Roger Planchon

Roger Planchon

Born: September 12, 1931
Died: May 12, 2009
in Saint-Chamond, Loire, France
Roger Planchon (born 12 September 1931 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, died on 12 May 2009 in Paris), was a French playwright, director, and filmmaker.

Roger Planchon spent his childhood in the Ardèche, notably in Dornas. He found its inspiration from his rural origins and this issue was a recurring theme in his writings.

He started on stage in 1949 after winning an amateur theater. In 1952, he founded the Théâtre de la Comédie, located in the rue des Marronniers, in Lyon. He was the director of the Théâtre de la Cité of Villeurbanne since 1957 (which became the Théâtre National Populaire in 1972).

Roger Planchon transposed many works by Brecht, Molière, Shakespeare, and many works of contemporary authors, including Arthur Adamov and Michel Vinaver, but also opened the Théâtre National Populaire to Patrice Chéreau, then Georges Lavaudant.

As films, he directed George Dandin ou le Mari confondu by Molière, Louis, enfant roi, which was entered at Cannes, and another one by Lautrec.

In 2002, Christian Schiaretti succeeded him as director of the TNP; he created his own company with which he continued to write and direct until his death.

He died on 12 May 2009 after a heart attack, he is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery (22nd division).

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

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Celluloid and Marble
Title: Celluloid and Marble
Character: Self
Released: June 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Celluloid and Marble is based on Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma", discussing film in relation to the other arts, maintaining that, in an age of cultural self-consciousness, cinema was “the last refuge of poetry” - the only contemporary art form from which metaphor could still spring naturally and spontaneously.
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Leclerc, un rêve d'Indochine
Title: Leclerc, un rêve d'Indochine
Released: July 14, 2003
Type: Movie
In Hanoi, a French couple who had come to adopt a baby met Maï, an old woman who had a love affair with a French officer in 1945. She tells how, sent by de Gaulle to restore order, Leclerc negotiates with Ho Chi Minh, against the advice of d'Argenlieu, the high commissioner.
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La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Title: La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1996
Type: Movie
La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)
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The Year of Awakening
Title: The Year of Awakening
Character: Le Capitaine
Released: April 16, 1991
Type: Movie
A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.
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Jean Galmot, aventurier
Title: Jean Galmot, aventurier
Character: Castellane
Released: October 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people.
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Radio corbeau
Title: Radio corbeau
Character: M. Faber, le maire
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
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Camille Claudel
Title: Camille Claudel
Character: Morhardt
Released: December 7, 1988
Type: Movie
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
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The Seventh Target
Title: The Seventh Target
Character: Le commissaire Paillard
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
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A Strange Passion
Title: A Strange Passion
Character: L'évêque
Released: November 21, 1984
Type: Movie
French film based on the story Der Findling by german author Heinrich von Kleist.
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Danton
Title: Danton
Released: January 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
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The Big Brother
Title: The Big Brother
Character: Inspecteur Valin
Released: September 8, 1982
Type: Movie
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
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The Return of Martin Guerre
Title: The Return of Martin Guerre
Character: Jean de Coras
Released: May 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
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I... For Icarus
Title: I... For Icarus
Character: David Naggara
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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Molière
Title: Molière
Character: Colbert
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
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Dossier 51
Title: Dossier 51
Character: Esculape 1
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.
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Roads to the South
Title: Roads to the South
Character: Parisian Attorney-at-law
Released: April 28, 1978
Type: Movie
France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)
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The Others
Title: The Others
Character: Alexis Artaxerxès
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Spinoza, attempting to discover why his son committed suicide, meets his girlfriend and his rival for her affections.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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A Man Escaped
Title: A Man Escaped
Character: Guard on a Bike
Released: November 11, 1956
Type: Movie
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.