Roger Karl

Roger Karl

Born: April 29, 1882
Died: May 4, 1984
in Bourges, Cher, France

Movies for Roger Karl...

The Lion's Share
Title: The Lion's Share
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
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The Star Ship
Title: The Star Ship
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
Onboard a spaceship sailing into infinity, generations of travelers are subject to dictatorial rules imposed by the central computer "Psycho." Recruited as a new police officer, Eddy Burns will discover the terrifying secrets behind this flawless system.
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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Released: November 7, 1962
Type: Movie
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
Title: The Case of Dr. Laurent
Character: Docteur Guillot
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
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Tourbillon
Title: Tourbillon
Character: Un truand
Released: October 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Taking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfairly accused.
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Rumors
Title: Rumors
Character: Le patron
Released: March 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Jean is a good man who has a steady job (he is a mechanic in the village garage) and a companion named Aline. But Jean is also a guzzler and a philanderer. As a result, when a local prostitute is killed in the surroundings, he becomes at once the victim of rumor...
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The Faceless Enemy
Title: The Faceless Enemy
Character: Le professeur Artus
Released: November 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is entrusted with a death row inmate. The professor is soon found murdered. It is Inspector Wens, helped by a journalist, who must solve the case. Franck Villard in the role of Wens succeeds Fresnay.
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Special Mission
Title: Special Mission
Character: Roeckel alias Poldermann
Released: March 8, 1946
Type: Movie
The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
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Angel and Sinner
Title: Angel and Sinner
Released: October 17, 1945
Type: Movie
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
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Life of Pleasure
Title: Life of Pleasure
Character: Maître Gaëtan de Merly
Released: May 16, 1944
Type: Movie
An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
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Mahlia the Mestiza
Title: Mahlia the Mestiza
Released: December 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de Roussière. Their son, Henri, would like to marry her but they are against it. Mahlia flees and Henri is killed for trying to protect her. The young girl enters the Mission to raise children there in the love of France.
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Secrets of a Ballerina
Title: Secrets of a Ballerina
Character: The Marquis de La Noue
Released: November 25, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Title: Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Character: Pénoux-Rataud
Released: April 8, 1943
Type: Movie
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
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The White Truck
Title: The White Truck
Character: Acho
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.
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Le valet maître
Title: Le valet maître
Released: October 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank. Others, like Gustave Morillon, are... born masters, even if, like him, they are valets. Morillon will indeed prove better at bridge than his master and will eventually win the affection of Antonia, a lively foreigner Ravier also coveted.
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My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Title: My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Character: Le colonel
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.
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Cas de conscience
Title: Cas de conscience
Released: May 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A doctor passionate about research leaves an uncle with an inheritance to die, knowing that he is the legatee. His work succeeds, but overcome by remorse, the doctor tries to commit suicide. He is saved thanks to the understanding of his wife and they both leave for the East to do research on leprosy.
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La Belle Revanche
Title: La Belle Revanche
Character: Édouard Guillemin
Released: May 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in driving away the one she loves. The young woman regains a taste for life thanks to her work and her friends.
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Fort Dolorès
Title: Fort Dolorès
Character: Dom Ramirez de Avila
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.
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Le joueur
Title: Le joueur
Character: Le général Kiriloff
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love.
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Tarakanawa
Title: Tarakanawa
Character: le prince Radziwill
Released: March 23, 1938
Type: Movie
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Princess Tarakanova
Title: Princess Tarakanova
Character: Prince Radziwill
Released: March 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
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Le Tigre du Bengale
Title: Le Tigre du Bengale
Released: March 9, 1938
Type: Movie
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In Venice, One Night
Title: In Venice, One Night
Character: Mortal, Nadia's husband
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Mortal is ready to do anything to obtain a divorce from his wife Nadia. To compromise her, he needs to find her a lover. He thinks he has found the ideal candidate in the person of a manly private detective by the name of Robert Arnaud. But the experience gets out of Mortal's control as, on the one hand, Robert and Nadia fall in love for good, and, on the other hand, Robert, assisted by resourceful young Toto, manages to expose Mortal as the jewel thief he is.
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La Bête aux sept manteaux
Title: La Bête aux sept manteaux
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
An English gentleman himself causes his own burglary to better suppress the formidable gang which, after having murdered his brother, is now attacking his fortune.
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A Man to Kill
Title: A Man to Kill
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.
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Quand minuit sonnera
Title: Quand minuit sonnera
Character: Rouque
Released: November 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A criminal is being blackmailed by his former accomplices. He does everything in his power to gain time because the statutory limitation for the crime he committed starts at midnight.
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In the Service of the Tsar
Title: In the Service of the Tsar
Character: Grand Duke Pierre
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.
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The Phantom Gondola
Title: The Phantom Gondola
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A femme fatale falls in love with a Venetian count, implacable enemy of Selim, who pursues his sister with his diligence. This one makes stop and condemn to death the count who made an attempt on his life. Then he offers the woman her father's salvation in exchange for her favors. A snake kills him, the count is shot and the woman finally takes the veil.
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Under Western Eyes
Title: Under Western Eyes
Character: Le Ministre
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.
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The Golem
Title: The Golem
Character: Le chancelier Lang
Released: February 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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Lucrezia Borgia
Title: Lucrezia Borgia
Character: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
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Un homme de trop à bord
Title: Un homme de trop à bord
Character: Petersen
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
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Mysteries of Paris
Title: Mysteries of Paris
Character: Le grand-duc de Gérolstein
Released: October 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.
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Le diable en bouteille
Title: Le diable en bouteille
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
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Le Miroir aux alouettes
Title: Le Miroir aux alouettes
Character: The owner Dekalf
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings together a courageous young girl and a young risk-taker who succeeds in thwarting a series of long-planned crimes.
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Barcarolle
Title: Barcarolle
Character: Alfredo Zubaran
Released: March 26, 1935
Type: Movie
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Le Prince Jean
Title: Le Prince Jean
Character: Count of Wavre
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Following a quarrel with his father, Prince Jean joined the Foreign Legion. When he returns, he finds his brother who, on the king's death, usurped his title, and the woman he loved, betrothed to another. Helped by a very rich and philosophical old uncle, Jean, disgusted with classes and politics, flees with the young woman.
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Moscow Nights
Title: Moscow Nights
Released: November 21, 1934
Type: Movie
During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
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L'or
Title: L'or
Character: John Wills
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
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Un certain monsieur Grant
Title: Un certain monsieur Grant
Character: Tchernikoff
Released: August 12, 1933
Type: Movie
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Le cas du docteur Brenner
Title: Le cas du docteur Brenner
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
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Fantômas
Title: Fantômas
Character: Le président Jean-Marie Bonnet - un magistrat
Released: May 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the Marquise during the night. Inspector Juve is sent on his trail.
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Cagliostro
Title: Cagliostro
Released: April 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
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L'Argent
Title: L'Argent
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
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Misdeal
Title: Misdeal
Character: Lévigné père
Released: September 14, 1928
Type: Movie
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
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Little Devil May Care
Title: Little Devil May Care
Character: Le père Leherg - le père de Delphin
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies, she feels guilty and takes Delphin under her wing.
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Le Vertige
Title: Le Vertige
Character: Le général Svirsky - le mari jaloux de Natacha
Released: July 5, 1926
Type: Movie
The film opens with the overthrow of the Czar during the 1917 Russian revolution. The family of General Count Svirsky (Roger Karl) cower in their home, certain that the mobs of angry peasants will tear them apart. But even in this moment of crisis, Svirsky can find time to murder the young officer who has been having an affair with Countess Svirska (Emmy Lynn). The Countess knows what has happened, but she loyally remains with her husband as they escape to the safety of the French Riviera. It is here that the Countess meets Henri de Cassel (Jaque Catelain), the “living image” of her dead lover.
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The Drop Of Blood
Title: The Drop Of Blood
Character: Justin Chenevat
Released: September 26, 1924
Type: Movie
The film, shot in Nice, was started by Jean Epstein, and the editing finished by Maurice Mariaud, who had just shot The Adventurer
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The Woman from Nowhere
Title: The Woman from Nowhere
Character: Le mari
Released: July 26, 1922
Type: Movie
A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier memories. She meets a young woman, the daughter of the current owners of the property, who is on the point of abandoning her home – just as she did, all those years ago...
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The Jade Casket
Title: The Jade Casket
Released: November 18, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Man of the Sea
Title: The Man of the Sea
Character: Nolff
Released: December 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns.
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The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
Title: The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
Released: May 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Drama in which the love between Claude and Germaine is tested when Claude is falsely accused and Germaine's father doesn't approve of their relationship.