Nadia Barentin

Nadia Barentin

Born: October 17, 1936
Died: March 22, 2011
in Paris, France
Nadia Barentin (17 October 1936 – 22 March 2011) was a French actress, known for her theatre and film roles, including Les Blessures assassines in 2000.

She was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress for Monsieur Klebs et Rosalie in 1993.

Barentin died on 22 March 2011, aged 74, from undisclosed causes.

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On Air
Title: On Air
Character: Joëlle Goulain
Released: January 11, 2012
Type: Movie
A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
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The Round Up
Title: The Round Up
Character: Grand-Mère Ida
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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Title: The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Character: Mme Dupré, la chef cuisinière
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
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Fissures
Title: Fissures
Character: Madame Blanc
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.
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The Red Sofa
Title: The Red Sofa
Character: Vera Gérard
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Marie returns to live in La Rochelle, the city of her childhood, with her husband Marc, a policeman, and meets Nadia. The two young women scour the city's stores, looking for a red sofa. They soon discover one in the store of Maxime, a second-hand dealer. A few days later, Nadia seems tormented when Marie mentions the sofa. During a visit, Marie discovers Nadia's lifeless body.
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Title: Petits Meurtres en famille
Character: Madame Dupré
Released: November 14, 2006
Type: TV
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Old Goriot
Title: Old Goriot
Character: Mme Vauquer
Released: November 9, 2004
Type: Movie
A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
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The Light
Title: The Light
Character: Huberte
Released: November 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operator. He only stayed two months, but his presence proved to be a disturbing catalyst.
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Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine)
Title: Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine)
Character: Irène, la mère de Dorine
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the girlfried of one of the lodgers in her building. This same lodger called Le Bison has rather strange hours and both he and Dorine ( the concierge ) get on each other's nerves because each makes noise at the "wrong" time for the other ! The fact that their respective mates have run off together nevertheless bring the two together and with Dorine's children getting very attached to Le Bison, there are the makings of an "idylle" between the two of them which the return of the two offending mates fails to break
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Agathe et le grand magasin
Title: Agathe et le grand magasin
Character: Marcelle
Released: December 17, 2001
Type: Movie
A bygone symbol of the luxury of yesteryear and a true institution in a provincial town, the "Grand Magasin" is living its last hours. Indeed, the management, which can no longer afford the establishment, is preparing to sell the store to a large distribution group. Agathe, a saleswoman in the men's department for more than 25 years, is shocked to discover that all the staff will be laid off. Feeling both betrayed and responsible for the future of the "Grand Magasin", she becomes a passionaria, leading her colleagues to revolt, a true leader. The operation finally seems to bear fruit when the sale is cancelled and a new director is appointed.
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Beautiful Memories
Title: Beautiful Memories
Character: Bernadette
Released: August 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Philippe fall in love. When Philippe recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire's condition takes a turn for the worse.
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L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
Title: L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
Character: Mme Ackermann
Released: March 21, 2001
Type: Movie
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.
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Felix and Lola
Title: Felix and Lola
Character: Madame Irzou
Released: March 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks Félix to prove his love for her by murdering a man he does not know...
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Brigade des mineurs
Title: Brigade des mineurs
Character: Betty
Released: June 30, 1999
Type: Movie
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Hard Off
Title: Hard Off
Character: Monique, l'assistante de Claude
Released: May 17, 1999
Type: Movie
This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform in bed. His wife says she is satisfied with Claude's love and tenderness, but he visits a sex specialist anyway. There he learns of Viagra, which is not yet approved in France, though it is available in Switzerland over the counter. Soon Claude is on his way to Geneva, and eager to prove his manhood, tries to bed Agnes, his very attractive and very available assistant. His daughter, who also comes along for the trip, interferes with her own problems.
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De gré ou de force
Title: De gré ou de force
Character: Moretton
Released: November 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A subsidiary of Générale Financière d'Investissement (GFI), Medic-Hall, a medical equipment company, employs nine salespeople. As part of the restructuring of the group, management decided to separate from them, without paying them severance pay. For this, the company called on Sébastien Jalabier, a degreasing specialist, who undertakes to make them resign by resorting to various means of pressure: tracking down professional misconduct, humiliation, bullying, thankless tasks ...
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In All Innocence
Title: In All Innocence
Character: Lili
Released: October 6, 1998
Type: Movie
High-profile lawyer Michel takes on the defence of a young and pretty small-time thief, Cécile, after the botched hold-up of a jewellery shop. As predicted by his elegant art-dealer and sculptress wife Viviane, Michel goes well beyond his brief, jeopardising his career and ruining his marriage of 18 years.
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Title: Louis la Brocante
Character: Mère supérieure
Released: January 24, 1998
Type: TV
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Un grand cri d'amour
Title: Un grand cri d'amour
Character: Bernadette
Released: January 7, 1998
Type: Movie
A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate.
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Agathe tricote
Title: Agathe tricote
Character: Agathe
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
65 years old Agathe Ledu refuses to grow old alone. That's why she's visiting the graveyard on a daily basis, honouring her husband and son, Breton sailors lost in sea five years ago. She's talking to them, all the while knitting. But for whom is Agathe knitting ? (One of the two shorts that inspired "Amélie".)
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A Self-Made Hero
Title: A Self-Made Hero
Character: Madame Louvier / Madame Revuz / The General's Wife
Released: May 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
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Coming to Terms with the Dead
Title: Coming to Terms with the Dead
Character: la mère
Released: October 5, 1994
Type: Movie
It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.
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Le Sourire
Title: Le Sourire
Character: Gaby
Released: August 17, 1994
Type: Movie
An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.
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Marriage of the Century
Title: Marriage of the Century
Character: La dame du vestiaire
Released: October 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.
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Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
Title: Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
Character: Madame Cire
Released: November 3, 1982
Type: Movie
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Title: Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Character: Tania
Released: December 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Title: Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Character: Mme Leblanc, mère de Karine
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Title: The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Character: La fille folle des soldats
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
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The Beguines
Title: The Beguines
Character: Julia
Released: September 19, 1972
Type: Movie
Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woman who is described as strange. At the first chance she has she goes to her house in the Ramparts of Béguines... from then on she goes back often, discovering a new world of artists and nightowls where she also experiences love in the arms of Tamara.
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Huit femmes
Title: Huit femmes
Character: Louise, la femme de chambre
Released: February 7, 1972
Type: Movie
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Title: Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Character: Jacqueline
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.