Christian Gérard

Christian Gérard

Nascimento : 1908-10-03, Paris, France

Morte : 1984-07-27

Perfil

Christian Gérard

Filmes

Auguste
Director
Mort ou vif
A friendly average Frenchman pretends to be a famous commissioner on vacation. He arrives in a castle converted into a boarding house where, after dinner, guests are invited to participate in a "murder-party". The so-called victim of this little game is really murdered and the fake commissioner must lead the investigation.
Colonel Chabert
(uncredited)
The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
Frédérica
Un ami de Gilbert
Gilbert, poet and singer, is about to marry Lilette but deep inside himself he is not quite sure that she is the woman he needs. That is the reason why he has made up an imaginary woman, Frédérica" to whom he writes love letters, actual ones this time. When Lilette finds one of these, she sees red. Théodule, one of Gilbert's many friends, sets out the problem with the help of Claudine, his own girlfriend, posing as Frédérica. After Gilbert and "Frédérica" have played a phony breakup scene in front of Lilette, things seem to come right when... another Frédérica appears...
Signé illisible
Léon Tourlet
Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, including the squire's son, start vanishing... Ransom demands are sent but with an illegible signature. The investigation is trusted to Ducreux, the local police brigadier. He is assisted by Carlier, a film director in search of locations for his next movie, who has been mistaken for a police inspector from Paris. The two men will have more than their share of surprises.
Prince Charming
Arsène
Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man.
Boléro
Paul Bardot
As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the time, Anne-Marie decides to get even with him. She sets up a hoax with the complicity of her friend Catherine, who agrees to post as Remi's mistress to embarrass him. Just then, Niquette, Rémi's real lover, resurfaces.
Le café du port
Following a heartbreak, Aimée, a young girl is taken in by the owners of a café for whom she starts working, and falls in love with René, a sailor who gave her a taste for life.
Ma tante dictateur
Guy Leroy
A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making her believe that he wants to buy groceries. His aunt arrives and then wishes to visit “her” grocery store; to save the day he borrows the store of a credulous grocer.
La cité des lumières
The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.
Le coeur dispose
The pretender
An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to an elderly baron.But what about Robert, the family secretary?
Paris
Anne-Marie
Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.
Samson
Max d'Andeline
An aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon.
O Novo Testamento
Fernand Worms
Um médico e sua esposa discutem sobre seu casamento infrutífero de décadas. Ela é flexível e quer agradar a todos; porém, é uma nova secretária trabalhadora e discreta que fornece ao homem da casa a arma secreta de que ele tanto precisa.
Vida Parisiense
Georges
Um milionário brasileiro, Ramiro Mendoza ou Mendonça ?, visitou Paris em 1900 e se envolveu romanticamente com a estrela de "La Vie Parisienne" de Offenbach, que estava em cartaz na época. Trinta e cinco anos depois, ele retorna com o filho Jacques Mendoza e a neta Helenita, que está noiva de um jovem francês. Mas o filho puritano Jacques proíbe o casamento. Então Ramiro Mendoza e os amigos da atriz conspiram para que o filho mude de ideia e logo conseguem convertê-lo à 'Vida Parisiense'. Uma versão em Inglês foi concomitantemente filmada e lançada em 1936.
Valse royale
Pilou
In 1852, the young Austrian emperor Franz Joseph persuades his friend, Count Michel de Thalberg, to act as a go-between in his love affair with the Bavarian duchess Elisabeth. Not long after his arrival in Munch, Thalberg has an embarrassing encounter in a public garden with an attractive young woman. The innocent incident is misinterpreted by a passer-by who, recognising the woman as the youngest daughter of Ludwig Tomasini, a highly respected caterer, persuades her father that she should marry the man who flirted with her to avoid a scandal (FilmsdeFrance).
Dora Nelson
Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her lover Santini in Italy. But she soon realizes that Santini deceives her with a girl named Elsa. In vexation she decides to return to her husband and to her career. Unfortunately for her, Suzanne Verdier, a little working girl, has in the meantime replaced her not only in the film she had left unfinished but in her husband's heart as well. Dora eventually understands she must step aside.
Maître Bolbec et son mari
Maître Bolbec is a famous lawyer but the dress she is wearing is not the one her husband would like her to see. When she realizes that he is cheating on her, she gives up the bar, but she is even more taken up by her friends. Mr. Bolbec then begs her to resume her job and asks for the position of secretary.
Charlemagne
After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula.
The Hawk
The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is enfeebled and ill, so she takes pity on him.
The Hen
Mr. Silvestry, nicknamed "The Hen" because he is raising his five daughters alone, for whom he does the housework, the shopping and the cooking, is invited to the Côte d'Azur by a wealthy American.
The Improvised Son
A woman who is the mistress of a well off antiquarian receives a visit from a younger man. Is her lost son from long ago?
The New Gentlemen
The plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay), Gaillac must play second fiddle to Suzanne's wealthy "protector," powerful politician Count Montoire (Henry Roussell). When the Opera personnel go on strike, Gaillac is appointed leader of the strikers, doing his job so well that he is ultimately elected Secretary of Labor in the French cabinet. Now on equal footing with Montoire, Gaillac is at last a "worthy" suitor for Suzanne -- who can't make up her mind between her two well-connected admirers, leading to a political rivalry the likes of which Paris has never seen. This harmless political satire ended up being banned by the French government for undermining "the dignity of Parliament and its ministers". (moviefone.com)
L'âme de Pierre
Pierre Laurier is under the thumb of a dangerous woman. He considers committing suicide but would like to bequeath his soul to his best friend. Good people save him from death, but his friend falls prey to the bad woman. Pierre then does all he can to remove him from this evil influence. He eventually succeeds and finds serenity with a faithful and pure young girl.
Princesse Mandane
Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.