Pierre Vaneck
Nacimiento : 1931-04-15, Lang Son, Indochine
Muerte : 2010-01-31
Historia
Pierre Vaneck (born Pierre Auguste Van Hecke; 15 April 1931 – 31 January 2010) was a French actor. During his career, he won a Molière Award in 1988 and received a César Award nomination in 2009.
Son of a Belgian army officer, Pierre Vaneck spent his youth in Antwerp, Belgium, until the age of 17, when he started medical studies in Paris, France. Before long, he branched into studying acting, first at the Rene Simon school, and then at the Theatre Academy, under Henri Rollan. He earned his living meanwhile by working for a saddle-maker by day, and in the evenings, he recited François Villon's poems in cabarets. His début on the stage came in 1952 in The Three Musketeers in the role of Louis XIII. His first important role in the cinema was in the Julien Duvivier film, Marianne of my Youth in 1955.
Pierre Vaneck was primarily a theatre and television actor. The general public knew him particularly for his television role as the father of the main character in Fabien Cosma, as well as in many other serials (Spring Tides, The Garonne...). Vaneck died on Sunday 31 January 2010, during open-heart surgery. He was married to Sophie Becker, daughter and sister of Jacques Becker and Jean Becker. His grandchildren, Aurélie and Thibaud Vaneck, are both actors, and feature in the television series Plus Belle la Vie which is broadcast on France 3 channel.
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André Jorgensen
le père d'Antoine
Antoine, un publicista de éxito, está casado, tiene dos hijos, vive en una bonita casa no lejos de París y sus relaciones con los vecinos son excelentes. La discreta relación que mantiene con la guapa Marion no es tan seria como para perturbar su equilibrio. Sin embargo, un buen día su vida experimenta un vuelco. Durante una reunión con un cliente importante, pierde los estribos y, de paso, el proyecto. Su socio le propone que se tome unos días de vacaciones para descansar, pero Antoine, que ya ha decidido abandonar su trabajo, le ofrece su parte en el negocio. Cuando regresa a casa para pasar el fin de semana, empieza a destruir sistemáticamente todo lo que ha construido durante años
Mr. Pouchet
Stephane (García Bernal), un joven diseñador mexicano tímido e introvertido, es cautivo de sus propios sueños, y siempre trata de despertarse para controlar su imaginación, que amenaza con suplantar el mundo real. En su vida se presenta una oportunidad de cambio cuando su madre, francesa, lo convence para que vuelva a su casa natal en París, prometiéndole un trabajo. Su decepción es grande cuando comprueba que se trata de un rutinario trabajo en una pequeña oficina que comparte con tres singulares compañeros, en especial el excéntrico Guy (Alain Chabat). Sin embargo, la decepción desaparece cuando conoce a su vecina Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) y a su amiga Zoe (Emma de Caunes).
Ian Coburn
Catherine y su esposo Roberto, cazador, viven en Tanzania, en Africa Oriental. A ella le desagrada la caza, pero los safaris que organiza Roberto para sus ricos clientes les permiten vivir holgadamente. Un día él es atacado por un leopardo y resulta gravemente herido. Ante la necesidad de ser evacuado urgentemente, Catherina contacta con Gordon Coburn, un piloto de una avioneta que se encuentra cerca de la zona, y consiguen salvar a su marido. La personalidad arrolladora del piloto, un hombre enigmático y de carácter posesivo, despierta en Catherina una incontrolada pasión que le impulsa a abandonar a su marido para vivir una nueva vida con su amante.
Paul of Tarsus
Calígula está trastornado. Obsesionado con una supuesta conspiración de su hermano contra él, ordena que lo maten y condena a Agripina al exilio en una isla remota, muy lejos de su hijo Nerón. Asesinado por sus generales, el emperador Calígula es sustituido por Claudius, cuyo objetivo será que Nerón gobierne el imperio romano.
Blanville
Pierre es un periodista que presenta un programa en la televisión. Nadie sabe que vivía en Argelia cuando la guerra, y que dejó atrás un amor absoluto y desesperado. Antes de entrar en el estudio, un anciano argelino se le acerca y le transmite un mensaje misterioso...
Aurélien Laverzac
Rivalries divide the sons of the owner of a wine estate in Cognac.
Aaron
En una hipotética sociedad fuera del tiempo, el poder oprime a los ciudadanos hasta perseguir incluso el arte en las calles, los graffiti.
Marc
Raymond T.K
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
doktor Josef Hoop, premier rządu Liechtensteinu
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.
Dr. Charcot
Set on a remote farm on the west coast of Iceland in late summer 1936. Hrefna, encouraged by her grandmother’s stories, begins to mix past and future in her imagination, travelling back to the 14th century.
Mayor
It is World War II, and the Nazis have taken over Poland. In this story, three citified children of Resistance fighters have taken refuge in the mountains, and they manage to hook up with three local youngsters. All six of them are being hunted by the Germans, and they are also being looked for by an adult who wants to take them to greater safety. Along the way, the children occasionally put on spontaneous theatricals.
Narrator
Elise is content being the lover of Alex, a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back.
Father Venegas
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, becoming a respected and influential historian of religions. He acquired something of the status of a guru, as poignantly told in the 1987 documentary Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré. The film features interviews with Eliade at the end of his life, artfully spliced with cuts to religious imagery on a background of moving spiritual music. It was released in 1987, the year after his death.
Pierre
Chris es una sexy adolescente que pasea su cuerpo con osadía y descaro por la Riviera Francesa. Ella se siente atraída por Romain, el amante de su madre, y hará todo lo posible por seducirle. Pero, ante la falta de interés que muestra Romain, la joven se lanza a otras arriesgadas relaciones.
Louis XIII
In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
Dr. Norbert Bollinger
Un escritor de izquierdas sumido en las dudas se retira a Portugal con su mujer en casa de una amiga. Allí descubre que padece un cáncer generalizado y decide plantarle cara...
Colonel Grasser
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
Maximilien Robespierre
Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.
Werner Von Rompsay
Dr. Liancourt
The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.
Karl de Lincken
Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small Corsican village perched in the mountains. His presence intrigues Baron Ucciani, who reigns supreme over Santa Lucia. The meeting with the baron and his young wife Maria could divert our hero from his original project: revenge ...
Ponchard
Infantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which include sexual abuse of the prison inmates) force him and others into rebellion. Court martial ensues ...
Jacques Christens
A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
François
François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by pretty a blonde. She leaves at the same station as him and follows him until he ends up inviting her to his house.
Narrator (voice)
Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists in fluent French about his career and his conception of life.
Narrator (French version) (voice)
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock footage from both World Wars are included with 30 minutes of new scenes filmed especially for the project. The historical timeline is traced from the time Czar Nicholas II is crowned. The emergence of Lenin, his death in 1924, and the later contributions of Trotsky and Stalin give the viewer a sense of death, betrayal, and ideological devotion to the communist agenda. Rossif effectively uses scenes from the landmark 1929 film The Man With A Movie Camera by celebrated director Dziga Vertov. Rossif researched the film archives from several countries in his meticulous gathering of materials for this timely historical feature.
Maj. Roger Gallois
En agosto de 1944, las tropas americanas están a punto de liberar París. Mientras tanto, Hitler ha ordenado a uno de sus generales que mantenga el control sobre la ciudad o que la destruya. Fresco histórico sobre la liberación de París por las fuerzas aliadas. Impresionante reparto con guión de Coppola.
Narrator (voice)
Set in Zaire, the film follows an expedition exploring the crater of the Niragongo volcano of the Virunga chain, whose eruptions are known for their violence and their massive lava flows.
Récitant (voice)
Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search for the meanings of the photographic image, in the form of an extended voiceover conversation and debate between the "amateur photographer" credited with the images and two of his colleagues. Anticipating later writings by Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag (who professed her admiration for the film) If I Had Four Dromedaries reveals Marker's instinctual understanding of the secret rapport between still and moving image.
Abrantes
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
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A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl. The story follows his problems adjusting to their sociological standards and customs where family units are comprised of sexual groups of eight people.
Narrator (voice)
Based on abstract images by Kamler, Andre Voisin and Francois Bayle imagined the story of a messenger charged to bring to our planet the key to a forgotten wisdom.
Pierre
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
George Steward
A French telefilm broadcast on 30th September 1962, this is a detective fiction, set in London, 1927. The plot is set in a single space... a police interrogation room for suspects. It has only three characters; the suspect, who is an architect, and an idealist influenced by radical ideas. The other two characters are policemen, who try to coax from him the motive behind the death (murder?) of his three year old child. Even in a remastered DVD, the beta production values of a television production will be evident. But at barely a few minutes over an hour, it packs a brisk, at times rushed, but an interesting narrative. Makes one wonder, what other gems must the TV vaults in France (and UK, and Germany, and Italy) conceal?
Xavier Adé
Robert La Rocca y a su amigo Xavier, están condenados en prisión por estar implicados en el asesinato de una banda rival. Cuando salen de la cárcel se muestran dispuestos a cambiar de vida, pero el pasado acabará marcando su destino.
René de La Roche
Diversas historias de amor protagonizadas por personajes célebres de la Historia. Los episodios son "Lauzun", "Les comédiennes", "Agnès Bernauer" y "Jenny de Lacour".
Tony
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclub in the district of Montparnasse but are soon hunted by the thug who wants to recover his money.
Frédéric Martignac, aka Fred
La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.
Manolios
En los años 20, estando Grecia bajo la ocupación turca, los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo se preparan para la representación anual de La Pasión. La llegada de unos refugiados, provenientes de una aldea saqueada por los turcos, altera la armonía de la villa, pues los aldeanos, convencidos que si se muestran amables con esos refugiados perderán el favor de los invasores, deciden expulsarlos y no ayudarlos. Manolios, un pastor al cual le ha sido dado el papel de Jesucristo en la representación teatral, tratará de convencer a la gente del poblado para tener piedad de los refugiados. (FILMAFFINITY)
René
In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
François Villon
Ambiciosa producción sobre la historia de París que narra con sentido del humor las peripecias de personajes como María Antonieta, Beaumarchais, Victor Hugo, el cardenal Richelieu o Luis XVI. El polifacético Sacha Guitry la dirigió, escribió el guión y se reservó el papel de Luis XI.
Vincent Loringer
In a Bavarian forest, the pupils of a boarding school are about to have their lives changed by the arrival of Vincent, a young man who can charm wild animals with his guitar. One day Vincent ventures across the lake and meets the mysterious Marianne...
