Louis Jouvet
Birthday: 1887-12-24
Place of Birth: Crozon, Finistère, France
Biography: Louis Jouvet (24 December 1887 - 16 August 1951) was a renowned French actor, director, and theatre director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Jouvet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Carnival in Flanders
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the...
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Ramuntcho
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their...
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La Marseillaise
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseil...
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Return to Life
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war afte...
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The Curtain Rises
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dr...
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The Lower Depths
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Ko...
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Forfaiture
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night sh...
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Young Love
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two po...
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Carbon Copy
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off ...
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Volpone
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends ...
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Un revenant
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried t...
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Between Eleven and Midnight
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whil...
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The Phantom Wagon
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a...
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Miquette
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater,...
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Sirocco
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic...
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Alibi
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music ...
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Hôtel du Nord
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer w...
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Jenny Lamour
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely ...
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Bargekeepers Daughter
Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his fami...
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The End of the Day
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or ...
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Life Dances On
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him ...
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The Heart of a Nation
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of t...
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Bizarre, Bizarre
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pret...
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Street of Shadows
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece a...
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Dr. Knock
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's prac...
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Lady Paname
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talen...
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Brasil
Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on honeymoon...
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The Shanghai Drama
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dream...
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Stars Never Die
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film ...
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Schubert's Serenade
Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an abse...
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Mister Flow
While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniles...
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Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small ...
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Lusitanian Illusion
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rur...
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