Christine Pascal

Christine Pascal

Born: November 29, 1953
Died: August 30, 1996
in Lyon, Rhône, France
Christine Pascal (29 November 1953 – 30 August 1996) was a French actress, writer and director.

Born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani's Les Guichets du Louvre (1974), and began a working relationship with Bertrand Tavernier in her next film, L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974). Other films with Tavernier include Que la fête commence (1975), for which she received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actress; The Judge and the Assassin (1976); Des enfants gatés (1977), which she co-scripted; and Round Midnight. Other film appearances include Black Thursday (1974), La Meilleure façon de marcher (1976), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Entre Nous (1983), and Le Grand Chemin (1987). She made her directorial debut with Félicité, and also directed La Garce, Zanzibar, Le Petit prince a dit (which won the Louis Delluc Prize) and Adultère, mode d'emploi.

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See How They Fall
Title: See How They Fall
Character: Sandrine
Released: August 31, 1994
Type: Movie
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon's story is related with Marx and Johnny's one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.
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Le Sourire
Title: Le Sourire
Character: Chantal
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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The Patriots
Title: The Patriots
Character: Laurence
Released: June 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.
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Nothing But Lies
Title: Nothing But Lies
Character: Lise
Released: December 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Frustrated with her life, a Parisian tells her philandering husband about her lover.
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Le Sixième Doigt
Title: Le Sixième Doigt
Character: Viviane
Released: September 26, 1990
Type: Movie
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The Color of the Wind
Title: The Color of the Wind
Character: Hélène Plazy
Released: November 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.
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Promised... sworn!
Title: Promised... sworn!
Character: Madeleine
Released: December 9, 1987
Type: Movie
The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
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The Grand Highway
Title: The Grand Highway
Character: Claire, Louis' mother
Released: March 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
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'Round Midnight
Title: 'Round Midnight
Character: Sylvie
Released: January 9, 1986
Type: Movie
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
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Sincerely Charlotte
Title: Sincerely Charlotte
Character: Christine
Released: February 20, 1985
Type: Movie
In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide out at the home of her ex-boyfriend -- her current male companion has been murdered in his apartment, and she fears the worst. The trouble is that Mathieu, her ex, is happily living with his new love Christine.
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Hell Train
Title: Hell Train
Character: Isabelle
Released: January 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism. Three of the ringleaders end up at the police station. The next day, November 14, 1983, on the Bordeaux-Ventimiglia train, the three men who were candidates for enlistment in the Foreign Legion beat Habib Grimzi, a 26-year-old Algerian, before throwing him out of a window. A young woman, who witnessed the murder, alerted the police. The investigation begins in a climate of extreme tension. In the city, provocations and attacks are increasing...
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Subterfuge
Title: Subterfuge
Character: The Cineast
Released: May 9, 1983
Type: Movie
After committing a hit and run, a man insinuates himself into the lives of the victim's family.
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Entre Nous
Title: Entre Nous
Character: Sarah
Released: April 6, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
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Elle voulait faire du cinéma
Title: Elle voulait faire du cinéma
Released: March 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Biopic of French film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, considered the world's first female director, who directed, produced and/or supervised over 700 films between 1896 an the 1920s, in France and, for a period, in the US.
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Paco the Infallible
Title: Paco the Infallible
Character: María
Released: October 3, 1979
Type: Movie
In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.
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The Maids of Wilko
Title: The Maids of Wilko
Character: Tunia
Released: September 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
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Félicité
Title: Félicité
Character: Félicité
Released: May 22, 1979
Type: Movie
After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.
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We Forget Everything!
Title: We Forget Everything!
Character: Anne Glizer
Released: January 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques and Odile, a couple of friends. But when Jacques takes her home the next day, he is arrested by the police, who mistake him for Vassili. In reality, Vassili is a terrorist.
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Surprise Sock
Title: Surprise Sock
Character: Juliette
Released: June 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
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Spoiled Children
Title: Spoiled Children
Character: Anne Torrini
Released: September 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.
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The Indians Are Still Far Away
Title: The Indians Are Still Far Away
Character: Lise
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Title: Rendez-vous en noir
Character: La fiancée
Released: February 24, 1977
Type: TV
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The Best Way to Walk
Title: The Best Way to Walk
Character: Chantal
Released: March 3, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, and from now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Title: Let Joy Reign Supreme
Character: Emilie
Released: March 23, 1975
Type: Movie
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Black Thursday
Title: Black Thursday
Character: Jeanne
Released: August 28, 1974
Type: Movie
In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Title: The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Character: Liliane Torrini, companion of Bernard
Released: January 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought .