Jany Holt

Jany Holt

Born: May 13, 1909
Died: October 26, 2005
in Bucharest, Romania

Movies for Jany Holt...

Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film
Title: Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film
Character: Self (voice)
Released: September 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film is a documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2004, devoted to Robert Bresson's film Angels of Sin.
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Black for Remembrance
Title: Black for Remembrance
Character: Geneviève
Released: August 9, 1995
Type: Movie
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 became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.
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Métisse
Title: Métisse
Character: Felix's grandmother
Released: August 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student.
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Target
Title: Target
Released: November 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
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Où sont-elles donc ?
Title: Où sont-elles donc ?
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Left-Handed Woman
Title: The Left-Handed Woman
Character: The Woman in the Meeting Room
Released: October 30, 1977
Type: Movie
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 develop for them.
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Hung Up
Title: Hung Up
Character: La mère
Released: May 10, 1973
Type: Movie
A woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of adventure and smuggling, hijacking ships at night. She is kidnapped by the leader of the enemy gang, with whom she falls in love.
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A Time for Loving
Title: A Time for Loving
Character: The Mother
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.
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Title: Adieu mes quinze ans
Character: Mme Offlanges
Released: May 4, 1971
Type: TV
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Gervaise
Title: Gervaise
Character: Mme Lorilleux - la soeur revêche de Coupeau
Released: September 5, 1956
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
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Les insoumises
Title: Les insoumises
Released: August 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Four noble ladies, four widows, live in isolation in a Berry ch teau. There's the Mme de Bussange, her two sisters Sylvie and Hélène, her sister-in-law Elisabeth and her little boy, who alone will pass on the family name. Two men come along: Gilbert and René, bringing trouble and confusion. Gilbert courts Hélène, while René becomes attached to Elisabeth. Relations between the widows become strained and heated, until an attempt is made on Elisabeth's life. The culprit, Sylvie, kills herself. In despair, Mme de Bussange sets fire to the castle and dies in the inferno.
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The Green Glove
Title: The Green Glove
Character: The Countess
Released: February 28, 1952
Type: Movie
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.
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The Ferret
Title: The Ferret
Character: Cécile
Released: February 10, 1950
Type: Movie
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
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Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Title: Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Character: Anne de la Ferté
Released: October 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him.
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Dr. Laennec
Title: Dr. Laennec
Character: Madeleine Bayle
Released: June 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
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L'échafaud peut attendre
Title: L'échafaud peut attendre
Character: Hélène Bonnard
Released: February 9, 1949
Type: Movie
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.
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Not Guilty
Title: Not Guilty
Character: Madeleine Bodin
Released: September 24, 1947
Type: Movie
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
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Rumors
Title: Rumors
Character: Aline
Released: March 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Jean is a good man who has a steady job (he is a mechanic in the village garage) and a companion named Aline. But Jean is also a guzzler and a philanderer. As a result, when a local prostitute is killed in the surroundings, he becomes at once the victim of rumor...
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Counter Investigation
Title: Counter Investigation
Released: March 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.
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Land Without Stars
Title: Land Without Stars
Character: Catherine Le Quellec / Aurélia Talacayud
Released: April 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.
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Special Mission
Title: Special Mission
Character: Emmy de Welder
Released: March 8, 1946
Type: Movie
The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
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The Bride of Darkness
Title: The Bride of Darkness
Character: Sylvie
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.
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Farandole
Title: Farandole
Character: Marianne
Released: February 10, 1945
Type: Movie
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.
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Angels of Sin
Title: Angels of Sin
Character: Thérèse
Released: June 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named Thérèse who refuses any help because she says she was innocent of the crime she was convicted for. After being released from prison, Thérèse murders the actual perpetrator of the crime and comes to seek sanctuary in the convent.
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The Phantom Baron
Title: The Phantom Baron
Character: Anne
Released: June 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now that they are adult, Anne is in love with Hervé while Elfy thinks she loves the young man. One day, the baron's mummified body is found in an oubliette and the secret of the estate is revealed...
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Andorra or The Bronze Men
Title: Andorra or The Bronze Men
Character: Conchita Asnurri
Released: July 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.
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Sirocco
Title: Sirocco
Character: Greta
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.
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The Southern Trail
Title: The Southern Trail
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1938
Type: Movie
As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lonely, ailing men. She meets her husband's partner who tries to kill her. Hélène does not report him to the police but is curious to learn the reasons for his action. Before dying of a terrible fever, the man confesses that he murdered her husband.
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Satan's Paradise
Title: Satan's Paradise
Character: Francesca
Released: September 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of leading to ruin, under cover of administering it, a huge cocoa plantation on the island of São Tomé. His employers, a financial coalition, indeed plan to dispossess its owner, an inexperienced young woman who has just inherited it, of her property. But when Jean comes into contact with her, he recognizes Francesca, a girl he had fond feelings for when he was a student.
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Rasputin
Title: Rasputin
Character: Groussina
Released: January 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
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Alibi
Title: Alibi
Character: Helene
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
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Troïka sur la piste blanche
Title: Troïka sur la piste blanche
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase during which the trafficker loses his life.
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Southern Carrier
Title: Southern Carrier
Character: Geneviève Herlin
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Title: The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Character: Juliette Guicciardi
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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The Lower Depths
Title: The Lower Depths
Character: Nastia, la prostituée
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
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The Golem
Title: The Golem
Character: Rachel
Released: February 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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The Green Domino
Title: The Green Domino
Character: Lily Bruquier
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie