Michel Etcheverry

Michel Etcheverry

Born: December 16, 1919
Died: March 30, 1999
in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
Michel Etcheverry was a French actor. First a teacher, he began his career in the theater as a stage manager, then joined the troupe of Louis Jouvet. He entered the Comédie-Française in 1961, was named member in 1964, honorary member in 1984. His repertoire includes many tragedies from the classical repertoire. His austere physique, his deep voice and the rigor of his acting serve the tragic repertoire as well as contemporary drama. He participated in numerous films and television programs.

Movies for Michel Etcheverry...

A French Woman
Title: A French Woman
Released: March 14, 1995
Type: Movie
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.
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The Last Writer
Title: The Last Writer
Character: Le professeur
Released: November 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.
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Sertorius
Title: Sertorius
Character: Sertorius
Released: August 29, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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I... For Icarus
Title: I... For Icarus
Character: Frédéric Heiniger
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
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Perceval
Title: Perceval
Character: Fisher King
Released: October 8, 1978
Type: Movie
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ.
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On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Title: On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Character: The reciter
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
While Camille refuses Perdican's advances, she takes offense when he courts Rosette. Then begins a confrontation of pride, where each seeks to establish his ascendancy over the other in the name of love.
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La poudre aux yeux
Title: La poudre aux yeux
Character: Ratinois
Released: October 9, 1976
Type: Movie
Created in 1861, this comedy by Eugène Labiche depicts two bourgeois families obsessed with appearances who intend to marry off their children. Labiche exposes the social rivalry between the two families through tyrannical female characters and submissive husbands, whose only concern is to create illusions in society.
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Le maître de Santiago
Title: Le maître de Santiago
Character: Don Alvaro Dabo
Released: November 3, 1974
Type: Movie
It has been years since Don Alvaro Dabo, the Grand Master of the Order of Santiago, has given up the profession of arms. Now retired in Avila, Castile he lives there in an austere and unadorned residence. Devoting all his time to prayer, he has become contemptuous of the vanity of all earthly goods. Mariana, his daughter, accompanies this proud man's life with admiration and fear. At a gathering of his Order, the knights tell him of a prestigious position in the New World offered by the King. Nothing easier than to make a fortune in such an Eldorado. With this money, he could endow his daughter and marry her to Don Jacinto, her beloved. But will the sainted man agree to, just for the sake of Mariana, stoop to the level of those he disdains?
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George Dandin
Title: George Dandin
Character: Mr. de Sottenville
Released: January 6, 1973
Type: Movie
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: The Inquisitor
Released: February 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
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Emma Zunz
Title: Emma Zunz
Character: Löwenthal
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Woman in Chains
Title: Woman in Chains
Character: Surgeon
Released: November 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.
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La Volupté de l'honneur
Title: La Volupté de l'honneur
Character: Maurice Setti
Released: October 12, 1968
Type: Movie
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L'affaire Lourdes
Title: L'affaire Lourdes
Character: Bishop Laurence
Released: November 7, 1967
Type: Movie
In Lourdes, in the 1860s, the young Bernadette disturbs despite herself the peaceful life of the small town. She is the only one to see the apparition of The Lady, every day. The villagers take sides, the notables try to stifle the affair. But crowds come from all over the country. Inspired by the true story of the Lourdes affair.
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The Golem
Title: The Golem
Character: Hillel
Released: February 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Athanase Pernath is a gem cutter in the Prague ghetto. In spite of himself, he becomes embroiled in the lives of his neighbors. Family feuds, swindles, jealousies and revenge lead Pernath to prison, while the threat of the Golem, a monster created by a rabbi and awakening every thirty-three years, hangs over the city.
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Is Paris Burning?
Title: Is Paris Burning?
Character: Préfet Luizet
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
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Title: Marie Tudor
Character: Cranmer
Released: April 23, 1966
Type: TV
Based on the play by Victor Hugo, portraying the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England.
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Dom Juan
Title: Dom Juan
Character: Voix du Commandeur
Released: November 6, 1965
Type: Movie
This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the Dom Juan of Molière.
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Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite
Title: Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1965
Type: Movie
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by international enemies. Among them is an old Nazi named Hans von Wunchendorf who dreams of world domination. He hides behind the codename "The Orchid" and needs the treasure to sustain a worldwide network of exiled former comrades. Once sanified by the gold his organisation plans to realise the endsieg after all.
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Le roi Lear
Title: Le roi Lear
Character: Le Roi Lear
Released: February 13, 1965
Type: Movie
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
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Mathias Sandorf
Title: Mathias Sandorf
Released: February 13, 1963
Type: Movie
1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. The people see him as their liberator. Denounced by his banker, Mathias is arrested and sentenced to death. He manages to escape and takes refuge in a fishing village where he prepares a new uprising.
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Quatrevingt-treize
Title: Quatrevingt-treize
Character: le marquis de Lantenac
Released: December 29, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Little Boy from the Lift
Title: The Little Boy from the Lift
Character: M. Maillet
Released: April 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream, he takes part in a competition organized by the manager, and wins 1st prize: a two-day stay in one of the princely suites. He wants to share the experience with his young girlfriend, the florist, but discovers that she has betrayed him and returns to her elevator.
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The New Aristrocrats
Title: The New Aristrocrats
Character: Chief education
Released: December 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do parents and their superficial society firends and the stiff, intolerant catholic establishment in which he studies. Fortunately,he has an open-minded philosophy teacher, Father Philippe de Maubrun, who understands him and supports him in his distress.
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Famous Love Affairs
Title: Famous Love Affairs
Character: Gaspard Bernauer, barbier, le père d'Agnès
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Three Faces of Sin
Title: Three Faces of Sin
Character: Commissioner Bertrand
Released: September 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
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La mort de Pompée
Title: La mort de Pompée
Released: February 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into Caesar's good graces. Once the crime is committed, Ptolemy impatiently awaits recognition from Caesar. But a completely different fate awaits Cleopatra's brother.
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L'exécution
Title: L'exécution
Character: Barral
Released: January 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Paris, at the start of the German Occupation, five men plan to sabotage a factory.
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Tomorrow Is My Turn
Title: Tomorrow Is My Turn
Character: Ludovic
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers.
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Towards Ecstasy
Title: Towards Ecstasy
Character: Father Bruno
Released: September 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Catherine married Jérôme, a wealthy landowner living in North Africa, from a bourgeois but noxious background. While living in total family harmony, she is seized by a mystical crisis following a vision of a cleric in ecstasy. She abandons her home and worldly possessions to take a job as a maid. After a bumpy road that severely tested her spirituality, Catherine found peace by returning to live with her devoted partner.
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The Crab Basket
Title: The Crab Basket
Character: Bertrand
Released: May 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema. He founded a film club and became a journalist, then assistant to a famous director. Little by little, he came face to face with the various compromises inherent in this professional milieu. After writing a screenplay about his experiences, he enlists the help of Chantal, a young actress, to bring his film project to fruition.
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Recourse in Grace
Title: Recourse in Grace
Character: Chief Inspector Pardelles
Released: May 19, 1960
Type: Movie
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.
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Eyes Without a Face
Title: Eyes Without a Face
Character: Dr. Lherminier
Released: January 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.
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Signed, Arsène Lupin
Title: Signed, Arsène Lupin
Character: Van Nelden, le collectionneur
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
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Tonight We Kill
Title: Tonight We Kill
Character: Interpol Man
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influential crooks. Only one remains, Larry Laine, who is about to show them what he's made of.
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Double Agents
Title: Double Agents
Character: L'officier allemand
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Robert Le Beal. A brilliant "little" spy film. Hossein and Vlady play mysterious characters who meet up one night in a lonely cabin in the wilds of Normandy. They are both spies, but whom do they work for-the Allies or the Nazis.
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Julie la rousse
Title: Julie la rousse
Character: Le notaire / Notary
Released: August 12, 1959
Type: Movie
The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's son will go in search of this woman and will thereby meet her daughter. About a love story that continues from one generation to the next.
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Night Dance Hall
Title: Night Dance Hall
Released: July 24, 1959
Type: Movie
Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
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Witness in the City
Title: Witness in the City
Character: Le juge d'instruction
Released: May 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
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Dangerous Games
Title: Dangerous Games
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she is going to kidnap him and demand a ransom from the young man's parents, money which will be used to pay for a good lawyer for her brother accused of killing a policeman.
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Women's Prison
Title: Women's Prison
Released: July 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.
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The Desert of Pigalle
Title: The Desert of Pigalle
Character: Le Radiologue
Released: April 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
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In Six Easy Lessons
Title: In Six Easy Lessons
Character: Adam de Casaubon
Released: February 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
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Élisa
Title: Élisa
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her success is growing. On a trip to the provinces, she meets Bernard, a blind man. They soon fall in love, but Élisa hides her activities from him. When he finds out, he hits her. The situation quickly degenerates.
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Michael Strogoff
Title: Michael Strogoff
Character: General Krisloff
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.
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Honoré de Marseille
Title: Honoré de Marseille
Character: Bob Patrick, le reporter photographe
Released: December 12, 1956
Type: Movie
As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade. He evokes the Phocaean Protis, who founded the city of Marseille, and the Roman Honorius, who invented pétanque. He loves to go fishing with his friends Garrigue and Watermelon to prepare a good bouillabaisse, and even more, to rig the results of a vote to allow a little protégée to be crowned Miss flots bleus.
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It Happened in Aden
Title: It Happened in Aden
Character: Pastor Sanderman
Released: August 22, 1956
Type: Movie
During a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince.
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The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Released: July 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Bourgeois melodrama about the family of a wealthy businessman in La Rochelle, who dismisses the marriage of his only daughter with a journalist.
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The Blonde Witch
Title: The Blonde Witch
Character: Engineer Camoin
Released: June 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.
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The Whole Town Accuses
Title: The Whole Town Accuses
Character: The leader of the gangsters
Released: May 23, 1956
Type: Movie
François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him.
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Maid in Paris
Title: Maid in Paris
Character: Le commissaire des mineurs
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Paris to get away from it all and live her own life. That's how she meets Antoine du Merlet, whom she takes for a young hoodlum when in fact he's a police superintendent. She spends the night at his place, which leads to a number of setbacks for poor Antoine, who is stigmatized by the headmistress, abandoned by his mistress and has to face a strip-tease session starring the unconscious Penny... But Penny's a spicy one and Antoine's a nice guy, so... !
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Diamond Machine
Title: Diamond Machine
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1955
Type: Movie
A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case.
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More Whiskey for Callaghan
Title: More Whiskey for Callaghan
Released: December 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate the theft. But his tracks soon lead him to the welcoming skies of the Côte d'Azur. There, he decides to infiltrate a network of aristocratic spies.
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Title: Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Character: L'explorateur (Crédité : Etcheverry)
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
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The Aristocrats
Title: The Aristocrats
Character: Le notaire Crouelles
Released: October 12, 1955
Type: Movie
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his best to uphold the traditions of nobility in an ever-changing world. The Marquis' children prefer the trappings of modern society and pop culture and regard their father as a relic. This cultural clash nearly results in tragedy when two of the Marquis' offspring substitute recklessness for common sense.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Police chief Bertrannet
Released: July 19, 1955
Type: Movie
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.
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Tower of Lust
Title: Tower of Lust
Character: Enguerrand de Marigny
Released: March 18, 1955
Type: Movie
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Released: October 13, 1954
Type: Movie
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...
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The Contessa's Secret
Title: The Contessa's Secret
Character: Pietri
Released: September 26, 1954
Type: Movie
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
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Rasputin
Title: Rasputin
Character: Pourlchkevitch (as Etcheverry)
Released: July 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.
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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Character: General Counsel
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
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Crimson Curtain
Title: Crimson Curtain
Character: An actor
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
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The Solitary Conquerors
Title: The Solitary Conquerors
Character: Narrator
Released: October 8, 1952
Type: Movie
After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to Pascal, a gold digger who owns the land neighboring this forest. He refuses the transaction and multiplies the obstacles against the forest exploitation project to which Thérèse resigns herself given Pascal's attitude.
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Desperate Decision
Title: Desperate Decision
Character: The priest
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household chores, goes in search of her brother whom she has heard in a dream calling for help.
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The Case Against X
Title: The Case Against X
Character: Bertrand Moal
Released: June 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.
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Matrimonial Agency
Title: Matrimonial Agency
Character: Marcel Sarlet, Viviane's fiancé
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
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Leathernose
Title: Leathernose
Character: A gentleman
Released: March 26, 1952
Type: Movie
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decides to become a Casanova-like seductor. When he meets true love, cynical Roger does not believe in it and lets pure Judith marry an old marquis. But once Judith's husband dies, he sees Judith again, shows her his disfigured face, which does not discourage the young woman from loving him. Nevertheless, he distances himself from her forever
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Without Leaving an Address
Title: Without Leaving an Address
Character: M. Langlois, un futur père
Released: January 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.