Nelly Kaplan
Nacimiento : 1931-04-11, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Muerte : 2020-11-12
Historia
Born in Argentina to a Russian Jewish family, Nelly Kaplan relocated to Paris at age seventeen, where she became an assistant to legendary director Abel Gance before directing her first feature, the caustic revenge comedy A Very Curious Girl. Transgressive, satirical, and surreal, Kaplan's films are defined by their proactive female protagonists.
Writer
In 1930, Honorin, the mayor of a small village, receives a visit from a young girl claiming to be his child.
Salomé von Jung
Polly West, a very rich American star, has bought the castle of Sainte Apolline, a small village in Provence. As soon as she arrives, the dynamic actress causes trouble among the inhabitants. After having received her in confession, the priest seems to be taken by madness. To add to the turmoil, the country warden and the grocer enter her service. Honorin, the mayor, tries to cope and maintain order. While the people of the village keep asking questions, Polly flies to the rescue of the beautiful Italian girl Clara, who has been raped by the landlord Léonce. Soon, Honotin discovers that Polly is buying up the village's land using a few nominees. He then understands that this woman is not a stranger and that, a few years ago, the villagers chased her away because she was a mother, and these same villagers caused the death of her parents. Polly has returned to seek revenge.
Screenplay
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
Director
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
Writer
A small village lies peacefully nestled in the hills beneath the Provence sun... until the arrival of an odd group of vacationers. Who are these gorgeous young women from the big city strolling on the village square under the watchful eye of a chaperone as beautiful as she is authoritarian? Scandal arises when it’s learned these dreamy creatures are none other than the employees of a Marseille brothel come to enjoy the good clean air of the country. All hell breaks loose as the villagers take a stand for or against the presence of these "ladies of pleasure". The mayor is called on to relay women of the moral rules of the region to the women. But the fact remains, they can’t be forced to leave: while they have no intention of plying their trade, no law exists to bring their country retreat to a premature end. Different mentalities are revealed, passions unbridled, love kindled... and doesn’t love always solve everything in the end?
Director
This documentary focuses on the making of the 235-minute, silent epic Napoleon, the masterpiece of French director/writer/actor Abel Gance. Napoleon showcased Gance's talents with the camera, his use of multiple-images (like a split screen), and his handling of crowded action scenes -- all brought forward in this documentary by his later assistant, Nelly Kaplan. While Gance was shooting Napoleon in 1925-26, he and his crew were also being filmed for a documentary titled Autour de Napoleon. The only extant reels from that documentary are included in this film, as well as views of Gance's unique "triptychs" -- three different scenes lined up side-by-side across a super-wide screen to convey the effect of a panorama, or of three separate interludes. Nelly Kaplan put together this documentary using old footage, such as Gance filming the famous snowball fight at the Brienne military school and still photographs and excerpts from Gance's production diaries.
Nostradama
Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.
Writer
Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.
Director
Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.
Writer
En Ginebra, el librero y editor Axel Thorpe atrapa el robo y robo robo en una tienda de Sibylle Ashby de 16 años. Ella se jacta de sus escritos, así que él la desafía a producir un libro. Ella escribe una novela erótica que Thorpe publica de forma anónima, y se convierte en un éxito de ventas. Ella también trata de capturar el amor de esta editorial de 40 años. Cuando la deja por su hermana mayor, ¿debería buscar venganza o recobrarla? En los argumentos secundarios, se lleva mal con su hermana y su padre, y alienta el romance de su madre con la hermana de su padre. Axel también tiene problemas además de la decidida Sibylle: debe aceptar la muerte por ahogamiento de su madre hace años.
Director
En Ginebra, el librero y editor Axel Thorpe atrapa el robo y robo robo en una tienda de Sibylle Ashby de 16 años. Ella se jacta de sus escritos, así que él la desafía a producir un libro. Ella escribe una novela erótica que Thorpe publica de forma anónima, y se convierte en un éxito de ventas. Ella también trata de capturar el amor de esta editorial de 40 años. Cuando la deja por su hermana mayor, ¿debería buscar venganza o recobrarla? En los argumentos secundarios, se lleva mal con su hermana y su padre, y alienta el romance de su madre con la hermana de su padre. Axel también tiene problemas además de la decidida Sibylle: debe aceptar la muerte por ahogamiento de su madre hace años.
Writer
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves"...
Lady with her Saint-Bernard
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Editor
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Producer
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Writer
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Director
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Editor
Una joven explotada y reprimida empieza a cobrar por sus favores sexuales y dinamita la sociedad capitalista patriarcal del pueblo donde vive.
Producer
Una joven explotada y reprimida empieza a cobrar por sus favores sexuales y dinamita la sociedad capitalista patriarcal del pueblo donde vive.
Writer
Una joven explotada y reprimida empieza a cobrar por sus favores sexuales y dinamita la sociedad capitalista patriarcal del pueblo donde vive.
Director
Una joven explotada y reprimida empieza a cobrar por sus favores sexuales y dinamita la sociedad capitalista patriarcal del pueblo donde vive.
Director
On the 1967 huge Picasso exhibition in Paris, celebrating the 85 anniversary of the painter.
Director
A short film by Nelly Kaplan on Victor Hugo's drawings.
Director
Documentary on erotic drawings by the painter André Masson.
La Pasta
A story of "La Pasta", a renowned prima donna, and her extraordinary rival.
Editor
The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.
Director of Photography
The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.
Director
The life and work of Abel Gance as told by himself. Includes extracts from many of his films and considers his contribution to the cinema.
Director
A brilliant analysis of 19th century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, known for his fantastical and mythological subjects, and who remains to these days an influential figure in the birth of modern art.
Director
Short film by Nelly Kaplan about the life and works of Rodolphe Bresdin
Writer
En la batalla de Austerlitz (2-XII- 1805) Napoleón obtuvo una de sus más brillantes victorias contra las potencias absolutistas europeas. Más de tres décadas después de la publicación de su biografía sobre Napoleón, Abel Gance volvió a inspirarse en la figura de Bonaparte para dirigir esta épica y colosal reconstrucción de la batalla de Austerlitz (o de los Tres Emperadores), en la que Bonaparte derrotó a los austríacos y a los rusos. Fue producida por Alexander Salkind (Superman) y contó con un extenso reparto de estrellas internacionales.
Director
A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded the American invention of Cinerama, and used three screens to present a drama of simultaneous images.
Alice
Durante el reinado de Luis X, el Capitán Buridan llega a París por la época en que todos los días se descubrían cadáveres flotando en el Sena en las proximidades de la Torre de Nesle. Los asesinatos se cometían después de las orgías que allí tenían lugar. El Capitán Burídan así como Phílippe d'Aulnay, hermano del favorito de la Reina, Gaultier d'Aulnay, son conducidos a una de esas orgías y a la emboscada que le sucedía. Phílippe es asesinado no sin antes identificar a la Reina Margarita de Borgoña...
