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Crew: Short Story Author
Actors: Christine Brucher
Synopsis: Is the relationship between Lucie (Christine Brucher) and her prim, pedantic and fussy husband (Francois Chattot) irreparably ruined, or is she only just bored by daily life with such a tedious man, and also somewhat comforted by it? In this romantic drama, based on a short story by the great Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Synopsis: The French title of this feature-length documentary (filmed in 1976, released in the US six years later), is Sartre par lui meme. In English and French, the point is made. The focus is of course on the famed French existentialist author/ poet/ playwright/ philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80). Read More
Crew: Book Author
Actors: Michel del Castillo
Synopsis: Prisoners await execution by firing squad when they are captured during the Spanish Civil War in this drama taken from the novella by Jean-Paul Sarte. Pablo (Michel Del Castillo) is a loyalist jailed after he searches for his brother. An Irish mercenary and a Belgian physician are his cellmates. Read More
Crew: Play Author
Actors: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner, Françoise Prevost
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica's version of a play by Jean-Paul Sartre stars Frederic March as Albrecht von Gerlach, the owner of one of Germany's biggest industrial firms. Albrecht calls for his son Werner (Robert Wagner), a lawyer who is married to an actress, Johanna (Sophia Loren). The aging Albrecht wants Read More
Actors: Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam, Morgan Sterne, Ben Piazza, Susana Mayo
Synopsis: Perhaps the most stunning moment in this interesting adaptation of the famous play by Jean-Paul Sartre is the last scene itself when the finality of three antagonist people being doomed to spend an eternity together hits home hard. The three are a journalist who betrayed members of the resistance Read More
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner, Eric Portman, Eileen Herlie
Synopsis: Filmed in Germany by American director John Huston, Freud is a sincerely felt but overly simplistic biopic of the pioneering psychotherapist. The brooding, introspective Montgomery Clift was a curious choice for the role of Sigmund Freud; at times he looks more off the beam than some of his Read More
Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Debucourt
Synopsis: American playwright Arthur Miller was still under an "unfriendly" cloud in 1958, so far as the anti-Communist brigades were concerned. Thus, the film version of Miller's stage play The Crucible was lensed in France. Drawing several parallels to the McCarthy era, Miller dramatizes the Salem Witch Read More
Actors: Arletty, Gaby Sylvia, Frank Villard, Yves Deniaud
Synopsis: Arletty heads the cast of this first film version of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential theater piece No Exit. The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns Read More
Actors: Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Michèle Cordoue
Actors: Barbara Laage, Ivan Desny, Walter Bryan, Marcel Herrand, Yolande Laffon
Synopsis: Barbara Laage plays the title role in the ironic French drama The Respectful Prostitute. No one considers Lizzie (Ms. Laage) particularly respectful until one of her clients is accused of a crime. Summoned to court, Lizzie perjures herself, hoping to become socially respectable-and in so doing Read More
Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Claude Nollier, Jacques Castelot
Synopsis: Les Main Sales is based on the Jean-Paul Sartre play of the same name. The hero, Hugo Barine (Daniel Gelin), is a dedicated communist. Hugo suffers a crisis of conscience when he is ordered to assassinate his Marxist mentor Hoederer (Pierre Brasseur) at the behest of a more radical Red faction. It Read More
Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, André S. Labarthe, Jean-Paul Sartre
Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Nicole Vedre's first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it to the U.S. in 1952 as Life Begins Tomorrow. Made in cooperation with UNESCO, the film speculates on the future of mankind after the advent of Atomic Energy. Read More
Actors: Micheline Presle, Marguerite Moreno, Marcello Pagliero, Fernand Fabre
Synopsis: Released in the US as The Chips are Down, Jean Delannoy's Les Jeux sont Faits represented the first work written directly for the screen by Jean-Paul Sartre. Not surprisingly, the film is drenched with existentialist philosophy, but overall it works best as a romantic tragedy. The story takes Read More
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