Claude Autant-LaraFilmography

Born:: August 5, 1901 in Luzarches, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: French director Claude Autant-Lara was uprooted from his homeland by his actress-mother Louise Lara during World War I, when her strong pacifist stance forced her to flee to England. Returning to his native country in 1919, Autant-Lara studied art, then worked as a set and costumer designer for...Read More

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L'Auberge Rouge

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Fred Epaud

Synopsis: This French remake of Claude Autant-Lara's black comedy classic details the adventures of a group of travelers who stop for a rest at Auberge du Croûteux, an inn in the Pyrenees. Little do these wayfarers realize that the establishment is run by a group of psychopaths with a penchant for Read More

12/5/07
Gloria

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Valerie Jeannet, Sophie Grimaldi, Nicole Maurey, Pierre Zimmer, Maurice Biraud

1977
Les Patates

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierre Perret, Henri Virlojeux, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Balutin

Synopsis: In this story of obsession and tragedy, set in wartime France, Pierre Perret plays Clovis, a farmer so driven by hunger that he dares to plant potatoes on a plot of land which, though unoccupied, is forbidden to him by the Germans. Despite the film's tragic tone, occasional flashes of satire and Read More

1969
La Franciscain De Bourges

Crew: Director

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Christian Barbier, Suzanne Flon

Synopsis: Albert (Hardy Kruger) is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members and gives medical treatment to anyone who needs it. Albert helps two Frenchmen who escape from a Nazi prison, and he tries to Read More

1968
The Oldest Profession

Crew: Director

Actors: Michele Mercier, Enrico Maria Salerno, Elsa Martinelli, Gabriele Tinti, Jeanne Moreau, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

4/21/67
Une Femme En Blanc Se Revolte

Crew: Director

Actors: Danielle Volle, Bernard Dheran

Synopsis: This sequel to Diary Of A Woman In White finds a concerned nurse accompanying an alcoholic who seeks treatment for his disease. She befriends a pregnant woman who seeks an abortion and finds herself falling in love with her alcoholic patient. The nurse wrestles with her conscience before agreeing Read More

1966
Le Journal D'Une Femme En Blanc

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie-José Nat, Jean Valmont, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: This moral melodrama follows a female gynecologist (Marie-Jose Nat) who aggressively promotes birth control methods (at a time when birth control was still taboo in France) in order to avoid unnecessary abortions. In a twist of irony, the unmarried lady doctor becomes pregnant herself, but decides Read More

4/28/65
Le Magot De Josefa

Crew: Director

Actors: Bourvil, Anna Magnani, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: Josefa (Anna Magnani) is an Italian immigrant operating a small grocery store in France. The people of the town are indifferent to her until the rumor she will receive a monetary fortune from an American gangster relation. The mayor tries to butter her up, and a stranger poses as her long-lost Read More

10/2/63
Tu Ne Tueras Point

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Suzanne Flon, Horst Frank

Synopsis: An Italian/French/Yugoslavian/Liechtensteinian coproduction (whew!), Thou Shalt Not Kill features Laurent Terzieff as a French conscientious objector. Interwoven with his story is the saga of a German priest (Horst Frank) who faces stiff punishment for killing a Frenchman during the Second World Read More

6/5/63
Le Meurtrier

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Yvonne Furneaux, Maurice Ronet

Synopsis: In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. The trouble begins when an unhappily married architect becomes obsessed with a murder trial in which a husband allegedly murdered his wife. The architect begins collecting newspaper clippings. Although the charges Read More

1/11/63
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Crew: Director

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Bernard Dheran, Jean-Claude Michel, Henri Guisol, Franco Silva

Synopsis: Claude Autant-Lara's 1961 Count of Monte Cristo is one of the most faithful screen versions of the evergreen Alexandre Dumas story -- and one of the most compelling, thanks to the director's ability to squeeze the last drop of romanticism out of the original. While Louis Jourdan seems ill at ease Read More

12/6/61
Vive Henri IV... Vive l'amour!

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniele Gaubert, Jean Sorel, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This is a ribald though talkative look at the life and loves, mainly loves, of Henri IV, France's lecherous, 17th-century king. Henri (Francis Claude) has the misfortune of being married to a sharp-tongued woman but the good fortune of being king. That position nets him plenty of mistresses and an Read More

4/5/61
L'Objecteur

Crew: Director

1961
Le Bois des Amants

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Erika Remberg, Françoise Rosay

Synopsis: Murky and rather uninspired, this wartime drama by director Claude Autant-Lara is set in France during World War II. At the crux of the story is a German woman, Herta (Erika Remberg) who longs to be with her husband for awhile. He is in the German occupying forces in France and in order to even Read More

8/3/60
Les Regates de San Francisco

Crew: Director

Actors: Folco Lulli, Suzy Delair, Daniele Gaubert, Laurent Terzieff, Nelly Benedetti

Synopsis: That fair city on the West Coast of America has almost nothing to do with this one-dimensional, undistinguished tale of a sexually evocative fifteen-year-old girl (Daniele Gaubert) and the man she wants to seduce. The man is a young lothario in her neighborhood, and she is shown doing her best to Read More

4/20/60
La Jument Verte

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Yves Robert, Sandra Milo, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: In this French drama a horse dealer is quite surprised when one of his mares foals a green colt. The verdant critter brings his family fame and fortune. When the mare dies, her picture is hung in a prominent place in the house. It is not long after her death, that the dealer dies, leaving his land Read More

10/29/59
Le Joueur

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Nadine Alari, Bernard Blier, Françoise Rosay, Jean Danet

Synopsis: Le Joueur is French director Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the oft-filmed Dostoyevsky novel The Gambler. Set in 19th century Baden-Baden, the film details the trials and tribulations of several chronic gamblers, foremost among them young Alevei (Gerard Philipe). In love with Pauline (Liselotte Pulver Read More

11/12/58
En Cas de Malheur

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Edwige Feuillère, Franco Interlenghi, Nicole Berger

Synopsis: En Cas de Malheur, literally "in case of accident," is better known by its American title, Love is My Profession. By any name, this Brigitte Bardot vehicle ran into stiff opposition from the Catholic Legion of Decency, severely limiting its U.S. distribution. Bardot plays a nubile small-time thief Read More

9/17/58
La Traversée de Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Bourvil, Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès, Jeanette Batti, Anouk Ferjac

Synopsis: The French/Italian Four Bags Full stars Jean Gabin as an aging artist, ever on the prowl for excitement. The time is World War II, and the place is occupied France. Timorous cab driver Gabin finagles Bourvil into transporting four suitcases full of precious pork through Paris, under the noses of Read More

10/26/56
Marguerite de la Nuit

Crew: Director

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Yves Montand, Jean-Francois Calve, Jean Debucourt, Palau

Synopsis: Marguerite de la Nuit is filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the "Faust" legend. Though updated to 1925, the story of the ageing pedant who sells his soul to Satan in exchange for youth and knowledge is fairly faithful to the Goethe original. The one major alteration is Satan's decision to "go Read More

12/29/55
Le Rouge et le Noir

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Jean Mercure

Synopsis: Stendhal's brilliant but difficult novel Le Rouge et le Noir all but defies transfer to film, but adaptor/director Claude Autant-Lara comes within shouting distance of full success. Stripped to essentials, the plot concerns Julien Sorel (Gerard Philipe), a carpenter's son who becomes a tutor. Read More

10/29/54
Le Blé en Herbe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: La Bie en Herbe (The Flowering Herb) was the second of Autant-Lara's two directorial efforts for 1953. Philippe (Pierre-Michele Beck) is 16; Vinea (Nicole Berger) is 15. Friends since infancy, Philippe and Vinea have always regarded themselves as brother and sister. But as adolescence segues into Read More

1954
Le Bon Dieu Sans Confession

Crew: Director

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: Le Bon Dieu Sans Confession is one of the lesser-known works of prolific French filmmaker Autant-Lara. Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois (Henri Vilbert) falls in love with Janine (Danielle Darrieux), another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she Read More

1953
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Viviane Romance, Frank Villard, Noël-Noël, Henri Vidal, Jacqueline Plessis, Isa Miranda, Eduardo de Filippo, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: The Seven Deadly Sins is a portmanteau film (a la Quartet and O. Henry's Full House) assembled by some of the biggest talents in the Italian and French film industry. The film's six sections (one containing two sins) are designed by separate titles, which should be self-explanatory. "Avarice and Read More

3/27/52
L'Auberge Rouge

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Gregoire Aslan, Julien Carette, Jacques Charon

Synopsis: Autant-Lara's L'Auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) is black comedy at its very blackest. The scene is a rustic little inn in a remote rural area of France. The inn's proprietors Pierre (Carette) and Marie (Francoise Rosay) industriously support themselves by murdering the various stagecoach passengers Read More

1951
Occupe-Toi d'Amelie

Crew: Director

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Julien Carette, André Bervil

Synopsis: This French comedy was released variously in the U.S. as Look After Amelie and Oh, Amelia. The eponymous heroine, played by Danielle Darrieux, is the potential bride of playboy Marcel (Jean Dessally). He wants to marry her to land an inheritance. Marcel's plans are blown to bits when Amelie falls Read More

12/16/49
The Devil in the Flesh

Crew: Director

Actors: Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Jean Debucourt, Denise Grey

Synopsis: Released in France as Le Diable au Corps, The Devil in the Flesh stars Micheline Presle as a nurse at a French military hospital during World War I. Gerard Philipe costars as a high school student who carries a torch for the older Presle. Under pressure from her parents to marry, Presle begins an Read More

1947
Sylvie et le Fantome

Crew: Director

Actors: Odette Joyeux, Julien Carette, François Perier, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Claude Autant-Lara's literally haunting romantic tale Sylvia and the Phantom stars Odette Joyeaux as Sylvia, an imaginative young girl who lives in an old French castle. Fascinated by a portrait of the lover of her deceased grandmother, Sylvia fantasizes about having a romance with the lover's Read More

1945
Douce

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Odette Joyeux, Marguerite Moreno, Roger Pigaut, Jean Debucourt, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: Filmed in 1943, Autant-Lara's Douce (English title: Love Story) made it to American screens six years later. Overshadowed by his later works, Douce nonetheless has much to offer for the director's legions of devotees. The title character, played by Odette Joyeaux, is a young girl of wealth growing Read More

1943
Le Mariage de Chiffon

Crew: Director

Actors: Odette Joyeux, André Luguet, Jacques Dumesnil

1942
Lettres D'Amour

Crew: Director

Actors: Odette Joyeux, Simone Renant, François Perier, Jean Parédès

1942
Fric Frac

Crew: Director

Actors: Arletty, Michel Simon, Marcel Vallee, Fernandel

Synopsis: In this comedy, a jeweler's helper jilts the boss's daughter for another girl, who turns out to be a gem thief's moll. Unknown to the assistant, she is awaiting her lover's release. His relationship with the moll gets him involved with another who leads him into the burglary of his boss's store Read More

1939
The Mysterious Mr. Davis

Crew: Director, Producer

1936
Ciboulette

Crew: Director

Actors: Therese Dorny, Robert Burnier

1933
Le Plombier Amoureux

Crew: Director

Actors: Polly Moran, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante

1932
L'Athlete Incomplet

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbara Leonard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., George Davis

1932
Buster Se Marie

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeanne Helbling, Françoise Rosay, Buster Keaton, André Luguet

1931
Nana

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Catherine Hessling, Werner Krauss, Jean Angelo

Synopsis: Jean Renoir's second film was this lavishly appointed adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Nana. Renoir does an admirable job retelling Zola's woeful tale of a covetous Parisian slum girl in purely visual terms. Hoping to escape her tawdry surroundings, Nana has an affair with high-ranking government Read More

1926
L'Inhumaine

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Philippe Hériat

1923
L'Homme Du Large

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Jaque Catelain, Roger Karl

1920

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