Jany HoltFilmography

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Noir Comme le Souvenir

Actors: Jane Birkin, Sabine Azéma, Benoit Regent, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris Read More

1995
Roulez Jeunesse

Actors: Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin, Grégoire Colin, Youssef Diawara

1993
Saxo

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Akosua Busia, Richard Brooks, Laure Killing, Clement Harari

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Gilbert Tanugi, who co-wrote the screenplay, this noirish French drama is set within the Paris music scene and centers on the attempts of a dangerously indebted record producer to scrounge up a fortune to pay back the vengeful loan shark who is trying to destroy him. Producer Read More

1988
La Passerelle

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Mathilda May, Jany Holt, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Marie Marion

Synopsis: Cora (Mathilde May) and her neighbor Jean (Pierre Arditi) meet for the first time when Cora's five-year-old son falls off the balcony in this drama. Jean is caught outside naked when a gust of wind slams the door closed, causing the frightened young boy to fall three stories. The two get to know Read More

1988
Target

Actors: Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Victoria Fyodorova, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Arthur Penn takes a crack at subverting the espionage film genre in Target. Walter Lloyd (Gene Hackman) is a quiet and unassuming lumberyard owner in Dallas, Texas. Chris (Matt Dillon) has dropped out of college to pursue a career as a race car driver. But all mundane tasks come to an end when Read More

1985
Die Linkshändige Frau

Actors: Edith Clever, Markus Muhleisen, Bruno Ganz, Michel Lonsdale, Angela Winkler, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to Read More

1977
Gervaise

Actors: Maria Schell, François Perier, Armand Mestral, Mathilde Casadesus, Suzy Delair

Synopsis: Emile Zola's obscure novel entitled "L'Assommoir" has been made into several films. This is one of the best. In this two hour movie an entire mini-series worth of problems have been compressed about a young woman to whom life has dealt hard blows. Set in the 19th-century, this woman deals with an Read More

9/5/56
Quatre Veuves

Actors: Odile Versois, Jany Holt, Pauline Carton

1955
The Green Glove

Actors: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke, George Macready, Gaby André

Synopsis: When German sympathizer Count Paul Rona (George MacReady) pilfers a valuable jeweled glove from a French church during World War II, it is up to American Michael Blake (Glenn Ford) to outwit his enemies and recover the artifact. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1952
Le Furet

Actors: Jany Holt, Pierre Renoir, Pierre Larquey, Jacqueline Delubac

1949
Mademoiselle De La Ferte

Actors: Jany Holt, Françoise Christophe, Colette Regis

1949
Docteur Laennec

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Dux, Saturnin Fabre, Mireille Perrey, Jany Holt, Geymond Vital

Synopsis: Like his earlier Monsieur Vincent, Maurice Cloche's {#Docteur Laennec} is a lovingly rendered biography of a famed humanitarian. In this instance, the subject is the inventor of the stethoscope, who was forced to battle the hidebound medical hierarchy of his time to prove the far-reaching Read More

1949
L'Echafaud Peut Attendre

Actors: Jany Holt, Jean Desailly, Paul Bernard, Junie Astor

1948
Non Coupable

Actors: Michel Simon, Jany Holt, Jean Debucourt, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: Non Coupable translates as Not Guilty, which is definitely not the legal standing of provincial doctor Michel Simon. Already on the outs with the medical establishment because of his heavy drinking, Simon exacerbates the problem by inaugurating a clandestine romance. Things go from worse to worst Read More

1946
Contre Enquete

Actors: Jany Holt, Paul Frankeur, Giselle Preville, Marguerite Pierry

1946
Rumeurs

Actors: Jany Holt, Annette Poivre, Jacques Dumesnil, Roger Karl

Synopsis: Provincial garage owner Jacques Dumesnil is the target of Rumeurs in this French psychological melodrama. When a prostitute is murdered, Dumesnil is immediately suspected of the crime. The police have no real case against him, but this means little in the court of public opinion. As a consequence Read More

1946
Mission Speciale

Actors: Jany Holt, Pierre Renoir, Roger Karl

Synopsis: Mission Speciale was the second entry in a two-part French "underground" drama of 1946. Like its predecessor L'Espionne, the film was directed by Maurice de Canoge and stars Jany Holt and Pierre Renoir. Set during WWII, the story details the activities of a small band of resistance fighters Read More

1945
Le Pays Sans Etoiles

Actors: Jany Holt, Pierre Brasseur, Gérard Philipe

Synopsis: Having been forced to put his directorial career on hold during WWII, Georges Lacombe returned to the screen with Le Pays Sans Etoilles (Land Without Stars). Based on a novel by Pierre Vary, the film utilizes the old gimmick of featuring the same cast of characters in two different Read More

1945
La Fiancee Des Tenebres

Actors: Jany Holt, Simone Valere, Pierre Richard-Willm, Edouard Delmont

1944
Les Anges du Péché

Actors: Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Mila Parély, Sylvie, Marie-Helene Daste

Synopsis: Robert Bresson's first feature film is the story of two novice nuns in a monastery that recruits sisters from a woman's prison. Anne-Marie (Renée Faure) comes to the convent from a middle-class family eager to take up her vocation, but other nuns begin to resent her earnestness, and they accuse Read More

1943
Le Baron fantôme

Actors: Odette Joyeux, Jany Holt, Alain Cuny, Gabrielle Dorziat

Synopsis: Jean Cocteau wrote the dialogue for this acclaimed and atmospheric tale of the supernatural, in which he also plays a small role. When a baron suddenly vanishes from his estate, his friends and family organize a search party to find him, little realizing that what they're chasing is in fact a Read More

1942
Andorra Ou Les Hommes D'Airain

Actors: Jany Holt, Germaine Dermoz, Jean Chevrier, Jean Galland

1941
The Alibi

Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt, Albert Prejean, Phillipe Richard

Synopsis: In The Alibi, clever, ruthless nightclub mind-reader Prof. Winckler (Erich von Stroheim) murders an old enemy and bribes the nightclub hostess Helene (Jany Holt) into saying that they were together for the entire night. However, police investigator Calas (Louis Jouvet) doesn't believe the alibi Read More

1939
Rasputin

Actors: Harry Baur, Marcelle Chantal, Pierre Richard-Willm, Jean Worms

Synopsis: The same year that the great European actor Harry Baur played mad Czar Paul I in Le Patriote, he also played another celebrated Russian looney in Rasputin (original title: La Tragedie Imperiale). Unlike most interpretations of the infamous peasant-monk, Baur's Rasputin is a multifaceted character Read More

1939
Le Paradis De Satan

Actors: Jany Holt, Marcelle Geniat, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Pierre Renoir

Synopsis: Le Paradis de Satan is set in the jungles of Brazil, where a once-thriving plantation faces financial ruin. Young financier Jean-Pierre Aumont arrives at the plantation to oversee its demolition so that the property can be purchased for a fraction of its value. But Aumont hasn't counted on falling Read More

1938
Troika Sur La Piste Blanche

Actors: Jany Holt, Jean Murat, Charles Vanel

1937
Courrier Sud

Actors: Charles Vanel, Jany Holt, Gabrielle Dorziat, Henri Cremieux

Synopsis: Courier Sud (Southern Carrier) dramatizes the exploits of a French commercial airline, making the treacherous run from Paris to Africa and back. Much of the drama takes place on solid ground, as pilot Jacques (Pierre Richard-Willm) tries to rekindle a romance with old flame Genevieve (Jany Holt) Read More

1937
Abel Gance's Beethoven

Actors: Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jany Holt, Roger Blin, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use of sound to represent Beethoven's affliction is notable. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1936
Les Bas-Fonds

Actors: Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim, Jany Holt, Junie Astor, Vladimir Sokoloff

Synopsis: Voted 1936's best picture by a circle of prestigious French critics, Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths (Les Bas-Fonds) is based on the "gutter" play by Russian author Maxim Gorky. Louis Jouvet plays The Baron, forced by circumstance to give up his life of luxury and to set up residence in the slums Read More

1936
Le Golem

Actors: Germaine Aussey, Jany Holt, Ferdinand Hart, Harry Baur, Charles Dorat, Roger Karl, Roger Duchesne, Gaston Jacquet

Synopsis: Filmed in Czechoslovakia, this French-language adaptation of the oft-filmed Jewish folk tale The Golem was one of the most expensive productions ever made in that country. The story, which some have cited as a precursor to Frankenstein, is set in Prague's Jewish Ghetto. Fearing an anti-Semitic Read More

1936
Le Domino Vert

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jany Holt, Maurice Escande, Charles Vanel

1935