Roland Bertin Filmography

Les Filles, Personne S'en Méfie

Actors: Thylda Bares, Nora Rotman, Agnes Soral, Roland Bertin, Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Charlotte Silvera's Girls Can Get Away With Anything is about a young girl who acted in a film. Eight-year-old Judith (Thylda Bares) was plucked from everyday life to act in a film that was made in Paris. After returning home from the experience, she finds that her parents' marriage is on the Read More

Bernie

Actors: Albert Dupontel, Claude Perron, Roland Blanche, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: Jet black and unrelentingly nihilistic with only a touch of sentiment, this comedy tells the story of a mildly retarded 30-year-old who leaves the orphanage where he was raised to learn the truth about his parents. In his mind, they died somewhat romantically, perhaps at the hands of the Mafia or Read More

Pas Très Catholique

Actors: Anémone, Roland Bertin, Grégoire Colin, Michel Didym, Denis Podalydès

Synopsis: A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her Read More

Lumière Noire

Actors: Patrick Poivey, Inês de Medeiros, Charlie Bauer, Gilles Segal, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: This French political thriller demonstrates that justice does not always win out when faced with a corrupt government system. The setting is modern Paris during a time when it was suffering a series of terrorist attacks. Guyot works for Air France as a hologram engineer. He has a dark and Read More

L'Ombre du Doute

Actors: Mireille Perrier, Alain Bashung, Sandrine Blancke, Emmanuelle Riva, Josiane Balasko, Luis Issermann

Synopsis: Eleven-year old Alexandrine (Sandrine Blancke) may be making something more out of what is happening in her family than is really there, but she appears to be afraid to be touched by her father (Alain Bashung), and gets really edgy when her mother (a nurse) has to work late. When one of her Read More

La Fille de l'Air

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Thierry Fortineau, Hippolyte Girardot, Roland Bertin, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be Read More

Cyrano De Bergerac

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: Edmond Rostand's classic drama of inner and outer beauty is given a lavish treatment in this acclaimed French production. Gérard Depardieu portrays the title character, a brilliant, charismatic swordsman with a generous spirit and a genius for poetry. It would seem that such a man would have no Read More

The Hairdresser's Husband

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Henry Hocking, Roland Bertin, Maurice Chevit, Philippe Clevenot

Synopsis: Erotic, funny, and very French, this film relies heavily on the critically-acclaimed performance of Jean Rochefort. As a child, Antoine (Rochefort) was obsessed with the ample beautician who cut his hair, and since then, his single ambition in life has been to marry a hairdresser. As an adult Read More

Homard

Actors: Roland Bertin

Ville Etrangere

Actors: Niels Arestrup, Anne Wiazemsky, Isabelle Otero, Isabel Otero, Roland Bertin, Christiane Cohendy

Synopsis: An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself emotionally distanced from his world. He feels absolutely nothing as he attends to his daily routine. He gradually begins to behave in an increasingly strange manner. The story is based on Moment of Read More

Jenatsch

Actors: Michel Voita, Christine Boisson, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Jean Bouise, Laura Betti

Synopsis: Cristophe (Michel Voita) is a reporter who is assigned to interview the prominent archaeologist Tober (Jean Bouise) in this combination fantasy drama. Tober has uncovered the coffin of the legendary 16t-century killer Jenatsch (Vittorio Mezzogiorno). After the interview, Cristophe begins to Read More

Charlotte Forever

Actors: Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Roland Bertin, Roland Dubillard, Anne Zamberlan

Synopsis: This drama with incestual nuances features singer-songwriter turned director Serge Gainsbourg as Stan, a screenwriter who has seen much better days. He is currently agonizing over his daughter, Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Charlotte blames him for the death of her mother in an accident. Stan Read More

Corps Et Biens

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lambert Wilson, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: In a standard tale of intrigue and foul play, Michel Sauvage (Lambert Wilson) has just gotten away with murder and is now marrying rich heiress Ariane (Ingrid Held) in hopes of taking all she's worth. Unfortunately for Michel, the murder victim's hard-fisted, tippling neighbor Madam Krantz (Danielle Darrieux Read More

West Indies

Louise...L'insoumise

Actors: Catherine Rouvel, Roland Bertin, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: The common problem of a generation gap between young teens and their parents is exacerbated by a cultural gap as well in this interesting first film by Charlotte Silvera. When Louise's family -- her parents and two sisters -- came from Tunisia to live in France, the parents kept their traditional Read More

L'Homme Blessé

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin, Lisa Kreuzer

Synopsis: L'Homme Blesse is known in English-speaking countries as The Wounded Man. Jean-Hughes Anglade is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into Obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the Read More

Balade A Blanc

Actors: Jean-Yves Dubois, Véronique Silver, Roland Bertin

L'Indiscretion

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Dominique Sanda, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: Alain Tescique (Jean Rochefort) is in Paris on a brief vacation from his job on a North Sea oil rig, and while he is playing around with a ham radio set he bought for his son, he picks up some suspicious conversations in a neighboring apartment. After some more eavesdropping, he hears about an Read More

La Truite

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Olbrychski, Lisette Malidor

Synopsis: This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars Isabelle Huppert as Frederique, a young woman living on her family's rural trout farm. Frederique is trapped in a dull marriage to a rube. She decides to leave him and the trout Read More

Un Assassin Qui Passe

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Laure, Richard Berry, Féodor Atkine, Didier Flamand

Synopsis: Pauline (Carole Laure), an attractive woman, becomes the obsession of a killer, Jacques (Richard Berry) who has murdered several women. He breaks into her apartment, makes her strip, does not touch her, and leaves. Ravic (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is the police inspector trying to track down the Read More

Ballade A Blanc

Actors: Jean-Yves Dubois, Véronique Silver, Roland Bertin

Diva

Actors: Frederic Andréi, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu, Dominique Pinon

Synopsis: The diva of the title is a famous black opera singer (Wilhelmina Wiggins-Fernandez) who steadfastly refuses to be recorded. The singer is idolized by young French mail-carrier Jules (Frederic Andrei), who sneaks a tape recorder into the theater and records her performance. This is witnessed by a Read More

Cet Age Sans Pitie

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Jean Bouise, Roland Bertin, Jean-Paul Dubois, Jerome Zucca

Synopsis: The pushes and pulls of an emerging post-war society are behind the antagonisms in this routine, slow-paced story set in a Jesuit school in 1952. A somewhat old-fashioned priest has his own ideas about how to train the boys in his charge and at the same time, the director of the school is faced Read More

Le Pull-Over Rouge

Actors: Serge Avedikian, Michele Marquais, Claire Deluca, Roland Bertin, Roland Blanche

Synopsis: A good argument against capital punishment, this polemical as well as compelling docudrama tells the story of the arrest, conviction, and execution of a man who may have been innocent. In 1974 a young girl was kidnapped and murdered near Marseilles. The public was outraged at the crime, so when Read More

Les Soeurs Bronte

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: The Bronte sisters are profiled in this biography. The film dramatizes the repressed Victorian lives of the three famed authors who all died young. Their writing, so full of life, was a total contrast to the reality of their existence, focused mostly upon arguing with their father and taking care Read More

La Femme Flic

Actors: Miou-Miou, Jean-Marc Thibault, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, François Simon

Synopsis: Corinne (Miou-Miou) is a Parisian detective who is transferred to a small village in Northern France when an investigation uncovers evidence that is potentially damaging to some powerful local politicians. She is temporarily given a desk job before she is called on to solve the murder of a little Read More

Les Chemins de L'Exil, ou Les Dernieres Annees de Jean Jacques Rousseau

Actors: François Simon, Dominique Labourier, Roland Bertin, Michel Berto, Gabriel Cattand

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a French philosopher and writer whose works helped to usher in the modern era, and were especially important in laying the groundwork for the idealization of nature and "primitive" societies, as well as much of the rationale for socialism. This film explores Read More

Le Gang

Actors: Alain Delon, Roland Bertin, Nicole Calfan, Laura Betti, Adalberto Maria Merli, Olivier Despax

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Roger Borniche, this crime drama retells the story of the renowned gangster "Pierrot le Fou," whose band of robbers sought out banks and factories in the period just after the Second World War, when the French police forces were in disarray. In the movie, Alain Delon plays Read More

La Part du Feu

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Rufus, Roland Bertin

Synopsis: La Part du Feu is a French idiom, and has to do with making a sacrifice for some gain. Hansen (Michel Piccoli) is a wheeler-dealer and building developer, who apparently manipulates people and situations just for the joy of it. In this melodrama, it was his wife Catherine's (Claudia Cardinale) Read More

Mr. Klein

Actors: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Lonsdale, Juliet Berto

Synopsis: Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer who works as a school principal during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes financial advantage of his Jewish neighbors, knowing that they have no legal recourse. Ironically, Klein is himself mistaken for a missing Jew, a man Read More

Maîtresse

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer, Tony Taffin

Synopsis: For a change, the character portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in Maîtresse is relatively normal; it is the world around him which has gone slightly mad. Looking for a measure of affection and companionship, Olivier (Depardieu) crosses the path of the lovely Ariane (Bulle Ogier). She happens to be a Read More

Violette et François

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Dutronc, Serge Reggiani, Lea Massari, Sophie Daumier

Synopsis: Violette (Isabelle Adjani) is fascinated with the shabby background and low-down ways of her boyfriend Francois (Jacques Dutronc), and despite her middle-class family's objections, she marries him. Unable to keep a job, and without any real skills, he has a hard time supporting them, especially Read More

Section Spéciale

Actors: Louis Seigner, Michel Lonsdale, François Maistre, Ivo Garrani, Roland Bertin, Henri Serre, Pierre Dux

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Costa-Gavras' Special Section (Section Speciale) is set in wartime France, but the parallels to contemporary political persecution are inescapable. A young German naval officer is killed in occupied Paris. The supplicative Vichy government sets about to locate the Read More

La Chair de l'Orchidée

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret, Hugues Quester

Synopsis: The heiress Claire (Charlotte Rampling) in this movie is the daughter of the Miss Blandish of the film No Orchids for Miss Blandish. She has been raised under the unsympathetic eye of her aunt (Edwige Feuillere), who has no intention of seeing her receive her large inheritance. A somewhat violent Read More

Gloria Mundi

Actors: Olga Karlatos, Roland Bertin, Philippe Adrien

Synopsis: A woman working for a film director, who is also a third-world terrorist, seriously abuses herself (i.e., by burning herself with cigarettes) to induce the correct emotional tone in herself for the movie they are working on. Left on her own when the director is forced to flee from the secret Read More

Stavisky

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Perier, Charles Boyer, Anny Duperey, Michel Lonsdale, Roberto Bisacco

Synopsis: This film by French director Alain Resnais (Last Year in Marienbad) is loosely based on a true story from the 1930s about financier, con-man and swindler Stavisky who was arrested in 1934 for selling phony stock but was never brought to trial. While in jail, he continued to engage in doubtful Read More

Le Journal d'Un Suicide

Actors: Delphine Seyrig

Synopsis: As they travel the Mediterranean, a Guide (Sami Frey) tells many stories to the Interpreter (Delphine Seyrig) -- at her request -- but his biggest story seems to warp reality. A pair of anarchists bomb a government minister's family, killing all except a young girl, who now is guarded by a Read More