List of French films of 1969
Table:
French films released in 1969

Title

Director

Cast

Genre

Notes

Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret
Drama
French-Italian co-production[1]

The Battle of El Alamein
Giorgio Ferroni
Frederick Stafford, Ira von Fürstenberg, Robert Hossein
War
Italian-French co-production[2]

The Brain
Gérard Oury
Jean-Paul Belmondo, David Niven, Eli Wallach
Comedy
French-Italian co-production[3][4]

Calcutta
Louis Malle

Documentary
[5][6]

Cemetery Without Crosses
Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein, Michèle Mercier, Serge Marquand
Western
French-Italian co-production[7][8]

Le clan des siciliens
Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura
Crime
French-Italian co-production[9]

The Devil by the Tail
Philippe de Broca
Yves Montand, Madeleine Renaud, Maria Schell
—
French-Italian co-production[10]

Erotissimo
Gérard Pirès
Annie Girardot, Jean Yanne, Francis Blanche
Comedy
French-Italian co-production[11]

A Gentle Woman
Robert Bresson
Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jane Lobre
Drama
[12]

Goto, Island of Love
Walerian Borowczyk
Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Jean-Pierre Andréani
Drama
[13][14]

The Great Love
Pierre Étaix
Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan
Comedy
[15]

Hibernatus
Edouard Molinaro
Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Michael Lonsdale
Comedy
French-Italian co-production[16]

Joy of Learning
Jean-Luc Godard
Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Avant-garde
[17][18]

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Guy Lefranc
Fernand Raynaud, Michel Galabru
Comedy
[19]

La Piscine
Jacques Deray
Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin
Drama
French-Italian co-production[20]

Les Femmes
Jean Aurel
Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Ronet, Anny Duperey
Comedy
French-Italian co-production[21]

Medea
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentili, Laurent Terzieff
Drama
Italian-French-West German co-production[22][23]

The Milky Way
Luis Buñuel
Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Alain Cuny
Comedy-drama
French-Italian co-production[24]

Mississippi Mermaid
François Truffaut
Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet
Drama
French-Italian co-production[25]

More
Barbet Schroeder
Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grunberg, Heinz Engelmann
Drama
French-Luxembourgian co-production[26]

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Army of Shadows ( French : L'armée des ombres ) is a 1969 French drama-suspense film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville . It is a film adaptation of Joseph Kessel 's 1943 book of the same name , which blends Kessel 's own experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictionalized versions of other Resistance members . Army of Shadows follows a small group of Resistance fighters as they move between safe houses , work with the Allied militaries , kill informers , and attempt to evade the capture and execution that they know is their most likely fate . While portraying its characters as heroic , the film presents a bleak , unromantic view of the Resistance . At the time of its initial release in France , Army of Shadows was not well received or widely seen . In the wake of the events of May 1968 , French critics denounced the film for its perceived glorification of Charles de Gaulle ; at the time , American art-film programmers took their cues from Cahiers du cinéma , which had attacked the film on this basis . Because of this , it was not released in the United States for almost forty years . In the mid-1990s Cahiers du cinéma published a reappraisal of the film and Melville 's work in general , leading to its restoration and re-release in 2006 . The film was greeted with critical adulation in the U.S. , appearing in many critics ' year-end top ten lists .
Jean-Pierre Melville ( French : [ mɛlvil ] ; born Jean-Pierre Grumbach ; 20 October 1917 - 2 August 1973 ) was a French filmmaker . While with the French Resistance during World War II , he adopted the nom de guerre Melville as a tribute to his favorite American author , Herman Melville . He kept it as his stage name once the war was over . Spiritual father of the French New Wave , he influenced the new generation of filmmakers in Asia ( John Woo , Ringo Lam , Johnnie To , Takeshi Kitano ) , in Europe ( Aki Kaurismäki , Rainer Werner Fassbinder ) , and in America ( Michael Mann , Walter Hill , Quentin Tarantino , William Friedkin , Jim Jarmusch ) .
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura ( 14 July 1919 - 22 October 1987 ) was an Italian actor who starred mainly in French films . Raised by his Italian mother in Paris , after a first career as a professional wrestler was ended by injury he was offered a part as a gang boss in the Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi ( 1954 ) and rapidly became one of France 's favourite film actors , playing opposite many other stars and working with other leading directors such as Louis Malle , Claude Sautet , and Claude Miller . Usually portraying a tough man , either a criminal or a cop , he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville directed Army of Shadows ( L'armée des ombres , 1969 ) . Having a daughter born handicapped , he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige ( Snowdrop ) which aids disabled children and their parents . Though he never renounced his Italian citizenship , he was voted 23rd in a poll for the 100 greatest Frenchmen .
Simone Signoret ( French : [ simɔn siɲɔʁɛ ] ; 25 March 1921 - 30 September 1985 ) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France 's greatest film stars . She became the second French person to win an Academy Award , for her role in Room at the Top ( 1959 ) .
The Battle of El Alamein ( also known as Desert Tanks ) is a European Macaroni-War film directed in 1969 by Giorgio Ferroni . It was a co-production between Italy ( where it was released as La battaglia di El Alamein ) and France ( where is known as La bataille de El Alamein ) . The film depicts the Second Battle of El Alamein .
Giorgio Ferroni ( April 12 , 1908 - August 17 , 1981 ) , sometimes credited as Calvin Jackson Padget or Calvin J. Padget , was an Italian film director , film editor and a screenwriter .
Frederick Stafford ( 11 March 1928 - 28 July 1979 ) was a Czech-born actor . Born Friedrich Strobel von Stein , he spoke fluent Czech , German , English , French and Italian , and was a leading man in European spy-movies .
Princess Virginia von Fürstenberg ( Virginia Carolina Theresa Pancrazia Galdina Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg ; born 18 April 1940 ) , known professionally as Ira von Fürstenberg , is a European socialite , actress , jewelry designer and former public relations manager for the fashion designer Valentino Garavani . She is a member by birth of the princely family of Fürstenberg and a former member by marriage of the princely family of Hohenlohe-Langenburg .
Robert Hossein ( born 30 December 1927 ) is a French film actor , director , and writer . He directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Misérables , and appeared in Vice and Virtue , Le Casse , Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute . His other roles include Michèle Mercier 's husband in the Angélique series , a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western Cemetery Without Crosses ( which he also directed and co-wrote ) , and a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Forbidden Priests .
The Brain ( French : Le Cerveau ) is a 1969 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury , about a second train robbery by the brain behind the Great Train Robbery of 1963 . It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Bourvil as a pair of French petty crooks , David Niven as a British Army officer who is secretly a criminal mastermind and Eli Wallach as a Sicilian mafioso .
Gérard Oury ( born Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum ; 29 April 1919 - 20 July 2006 ) was a French film director , actor and writer .
Jean-Paul Belmondo ( French : [ ʒɑ̃pɔl bɛlmɔ̃do ] ; born 9 April 1933 ) is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s , 1970s and 1980s . His best known credits include Breathless ( 1960 ) and That Man from Rio ( 1964 ) .
James David Graham Niven ( /ˈnɪvən/ ; 1 March 1910 - 29 July 1983 ) was an English actor , memoirist and novelist . His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in A Matter of Life and Death , Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days , and Sir Charles Lytton ( the Phantom ) in The Pink Panther . He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Separate Tables ( 1958 ) . Born in London , Niven attended Heatherdown Preparatory School and Stowe School before gaining a place at the Royal Military College , Sandhurst . After Sandhurst , he joined the British Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry . Having developed an interest in acting , he left the army , travelled to Hollywood and had several minor roles in film . He first appeared as an extra in the British film There Goes the Bride ( 1932 ) . From there , he hired an agent and had several small parts in films from 1933 to 1935 , including a non-speaking role in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 's Mutiny on the Bounty . This brought him to wider attention within the film industry and he was spotted by Samuel Goldwyn . Upon the outbreak of the Second World War , Niven returned to Britain and rejoined the army , being recommissioned as a lieutenant . In 1942 he co-starred in the morale-building film about the development of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter , The First of the Few ( American title Spitfire ) , which was enthusiastically endorsed by Winston Churchill . Niven resumed his acting career after his demobilisation , and was voted the second-most popular British actor in the 1945 Popularity Poll of British film stars .
Eli Herschel Wallach ( /ˈiːlaɪ ˈwɔːlək/ ; December 7 , 1915 - June 24 , 2014 ) was an American film , television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades , beginning in the late 1940s . Trained in stage acting , which he enjoyed doing most , he became one of the greatest 'character actors ' ever to appear on stage and screen , with over 90 film credits . He and his wife Anne Jackson often appeared together on stage , and were one of the best-known acting couples in American theater . As a stage and screen character actor , Wallach had one of the longest-ever careers in show business , spanning 62 years from his Broadway debut to his last two major Hollywood studio movies ( which were released in the same year ) . Wallach initially studied method acting under Sanford Meisner , and later became a founding member of the Actors Studio , where he studied under Lee Strasberg . He played a wide variety of roles throughout his career , primarily as a supporting actor . For his debut screen performance in Baby Doll ( 1956 ) , he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe Award nomination . Among his other most famous roles are Calvera in The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) , Guido in The Misfits ( 1961 ) , and Tuco ( The Ugly ) in The Good , the Bad and the Ugly ( 1966 ) . Other notable portrayals include outlaw Charlie Gant in How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) , Hitman Leon B . Little in Tough Guys ( 1986 ) , Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III , Cotton Weinberger in The Two Jakes ( both 1990 ) , and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday ( 2006 ) . One of America 's most prolific screen actors , Wallach remained active well into his nineties , with roles as recently as 2010 in Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps and The Ghost Writer . In 1988 , Wallach was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame .
Calcutta is a 1969 French documentary film about Calcutta , directed by Louis Malle . It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival .
Louis Marie Malle ( French : [ mal ] ; 30 October 1932 - 23 November 1995 ) was a French film director , screenwriter and producer . His film Le Monde du silence won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957 , although he was not credited at the ceremony ; the award was instead presented to the film 's co-director Jacques Cousteau . Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards . Malle is also one of only four directors to have won the Golden Lion twice . Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood , and he produced both French and English language films . His most famous films include the crime film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ( 1958 ) , the World War II drama Lacombe , Lucien ( 1974 ) , the romantic crime film Atlantic City ( 1980 ) , the comedy-drama My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ) , and the autobiographical film Au revoir les enfants ( 1987 ) .
Cemetery Without Crosses ( French : Une corde , un Colt. , Italian : Cimitero senza croci ) , is a 1969 Spaghetti Western film by Robert Hossein , its director , co-screenwriter and star .
Michèle Mercier ( born 1 January 1939 as Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier ) is a French actress . In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut , Jean-Pierre Melville , Jacques Deray , Dino Risi , Mario Monicelli , Mario Bava , Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin . Her leading men have included Marcello Mastroianni , Vittorio Gassman , Jean-Paul Belmondo , Jean Gabin , Charles Aznavour , Robert Hossein , Charles Bronson , Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston . She has appeared in over fifty films , and is best known for her starring role in Angelique , Marquise des Anges .
Serge Marquand was a French actor and film producer ( 12 March 1930 - 4 September 2004 ) . He died of advanced leukemia . He was the brother of Nadine Trintignant and Christian Marquand .
The Sicilian Clan ( French : Le clan des Siciliens ) is a 1969 French gangster film based on the novel by Auguste Le Breton . The film was directed by Henri Verneuil and stars Jean Gabin , Lino Ventura and Alain Delon , whose casting led to the film 's box-office success in France . Ennio Morricone completed the score for the picture .
Henri Verneuil , born Ashot Malakian ( 15 October 1920 - 11 January 2002 ) , was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker , who made a successful career in France . He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards , and won Locarno International Film Festival , Edgar Allan Poe Awards , French Legion of Honor , Golden Globe Award , French National Academy of Cinema and Honorary Cesar awards . According to one obituary :
Jean Gabin ( French : [ ʒɑ̃ gabɛ̃ ] ; 17 May 1904 - 15 November 1976 ) was a French actor and sometime singer . Considered a key figure in French cinema , he starred in several classic films including Pépé le Moko ( 1937 ) , La grande illusion ( 1937 ) , Le Quai des brumes ( 1938 ) , La bête humaine ( 1938 ) , Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , and Le plaisir ( 1952 ) . Gabin was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema .
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon ( French : [ alɛ̃ dəlɔ̃ ] ; born 8 November 1935 ) is a French actor and businessman . He is known as one of Europe 's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols from the 1960s . He achieved critical acclaim for roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers ( 1960 ) , Plein Soleil ( 1960 ) , L'Eclisse ( 1962 ) , The Leopard ( 1963 ) , The Yellow Rolls-Royce ( 1965 ) , Lost Command ( 1966 ) and Le Samouraï ( 1967 ) . Over the course of his career Delon worked with many well known directors , including Luchino Visconti , Jean-Luc Godard , Jean-Pierre Melville , Michelangelo Antonioni and Louis Malle . He acquired Swiss citizenship in 1999 .
The Devil by the Tail ( French : Le diable par la queue ) is a 1969 French-Italian comedy film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Yves Montand , Madeleine Renaud and Maria Schell .
Philippe de Broca ( French : [ də bʁɔka ] ; 15 March 1933 - 26 November 2004 ) was a French movie director . He directed 30 full-length feature films , including the highly successful That Man from Rio ( L'Homme de Rio ) , The Man from Acapulco ( Le Magnifique ) and On Guard ( Le Bossu ) . His works include historical , romantic epics such as Chouans ! and King of Hearts ( Le Roi de cœur ) , as well as comedies with a charismatic , breezy hero ready to embark upon any adventure which comes his way , so long as it means escaping everyday modern life : Practice Makes Perfect ( Le Cavaleur ) , The Devil by the Tail ( Le Diable par la queue ) , The African ( L'Africain ) . He had links with the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo , with whom he made six films , as well as with Jean-Pierre Cassel , Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort .
Ivo Livi , better known as Yves Montand ( French pronunciation : ​ [ iv mɔ̃tɑ̃ ] ; 13 October 1921 - 9 November 1991 ) , was an Italian-French actor and singer .
Lucie Madeleine Renaud ( French : [ ʁəno ] ; 21 February 1900 - 23 September 1994 ) was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre . She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grémillon including Remorques ( Stormy Waters , 1941 ) and Lumière d'été ( Summer Light , 1943 ) . Renaud had a son , Jean-Pierre Granval ( 10 December 1923 - 28 May 1998 ) , by her first marriage . In 1940 , Renaud married her second husband , actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault ( 1910 - 1994 ) . They remained married until his death in 1994 . She died the same year . The couple acted together and co-founded a number of theater companies , touring extensively throughout North and South America .
Maria Margarethe Anna Schell ( 15 January 1926 - 26 April 2005 ) was an Austrian-Swiss actress . She ranged among the stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s . In 1954 , she was awarded the Cannes Best Actress Award for her performance in Helmut Käutner 's war drama The Last Bridge , and in 1956 , she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Gervaise .
Erotissimo is a 1969 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gérard Pirès . It was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival .
Gérard Pirès ( born 31 August 1942 ) is a French film director and writer .
Annie Girardot ( 25 October 1931 - 28 February 2011 ) was a three-time César Award winning French actress . She often played strong-willed , independent , hard-working , and often lonely women , imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women undergoing similar daily struggles . Over the course of a five-decade career , she starred in nearly 150 films . She was a three-time César Award winner ( 1977 , 1996 , 2002 ) , a two-time Molière Award winner ( 2002 ) , a David di Donatello Award winner ( 1977 ) , a BAFTA nominee ( 1962 ) , and a recipient of several international prizes including the Volpi Cup ( Best actress ) at the 1965 Venice Film Festival for Three Rooms in Manhattan .
Jean Yanne ( born Jean Roger Gouyé ; 18 July 1933 - 23 May 2003 ) was a French actor , screenwriter , producer , director and composer . During his career , he won a Cannes Film Festival Award for his leading role in We Wo n't Grow Old Together ( 1972 ) and received a César Award nomination for his supporting role in Indochine ( 1992 ) .
Francis-Jean Blanche , known as Francis Blanche ( 20 July 1921 - 6 July 1974 ) was a French actor , singer , humorist and author . He was a very popular figure on stage , radio and in films , during the 1950s and 1960s . His two daughters , Barbara & Dominique , are artists with their studios in Eze .
A Gentle Woman ( French : Une femme douce ) is a 1969 French tragedy film directed by Robert Bresson . It is Bresson 's first film in color , and adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky 's short story A Gentle Creature ( Russian : Кроткая , romanized : Krotkaya ) . The film is set in contemporary Paris . The tragedy is characterised by Bresson 's well known ascetic style , without any dynamic sequences or professional actors ' experienced and excessive expressions . Dominique Sanda , who plays the titular gentle woman , made her debut in the film , starting her career as an actress . Bresson chose her just as a result of her first voice call . Although the film applies a background of 1960s Paris , such as Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and Musée National d'Art Moderne , its theme adheres closely to the novella . Bresson subsequently made another adaptation of Dostoevsky , his next film Quatre nuits d'un rêveur ( Four Nights of a Dreamer ) ( 1971 ) based on White Nights .
Robert Bresson ( French : [ ʁɔbɛʁ bʁɛsɔ̃ ] ; 25 September 1901 - 18 December 1999 ) was a French film director . Known for his ascetic approach , Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema ; his non-professional actors , ellipses , and sparse use of scoring have led his works to be regarded as preeminent examples of minimalist film . Bresson is among the most highly regarded filmmakers of all time . He has the most number ( seven ) of films in the Top 250 list of greatest films ever made published by Sight and Sound in 2012 . His works A Man Escaped ( 1956 ) , Pickpocket ( 1959 ) and Au hasard Balthazar ( 1966 ) were ranked among the 100 greatest films ever made in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics ' poll . Other films of his , such as Mouchette ( 1967 ) and L'Argent ( 1983 ) , also received many votes . Jean-Luc Godard once wrote , He is the French cinema , as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German [ sic ] music .
Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne ( born 11 March 1948 ) , professionally known as Dominique Sanda , is a French actress and former fashion model .
Goto , Island of Love ( French : Goto , l'île d'amour ) is a 1968 French drama film directed by Walerian Borowczyk and starring Pierre Brasseur .
Walerian Borowczyk ( 21 October 1923 - 3 February 2006 ) was an internationally known Polish film director described by film critics as a 'genius who also happened to be a pornographer ' . He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988 . Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959 . As a film director he worked mainly in France .
Pierre Brasseur ( 22 December 1905 - 16 August 1972 ) , born Pierre-Albert Espinasse , was a French actor . The son of actors Georges Espinasse and Germaine Brasseur , while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur , his grandfather , Jules Brasseur , was an actor as well . The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre . Renowned for playing outsized characters , Brasseur is best remembered for his ( semi-fictionalised ) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis ( Children of Paradise , 1945 ) and as Docteur Génessier ( more subdued ) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face ( Les Yeux sans visage , 1960 ) co-starring Alida Valli . On 30 May 1927 , he performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky 's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex .
The Great Love ( French : Le Grand Amour ) is a 1969 French comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix . It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival .
Pierre Étaix ( French : [ etɛks ] ; 23 November 1928 - 14 October 2016 ) was a French clown , comedian and filmmaker . Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films , many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière . He won an Academy Award for best live action short film in 1963 . Due to a legal dispute with a distribution company , his films were unavailable from the 1970s until 2009 . As an actor , assistant director and gag writer , Étaix worked with the likes of Jacques Tati , Robert Bresson , Nagisa Oshima , Otar Iosseliani and Jerry Lewis , the last of whom cast the comedian in his unreleased film The Day the Clown Cried .
Annie Fratellini ( 14 November 1932 - 1 July 1997 ) was a French circus artist , singer , film actress and clown . She was born Annie Violette Fratellini on 14 November 1932 , in Algiers , French Algeria , where her parents , who were circus performers , were touring . She was the fourth generation of one of Europe 's most illustrious clown dynasties , the Fratellini Family , a French circus family of Italian descent . Her father was Victor Fratellini , a clown and acrobat ; her mother , Suzanne ( née Rousseau ) , was the daughter of Gaston Rousseau , the director of the Cirque de Paris , a huge circus building located Avenue de la Motte-Picquet in Paris that was active from 1906 to 1930 . Her grandfather was Paul Fratellini , one of the Fratellini brothers , the legendary clown trio that was the Toast of Paris ( and Europe ) between the two world wars . Although she made her debut in the ring at age 13 at the famous Cirque Medrano in Paris , she eventually ran away from the circus when she was 18 years old , and begun a music-hall and recording career as a musician and singer . She also became a movie actress , appearing notably in 1965 in La Métamorphose des cloportes a film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre ( 1927-2007 ) , whom she had married in 1954 . They had one daughter , Valérie . In 1969 , she starred in Pierre Étaix 's Le grand amour . They fell in love and married that same year . Pierre Étaix ( 1928-2016 ) , who had been a comedian and Jacques Tati 's assistant before becoming a filmmaker himself , had a passion for the circus and clowns . Annie Fratellini had an inherited talent for comedy , and Pierre Étaix convinced her to take it seriously .
Nicole Calfan ( born 4 March 1947 ) is a French actress and author .
Hibernatus is a 1969 French-Italian comedy directed by Édouard Molinaro and written by Jean Bernard-Luc . It stars Louis de Funès as an industrialist named Hubert Barrère de Tartas .
Édouard Molinaro ( 13 May 1928 - 7 December 2013 ) was a French film director and screenwriter .
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza ( French pronunciation : ​ [ lwi ʒɛʁmɛ̃ david də fynɛs də ɡalaʁza ] ; 31 July 1914 - 27 January 1983 ) was a French actor and comedian . According to several polls conducted since 1968 , he is France 's favourite actor - having played over 130 roles in film and over 100 on stage . His acting style is remembered for its high-energy performance and his wide range of facial expressions and tics . A considerable part of his best-known acting was directed by Jean Girault . He often still is a household name in many countries such as Israel , Greece , Hungary , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Belgium , Serbia , Poland , Bulgaria , Germany , Spain , Turkey , Albania , Romania , Croatia , former countries of the Soviet Union , as well as Iran . Yet he remains almost unknown in the English-speaking world . He was exposed to a wider audience only once in the United States , in 1974 , with the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob , which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award .
Claude Gensac ( 1 March 1927 - 27 December 2016 ) was a French actress . She appeared in more than 70 films and television productions since 1952 . Gensac is the oldest nominee to date in the category César Award for Best Supporting Actress , nominated in 2015 for her role as Marthe in the film Lulu femme nue .
Michael Edward Lonsdale ( born 24 May 1931 ) , sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale , is a British-French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows . He is best known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker , the detective Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal , and M. Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day .
Joy of Learning ( French : Le Gai savoir ) is a 1969 film by Jean-Luc Godard . The shooting started before the events of May 68 and was finished shortly afterwards . Coproduced by the O.R.T.F. , the film was upon completion rejected by French national television , then released in the cinema where it was subsequently banned by the French government . The film was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival . The title is a reference to Nietzsche 's The Gay Science .
Jean-Luc Godard ( UK : /ˈɡɒdɑːr/ GOD-ar , US : /ɡoʊˈdɑːr/ goh-DAR , French : [ ʒɑ̃ lyk ɡɔdaʁ ] ; born 3 December 1930 ) is a French-Swiss film director , screenwriter and film critic . He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement . During his early career as a film critic , Godard criticized mainstream French cinema 's Tradition of Quality , which emphasized established convention over innovation and experimentation . In response , he and like-minded critics began to make their own films . Many of Godard 's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema . In 1964 , Godard described his and his colleagues ' impact : We barged into the cinema like cavemen into the Versailles of Louis XV . He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s ; his approach in film conventions , politics and philosophies made him arguably the most influential director of the French New Wave . Along with showing knowledge of film history through homages and references , several of his films expressed his political views ; he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy . Since the New Wave , his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist , and a Marxist perspective . In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll , Godard ranked third in the critics ' top ten directors of all time ( which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted ) . He is said to have created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century . He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism 's vocabulary .
Juliet Berto ( 16 January 1947 - 10 January 1990 ) , born Annie Jamet , was a French actress , director and screenwriter . A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky , she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard 's Two or Three Things I Know About Her , and would go on to appear in many of Godard 's subsequent films , including La Chinoise , Week End , Le Gai Savoir , and Vladimir et Rosa . She later became a muse for the French New Wave director Jacques Rivette , starring in Out 1 and Celine and Julie Go Boating . In the 1980s she also became a screenwriter and film director . Her film Cap Canaille ( 1983 ) was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival . In 1987 , she was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival . She died of breast cancer at age 42 .
Jean-Pierre Léaud , ComM ( French : [ ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ le.o ] ; born 28 May 1944 ) is a French actor , best known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut 's series of films about that character , beginning with The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cents Coups , 1959 ) . He also worked several times with Jean-Luc Godard , and is a significant figure of the French New Wave .
Guy Lefranc ( 21 October 1919 - 1 February 1994 ) was a French director and screenwriter .
André Gustave Fernand Raynaud , best known as Fernand Raynaud ( May 19 , 1926 - September 28 , 1973 ) , was a French stand-up comic star , an actor and a singer .
Michel Louis Edmond Galabru ( 27 October 1922 - 4 January 2016 ) was a French actor .
La Piscine ( The Swimming Pool ) is a 1969 Italian-French psychological thriller film directed by Jacques Deray , starring Alain Delon , Romy Schneider , Maurice Ronet and Jane Birkin . Set in summertime on the Côte d'Azur , it is a drama of sexual jealousy and possessiveness . Both French and English-language versions of the film were made , with the actors filmed speaking English for the international release , which was unusual at a time when movies were always either dubbed or subtitled . That 114-minute international release , shorter than the French version , also had a slightly different editing .
Jacques Deray ( 19 February 1929 in Lyon - 9 August 2003 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) was a French film director and screenwriter . Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films .
Romy Schneider ( born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach , 23 September 1938 - 29 May 1982 ) was a German-French film actress and voice actress . She started her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15 . From 1955 to 1957 , she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Austrian Sissi trilogy , and later reprised the role in a more mature version in Visconti 's Ludwig . Schneider moved to France , where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era .
Maurice Ronet ( 13 April 1927 - 14 March 1983 ) was a French film actor , director , and writer .
Jane Mallory Birkin , OBE ( born 14 December 1946 ) is an English actress , singer , songwriter , and model . She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg . She also had a prolific career as an actress in British and French cinema . A native of London , Birkin began her career as an actress , appearing in minor roles in Michelangelo Antonioni 's Blowup ( 1966 ) , and Kaleidoscope ( 1966 ) . In 1969 , she met Serge Gainsbourg while co-starring with him in Slogan , which marked the beginning of a years-long working and personal relationship . The duo released their debut album Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg ( 1969 ) , and Birkin also appeared in the controversial film Je t'aime moi non plus ( 1976 ) under Gainsbourg 's direction . Birkin would attain further acting credits in Agatha Christie 's films Death on the Nile ( 1978 ) , and Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ) . After separating from Gainsbourg in 1980 , Birkin continued to work as both an actress and a singer , appearing in various independent films and recording numerous solo albums . In 1991 , she appeared in the miniseries Red Fox , and in the American drama A Soldier 's Daughter Never Cries , in 1998 . In 2016 , she starred in the Academy Award-nominated short film La femme et le TGV , which she said would be her final film role . Birkin has resided mainly in France since the 1970s . She is the mother of photographer Kate Barry ( d. 2013 ) , with her first husband John Barry ; actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg , with Serge Gainsbourg ; and model Lou Doillon , with Jacques Doillon .
Les Femmes is a 1969 French comedy-drama film starring Brigitte Bardot . It recorded admissions of 505,292 in France .
Jean Aurel ( 6 November 1925 in Rastolita , Romania - 24 August 1996 in Paris , France ) was a Romanian-born French film director and scriptwriter . Notably , he co-wrote La Femme d ' à côté ( The Woman Next Door ) with François Truffaut and Suzanne Schiffman .
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( /brɪˌʒiːt bɑːrˈdoʊ/ ( listen ) brizh-EET bar-DOH , French : [ bʁiʒit baʁdo ] ( listen ) ; born 28 September 1934 ) , often referred to by the initials B.B. , is a French former actress and singer , and animal rights activist . Famous for portraying sexually emancipated personae with hedonistic lifestyles , she was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s . Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973 , she remains a major popular culture icon . Born and raised in Paris , Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life . She started her acting career in 1952 . She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in the controversial And God Created Woman , and also caught the attention of French intellectuals . She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir 's 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome , which described her as a locomotive of women 's history and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France . Bardot later starred in Jean-Luc Godard 's 1963 film Le Mépris . For her role in Louis Malle 's 1965 film Viva Maria ! she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress . Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973 . She had acted in 47 films , performed in several musicals and recorded more than 60 songs .
Anny Duperey ( born Annie Legras ; 28 June 1947 in Rouen , Seine-Maritime , France ) is a French stage , film and television actress and best-selling author . She is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur .
Medea is a 1969 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini , based on the ancient myth of Medea . Filmed in Göreme Open Air Museum 's early Christian churches , it stars opera singer Maria Callas in her only film role . She does not sing in the movie .
Pier Paolo Pasolini ( Italian : [ ˌpjɛr ˈpaːolo pazoˈliːni ] ; 5 March 1922 - 2 November 1975 ) was an Italian film director , poet , writer , and intellectual , who also distinguished himself as an actor , journalist , novelist , playwright , and political figure . He remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters . He was an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts . His murder prompted an outcry in Italy and its circumstances continue to be a matter of heated debate .
Maria Callas , Commendatore OMRI ( /ˈkæləs/ ; Greek : Μαρία Κάλλας ; December 2 , 1923 - September 16 , 1977 ) was an American-born Greek soprano . She was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century . Many critics praised her bel canto technique , wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations . Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti , Bellini and Rossini and , further , to the works of Verdi and Puccini ; and , in her early career , to the music dramas of Wagner . Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina . Born in Manhattan to Greek immigrant parents , she was raised by an overbearing mother who had wanted a son . Maria received her musical education in Greece at age 13 and later established her career in Italy . Forced to deal with the exigencies of 1940s wartime poverty and with near-sightedness that left her nearly blind onstage , she endured struggles and scandal over the course of her career . She turned herself from a heavy woman into a svelte and glamorous one after a mid-career weight loss , which might have contributed to her vocal decline and the premature end of her career . The press exulted in publicizing Callas 's temperamental behavior , her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis . Although her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press , her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her the Bible of opera and her influence so enduring that , in 2006 , Opera News wrote of her : Nearly thirty years after her death , she 's still the definition of the diva as artist - and still one of classical music 's best-selling vocalists .
Laurent Terzieff ( 27 June 1935 , in Toulouse - 2 July 2010 , in Paris ) was a French actor .
The Milky Way ( French : La Voie lactée ) is a 1969 surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel . It stars Laurent Terzieff , Paul Frankeur , Delphine Seyrig , Georges Marchal and Michel Piccoli . Buñuel later called The Milky Way the first in a trilogy ( along with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty ) about the search for truth . The title of the film is taken from a popular name used for the Way of St. James , a route often traveled by religious pilgrims that stretched from northern Europe to the Santiago de Compostela in Spain . This is where the remains of St. James were reputed to be buried . The film follows the picaresque journey of two vagabond travelers , who seem to be making the pilgrimage as a means of escape . Along the way , they witness a series of bizarre incidents that involve persons named in documented heresies in church history . At key moments they encounter Jesus and the Virgin Mary , as well as modern believers and fanatics . The plot is non-linear and functions as a highly symbolic travelogue across time and space , set over the last two thousand years . It encompasses much of Christian history . While using satire to critique religion from a skeptical perspective , it also explores the act of spiritual quest and search for meaning . The highly idiosyncratic film originally met with limited success .
Luis Buñuel Portolés ( Spanish pronunciation : [ ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles ] ; 22 February 1900 - 29 July 1983 ) was a Spanish filmmaker , naturalised Mexican in 1949 , who worked in France , Mexico and Spain . When Buñuel died at age 83 , his obituary in The New York Times called him an iconoclast , moralist , and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later . His first picture , Un Chien Andalou - made in the silent era - was called the most famous short film ever made by critic Roger Ebert , and his last film , That Obscure Object of Desire - made 48 years later - won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics . Writer Octavio Paz called Buñuel 's work the marriage of the film image to the poetic image , creating a new reality.scandalous and subversive . Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s , Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s . His work spans two continents , three languages , and an array of genres , including experimental film , documentary , melodrama , satire , musical , erotica , comedy , romance , costume dramas , fantasy , crime film , adventure , and western . Despite this variety , filmmaker John Huston believed that , regardless of genre , a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable , or , as Ingmar Bergman put it , Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films . Seven of Buñuel 's films are included in Sight & Sound 's 2012 critics ' poll of the top 250 films of all time . Fifteen of his films are included in the They Shoot Pictures , Do n't They ? list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time , for which he ranks second only to Jean-Luc Godard , with sixteen , and he ranks number 13 on their list of the top 250 directors .
Paul Frankeur ( 29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974 ) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati ( Jour de fête ) and Luis Buñuel ( The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty ) . He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur .
Alain Cuny ( 12 July 1908 - 16 May 1994 ) was a French actor in theatre and cinema .
Mississippi Mermaid ( French : La sirène du Mississipi ) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo . Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich , the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know . When she arrives it is not the same woman in the photo , but he marries her anyway . Filmed in southern France and Réunion island , Mississippi Mermaid was the 17th highest-grossing film of the year in France with a total of 1,221,027 admissions . It was remade in 2001 as Original Sin , directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas .
François Roland Truffaut ( UK : /ˈtruːfoʊ , ˈtrʊfoʊ/ TROO-foh , TRUUF-oh , US : /truːˈfoʊ/ troo-FOH , French : [ fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo ] ; 6 February 1932 - 21 October 1984 ) was a French film director , screenwriter , producer , actor , and film critic . He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave . In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century , he remains an icon of the French film industry , having worked on over 25 films . Truffaut 's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement , and was followed by four sequels , Antoine et Colette , Stolen Kisses , Bed and Board , and Love on the Run , between 1958 and 1979 . Truffaut 's 1973 film Day for Night earned him critical acclaim and several accolades , including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player ( 1960 ) , Jules and Jim ( 1961 ) , The Soft Skin ( 1964 ) , The Wild Child ( 1970 ) , Two English Girls ( 1971 ) , The Last Metro ( 1980 ) , and The Woman Next Door ( 1981 ) .
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac ( born 22 October 1943 ) , known professionally as Catherine Deneuve ( /dəˈnɜːv/ ; French : [ katʁin dənœv ] ( listen ) ) , is a French actress as well as an occasional singer , model and producer . She gained recognition for her portrayal of icy , aloof and mysterious beauties for various directors , including Luis Buñuel , François Truffaut and Roman Polanski . In 1985 , she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne , France 's national symbol of liberty . A 14-time César Award nominee , she won for her performances in Truffaut 's The Last Metro ( 1980 ) , for which she also won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress , and Régis Wargnier 's Indochine ( 1992 ) . Deneuve made her film debut in 1957 and first came to prominence in Jacques Demy 's 1964 musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg , before going on to star for Polanski in Repulsion ( 1965 ) , for Demy again in The Young Girls of Rochefort ( 1967 ) and Donkey Skin ( 1970 ) , and for Buñuel in Belle de Jour ( 1967 ) and Tristana ( 1970 ) . She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for Belle de Jour , and the Academy Award for Best Actress for Indochine . She also won the 1998 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Place Vendôme . Other notable English-language films include The April Fools ( 1969 ) , Hustle ( 1975 ) , The Hunger ( 1983 ) and Dancer in the Dark ( 2000 ) .
Michel Bouquet ( born 6 November 1925 ) is a French stage and film actor . He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1947 . He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father ( 2001 ) and The Last Mitterrand ( 2005 ) . He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998 , then again for Exit the King in 2005 . In 2014 , he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career . He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018 .
More is an English-language drama-romance film written and directed by Barbet Schroeder , in his theatrical feature film directorial debut , released in 1969 . Starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg , it deals with heroin addiction as drug fascination on the island of Ibiza , Spain . Made in the political fallout of the 1960s counterculture , the film features drug experimentation , free love , and other references to contemporary European youth culture . The film screenplay was written by Paul Gégauff and Barbet Schroeder with the original story by Schroeder . Art directed by Fran Lewis and Nestor Almendros . It features soundtracks written and performed by the English rock band Pink Floyd , released as the album More . Schroeder 's inspiration for the film came from the counterculture tradition of the 1960s with themes of drugs , addiction , sexual freedom and the beauty of life often in New Wave films . Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana , heroin , and LSD . Production began in 1968 , and the film was partially funded by Jet Films and executive produced by Les Films du Losange with a low budget . Upon its release on August 4 , 1969 , More achieved critical acclaim . It was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival . On April 5 , 2005 , a DVD version of More , was released by Home Vision Entertainment .
Barbet Schroeder ( born 26 August 1941 ) is a Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s , working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette . Since the late 1980s , he has directed many big budget Hollywood films , often mixing melodrama with the thriller genre in films like Single White Female , Kiss of Death , and Murder by Numbers . He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director , and for the Palme d'Or for his 1987 film Barfly .
Mimsy Farmer ( born February 28 , 1945 ) is an American actress , artist and sculptor . Her nickname came from a line in Lewis Carroll 's Jabberwocky : All mimsy were the borogoves .
Klaus Grünberg ( born 20 November 1941 in Wismar , Germany ) is a German actor .
Heinz Engelmann ( 1911-1996 ) was a German film actor . He was married to the actress Gertrud Meyen .