra adaptación del mismo título, pero ambientada en los ochenta.
Writer
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Basada en un polémica novela escrita en 1923 por Raymond Radiguet. Narra la relación amorosa entre un adolescente y una joven cuyo marido está en el frente. A pesar de su éxito, tuvo problemas con la censura en varios países. En 1986, el director italiano Marco Bellocchio hizo otra adaptación del mismo título, pero ambientada en los ochenta.
Director
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Basada en un polémica novela escrita en 1923 por Raymond Radiguet. Narra la relación amorosa entre un adolescente y una joven cuyo marido está en el frente. A pesar de su éxito, tuvo problemas con la censura en varios países. En 1986, el director italiano Marco Bellocchio hizo otra adaptación del mismo título, pero ambientada en los ochenta.
Director
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.
Costume Design
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
Director
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
Director
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Costume Design
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Director
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Producer
A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
Director
A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
Director
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
Director
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
Director
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
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Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulette and Antonin, a young spoiled aristocrat.
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Mr. and Mrs. Boul go separately to the spa town of Vittel to experience the waters. Without knowing it they are lodged next door to one another in the hotel. They each have a grand time enjoying the sights of the town. One morning Boul hears a woman's laughter from the hotel room next door, but can only see a pair of legs through the keyhole. He is determined to meet the pretty stranger!
Director
"To Build a Fire" is a short story by American author Jack London, published in two different versions of in 1902 and 1908. It was made into a film in 1928 by Claude Autant-Lara. Despite being warned about the subzero temperature, a single man ventures out into the Yukon forest to find his destiny.
Fauchery
Naná aspira a triunfar en el teatro. Después de un fracaso estrepitoso al interpretar el papel de dama distinguida, decide a aceptar las reiteradas proposiciones del Conde Muffat. Al mismo tiempo que se convierte en su amante se transforma también en una mujer cruel, indiferente y escandalosa. En "Nana" es indiscutible la influencia de "Esposas frívolas", de Erich von Stroheim (1921), donde la codicia se presenta como la pasión más destructiva del ser humano. Renoir le añade la abismal diferencia social entre criados y señores. El fracaso de la película dejo a Renoir completamente arruinado.
Costume Design
Naná aspira a triunfar en el teatro. Después de un fracaso estrepitoso al interpretar el papel de dama distinguida, decide a aceptar las reiteradas proposiciones del Conde Muffat. Al mismo tiempo que se convierte en su amante se transforma también en una mujer cruel, indiferente y escandalosa. En "Nana" es indiscutible la influencia de "Esposas frívolas", de Erich von Stroheim (1921), donde la codicia se presenta como la pasión más destructiva del ser humano. Renoir le añade la abismal diferencia social entre criados y señores. El fracaso de la película dejo a Renoir completamente arruinado.
Art Direction
Naná aspira a triunfar en el teatro. Después de un fracaso estrepitoso al interpretar el papel de dama distinguida, decide a aceptar las reiteradas proposiciones del Conde Muffat. Al mismo tiempo que se convierte en su amante se transforma también en una mujer cruel, indiferente y escandalosa. En "Nana" es indiscutible la influencia de "Esposas frívolas", de Erich von Stroheim (1921), donde la codicia se presenta como la pasión más destructiva del ser humano. Renoir le añade la abismal diferencia social entre criados y señores. El fracaso de la película dejo a Renoir completamente arruinado.
Assistant Director
El guarda nocturno de la Torre Eiffel, después de una noche de trabajo, se encuentra París totalmente vacío; desconcertado, explora las calles y descubre algunas personas paralizadas como si se hubieran quedado congeladas. Poco después, encuentra a un grupo de viajeros procedentes de Marsella que han llegado en avión esa mañana. Juntos, prosiguen la vana búsqueda de individuos en movimiento.
Editor
An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages which create psychological constructs that unfold a Parisian love affair which turns into a threesome of great emotion and consequences. Also notable for using Antonin Artaud as the male lead.
Writer
An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages which create psychological constructs that unfold a Parisian love affair which turns into a threesome of great emotion and consequences. Also notable for using Antonin Artaud as the male lead.
Director
An experimental short from 1923 France which offers silent narrative in diverse, optical multi-exposures and severe close-ups offering dense montages which create psychological constructs that unfold a Parisian love affair which turns into a threesome of great emotion and consequences. Also notable for using Antonin Artaud as the male lead.
Art Direction
Crazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.
Production Design
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns.
Art Direction
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns.
Un des copains (uncredited)
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns.
Art Direction
Comtesse Della Gentia and her lover Paul attempt to seduce and blackmail a rich neighbour Juan, who is in love with a naïve young friend of theirs, Clarisse. Their plot fails; the Comtesse kills herself at a ball, and her lover re-covers her face with its mask.
