Raimu

Raimu

Birthday: 1883-12-18

Place of Birth: Toulon, France

Biography: Raimu was the stage name for the French actor Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946). He is most famous for playing César in the Marseilles trilogy (Marius, Fanny and César).

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Marius
Marius

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since chil...

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Fanny
Fanny

Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointme...

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The Baker's Wife
The Baker's Wife

In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful ...

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César
César

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and ...

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Cocoanut
Cocoanut

A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even wors...

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Black and White
Black and White

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth ...

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Strangers in the House
Strangers in the House

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abando...

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School for Coquettes
School for Coquettes

Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferr...

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Midnight, Place Pigalle
Midnight, Place Pigalle

After retiring as a butler in a nightclub where he made his fortune, Prosper decides to return to hi...

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The Secret of Polichinelle
The Secret of Polichinelle

Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The "secret" in question is an illegitimat...

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Parade in 7 Nights
Parade in 7 Nights

In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates....

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Monsieur Brotonneau
Monsieur Brotonneau

A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husba...

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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
The Man Who Seeks the Truth

Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fe...

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Life Dances On
Life Dances On

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him ...

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Dawn Over France
Dawn Over France

The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad ...

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The Eternal Husband
The Eternal Husband

An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, reven...

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The Well-Digger's Daughter
The Well-Digger's Daughter

A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant....

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Let's Make a Dream
Let's Make a Dream

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds ther...

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The Heart of a Nation
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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Little Nothings
Little Nothings

Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the tit...

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Fun in the Barracks
Fun in the Barracks

The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines....

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Tartarin of Tarascon
Tartarin of Tarascon

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary ad...

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The Strange Monsieur Victor
The Strange Monsieur Victor

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, h...

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Ces messieurs de la Santé
Ces messieurs de la Santé

Banker Jules Taffard, a true financier, is a shrewd money-handler. Imprisoned for an alleged swindle...

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L'Arlésienne
L'Arlésienne

In the Camargue a local young playboy named Frédéri falls in love with a young woman from Arles. His...

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Gribouille
Gribouille

Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accus...

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The Kings of Sport
The Kings of Sport

Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporat...

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Armchair 47
Armchair 47

A young man marries the daughter of a famous actress, but is visibly more attracted to his stepmothe...

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Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris

On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his ca...

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The Pearls of the Crown
The Pearls of the Crown

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing....

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Colonel Chabert
Colonel Chabert

The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years ...

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Theodore and Company
Theodore and Company

Chénérol, a wealthy merchant, one day discovers that his wife is having an affair and that his nephe...

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La Chaste Suzanne
La Chaste Suzanne

Madame Pomarel becomes the winner of a prize of virtue awarded by the Academy of Moral Sciences whic...

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The Benefactor
The Benefactor

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and...

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The King
The King

King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in ...

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The New Rich
The New Rich

The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squanderi...

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Confessions of a Newlywed
Confessions of a Newlywed

A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their hone...

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Heroes of the Marne
Heroes of the Marne

Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Le...

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The Chocolate Girl
The Chocolate Girl

A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands...

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The Twins of Brighton
The Twins of Brighton

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great ...

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The Duel
The Duel

A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young wom...

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Hoboes in Paradise
Hoboes in Paradise

In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and...

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I Have an Idea
I Have an Idea

Aubrey is a debt-ridden man. One day, he has the idea of ​​faking his death and taking on the role o...

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Godasse Fumiste
Godasse Fumiste

A bourgeois couple, noticing a smoke leak in their heating system, called on Godasse to repair the p...

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Stars Never Die
Stars Never Die

For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film ...

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Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol

The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously...

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Charlemagne
Charlemagne

After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a des...

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Last Desire
Last Desire

Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, ...

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Second Childhood
Second Childhood

Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own ...

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Mam'zelle Nitouche
Mam'zelle Nitouche

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Flo...

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La Vie de Raimu
La Vie de Raimu

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