Pierre Blanchar Filmography

Katia

Actors: Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Monique Melinand, Gabrielle Dorziat, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day films. Produced in France, Magnificent Sinner stars Curt Jurgens as Czar Alexander II, with Romy Schneider as schoolgirl Katja. The Czar takes Katja as his mistress Read More

Mon Ami Sainfoin

Actors: Louis de Funès, Pierre Blanchar, Sophie Desmarets, Alfred Adam

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

Bal Cupidon

Actors: Simone Renant, Maria Mauban, Pierre Blanchar, Yves Vincent

Synopsis: In Le Bal Cupidon, an amusing comedy-mystery in the Thin Man tradition, Pierre Blanchar plays Dominique-Phillippe, a suave private detective, and Simone Renant plays Isabelle, the best friend of a murder suspect. Isabelle cannot believe that her friend Anne-Marie (Maria Mauban) murdered her Read More

They Are Not Angels

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: This French WW II film chronicles the invasion of France by scores of English paratroopers who have come to bedevil the Nazi troops before D-Day. Much of the story centers on the preparation of the troops and upon the planning of the invasion. The rest follows the paratroopers as they team-up with Read More

Apres L'Amour

Actors: Simone Renant, Gisèle Pascal, Pierre Blanchar, Fernand Fabre, Gabrielle Fontan

Synopsis: The troubled turn-of-the-century marriage of a Nobel Prize winner provides the basis of this complex French domestic drama. Neither husband nor wife have been faithful to each other. She is currently having a blatant affair with a drunken news reporter while the writer once had a mistress himself. Read More

La Symphonie Pastorale

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Andrée Clement, Line Noro, Pierre Blanchar, Jean Desailly, Louvigny, Rosine Luguet

Synopsis: Adapted by Pierre Bost and Jean Aurenche from a novel by Andre Gide, Symphonie Pastorale proved yet another box-office success for popular French filmmaker Jean Delannoy. Michelle Morgan stars as a blind orphaned girl who is adopted by kindly pastor Pierre Blancher. The pastor's paternal affection Read More

Le Bataillon Du Ciel

Actors: Janine Crispin, Daphne Courtney, Pierre Blanchar, René Lefèvre

Synopsis: Le Batailon du Ciel (Sky Batallion) is a monumental undertaking, especially for the financially strapped postwar French film industry. Running nearly three hours, the film is a meticulous re-creation of but one aspect of the 1944 Normandy Invasion. Director Alexander Esway concentrates on the Read More

Pique Dame

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, André Luguet, Marguerite Moreno, Madeleine Ozeray

Le Bossu

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Paul Bernard, Yvonne Gaudeau, Jean Marchat

Un Seul Amour

Crew: Director

Actors: Micheline Presle, Gabrielle Fontan, Pierre Blanchar, Robert Vattier

Synopsis: The French Secrets of a Ballerina is based on Honore de Balzac's Un Seul Amour. The title character is ballet-star Clara Biondi (Micheline Presle), whose peak years are shown in flashback. Clara finds herself victimized by blackmailer -- and former lover -- James de Poulet (Robert Vattier). As it Read More

Pontcarral Colonel D'Empire

Actors: Annie Ducaux, Pierre Blanchar

Secrets

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie Déa, Gilbert Gil, Pierre Blanchar

La Neige Sur Les Pas

Actors: Michele Alfa, Line Noro, Pierre Blanchar, Georges Lannes

L'Empreinte Du Dieu

Actors: Annie Ducaux, Blanchette Brunoy, Pierre Blanchar, Jacques Dumesnil

Two Women

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Annie Ducaux, Blanchette Brunoy, Jacques Dumesnil, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Two Women was adapted by Charles Spaak from L'Empreinte de Dieu, a novel by Maxence Van der Meerck. Terrified of her violent-tempered husband Gomar (Jacques Dumenil), Karelina (Blanchette Brunoy) takes refuge in the home of Wilfrida (Annie Ducaux), her best friend. The one who suffers most from Read More

Nuit De Decembre

Actors: Renée Saint-Cyr, Pearl Argyle, Pierre Blanchar, Gilbert Gil

The Volga Boatman

Actors: Vera Korene, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos

Synopsis: Though its title and director are Russian, The Volga Boatmen was lensed in its entirety in France. Set in pre-revolutionary days, the story concentrates on the miserable lives of the boatmen who pull their merchant vessels up and down the Volga. When army officer Vadime Borzine (Pierre Blanchar)is Read More

Le Joueur

Actors: Viviane Romance, Suzet Mais, Pierre Blanchar, Roger Karl

Courier of Lyons

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Dita Parlo, Pierre Alcover, Jean Tissier

Synopsis: The Courier of Lyons stars Pierre Blanchar as both hero and villain. Blanchar is introduced as Joseph Lesurques, who has the misfortune of bearing a remarkable resemblance to notorious outlaw Dubosque. Arrested for a robbery and murder committed by his lookalike, Lesurques cannot account for his Read More

A Royal Divorce

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Pierre Blanchar, Frank Cellier, Carol Goodner

Synopsis: A Royal Divorce is the misleading title bestowed upon this dramatization of certain events in the lives of Napoleon and Josephine. Making her first screen appearance in two years, Hollywood's Ruth Chatterton tops the cast as Josephine, whose widowhood is relieved upon her marriage to up-and-coming Read More

Mademoiselle Docteur

L'Affaire Du Courrier De Lyon

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Jean Tissier, Dorville, Jacques Varennes

Feu Mathias Pascal

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Ginette Leclerc, Isa Miranda, Sinoel, Margo Lion

Synopsis: Having been showered with critical adulation for his 1935 adaptation of Crime and Punishment, writer-director Pierre Chenal was further honored for his film adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's Il Fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal). Fed up with his present existence as a henpecked husband Read More

Une Femme Sans Importance

Actors: Lisette Lanvin, Line Noro, Pierre Blanchar, Gilbert Gil

L'Etrange Monsieur Victor

Actors: Raimu, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Renaud, Marcelle Geniat

Synopsis: The title character of L'Etrange Monsieur Victor is a seemingly respectable storekeeper, happily married to the lovely Madeleine. As the film opens, Victor and Madeleine have just become the proud parents of an adorable baby boy. Everything seems perfect for Victor, a man admired for his good Read More

La Dame de Pique

Actors: Marguerite Moreno, Madeleine Ozeray, Pierre Blanchar, André Luguet, Abel Jacquin

Synopsis: La Dame de Pique is the first talkie version of the frequently filmed Alexander Pushkin parable The Queen of Spades. Pierre Blanchar stars as Hermann, an officer in the Russian army whose chronic gambling brings him in contact with a wealthy old countess (Marguerite Moreno) known as "La Dame de Read More

Un Carnet De Bal

Actors: Marie Bell, Harry Baur, Françoise Rosay, Fernandel, Louis Jouvet, Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Richard-Willm

Synopsis: In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all of her former partners. Her search becomes the framework for the episodes. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Mademoiselle Docteur

Actors: Dita Parlo, Viviane Romance, Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Fresnay, Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin

Le Coupable

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Marguerite Moreno, Gilbert Gil

Crime and Punishment

Actors: Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray, Marcelle Geniat, Lucienne Lemarchand, Alexandre Rignault

Synopsis: This French filmization of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment stars Pierre Blanchar as sociopathic student Raskolnikov and Harry Baur as humanist detective Porfiry. Believing himself intellectually above the law, Raskolnikov kills a despicable old shopkeeper. He is certain that he has no Read More

Le Diable En Bouteille

Actors: Gina Manès, Pierre Blanchar, Paul Azäis

Amants Et Voleurs

Actors: Arletty, Pierre Blanchar, Michel Simon

Turandot Princesse De Chine

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Marcel Dalio

L'Or

Actors: Brigitte Helm, Rosine Derean, Line Noro, Pierre Blanchar, Louis Gauthier

Synopsis: L'Or is the French-language version of the simultaneously filmed German melodrama Gold. Brigitte Helm repeats her leading-lady role of Fronce Wills, but the alchemist Maisslot, originally played by Friedrich Kayssler, is herein portrayed by Jacques Dumesnil, while his assistant Berthier, enacted Read More

Iris Perdue Et Retrouvee

Actors: Edith Mera, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Granval

Cette Vieille Canaille

Actors: Christiane Dor, Alice Field, Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar

Synopsis: The great Harry Baur plays the title character in Cette Vielle Canaille -- which translates as "That Old Bum"! But he's no bum at the beginning of the picture: In fact, he's a retired doctor/chemist who spends his spare time conducting medical experiments on small lab animals. Looking for new Read More

Au Bout Du Monde

Actors: Line Noro, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Vanel

Couturiere De Luneville

Actors: Madeleine Renaud, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Armand Lurville, Pierre Blanchar

Synopsis: Jilted by her military-officer lover Rolon (Pierre Blanchard), provincial dressmaker Anna (Madeline Renaud) leaves her home village of Luneville in disgrace. The next time anyone sees Anna, she has transformed herself into Irene, glamorous blonde international movie star. Seeking revenge against Read More

Melo

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Anton Edthofer, Elisabeth Bergner, Pierre Blanchar, Rudolf Forster, Victor Francen

Synopsis: Also known as Der Traumende Mund and Dreaming Lips, Melo was filmed in both French- and German-language versions by director Paul Czinner. Based on a play by Henry Bernstein, the film focuses upon a romantic triangle: orchestra violinist Peter, his wife Gaby, and their concert-violinist friend Read More

L'Atlantide

Actors: Brigitte Helm, Pierre Blanchar, Jean Angelo, Georges Tourreil

Synopsis: Also known as Die Herrin von Atlantis, this expansive G. W. Pabst production is a remake of the 1921 Jacques Feyder film of the same name. Like the earlier film, the remake was largely shot in the Sahara Desert and cost a fortune to put together. Based on the best-selling novel by Pierre Benoit Read More

Les Croix de Bois

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Raymond Aimos, Antonin Artaud, Charles Vanel, Paul Azäis

Synopsis: Les Croix de Bois (Wooden Crosses) may well be the most powerful anti-war film ever made; certainly it is the grimmest and most uncompromising. Starting with an impressionistic shot of a gloomy hillside studded with white grave markings, the film delineates the hopelessness and horror of war in Read More

La Belle Mariniere

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Rosine Derean

La Marche Nuptiale

Actors: Louise Lagrange, Pierre Blanchar

Diane

Captain Fracasse

Actors: Lien Deyers, Marguerite Moreno, Pierre Blanchar, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: The first of three film versions of Theophile Gautier's popular adventure novel Le Capitaine Fracasse was co-written and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1929. Pierre Blanchar essays the title character, who when first we see him is impoverished nobleman Baron de Solignac. Living a solitary Read More

Le Valse De L'Adieu

Actors: Marie Bell, Pierre Blanchar

The Chess Player

Actors: Edith Jehanne, Charles Dullin, Camille Bert, Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Batcheff

Synopsis: The Chess Player (Le Jouer D'Echecs) is based on an old European fable about a despotic king who came to grief via his obsession with a mechanical chess-playing machine. For the purposes of this film, the fable is incorporated in an inspirational story about a young, courageous Polish woman, a Read More

La Terre Promise

Actors: Raquel Meller, Pierre Blanchar, André Roanne

L'Arriviste

Actors: Jeanne Helbling, Pierre Blanchar

Le Juge D'Instruction

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Magnier, Constant Remy

Aux Jardins De Murcie

Actors: Arlette Marchal, Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Daltour

Synopsis: Members of a highland clan battle the farmers of the lowlands in a dispute over water rights in this romantic adventure drama. Xavier and Pencho are the sons of the rival factions who end up fighting for the love of the beautiful Maria del Carmen. Pencho flees after stabbing Xavier and leaves the Read More