Ginette Garcin

Ginette Garcin

Born: January 4, 1928
Died: June 10, 2010
in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Ginette Garcin (4 January 1928 – 10 June 2010) was a French actress of stage, film and television.

She lived in Audresselles, Pas-de-Calais. Ginette Garcin made her musical debut with Jacques Hélian and his orchestra in 1946. She then worked with Loulou Gasté and went on to appear in Strélesky's absurdist theatre revues in Rouen. Her portrayal of Charlot to the music of Deux petits chaussons was very well received. She collaborated with Colette Vudal (who later adopted the name Colette Monroy in Paris), Mona Monick and Robert Thomas, author of some successful detective plays.

Garcin was one of the first to perform and record the songs of Boby Lapointe and Jean Yanne in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she embarked on a career in film and theatre, with guidance from Audiard, Lelouch, Yanne, Boisset and Tacchella. She appeared in the television series Marc et Sophie. In 1990, she wrote the critically acclaimed Le clan des veuves in which she starred alongside Jackie Sardou for four years. In 1997, she had an acting and singing role in Le passe-muraille, a musical comedy by Marcel Aymé with Didier van Cauwelaert and Michel Legrand.

In her final decade, Ginette Garcin played a character in the television series Famille d'accueil as well as appearing in the films La Beuze and Les Dalton. A new version of Le clan des veuves was staged at the Bouffes-Parisiens theatre in 2006.

Also in her later years she appeared in Raphaël Mezrahi's play, Monique est demandée en caisse 12.

She died on 10 June 2010 at age 82 of breast cancer.

Source: Article "Ginette Garcin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Lea
Title: Lea
Character: the grandmother
Released: July 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Léa lives in Le Havre, where she attends college whilst taking care of her elderly grandmother. To make ends meet, she works as a waitress in a night club. Her admittance to the Institute of Political Studies in Paris offers her new opportunities, but at a high price. Léa finds work as a striptease artist, so that each evening she can put into practice the theory of economic liberalism which she learns by day...
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Famille Décomposée
Title: Famille Décomposée
Character: Noisette
Released: October 21, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Invisible Woman
Title: The Invisible Woman
Character: Mamita
Released: July 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Once assuming people ignored her because they weren't interested, Lili begins to suspect that she might be literally invisible.
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Title: Camping paradis
Character: Geneviève
Released: November 22, 2006
Type: TV
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Concours de danse à Piriac
Title: Concours de danse à Piriac
Character: La mamie de Marc
Released: July 29, 2006
Type: Movie
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Terre de sang
Title: Terre de sang
Released: March 9, 2005
Type: Movie
In the 50's, the count Grandvalet lose his wife and his daughter in his castle's fire. A few days later, he's found in his barn. Twenty six years later, the arrival of a young woman, Marion Grandvaler, in the village revive doubts and suspicions.
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Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Title: Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Character: Ma James
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history...
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The Dope
Title: The Dope
Character: Madame Batin
Released: February 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.
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Title: Famille d'accueil
Character: Jeanne Ferrière
Released: December 15, 2001
Type: TV
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Transfixed
Title: Transfixed
Character: Louisette Vincent
Released: August 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.
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Second life
Title: Second life
Character: Henriette
Released: October 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend, should he start a business with his friend, what color should he buy shoes for? Life for him is an eternal dilemma. But one day, fate made a choice for him. Vansan crashes into an advertising post by car and makes a leap in time for 16 years in advance. Now at about forty, he heads a large corporation, is married to a woman with whom he is barely familiar, has a teenage son who is constantly bold to him, and an early-ripened daughter. And he has absolutely no idea what to do with all this. Realizing that he has become everything that he always despised, Vansan is desperate to go back and make the right choice. But can he turn back the clock? ..
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Les Petites Bonnes
Title: Les Petites Bonnes
Character: Germaine
Released: November 11, 1997
Type: Movie
Two young maids, in the service of respectable bourgeois, devise various schemes to improve their lot.
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Title: Dans un grand vent de fleurs
Character: Honorade Beauval
Released: September 16, 1996
Type: TV
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Les Bidochon
Title: Les Bidochon
Character: Mme Bordel
Released: July 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate.
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My Man
Title: My Man
Character: Woman in Shawl
Released: January 31, 1996
Type: Movie
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
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Oui
Title: Oui
Character: The bilboquet player
Released: November 15, 1995
Type: Movie
The crossroads of three characters: an old doctor with a general view of the world, a mother having difficulties in recovering her baby that she abandoned, and finally her young sister, a high school runaway in the heart of the problems of the suburbs. All three will meet around the Platonic tripartition, taken up by Paul Valéry: "To know... To be able... To want... Here is the triple key".
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L'homme de ma vie
Title: L'homme de ma vie
Character: Arlette
Released: June 3, 1992
Type: Movie
A delightfully classic French comedy of high sophistication and light hearted wit, that in the end suffers for it. This is immensely watchable simply for the presence of Maria De Medeiros, the central two of the film are captivating. What spoils it is the stereotypical and under developed second characters and an overly wistful outlook. But I defy any man watching this film not to fall madly for Aimee and everyone will cherish the scenes between Aimee and Maurice.
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Crimes et jardins
Title: Crimes et jardins
Character: Ida
Released: October 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Suzanne is a former singer but also a seductress in her sixties. During a reunion meal with the former musicians of the orchestra that accompanied her on her tours, the young men in love with the lady all hope to seduce her. All except one, who mysteriously finds death in the elevator, hanging by his tie. A hecatomb among the suitors begins. An employee of the morgue decides to launch a personal investigation.
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Title: Stars 90
Character: self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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La bonne adresse
Title: La bonne adresse
Character: Zézette
Released: February 5, 1990
Type: Movie
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Rouget le braconnier
Title: Rouget le braconnier
Character: la mère Potard
Released: May 31, 1989
Type: Movie
The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman who loved him, he is arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne.
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Le Clan des Veuves
Title: Le Clan des Veuves
Character: Rose, widow Stehlman
Released: May 13, 1989
Type: Movie
The Widows' Clan is a play written by Ginette Garcin, premiered in 1989 at the Théâtre Municipal de Charenton and repeated in 1990 at the Théâtre Fontaine. It will be recorded for television and broadcast on Antenna 2 in 1992. Jacky and Marcelle, already widows for several years, console Rose whose husband has just died in the toilet: he has been flushed on the head. All three form the clan of widows and tell each other, in spicy secrets, their past couple life. Rose soon learns of the existence of Mireille, the mistress of her late husband, and of her two daughters Jeanne and Jeanine. All these little people obviously come to claim their share of inheritance. Rose goes from surprise to surprise, supported with humor by her two friends, until the final scene where the doorbell rings: a little boy (voiceover) brings back a pair of gloves found in the street, Rose asks her name , his name is Jacques Stelman, like her late husband!
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Title: Marc et Sophie
Character: la belle-mère
Released: September 5, 1987
Type: TV
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Bandits
Title: Bandits
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1987
Type: Movie
On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?
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Un garçon de France
Title: Un garçon de France
Character: Mrs. Longin
Released: June 6, 1985
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Paris in 1959, with a flashback. A teenager in search of a mother he has never known enters manhood and discovers love.
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Going and Coming Back
Title: Going and Coming Back
Character: La domestique du curé
Released: March 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
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Emilie Jolie
Title: Emilie Jolie
Character: l'horloge
Released: February 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Little Emilie Jolie is alone one evening. To cheer him up, the characters in his picture book invite him to join them. She then enters the marvelous world of dreams and meets various characters: the blue rabbits, the big bird, the ostrich, the witch, the umbrella whales, the hedgehog, the clock, the extra-terrestrial, the pebble, the rooster and the donkey, the flower, the wolf and the raccoon. Throughout this journey, Emilie sets off, with the help of the storyteller, in search of Prince Charming who will be able to transform the witch into a princess.
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Slices of Life
Title: Slices of Life
Character: La mère de Béatrice
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
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American Dreamer
Title: American Dreamer
Character: Nurse
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.
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Our Story
Title: Our Story
Character: The florist
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...
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Title: La Chance aux chansons
Character: Self
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: Lace
Character: Madame Chardin
Released: February 26, 1984
Type: TV
A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.
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Edith and Marcel
Title: Edith and Marcel
Character: Guite
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Bolero: Dance of Life
Title: Bolero: Dance of Life
Character: Ginette
Released: May 27, 1981
Type: Movie
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
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Charles and Lucie
Title: Charles and Lucie
Character: Lucie
Released: September 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.
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La Grâce
Title: La Grâce
Character: Marianne Huchemin
Released: April 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Duperrier, a model of piety, justice and charity, wakes up one day with a halo over his head, to the great despair of his wife who fears the gossip of the neighborhood. He's obliged to do everything possible to lose this gift from heaven.
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Pierrot mon ami
Title: Pierrot mon ami
Character: Madame Pradonet
Released: February 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.
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Ne pleure pas
Title: Ne pleure pas
Character: Mme Lafarge
Released: March 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thomas has a soul of justice. Thus, returning home with Marc after a fight, he hits a little thug who has just robbed an old lady.
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L'Exercice du pouvoir
Title: L'Exercice du pouvoir
Character: Madame Sartène
Released: March 8, 1978
Type: Movie
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
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Blue Country
Title: Blue Country
Character: Zoé
Released: February 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Brigitte Fossey stars as a repressed young nurse who hopes that moving from the city to the country will open up new vistas in her life (thereby reversing the usual country-to-city route of most movie heroines!) She meets and falls in love with bachelor Jacques Serre, likewise a free spirit. Though Fossey and Serre are attracted to one another, both value their freedom too much to make a firm commitment. As they draw closer, the twosome compare their own lifestyles with those of the colorful country folk all around them.
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Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Title: Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Character: Méline #1
Released: November 4, 1976
Type: Movie
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Forget Me, Mandoline
Title: Forget Me, Mandoline
Released: March 3, 1976
Type: Movie
The young and charming Mandoline, accountant of the advertising agency Publi-Pub, has stolen documents proving that the company kept double accounts. Remorseful when she wanted to pass this evidence to a tax inspector, she decides to put the documents back in the agency's safe, but does not really know how to go about it. Her friend Marie-Charlotte, a transvestite, helps him find a young safe-drilling man in his condition, who will help him open the safe - but of course, the matter is not so simple.
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The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
Title: The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
Character: Dame Barde (voix)
Released: January 21, 1976
Type: Movie
The evil knight Torchesac, who is at the service of the sinister lord of La Mortaille, gets a very powerful magic flute and uses it for evil purposes. Johan and Pirlouit, assisted by the magician Homnibus, travel to the land of the Smurfs, the only manufacturers of this sort of instrument, to get a new one and battle the usurpers.
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Cousin, Cousine
Title: Cousin, Cousine
Character: Bijou
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
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The Common Man
Title: The Common Man
Character: Ginette Lajoie
Released: February 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...
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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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How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Title: How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Character: L'infirmière chef
Released: June 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the less exciting guys on Earth.
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Par ici la monnaie
Title: Par ici la monnaie
Character: Fernande
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate.
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Juliette et Juliette
Title: Juliette et Juliette
Character: Mlle Quiblier
Released: February 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Juliette Vidal is a journalist in Paris who works for the glamorous magazine "Pénélope". Uninspired, she decides to take an interest in the life of a department store saleswoman Juliette Rozenec.
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The Hostage Gang
Title: The Hostage Gang
Character: Ginette Bertheau
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Barely out of the psychiatric hospital where he went to seek care, Gilbert Nodier commits several assaults to have some money.
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Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Title: Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Character: Ginette
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Dismissed following an unfortunate initiative, financial advisor Benoît Lepape decides to work for his uncle, a union activist. His capitalist methods will surprise at first, but quickly bring in a lot of money.
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Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Title: Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Character: La script chanteuse
Released: May 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Killer
Title: Killer
Character: Lulu
Released: March 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.
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The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Title: The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Victor, grocer and tyrannical boss, never stops telling his family about his seafaring past, although they never believe him. When his nephew wins a model-boat contest and is commissioned to build a full-scale boat, Victor tries to make his mark.
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Musique en tête
Title: Musique en tête
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Jacques Hélian, an attractive charm singer, too stifled by the jealousy of the radio director's niece, flees with his orchestra, on the advice of his secretary Bob. They fail in a small village, where there is a boarding school for young girls. Bob responds to the love letters the teacher sends to the handsome singer.
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Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Title: Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Character: Self
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques Hélian's lively Big Band the venue does not attract people anymore. Nightclub patrons now prefer the jazz cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Taking this new taste into account, the staff of the "Tambourin" and Jacques Hélian decide to set up their own club, "La Pivoine Ecarlate". They are joined by Pâquerette, a flower vendor and amateur singer, and by Jean-Pierre Francis, an existentialist poet...