Arthur Cohn Filmography

Occupation:: Producer
Biography:: Producer Arthur Cohn was behind many prestigious European films and is especially noted for his work with Vittorio De Sica. Six of his productions have won Oscars including Black and White in Color (1977) and The Garden of the Finzi Continis (1970). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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The Children of Huang Shi

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, David Wenham

Synopsis: As China is ravaged by war in the late '30s, a young English journalist named George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) leads 60 orphans over the Liu Pan Shan mountains and into the safety of the Mongolian desert. Joining the journalist and the children on their arduous journey are an American nurse (Radha Mitchell Read More

5/23/08
The Yellow Handkerchief

Crew: Producer

Actors: William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne

Synopsis: A band of outsiders takes to the highways in this touching independent drama. Brett (William Hurt) is a petty criminal who is eager to turn his life around after spending six years in jail. Brett is looking for a ride home to Louisiana, and happens upon a pair of teenagers up for a road trip Read More

2008
The Chorus

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Baptiste Maunier

Synopsis: French producer and musician Christophe Barratier makes his directorial debut with the drama Les Choristes, inspired by the 1947 film La Cage aux Rossignols. Wildly successful orchestra conductor Pierre Morhange (Jacques Perrin) returns home when his mother dies. He recollects his childhood Read More

1/14/05
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Eugene Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Peter Ustinov, Petula Clark

Synopsis: For a variety of reasons, mostly political, Charlie Chaplin left the United States in the early fifties living the final quarter-century of his life in Switzerland. Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years documents this last act in the legendary director's life. The film intersperses personal footage Read More

2003
Behind The Sun

Crew: Producer

Actors: José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Ravi Ramos Lacerda

Synopsis: A young man is forced to choose between family tradition and his own dreams and desires in this drama from Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. In 1910 in a remote farming community, two families, the Breveses and the Ferreiras, both of whom earn their living growing sugar cane, have been squabbling Read More

12/12/01
Children of the Night

Crew: Producer

2000
One Day in September

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Jamal Al Gashey, Gad Zahari, Ankie Spitzer

Synopsis: In 1972, athletes from around the globe gathered in Munich, Germany for the Olympic Games. However, the Olympic spirit of brotherhood and peaceful competition was shattered when eight Palestinian terrorists invaded the athletes' quarters to take the Israeli team hostage, resulting in the violent Read More

1999
Central Station

Crew: Producer

Actors: Antonella Rendina, Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pera, Vinicius de Oliveira, Soia Lira, Othon Bastos

Synopsis: Former documentary filmmaker Walter Salles (Foreign Land) directed this Brazilian-French road movie tracing the travels and travails of a young boy and an aging woman across the Brazilian landscape. In Rio de Janeiro's central railroad station, callous Dora (leading Brazilian stage/screen actress Fernanda Montenegro Read More

11/20/98
Two Bits

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jerry Barone, Al Pacino, Joe Grifasi, Joanna Merlin, Andy Romano

Synopsis: This nostalgic drama is based upon the childhood memories of screenwriter Joseph Stefano. Set in South Philadelphia in 1933 it centers on both a wise grandfather, and his single-minded grandson. The film opens in a garden on a beautiful day. In the garden is the Italian grandpa telling anyone who Read More

1994
American Dream

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Depicting the effects of a mid-1980s strike by the employees of a Hormel meat-packing plant in Austin, Minnesota, Barbara Kopple's Academy Award-winning documentary American Dream observes both the daily struggles of the striking workers and the behind-the-scenes conflicts amongst the union Read More

3/18/92
Dangerous Moves

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet exile Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who, since childhood, has dreamed of nothing but defeating Liebskind. Both men soon become obsessed with winning. Already suffering Read More

1984
The Final Solution

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In a direct, effective approach to the holocaust and its meaning, this historical documentary features film clips on the Warsaw ghetto, the gas chambers, bodies bulldozed into mass graves, and other Nazi atrocities, and contrasts these silent scenes with propaganda tirades by Hitler and his Read More

1983
L'Adoption

Crew: Producer

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Jacques Perrin, Patrick Norbert, Gerard Lorin

Synopsis: This grim, brutal drama chronicles the terrible fate of a childless couple whose only crime was caring. The trouble begins when their barn mysteriously catches fire. Upon their return to the house, they find an adolescent having an epileptic seizure. Without a thought, they take him in, get him to Read More

1978
Black and White in Color

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Dora Doll

Synopsis: The inaugural film effort of French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Black and White in Color is set during World War I. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, a French trading post in West Central Africa finds itself at odds with a formerly peaceful German post, for no other reason than their parent Read More

1976
A Brief Vacation

Crew: Producer

Actors: Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a Read More

1973
Lo Chiameremo Andrea

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Lo Chiameremo Andrea is an Italian comedy by famed director Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of Paolo (Nino Manfredi) and Maria (Mariangela Melato) two elementary schoolteachers whose "biological clock" is ticking. They have been married for some time, and desperately want a child of their Read More

10/14/72
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the lyrical war drama Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), based on a book by Giorgio Bassani. In Ferrara, Italy, at the beginning of WWII, anti-Semitism is spreading. Mussolini has passed several laws that forbid Jews from going to public Read More

12/4/70
I Girasoli

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Galina Andreeva

Synopsis: The first Italian feature film shot in Moscow was directed by the renowned Vittorio De Sica and produced by Carlo Ponti. Sophia Loren stars as Giovanna, an Italian woman who marries Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) 12 days before the outbreak of WWII. Antonio has no desire to fight in the conflict Read More

3/14/70
Mädchen...nur mit Gewalt

Crew: Producer

Actors: Helga Anders, Arthur Brauss

Synopsis: This disturbing feature finds two friends who can only become sexually aroused when they are with the same girl at once. Mike (Arthur Brauss) and Werner (Klaus Loewitsch) perform with the same girl to the mutual satisfaction of al three participants. Mike watches Werner before he takes his turn Read More

1970
Amanti

Crew: Producer

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni, Caroline Mortimer, Karin Engh

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directed this sudsy romantic drama, which received punishing reviews on its initial release. Recently-divorced fashion designer Julia (Faye Dunaway) arrives in Venice from the U.S. and meets handsome race car driver Valerio (Marcello Mastroianni) at the airport. While she Read More

12/19/68
Sette Volte Donna

Crew: Producer

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short stories each starring Shirley MacLaine. In "Funeral Possession," she plays opposite Peter Sellers as a widow at her husband's funeral. In "Amateur Night," she's a wife who's Read More

1967
Le Ciel et la Boue

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: French explorer and director Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau traveled to what was then Dutch New Guinea to film a trek into deep jungle, up mountains measured in thousands of feet, and into high plateaus, just to make this documentary. Since this area was not a spot where camera crews had gone before Read More

1960