Henri Rollan

Henri Rollan

Born: March 23, 1888
Died: June 23, 1967
in Paris, France

Movies for Henri Rollan...

Le cardinal d'Espagne
Title: Le cardinal d'Espagne
Released: November 24, 1964
Type: Movie
This play by Henry de Montherland, takes place in 1517 and depicts the Cardinal de Cisneros, an authoritarian man approaching his end, regent of the throne of Spain oscillating between his desire for power and his tendency to inaction. Thinking himself invulnerable, he awaits the arrival of young Charles on the throne, but his beliefs will be shaken.
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Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur
Title: Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur
Character: Cléante
Released: July 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Tartuffe, a hypocritical man confided in false devotion, monopolizes the confidence of Orgon, a wealthy bourgeois and undertakes to seduce his wife Elmire. Having been unmasked by the latter, he strives to precipitate the ruin of his benefactor.
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Port-Royal
Title: Port-Royal
Character: The visitor
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
1661, the Assemblée du Clergé de France obliged all clergy to sign a form testifying to their submission to the decisions of the Holy See. In 1664, the Archbishop of Paris wanted to impose this decision on the nuns of Port-Royal. Among them was Sister Angélique de Saint Jean, admired by the very young Sister Françoise, who looked to her for comfort.
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The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Title: The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Character: The Chairman of the Board Emile Duchamp
Released: March 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, he removes his vault in Alsace, steals two paintings of old masters, steals valuable gems and calls out to the police prefect to avoid his arrest. But this time he risks being seriously recognized. Lupin must once again use his fine intellect to deftly escape the situation.
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Les amoureux de Marianne
Title: Les amoureux de Marianne
Released: July 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of whom are running for parliament. Tempers flare and invective quickly escalates. In the end, Duboutois wins and Berton loses his position. Although futile and foolish, it's the excellent Mme Duboutois who brings peace to the situation, brings about reconciliation and helps the two children to unite.
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Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle
Title: Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle
Character: Charles de Valois
Released: October 24, 1952
Type: Movie
In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is already coveted by the king's brother.
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
Title: Fan-Fan the Tulip
Character: Maréchal d'Estrées
Released: March 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction.
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Bluebeard
Title: Bluebeard
Character: Le comte d'Etioles
Released: September 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
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Le cas du docteur Galloy
Title: Le cas du docteur Galloy
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Madame Guérin, who has been suffering from cancer, benefits from a period of remission and she tries to regain health at any price. That is why she decides to consult a healer. But when her friend, also affected by cancer, is saved by an operation, she hesitates between traditional and parallel medicine.
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The Gamblers
Title: The Gamblers
Character: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Glov (Senior)
Released: December 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.
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Les Nouveaux Maîtres
Title: Les Nouveaux Maîtres
Released: May 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest sets out to ruin the Durands, and leaves in the castle that they must sell their couple of servants, Victor and Marie, who become the new masters, at the same time as they serve as a screen for Ernest for his dubious business.
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Coup de feu dans la nuit
Title: Coup de feu dans la nuit
Character: Maître Martigny
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end.
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Petite peste
Title: Petite peste
Character: Monsieur Bertheron
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Marceline, a fearless 17-year-old girl, is expelled from her boarding school. Her adoptive parents then sent her to a stricter school.
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Title: The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Character: Victor Hugo
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
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Troubled Heart
Title: Troubled Heart
Character: Le docteur Valory
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1914, students living in a boarding house are disturbed by a young woman. On the eve of being called up, one of them declares his love for her. She abandons herself to someone who may not come back.
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The Black Angels
Title: The Black Angels
Character: Gabriel Cardère
Released: October 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Two brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are not in agreement, as the boy has a happy relationship with a woman, and the girl is in an isolation mood. A crime happens, and the relations amongst this sad family become even worse.
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Femmes
Title: Femmes
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
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Temptation
Title: Temptation
Character: Maurice Brinon
Released: July 26, 1936
Type: Movie
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Sous la Terreur
Title: Sous la Terreur
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined.
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The Phantom Gondola
Title: The Phantom Gondola
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A femme fatale falls in love with a Venetian count, implacable enemy of Selim, who pursues his sister with his diligence. This one makes stop and condemn to death the count who made an attempt on his life. Then he offers the woman her father's salvation in exchange for her favors. A snake kills him, the count is shot and the woman finally takes the veil.
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The Tomboy
Title: The Tomboy
Character: Régis Boisselot
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse.
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Mysteries of Paris
Title: Mysteries of Paris
Character: Rodolphe
Released: October 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.
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Marie des angoisses
Title: Marie des angoisses
Character: Marcel
Released: July 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A neglected young woman comes up against the equivocal feelings of a steward.
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Le Clown Bux
Title: Le Clown Bux
Released: March 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
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La marche nuptiale
Title: La marche nuptiale
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
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The Adventurer
Title: The Adventurer
Character: André Varèze
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.
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La flambée
Title: La flambée
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A commander who had devised helpful defenses for his country kills a spy who'd tried to entrap him.The officer's young wife who had been thinking of leaving him for a minister, rallies to his side.
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Primerose
Title: Primerose
Released: February 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Primerose loves her childhood friend, Pierre, but this one, ruined, refuses her love. Desperate, Primerose enters the convent, but soon the order is dissolved and Pierre, who finds his young friend, finally lets his heart speak...
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Le Scandale
Title: Le Scandale
Character: Maurice Férioul
Released: February 3, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?
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The Ironmaster
Title: The Ironmaster
Character: Philippe Derblay
Released: November 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Athos
Released: December 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but totally by chance and for... a duel against them! But he soon befriends them and follows them in their adventures, notably on a secret mission to uncover a plot contrived against the Queen by Cardinal Richelieu.
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Moonlight
Title: Moonlight
Character: Le Philosophe
Released: November 14, 1932
Type: Movie
While sailing on a yacht off the French Riviera a shy young man and the owner's daughter are shipwrecked on an island.
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Alone
Title: Alone
Character: Jeff
Released: February 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A prominent chanteuse on a world tour meets a young fellow European in Singapore, a soldier of fortune who becomes obsessed with listening to her voice on a recording.
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The Crazy Ray
Title: The Crazy Ray
Character: Albert
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place.
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Vingt ans après
Title: Vingt ans après
Character: Athos
Released: December 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Charming Mimi-Trottin is in love with typographer Louis Chausson, nicknamed Godasse. She meets Doudou, actually a Vicomte, estranged with his parents who are rich automobile manufacturers. Godasse abandons Mimi because of his professional ambitions and Doudou rescues her from a suicide. After making peace with his parents, the young man has Mimi hired as a typist at the factory. After winning a race with one of his father's car, he soon wins the heart and the hand of Mimi.
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Mimi-Trottin
Title: Mimi-Trottin
Character: Louis Chausson dit Godasse
Released: April 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Charming Mimi-Trottin is in love with typographer Louis Chausson, nicknamed Godasse. She meets Doudou, actually a Vicomte, estranged with his parents who are rich automobile manufacturers. Godasse abandons Mimi because of his professional ambitions and Doudou rescues her from a suicide. After making peace with his parents, the young man has Mimi hired as a typist at the factory. After winning a race with one of his father's car, he soon wins the heart and the hand of Mimi.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Athos
Released: October 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
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Les Trois masques
Title: Les Trois masques
Character: Paolo
Released: January 4, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Reign of Terror
Title: The Reign of Terror
Character: Le lieutenant de la garde nationale Maurice Lindey
Released: February 27, 1914
Type: Movie
The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes himself off as an ardent revolutionary and his wife Geneviève, who also happens to be the Knight's sister. While on mission with her brother, she is saved from arrest thanks to the intervention of Lieutenant Maurice Lindey. Geneviève, who is married without love to Dixmer, falls for the young man, who requites her love. A tunnel is dug between a house rented by Dixmer and the Tower of the Temple but the various attempts to rescue the queen attempts fail. Marie-Antoinette risks the guillotine/ Moreover, Lindey finds himself involved in the plot...
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The Absentee
Title: The Absentee
Character: Peter Schoonejans
Released: May 2, 1913
Type: Movie
Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite the opposition of his family and friends. In anger his son Peter leaves home to enlist, while Grietje takes up her residence in another cottage. Six years pass, during which Grietje becomes acquainted with Minna's daughter Dina. Peter falls ill in Sumatra, but after falling in love with Dina, through the medium of photographs, he recovers and is drafted home again to Holland. He meets Dina and the two find that they truly love.