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Tag Archives: Nicole Courcel
Stop Train 349 (1963) Rolf Hädrich, José Ferrer
At the height of the Cold War, an East German refugee slips aboard an American military Read More »
Gigolo / Gibier de potence (1951) Roger Richebé, Arletty, Georges Marchal, Nicole Courcel
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers Read More »
Marie of the Port / La Marie du Port (1950) Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel
Henri Chatelard is well in his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city Read More »
The Crossing of the Rhine (1960) André Cayatte, Charles Aznavour, Nicole Courcel, Georges Rivière
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers. Read More »
Le cas du Docteur Laurent (1957) Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort
A not-so-young doctor tries to explain to women of the fifties(in a small village in the mountain) that painless childbirth is possible Read More »
Rendezvous in July (1949) Jacques Becker, Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Auber, Nicole Courcel
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians. Read More »
La sorcière / The Sorceress (1956) André Michel, Marina Vlady, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Courcel, Drama
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to “civilization”, but ends up getting her killed by superstitious villagers instead.
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Les dimanches de Ville d’Avray / Sundays and Cybele (1962) Serge Bourguignon
After killing a child on a routine bombing mission in Vietnam, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a young girl who has been dumped by her father at a boarding school. Posing as her father, Pierre contrives to meet the girl every Sunday, to play with her and perhaps recover his memory. The innocent friendship is misread by nearly everyone, even people who know Pierre well.
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