Pierre Blanchar
Birthday: 1892-06-30
Place of Birth: Philippeville, Constantine, France [now Skikda, Algeria]
Biography: Pierre Blanchar (30 June 1892 – 21 November 1963) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar. He played Napoleon in the 1938 British film A Royal Divorce alongside Ruth Chatterton as Josephine. He later appeared alongside Michèle Morgan in the 1946 film Pastoral Symphony. Source: Article "Pierre Blanchar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Wooden Crosses
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he ...
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Secrets of a Ballerina
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover...
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Crime and Punishment
Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears th...
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Courier of Lyons
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of ...
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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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La valse de l'adieu
The life of composer Frédéric Chopin through his youthful love for Maria Wodzińska, a young Polish a...
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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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Le Journal de la Résistance
Shot primarily by twelve French cameramen (led by filmmakers Jean Painlevé and Jean Grémillon), in A...
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The Chess Player
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame...
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The Beautiful Sailor
A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, t...
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Pastoral Symphony
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son....
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, h...
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The Mistress of Atlantis
Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day t...
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Riff Raff Girls
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brus...
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Katia
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her...
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The Queen of Spades
Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale he...
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Geneviève
Geneviève is an orphan child and living with her little sister Josette. Because of her economic situ...
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La terre promise
In a small east-european ghetto, the Jewish family is celebrating Easter. The fraternal dissonance b...
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 B...
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Sky Battalion
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp du...
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Captain Fracasse
A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately ...
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The Hunchback
The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers a...
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Dr. Laennec
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as hi...
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Lovers and Thieves
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the...
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The Man from Nowhere
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely...
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Night in December
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a yo...
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The Liberation of Paris
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944....
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Le Joueur
Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambl...
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The Old Devil
Vautier, a wealthy surgeon in his fifties, falls in love with Hélène, a young woman from a modest ba...
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Culprit
A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leav...
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Homeland
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occ...
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After Love
Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two ...
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Heritage
There is a rivalry between the top part and the lower part of the village of Murcie because of water...
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Iris perdue et retrouvée
To save her brother compromised in a case of forgery in writing, Iris agrees to marry a shady financ...
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Jocelyn
Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem. A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the a...
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The Dreamy Mouth
The story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra ...
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Les Bateliers de la Volga
In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi bein...
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My Friend Sainfoin
The honeymoon in Italy of Guillaume and Eugénie de Puycharmois escorted by friend Sainfoin, a second...
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A Woman of No Importance
A young lord who has abandoned his pregnant mistress hires his son, twenty years later, as secretary...
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The Cupid Club
Isabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly after, a ...
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The Black Monocle
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Rei...
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Secrets
A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, b...
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A Royal Divorce
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's ...
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The Devil in the Bottle
If a sailor uses a magic bottle he found that grants whatever he desires, will his soul be lost to t...
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La Neige sur les pas
Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds o...
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Two Women
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow he...
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La Prière aux étoiles
Pierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Sou...
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Zero for Conduct
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the ...
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