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Classic Catalogue

SOCIÉTÉ NOUVELLE DE CINÉMATOGRAPHIE SNC (Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie) is proud to present its Classic Catalogue.

The following pages open on exciting highlights, which are only a tiny sampling of the overall Classic Catalogue. With four hundred titles to choose from and spanning six decades of European cinema, our Classic Catalogue is a particularly rich and diverse source of programming inspiration.

The Classic Catalogue offers a vast panorama of film genres – French poetic realism of the 1930’s, super-productions of the 40’s, neo realism of the post-war 50’s, new Italian cinema of the 60’s and 70’s, etc ... It boasts the contributions of remarkable European talent from a myriad of directors, showcases first-class writers and technicians and is studded with an array of stellar actors.

This Catalogue is perfectly suited for designing thematic evenings or inviting audiences to rediscover timeless classics.

Whether choosing black and white or colour films, drama, fantasy or comedy the SNC Classic Catalogue - covering nearly half the Century, from ’Marie Chapdelaine’ (1934) to ’L’Eté Meurtrier’ (1983) – has something for everyone in a flickering of pirates, cowboys, princesses, monsters, villains and rascals which dazzles the eyes and tickles the imagination.

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Introduction

Highlights of the 30’s 2

Highlights of the 4 40’s

Highlights of the 50’s 8

Highlights of the 10 60’s

Highlights of the 70’s 14

Index of actors 18

Index of directors 20 2 3

1930 -39 La bandera

Jean Gabin is unforgettable as a French Legionnaire relentlessly pursued English title: Escape From Yesterday by his criminal past – and a fellow-soldier who seems to know a little too Genre: Drama /Adventure much about it... Director: Julien Duvivier Sent to the deadly Main Cast: frontline, the two men come to terms with Robert le Vigan their courage in the Raymond Aimos face of danger. Pierre Renoir A timeless study of Image: Black & White men at war set in the Year of production: 1935 troubling exotic sur- Duration: 100 min. roundings of colonial Country of origin: Morocco.

Dernière jeunesse

Genre: Drama Director: Jeff Musso Main Cast: Raimu is imposing as Jacqueline Delubac Colonel Georges who saves Pierre Brasseur a fragile young girl from Félicien Tramel a miserable existence and Image: Black & White falls deeply in love with Year of production: 1939 her. She is very grateful Duration: 88 min. but her feelings toward the Colonel are strictly platonic. When she Country of origin: France goes out with another man, the Colonel explodes with deadly rage.

Maria Chapdelaine

Canadian lass Maria Chapdelaine English title: The Naked Heart () is torn between Genre: Drama /Romance two suitors, an aristocrat (Jean- Director: Julien Duvivier Pierre Aumont) and a rugged Main Cast: Madeleine Renaud lumberjack (Jean Gabin) in a Jean - Pierre Aumont beautifully shot 19th Century André Bacqué romantic triangle. Voted Best Suzanne Desprès French Film of 1935, Julien Jean Gabin Duvivier’s film of poetic Image: Black & White realism hasn’t lost its Year of production: 1934 charm over the years. Duration: 75 min. Country of origin: France English title: The Phantom Carriage

Genre: Drama /Fantasy

Director: Julien Duvivier

Main Cast: Pierre Fresnay Louis Jouvet Micheline Francey Robert le Vigan

Image: Black & White

Year of production: 1939

Duration: 93 min.

Country of origin: France

La charrette fantôme

The creaking wheels of the phantom carriage is remarkable as hard-drinking tough guy, David, ridden by Death himself - and driven by the hap- whose buddy Georges (equally remarkable Louis less man who dies at the stroke of midnight on Jouvet) haunts his nights as the ghostly carriage New Year’s eve - provide the sinister backdrop driver. A woman from the Salvation Army will try for this rare French fantasy film. Pierre Fresnay to save David from the fate of his friend. English title:

Genre: Fantasy/Romance

Director:

Main Cast: Jean Marais Josette Day Marcel André Mila Parely Nane Germon Michel Auclair

Image: Black & White

Year of production: 1945

Duration: 100 min.

Country of origin: France

La belle et la bête

Cocteau’s hauntingly beautiful version of the light. Jean Marais as the Beast is at once terri- well-known tale of Beauty who saves her father fying, erotic and meltingly tender beneath his by promising to live with the Beast, is a master- ferocious mask and Josette Day is lovely as piece of French cinema. Photographer Henri Beauty braving the mysterious candelabra-lit Alekan’s magical camera polishes this lovely corridors of the Beast’s castle… tale with a Vermeer-like sheen of poetry and 4 5

1940-49 Lumière d’été

Genre: Drama In the back country of Provence, the seductive Cri-Cri has Director: Jean Grémillon left her life as a dancer behind to run a little inn perched Main Cast: Madeleine Renaud on the hillside not far from the castle of her lover, an Pierre Brasseur indolent Lord. An alcoholic artist Madeleine Robinson and his attractive girlfriend arrive Paul Bernard at the inn, igniting deception and Image: Black & White jealousy. Passions flare and erupt Year of production: 1942 at a costume ball as the disguised Duration: 108 min. characters track each other down. Country of origin: France Jean Grémillion’s baroque film, scripted by Jacques Prévert, bril- liantly contrasts a world of idleness, alienation and self-indulgence with one of promise and honesty.

L’éternel retour

A dramatic update of the Tristan English title: Love Eternal and Isolde legend, scripted by Genre: Drama /Romance Jean Cocteau, under the watch- Director: ful eyes of the German Censor. Main Cast: Madeleine Sologne The quality of the legend is Jean Marais beautifully captured by the mar- Jean Murat vellously photogenic star-crossed Alexandre Rignault lovers, with Tristan modernised Yvonne de Bray as Patrick (Jean Marais) and Image: Black & White Isolde as Nathalie (Madeleine Year of production: 1943 Solonge). Duration: 115 min. Country of origin: France

Les visiteurs du soir

English title: The Devil’s Envoys Director Marcel Carné and scriptwriter Jacques Prévert trans- Genre: Fantasy port poetic realism into a surrealistic medieval ballad. Director: Marcel Carné Arletty and Alain Cluny play the mysterious strangers who Main Cast: Arletty are meant to disrupt the celebration held in honour of the Jules Berry engagement of the Lord’s daughter to a Knight. But Alain Cuny hearts are twisted and the Devil’s own emissary Fernand Ledoux falls in love with the young maiden. The Devil Marie Déa himself, delightfully incarnated by Jules Berry, Marcel Herrand cannot thwart the young lovers and furiously Image: Black & White turns them into stone. The hearts of the Year of production: 1942 young lovers continuing to beat even Duration: 120 min. after they have been transformed Country of origin: France into stony statues have come to symbolise the French Resistance movement. 6 7

1940-49 La chartreuse de Parme

Stendhal’s story is revisited on Genre: Drama/Romance film by Pierre Very’s script and Director: Christian-Jacque Christian-Jaque’s direction. Main Cast: Gérard Philipe A sumptuous tale of impenitent Renée Faure love and courtly intrigue with the Maria Casarès unforgettable Gérard Philipe Louis Salou (Fabrice del Dongo) returning to Lucien Coëdel his hometown and dangerously Image: Black & White becoming the object of luminous, Year of production: 1946 raven-haired beauty Maria Casarès’ Duration: 170 min. desire. Country of origin: France/Italy

Les chouans

Genre: Drama /Romance During the tempestuous Director: Henri Calef French Revolution, the Main Cast: Jean Marais Marquis of Montauran Madeleine Robinson arrives in Brittany to Marcel Herrand lead an uprising of the Pierre Dux local royalist forces, the Jacques Charron Chouans. The dashing Marquis (Jean Marais) meets with resistance Image: Black & White but is joined by the lovely Republican spy, Marie de Verneuil Year of production: 1946 (Madeleine Robinson). A swashbuckling version of Balzac’s novel Duration: 92 min. of romance, revolution and betrayal. Country of origin: France Histoire de chanter

The marvellous voice of tenor Gino Fabretti (Luis Mariano) Genre: Comedy/Romance seduces every woman who hears it – including a famous Director: surgeon’s wife. The good doctor decides to take matters Main Cast: Luis Mariano into his own hands and surgically Arlette Merry switches the singer’s vocal Julien Carette cords with those of a fast- Noël Roquevert talking delivery boy. But the Image: Black & White plan backfires when his wife Year of production: 1946 falls for the silver-voiced Duration: 95 min. delivery boy! Country of origin: France A delirious comedy, one of a kind in French cinema, and crooner Luis Mariano’s first on-screen role.

In Jean Cocteau’s screen adaptation Genre: Drama of ’s romantic drama, Jean Director: Pierre Billon Marais stars in a double role, both as Main Cast: Ruy Blas, the poor young student deeply Jean Marais in love with the Queen of Spain and Marcel Herrand the man he strangely resembles, Don Gabrielle Dorziat Cesare de Bazin. Because of this un- Image: Black & White canny physical similarity, an unscru- Year of production: 1947 pulous chief of police engages Ruy Blas Duration: 93 min. in order to manipulate the Queen, but Country of origin: France he underestimates Ruy Blas’ loyalty to his Monarch and will pay the price of betrayal with his own life.

Bagarres

English title: The Wench Genre: Drama Director: Henri Calef The beautiful young Carmelle Main Cast: Maria Casarès works as a maid on a pros- Roger Pigaut perous farm. Jacques, the man Jean Murat Carmelle loves, convinces her Jean Vilar to seduce her rich employer Mouloudji in order to inherit his wealth. Orane Demazis But when the rich landowner Image: Black & White makes Carmelle his heir, Jacques Year of production: 1948 leaves her for another woman Duration: 95 min. and Carmelle becomes easy prey for the local men until the handsome Antoine arrives. Country of origin: France A convincing portrait of greed and moral turpitude in a rural setting.

Orphée

English title: Genre: Fantasy/Drama Jean Cocteau updates a classic Director: Jean Cocteau to a compelling modern allegory. Main Cast: Jean Marais Jean Marais is Orpheus, a poet Marie Déa in search of inspiration. Marie Maria Casarès Déa is radiant as Eurydice. Maria François Périer Casarès is Death, the imperious Juliette Gréco and seductive princess, whose Image: Black & White glove-clad hand ripples though a Year of production: 1949 mirror, leading Orpheus to another Duration: 112 min. world. Country of origin: France 8 9

1950 -59 Peccato che sia una canaglia

Paolo, an honest young taxi driver () falls head-over-heels English title: Too Bad She’s Bad in love with the irresistible Lina () and just cannot get that little Genre: Comedy song she sings out of his Director: Alessandro Blasetti head. Little does Paolo Main Cast: Sophia Loren know that her father (the Vittorio de Sica ever-debonair Vittorio de Marcello Mastroianni Sica) is a confirmed thief Memmo Carotenuto and that Lina herself tried Giulio Cali to steal his taxi... Image: Black & White A delightful, sunny comedy Year of production: 1954 graced by the Loren- Duration: 96 min. Mastroianni couple. Country of origin: Italy

Demain nous divorçons

Genre: Comedy Director: Louis Cuny Main Cast: Sophie Desmarets Jean Desailly Colette (Sophie Desmarets) and Max Raphael Patorni (Jean Desailly) are newlyweds whose Jean Gaven days are filled with terrible disputes Denise Grey and jealous rages. They decide to Image: Black & White divorce but when Max leaves, Colette Year of production: 1950 realises that she loves him deeply and Duration: 85 min. sets out to win him back. A charming Country of origin: France and tormented love story.

Un grand patron

The renowned surgeon Professor Delage (Pierre Fresnay) Genre: Drama sacrifices everything – including his family life – for his Director: Yves Ciampi career. His nephew, Jacques, decides to follow his example Main Cast: Pierre Fresnay and become a doctor. The intense reality of medical practice Renee Devillers and its psychological impact initially turn the Jean -Claude Pascal young man away. In the end, his uncle’s Roland Alexandre passion and competence win the young Claire Duhamel man back to his medical studies. Image: Black & White A remarkable portrait of a strong Year of production: 1951 character and the realities of Duration: 95 min. medical practice. Country of origin: France English title: The White Warrior

Genre: Adventure

Main Cast: Riccardo Freda Steve Reeves Georgia Moll Scilla Gabel Renato Baldini Gérard Merter

Image: Color

Year of production: 1959

Duration: 85 min.

Country of origin: Italy / Yougoslavia

Agi murad, il diavolo bianco

A splendid adaptation of Tolstoy’s romantic him the nickname of «the White Devil». Battling fresco complete with sumptuous decors, a beauti- Tsar Nicholas I’s troops, the courageous Cossack ful maiden and charging Cossack horsemen... must also deal with treacherous tribesmen who Steve Reeves stars as the daring rebel Cossack try to steal his beautiful fiancée. warrior whose impeccable white uniform earns 10 11

1960-69 Certo, certissimo, anzi probabile

Marta and Nanda are two English title: Crazy days singles living together - with Genre: Comedy /Romance marriage on their minds. Marta Director: Marcello Fondato Claudia Cardinale meets Piero, who seems to be Main Cast: John Philipp Law the man of her dreams until Robert Hoffman she discovers that she has a Catherine Spaak rival from his past: an American Antonio Sabato who turns up unexpectedly... Image: Color Beautiful Claudia Cardinale Year of production: 1969 infuses her character with per- Duration: 98 min. suasive authenticity and tries Country of origin: Italy to keep cool even when the scintillating dialogue gets hot...

L’Avventuriero

English title: The Rover The year is 1797. On a trip back to Genre: Adventure France from the Antilles with important Director: Terence Young government documents, the buccaneer Main Cast: Anthony Quinn Peyrol (Anthony Quinn) learns that he Rita Hayworth is wanted on suspicion of having stolen Rosanna Schiaffino a shipment of gold. To avoid arrest he Richard Johnson goes into hiding... Image: Color Based on Joseph Conrad’s melancholic Year of production: 1967 novel ”The Rover” and elegantly Duration: 105 min. directed by Young, the film, like its Country of origin: Italy / United Kingdom Morricone soundtrack, has an exquisitely modern sensitivity...

Rogopag

”Rogopag”, a potent cocktail of satire, melodrama and social commentary, is an acronym Genre: Drama /Comedy /Romance for the quartet of world-renowned directors behind this anthology of four short films: Directors: Roberto Rossellini Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini and Gregoretti. Rossellini’s ”Illibatezza” (Virginity) chronicles Jean - Luc Godard an Italian stewardess’s heroic attempts to dissuade an Ugo Gregoretti American passenger... Pasolini’s controversial masterpiece Pier Paolo Pasolini ”La Ricotta” (Curd Cheese) offers an ironic vision of Main Cast: Rosanna Schiaffino the Passion of Christ, starring a monumental Orson Alexandra Stewart Welles as the pretentious director of the Greatest Story Ever told and involving death by indigestion Mario Cipriani on the cross... Also included are: Ugo Tognazzi Godard’s ”Le Nouveau Monde” Image: Black & White (New World) and Gregoretti’s Year of production: 1963 ”Il Pollo Ruspante” (The Range Duration: 92 min. Grown Chicken). Country of origin Italy Accattone

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first film is a vivid, Genre: Drama unsentimental portrait of life in the slums Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini of Rome. When Accatone, a cheap pimp, Main Cast: Franco Citti looses the prostitute who is his chief source Franca Pasut of income he cannot seem to find a replace- Roberto Scaringella ment and tries to lead an honest existence Adele Cambria by finding work of his own. But life in the Paola Guidi ghetto is hard and crime becomes inevitable. Adriana Asti Image: Black & White Year of production: 1961 Duration: 120 min. Country of origin: Italy

La horse

English title: Violent People Wealthy landowner, Genre: Drama /Crime Auguste Maroilleur (Jean Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre Gabin), discovers a pack- Main Cast: Jean Gabin age of heroin in a shack Danièle Ajoret on his land. When he Pierre Dux links the drug dealers to Eléonore Hirt his own grandson he de- Christian Barbier cides not to take matters Image: Color to the police but to deal with the traffickers on his own terms, with his Year of production: 1969 family. Jean Gabin, as the stubborn patriarch who does things his way, Duration: 100 min. powerfully dominates this beautifully written and magnificently shot Country of origin: France/Italy/Germany film for which Serge Gainsbourg provides the musical score.

Les aventuriers

English title: The Last Adventure a.k.a.The Adventurers Genre: Action /Adventure Director: Robert Enrico Main Cast: Joanna Shimkus Roland (Lino Ventura) an inventor, Serge Reggiani Laétitia (Joanna Shimkus) a scrap- Image: Color metal artist and Manu (Alain Delon) Year of production: 1967 a dare-devil pilot find their dreams Duration: 113 min. dissipating in and leave on a Country of origin: France/Italy treasure hunt off the coast of Africa. Robert Enrico’s third feature film is a stunningly shot, poignant vision of friendship and adventure with great acting and a wonderful score by composer, François de Roubaix. 12 13

1960-69 Les amours de Lady Hamilton

Michèle Mercier is «that Hamilton woman», the young farmgirl whose beauty English title: The Making Of A Lady propels her to the heights of London society where she marries Lord Hamilton. a.k.a. Lady Hamilton Travelling with her husband to Naples, Lady Hamilton meets dashing Admiral Genre: Adventure/Romance Nelson and becomes his mistress. A cocktail of passion and historical drama. Director: Christian - Jacque Main Cast: Michèle Mercier Richard Johnson John Mills Image: Color Year of production: 1968 Duration: 100 min. Country of origin: France/Germany/Italy

Les cracks

English title: Those Magnificient Men On Their Pedal Machines Genre: Comedy After some serious experi- Director: Alex Joffè menting, modest inventor Main Cast: Jules Duroc (Bourvil) creates the first modern Monique Tarbès bicycle. Before Duroc can Gianni Bonagura demonstrate his inven- Michel de Rè tion, he is forced to flee a Image: Color relentless debt collector. Year of production: 1968 The clever inventor hides Duration: 110 min. out among the participants in the Paris-San Remo race ... Country of origin: France/Italy An energetic and engaging comedy in the pleasant setting of the Belle Époque.

Ce sacré grand-père

Screen giant Michel Simon is Jericho, a retiree Genre: Comedy/Drama peacefully living in Southern France where Director: Jacques Poitrenaud drinking wine and catching butterflies Main Cast: Michel Simon are his favourite occupations. During Marie Dubois a summer holiday visit from his grand- Yves Lefebvre children who are having marital pro- Serge Gainsbourg blems, Jericho subtly begins to Thalie Fruges occupy his time with pat- Image: Color ching up the young couple, Year of production: 1968 inviting them to savour Duration: 95 min. the beauty of the surro- Country of origin: France unding countryside and to rediscover each other. Gli intoccabili

English title: Machine Gun MacCain a.k.a. The Untouchables Released from jail a.k.a. American Roulette upon the intervention Genre: Thriller of a high-ranking Director: Giuliano Montaldo Mafioso, Hank McCain Main Cast: John Cassavetes gets mixed up in a Britt Ekland plan to rob the Royal Peter Falk Hotel Casino in Las Gabriele Ferzetti Vegas. But the Mafia, Gina Rowlands who owns the casino, Image: Color has other plans and tries to dissuade McCain... A spectacular Italian Year of production: 1969 gangster film with Ennio Morricone’s music setting the pace and Duration: 90 min. starring an international cast. Country of origin: Italy

Le petit bougnat

Genre: Comedy/Drama A 10-year old boy decides to go to summer camp with his friends with- Director: Bernard T. Michel out telling his parents. Things do not quite work out as he planned Main Cast: and he ends up running away with Rose (Isabelle Adjani), an older girl Claude Amazan who is bored with the whole camp experience. Shot during her summer Vincenzo Sartini vacation, this film is Isabelle Adjani’s first on-screen role. Michel Theodon Guy Allombert Image: Color Year of production: 1969 Duration: 95 min. Country of origin: France/Italy

La piscine

Jean-Paul and Marianne spend lazy summer holidays at English title: The Swimming Pool their villa in idyllic Southern France. However, when Harry a.k.a. The Sinners and his attractive young daughter Penelope show up, the Genre: Drama dreamy summer days are suddenly filled with unspoken Director: tension and jealousy. The shimmering swimming Main Cast: Romy Schneider pool becomes the scene of a crime of passion... Alain Delon The atmosphere of false serenity perfectly mastered in this sunlit tragedy brought inter- Jane Birkin national recognition to director Jacques Paul Crauchet Deray and reunited former Schneider- Image: Color Delon couple on screen with un- Year of production: 1968 deniably electric results. Duration: 113 min. Country of origin: France/Italy 14 15

1970-85 Medea

Genre: Drama Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini electri- Main Cast: Maria Callas fies the myth of Medea Laurent Terzieff (seduced and betrayed by Massimo Girotti Jason, she takes drastic Giuseppe Gentile measures to extract her Image: Color revenge) with a mixture Year of production: 1970 of ritual theatre and social Duration: 110 min. anthropology. Maria Callas Country of origin: Italy/Germany/France is fascinating in the title role, giving a profoundly expressive performance as the deranged sorceress. A splendid psychological study in which Pasolini’s camera is as eloquent as Maria Callas’s face.

Le mur de l’Atlantique

English title: The Atlantic Wall Marcel Camus’ gentle por- a.k.a.Wall Of The Atlantic trait of mild-mannered Genre: Comedy Léon (Bourvil), an innkeeper Director: Marcel Camus in Normandy who manages Main Cast: Bourvil to stay clear of any political Sophie Desmarets activity during the German Peter McEnery Occupation until a British Jean Poiret aviator shows up at his inn. Sara Franchetti Léon’s daughter falls in love Image: Color with the British pilot and, Year of production: 1970 just to complicate things, Duration: 110 min. Léon finds himself caught up in a plot to assassinate Rommel! Country of origin: France/Italy Inspired by true events, this was Bourvil’s last film.

Les pétroleuses

In 1880 in the French-speaking town of English title: The Legend Of Frenchie King Bourgival Junction deep in the heart of a.k.a. The Oil Girls New Mexico, Frenchie King, alias Louise Genre: Comedy/Western () and her gang of four Director: Christian- Jaque women wage a tough battle with Maria Main Cast: Brigitte Bardot (Claudia Cardinale) over rights to Claudia Cardinale oil-rich land. In a Western where Michaël J. Pollard only the Sheriff speaks English Patrick Préjean and the best fistfights are Patty Shépard between two women, anything Image: Color can happen. Year of production: 1971 Duration: 105 min. Country of origin: France/Spain/Italy English title: Boot Hill

Genre: Western

Director: Giuseppe Colizzi

Main Cast: Bud Spencer Woody Strode Eduardo Cianelli Victor Buono

Image: Color

Year of production: 1970

Duration: 99 min.

Country of origin: Italy

La collina degli stivali

When Cat (Terence Hill) is shot and wounded by burly Bud Spencer teams up once again in this cruel mine owner Honey’s men, he takes refuge unusual "spaghetti western”, in which the eternal in the nearest shelter, which just happens to saloon is replaced by a circus tent and punches be a circus caravan... fly to the beat of circus music. The popular duo of rock-jawed Terence Hill and 16 17

1970-85 Les feux de la chandleur

English title: Hearth Fires Alexandre, a small-town official begins to panic when his exuberant Genre: Drama wife, Marie-Louise suddenly starts spouting very revolutionary ideas. Director: He leaves her to marry a more conventional woman. Ten years later Main Cast: Marie-Louise and Alexandre run into each other and fall in love Bernard Fresson again. But those ten years Bernard le Coq have taken their toll on Marie- Louise’s mental stability and Image: Color her new passion proves to be Year of production: 1972 fatal. Annie Girardot is perfect Duration: 104 min. in this moving portrait of an Country of origin: France/Italy extravagant and intense woman who loves to the point of madness.

Les gendarmes

In six legendary and hilarious films, the pride Genre: Comedy of the French police force, wily Inspector Director: Cruchot, tackles a new series of misadventures. Main Cast: Louis de Funès Rounding up nudists from the beaches of Michel Galabru St. Tropez, confronting rusting aliens, or Image: Color trying desperately to spit out a few words of Year of English - whether cleverly disguised as a nun production: 1964-1982 or a hippie - the grimacing, gesticulating Duration: 90 min. Cruchot leads his men to the chase and solves Country of the case at the end. origin: France "The Gendarmes collection" includes: Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964), Le gendarme à New York (1965), Le gendarme se marie (1968), Le gendarme en ballade (1970), Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres (1978), Le gendarme et les gendarmettes (1982).

L’année sainte

English title: The Holy Year a.k.a. Pilgrimage To Rome Genre: Comedy/ Action Max, an aging gangster, and his cellmate Director: Jean Girault escape from prison. They board an aeroplane Main Cast: Jean Gabin for Rome where Max has hidden a huge Jean- Claude Brialy amount of gold and disguise themselves Danielle Darrieux as clergymen in order to blend in with Henri Virlojeux the wave of priests heading for the Image: Color Vatican during the Holy Year. Year of production: 1976 Things become quite complicated Duration: 95 min. for the fake bishop and his friend Country of origin: France/Italy when their plane is hijacked and heads not for Rome but Tangiers! An energetic comedy and Jean Gabin’s last film. Film d’amore e d’anarchia

English title: Love And Anarchy When the police arrest an Genre: Comedy/Politic anarchist friend, modest Tunin Director: Lina Wertmüller agrees to replace him in his Main Cast: Giancarlo Giannini delicate mission: assassina- Mariangela Melato ting Mussolini. Tunin uses a Lina Polito brothel as his hideout while Eros Pagni preparing to eliminate the Pina Cei dictator. But when he falls for Image: Color one of the girls, his own life Year of production: 1973 takes a tragic turn. Lina Duration: 85 min. Wertmüller, Fellini’s former Country of origin: Italy assistant, brews up the right mix of comedy and tragedy in this colourful and exciting film. Giancarlo Giannini won Best Actor award at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival for his role as Tunin.

Le bar de la fourche

The adventurer Van Horst (Jacques Brel) English title: The Bar At The Crossing decides to visit an old girlfriend who now Genre: Comedy/Adventure runs a bar out West, in the Canadian Director: Alain Levent wilderness. Young Oliver joins Van Main Cast: Jacques Brel Horst. When both men end up Rosy Varte attracted to the same woman, Annie (Isabelle Huppert), they Pierre -François Pistorio prepare to fight over her. Malka Ribovska Image: Color Year of production: 1972 Duration: 90 min. Country of origin: France L’ été meurtrier

English title: One Deadly Summer Genre: Drama/Thriller Director: Jean Becker When she arrives in a Main Cast: Isabelle Adjani small French town in her Alain Souchon tiny summer skirt and high-heeled shoes, she Michel Galabru sets the entire male Jenny Clève population afire. Pin Pon François Cluzet falls in love and marries Image: Color her, never suspecting Year of production: 1983 that her sexy walk is all Duration: 133 min. part of an incredible Country of origin: France revenge. Award-winning performances by Adjani and Suzanne Flon and Sebastien Japrisot’s intricate screenplay (from his novel) form a complex plot spiral around what seems at first to be a light summer comedy, plunging the multiple-perspective narration into darker and deeper secrets... 18 19

Actors Actors In our classic catalogue

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Isabelle Adjani Arletty Brigitte Bardot Lex Barker Jane Birkin Bourvil (1) Pierre Brasseur Jacques Brel 1 Jean-Claude Brialy Pierre Brice Maria Callas Claudia Cardinale Maria Casarès John Cassavetes 7 Danielle Darrieux Alain Delon Sophie Desmarets Peter Falk (2) Louis de Funès (3) Pierre Fresnay Bernard Fresson Jean Gabin (4) Serge Gainsbourg Michel Galabru Annie Girardot Terence Hill Robert Hirsch Louis Jouvet (5) Klaus Kinski (6) Jean Lefebvre Gina Lollobridgida Sophia Loren Jean Marais (7) Luis Mariano Marcello Mastroianni Michelle Mercier Franco Nero

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Gérard Philipe (8) Jean Poiret Raimu Steeve Reeves Madeleine Renaud (9) Madeleine Robinson Jean Rochefort 10Michel Serrault (10) 8 Vittorio de Sica Michel Simon Romy Schneider (11) Bud Spencer Alberto Sordi Toto Jean-Louis Trintignant Lino Ventura Jean Yanne 1 ... and many others 20 21

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Yves Allegret Pupi Avati Jacques de Baroncelli Alessandro Blasetti

Mauro Bolognini 5 Henri Calef Pasquale F. Campanile Luigi Capuano Marcel Carné (1) Jean Cocteau (2) Luigi Comencini Louis Cuny Damiano Damiani Jean Delannoy

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Jacques Deray (3) Julien Duvivier (4) Robert Enrico Riccardo Freda Jean Girault Jean Image Christian-Jacque (5) Umberto Lenzi 1 6 Marcel L’Herbier Edouard Molinaro Giuliano Montaldo Domenico Paolella Pier Paolo Pasolini (6) Dino Risi Ministère de la France de Ministère

Lina Wertmüller © Jean Yanne ... and many others

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