Ben Barzman
출생 : 1910-10-12, Toronto, Canada
사망 : 1989-12-15
약력
Ben Barzman (October 12, 1910 – December 15, 1989) was a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, and novelist, blacklisted during the McCarthy Era and best known for his screenplays for the films Back to Bataan (1945), El Cid (1961), and The Blue Max (1966).
He was born in Toronto, Ontario to a Jewish family. He was the screenwriter or co-writer of more than 20 films, from You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith (1943) to The Head of Normande St. Onge (1975).
Like many of his colleagues in the movie business, Barzman was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
His wife, Norma Barzman, was a Communist Party USA member from 1943 to 1949. In 2014, she told the Los Angeles Times, "one should be proud to have been a member of the American Communist Party during those years. Hitler was invading the Soviet Union, so there was no reason to be anti-Russian, they were our allies."
The couple moved to England so Barzman could work on the film Give Us This Day (aka, Christ in Concrete, 1949). Following his return to the United States after directing Give Us This Day, Edward Dmytryk, one of the Hollywood Ten, testified about the Barzmans to HUAC in 1951. "To get out of prison he named us and a lot of other people," said Norma Barzman in 2014. In the 1950s, the family moved to Paris, where friends included Pablo Picasso, Yves Montand, and Simone Signoret, and later southern France. Barzman did not receive credit for some films because of the Hollywood Blacklist.
His U.S. citizenship was revoked from 1954 to 1963. His wife Norma had her passport revoked from 1951 for seven years. The family remained abroad in London, Paris and Mougins until 1976, during which time he wrote his novels and screenplays for French and Italian films.
Barzman died in Santa Monica, California, United States.
Surviving him was his wife, Norma Barzman, and seven children (including director Paolo Barzman, screenwriter Aaron Barzman, visual artist Luli Barzman, and French university professor John Barzman) and five grandchildren.
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Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been confined to a mental institution by Normande's uncle, the wealthy lawyer Jean-Paul. But Normande, who does not believe her mother is insane, kidnaps her from the institution and brings her home. Also living with them is Normande's sister Pierette, who has asthma and a drug addiction, Normande's boyfriend Bouliane, who is unemployed and in no hurry to find a job, and a strange young magician named Carol she took in after he was kicked out of his home. All of these people depend on Normande in various ways and exploit her; Normande, desperate to be loved, is driven mad by the demands of her parasite family. When she receives an eviction notice stating that the building will be demolished and rebuilt into a restaurant, it all becomes too much for Normande and her mind retreats into fantasy to protect her from the harsh realities.
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Sadiel, rebel leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Aware of the threat posed by Sadiel, the ruthless Colonel Kassar contacts the French security services to help in capturing the political activist. A police informer, Darien, is forced to lure Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to make a television coverage about the Third World. Arriving in Paris, Sadiel is captured and delivered to his opponents. Disgusted by the way he has been manipulated, Darien tries to turn back the clock, unknowing who’s dealing with.
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오랫동안 정치적 망명을 떠났던 과학자 제트가 고국으로 돌아온다. 1963년 5월, 그는 핵실험을 반대하는 연설을 하던 도중 원인 모를 습격을 받아 중태에 빠지게 된다. 정부에서는 그 사건의 진실을 묻어두기 위해 판결을 조작한다. 그러나 제트의 희생이 정부 관료에 의해 꾸며진 음모라는 것이 밝혀지고, 이 사건을 묵인하려 했던 정부 관료들이 실형을 선고받게 된다. 그러나 1967년 쿠테타가 발생하고 군사 독재 정권이 들어서자 이들은 다시 복권된다.
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1942년 2차 대전이 한창 진행되던 무렵 독일은 원자탄 제조계획을 세우고 원자폭탄의 필수 재료인 중수를 생산했던 노르웨이가 독일군에 점령당하게 된다. 원자탄 제조에 필요한 중수공장을 노르웨이의 산간지역에 세우게 되고 이에 연합군은 큰 위기를 맞게 된다. 독일군의 원자폭탄 제조를 막고자 연합군은 노르웨이 중수 공장을 폭격기로 계획을 세우지만 험난한 지형 때문에 공습이 쉽지 않다. 영국 정보부는 공장의 파괴공작을 세우고 우선 특수요원을 침투시켜가 공장 폭파에 필요한 정보를 수집하게 한다. 결국 오슬로 대학 교수 롤프와 저항 조직원 크누트를 비롯한 노르웨이 출신 특공대원을 급파하여 레지스탕스와 접촉하고, 이들의 도움으로 공장으로 침투하여 공장 내를 살피고 영국군 특공대가 도착하길 기다린다. 이윽고 영국군 특공대가 도착하고, 이들은 폭탄을 장치 중 독일군에게 발각되어 치열한 총격전을 벌인다. 결국 공장은 폭파되고 독일군의 중수생산은 무위로 돌아간다. 그러나 기쁨도 잠시 독일군은 베를린 연구소에서 중수를 다시 가져오고 경계를 더욱 더 철저히 하는데...
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Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
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게르만 정벌이 끝나가고 있을 무렵, 노쇠해진 로마 황제 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스는 자신의 후계자로 아들 코모두스 대신 양아들인 리비우스를 지목한다. 하지만 그 사실을 알아차린 코모두스의 측근에 의해 마르쿠스는 독살된다. 리비우스의 연인이자 마르쿠스의 딸 루실라마저 동맹 관계인 아르메니아의 왕에게 시집 보내지고, 결국 로마 제국의 운명은 코모두스의 손에 달린다. 폭군이 된 그는 자신에게 거르는 사람은 모두 죽여버리고, 무리한 조세를 걷어들이는 등 폭정을 일삼다 마침내 리비우스와 단독 결투를 벌이는데..
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A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
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스페인이 기독교인과 무어족으로 양분되어 있을 때, 청년 기사 로드리고는 전투에서 사로잡은 이교도인 무어족 사라고사의 왕 무타민을 같은 스페인 국민이라는 이유로 석방시켜주자, 그로부터 '엘 시드'라는 영웅 칭호를 얻는다. 하지만 이 일 때문에 반역죄로 몰리게 된다. 명예회복을 위해 약혼녀인 시멘의 아버지이자 반대파의 수장인 고르마즈와 결투를 벌인다. 그러나, 고르마즈가 죽게 되자 약혼자이지만 아버지의 유언대로 시멘은 사랑에 대한 배신감에 복수를 결심한다.
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Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
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Bob Stanley was an American secret agent during World War II in France. After the war Stanley returns to France as a consul. In reality, he works for the FBI, to roll up the organization that manufactures fake U.S. dollars. A violent confrontation is insurmountable.
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Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.
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Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
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Two female agents from a rival gang are sent to disrupt the operations of a gold-smuggler's caravan in Africa.
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Wealthy American Patricia comes to spend some time at her uncle's place in Paris. While out on her own for the evening she meets pseudo-Russian prince Vladimir in a bistro.
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A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls.
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The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphans, Jewish refugees of the concentration camps. It takes some doing, but Smith wins the love and trust of these displaced youngsters. Like most government-funded Israeli productions of the early 1950s, Faithful City is designed more to instruct and inform than entertain. That it happens to be entertaining in the bargain is all the more reason to seek out this extremely rare film.
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Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
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Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
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Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
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Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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제2차세계대전 당시 일본군에게 점령당한 필리핀에서의 저항세력에 대한 전쟁영화
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A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.
