Max Desrau

Max Desrau

Born: March 21, 1918
Died: September 29, 2001
in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France

Movies for Max Desrau...

Pétain
Title: Pétain
Character: Huntzinger
Released: May 5, 1993
Type: Movie
During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial.
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The Comedy of Work
Title: The Comedy of Work
Character: Le vieux routard
Released: March 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.
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La Pomme
Title: La Pomme
Character: Le vieux monsieur
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
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Title: La Poupée de Sucre
Character: le professeur de musique
Released: December 15, 1983
Type: TV
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The Executioner of Hearts
Title: The Executioner of Hearts
Character: Le père
Released: October 12, 1983
Type: Movie
While filming on location in Tahiti, a small-time actor seizes an opportunity to make it big, but the attention may be more than he bargained for.
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Je l'aimais trop
Title: Je l'aimais trop
Character: Le médecin
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: Movie
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Qu'est-ce qui fait craquer les filles...
Title: Qu'est-ce qui fait craquer les filles...
Released: June 23, 1982
Type: Movie
The owner of a casino and the owner of a luxury hotel in Deauville are eternal rivals.
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For a Cop's Hide
Title: For a Cop's Hide
Character: Le capitaine Melis-Sanz
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.
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Title: La Poupée sanglante
Released: September 17, 1976
Type: TV
Paris, 1925. Bénédict Masson, bookbinder and poet, is secretly in love with his neighbor, Christine. Christine works at the strange Coulteray mansion where the marquise accuses her husband of being a vampire. But Bénédict has other preoccupations: six of his apprentices have disappeared without a trace.
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Am Stram Gram
Title: Am Stram Gram
Character: Le monsieur du premier acte
Released: June 3, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Un curé de choc
Character: Le bedeau
Released: July 22, 1974
Type: TV
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The Magnificent One
Title: The Magnificent One
Character: L'interprète albanais qui parle le roumain
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.
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Le Médecin malgré lui
Title: Le Médecin malgré lui
Character: Thibaut
Released: August 31, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Novice Lovers
Title: The Novice Lovers
Character: Le médecin
Released: February 3, 1973
Type: Movie
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Clodo
Title: Clodo
Released: June 15, 1971
Type: Movie
Clodo, a gentle mongrel dog, isn't having much luck. His shaggy appearance has earned him the name of hobo. Often scolded by his Parisian masters for being a nuisance, his only consolation is Cathy, his youngest daughter. Unfortunately, she can't stop her parents from abandoning Clodo at vacation time. Fabien, a young farmer, takes the dog in, despite the hostility of his family. Fabien is secretly in love with his childhood friend, Arlène, "la demoiselle du château", who has left to study in Paris. But she returns home after a disappointment. Their relationship resumes.
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The One Man Band
Title: The One Man Band
Character: Un automobiliste au feu rouge
Released: September 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father…
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Mimsy Were the Borogoves
Title: Mimsy Were the Borogoves
Released: September 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Philippe and Sylvie bring home a small container they found on the way from school and strange things start happen...
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Last Known Address
Title: Last Known Address
Character: Thouin (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
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La Coquine
Title: La Coquine
Character: Isodoro, le garçon de brasserie
Released: November 28, 1968
Type: Movie
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La bonne peinture
Title: La bonne peinture
Released: November 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A light philosophical movie about a painter who has the ability to produce paintings that can feed people's stomach by watching them.
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Deux Romains en Gaule
Title: Deux Romains en Gaule
Character: Le cuisinier
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: The mute
Released: January 28, 1967
Type: Movie
A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.
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Les enquiquineurs
Title: Les enquiquineurs
Released: November 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Monsieur Eloy, his wife and their ten-year-old son, Zizi, are off to their country home for the weekend. When they arrive, the two men settle into the garden, while Madame gets down to her cooking. When an embassy official and his wife invite themselves for lunch, the whole household is in an uproar.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Isodoro, le garçon de brasserie
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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The Boss of Champignol
Title: The Boss of Champignol
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
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Les baratineurs
Title: Les baratineurs
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Dujardin, fishmongers, who are inaugurating their luxury fish shop that very day. But the antique dealers, the free-riders and the bargain-hunters are there. They are jealously careful not to pass on the fruit of their clever investigations to their rivals, for all of them, after a picturesque treasure hunt, know that the Dujardin family own the famous Duranti altarpiece. But where have they hidden it themselves?
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La Bonne Planque
Title: La Bonne Planque
Character: Legrand, the radio reporter
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
Émile and Fredo are two crooks who have just committed an armed robbery in a Paris bank. To escape the police, Émile, accompanied by his friend Lulu, takes refuge in the apartment of Antoine Perrin, a peaceful civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture and amateur musician with the group Les Joyeux Colibris. Lulu offers to seduce him in order to prevent him from getting hit on the coffee pot.
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Rob the Bank
Title: Rob the Bank
Character: Un client de la banque (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
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Mata Hari, Agent H21
Title: Mata Hari, Agent H21
Character: Un spectateur à l'Alcazar (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Title: Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Character: Clergyman at statue Ste-Cécile
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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The Girls of La Rochelle
Title: The Girls of La Rochelle
Released: August 22, 1962
Type: Movie
July 13, 1389. On the initiative of the Mayor, warned by a famous astrologer, the town of La Rochelle is getting ready - 400 years in advance! to celebrate the Fête Nationale with dignity! But the English, who already held almost every square in the Kingdom of France, set their sights on La Rochelle. The enemy fleet cruised off the coast, and while preparations for the festivities continued, orders were given to stretch the enormous chain that was to block access to the port between the two towers. However, this complicated maneuver and responsibility fear to provoke countless avatars.... The fatuity of the captain of the guards, Thimoléon, the reckless coquetry of the governor's daughter, Hiildegarde, the thick stupidity of the adjutant, the deceitfulness of the traitor and the scheming of a mysterious Scotsman lead the city to the brink of the abyss, while the people, excited, stage a fleeting riot in which the daughters of La Rochelle will have the last word.
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The Busybody
Title: The Busybody
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and start a family with the woman who loves him, Juliette. To motivate himself and cope with the setbacks he encounters, he decides to swallow an excessive dose of euphoriants.
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Small Local Trains
Title: Small Local Trains
Character: Pépé Beauminet
Released: December 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a travelling theatre company. Realising his father will never favour the union, Gérard joins the company on their next tour. In an attempt to heal the rift, Durand’s wife goes after Gérard and ends up performing in their next play…
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Zazie dans le Métro
Title: Zazie dans le Métro
Character: Permanent
Released: October 28, 1960
Type: Movie
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
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The Heirs
Title: The Heirs
Character: A murdered man (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Rival brother and sister Gaëtan and Chantal, the last heirs of the late billionaire financier Omar Porassis, use every trick in the book to try and claim his fabulous inheritance when two of Omar's natural sons, Roger and Marc, are found. The brother and sister try to manipulate Marc and Roger into stealing their inheritance. After discovering the deception, the two half-brothers join forces to escape the many traps set by Gaëtan and Chantal, who try to eliminate them by any means necessary.
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Stop the Massacre
Title: Stop the Massacre
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Promoted to wrestling champion by chance, Tonin, known as le Bourreau de l'Ardèche, moves to Paris. He is quickly snapped up by Monsieur Bob, a self-styled manager who, in reality, hides his dealings under the cover of a nightclub, but who is also Tonin's regimental buddy. So Tonin acts as a front man, while Bob provides him with fake victories. The beautiful Wanda, the gangster's mistress, appeals to Tonin; she's charitable and sets him on the right path. He returns to the Ardèche and marries the daughter of the village mayor, after learning what a dangerous protector Bob is.
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Croquemitoufle
Title: Croquemitoufle
Released: May 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.
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The Motorcycle Cops
Title: The Motorcycle Cops
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
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En bordée
Title: En bordée
Released: September 10, 1958
Type: Movie
The two merrymakers Cartahu and Bailladrisse sail together on a cargo ship. When customs officers come aboard to conduct a search, Cartahu is unaware of a drug dealer's accomplice, who hides the box of narcotics in Cartahu's bag, which has already been visited. Unsuspecting, the two comrades go ashore, taking the precious box with them. At the hotel, by mistake, their luggage is given to another person. To recover the merchandise, the traffickers pursue the two friends, who nevertheless manage to have the whole gang arrested; and, after being tempted by pretty women to live with them, prefer to set sail for new adventures.
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My Darned Father
Title: My Darned Father
Released: June 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major couturier's during a collection presentation. Roberte, who now lives in Florence with her niece Maria, asks Roger to arrange a student exchange so that Maria can come to Paris to perfect her French. Roger approaches Jean's son Philippe, a student at the Beaux-Arts, who agrees to go to Florence. Maria and Philippe meet on the platform at Pisé station. They miss their respective trains and take a walk together. A flirtation begins, then each goes back to the other. Jean finds Maria charming and, like an unrepentant Don Juan, decides to win her over, but thanks to his old maid, his intrigues come to nothing and Maria can marry Philippe.
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Miss Catastrophe
Title: Miss Catastrophe
Released: April 24, 1957
Type: Movie
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And her problems have only just begun.
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Five Million in Cash
Title: Five Million in Cash
Released: April 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Philémon De Montfilet came first in his year in the prestigious engineering school "Poly Art Technique" because of an epidemic which brought all the other examination candidates down.
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Les lumières du soir
Title: Les lumières du soir
Released: November 7, 1956
Type: Movie
A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
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Life is beautiful
Title: Life is beautiful
Character: Le voisin de campagne
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Paris, 1956. Everything is going smoothly for Roger, married to Denise, and Paul, married to Monique, until the day they win a house in a radio contest. The difficulties of living together and the intrusion of their parents-in-law lead to a falling out.
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Les Duraton
Title: Les Duraton
Character: Un avocat en attente de son audience
Released: March 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his family were not the namesakes of the protagonists of a famous comic series broadcast every day on Radio Monde "La Famille Duraton". Day after day, the real-life Duratons are made fun of because of their surname and Jules just can't take it any more. That is why he decides to sue the radio station responsible for his misfortune.
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The Sheep Has Five Legs
Title: The Sheep Has Five Legs
Character: Le nouveau patron des pompes funèbres
Released: September 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
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His Father's Portrait
Title: His Father's Portrait
Character: Le vendeur des "Gant Perrin"
Released: October 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Paul has to leave his country home to collect his father's inheritance of a department store. A natural-born son, Paul's stepmother gives him a cold reception, and he's appalled by the behavior of his half-sister Dominique, an existentialist of the highest order. Paul's gumption restores the Galeries Parisiennes to its former glory, and he gives a farewell present to a more subdued Dominique. He returns to his village, arm in arm with the wise Marie-Louise, ex-saleswoman at the Grand Magasin.
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L'oeil en coulisse
Title: L'oeil en coulisse
Released: July 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd happily met. Tonin liked the asylum. His friends are charming, and there's a neighbor, Martine, a young cinema extra, whom Tonin finds to his liking. Through his electrician friend, Tonin gets a job on the radio, and through his young neighbor, he even gets a job as an extra in the cinema.
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Wonderful Mentality
Title: Wonderful Mentality
Released: March 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Honoré, a valet, has an extremely logical mind and is unable to tell a lie. This comes in very fortunate for the family he works for.