Élisabeth Vonarburg
Élisabeth Vonarburg( born 5 August 1947) is a science fiction writer.
She was born in Paris( France) and has lived in Chicoutimi( now Saguenay), Quebec, Canada since 1973.
From 1979 to 1990 she was the literary director of the French- Canadian science fiction magazine" Solaris".
Her first novel," Le Silence de la CitéThe Silence in the City"), appeared in 1981.
She has received several awards, including" Le Grand Prix de la SF française" in 1982 and a Philip K. Dick Award special citation in 1992 for" In the Mothers' Land" the English version of" Chroniques du pays des mères".
She is the author of" Cycle de Tyranaël".
Maurice Gleize
Maurice Gleize (1898–1974) was a French screenwriter and film director.
Les Enfants Terribles (film)
Les Enfants Terribles(" The terrible children") is a 1950 French film directed by Jean- Pierre Melville and based on Jean Cocteau's novel," Les Enfants Terribles".
The first feature film of Melville," Le Silence de la Mer"( 1949), attracted the attention of Jean Cocteau, who commissioned him to direct the film version of" Les Enfants Terribles".
Dans le silence, je sens rouler la terre
Dans le silence, je sens rouler la terre is a 2010 documentary film.
Philippe Brach
Philippe Brach is the stage name of Philippe Bouchard( born July 22, 1989), a Canadian singer- songwriter from Saguenay, Quebec.
Launching his music career in 2012, he was the winner of the Francouvertes festival in 2014.
Several weeks later, he released his debut album" La foire et l'ordre".
He won the Prix Félix for Revelation of the Year in 2015.
His second album," Portraits de famine", followed in 2015, and his third," Le silence des troupeaux", was released in 2017.
He was a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nominee in 2016 for" Crystel" from" Portraits de famine", and in 2018 for" La fin du monde" from" Le silence des troupeaux", and" Le silence de troupeaux" was longlisted for the 2018 Polaris Music Prize.
He is a frequent collaborator with singer and songwriter Klô Pelgag, including on the duets" Si proche et si loin à la fois" from" Portraits de famine" and a cover of Richard Desjardins's" Les Yankees" for the tribute album" Hommage à Desjardins".
At the Juno Awards of 2019," Le silence des troupeaux" was shortlisted for the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year.
A Hen on a Wall
A Hen on a Wall (French:
Une poule sur un mur) is a 1936 French crime film directed by Maurice Gleize and starring Jules Berry, Pierre Larquey and Christiane Delyne.
The title refers to a French children's song.
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville (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).
Henri Decaë
Henri Decaë( 31 July 1915 – 7 March 1987) gained fame as a cinematographer entering the film industry as a sound engineer and sound editor.
He was a photojournalist in the French army during World War II.
After the war he began making documentary shorts, directing and photographing industrial and commercial films.
In 1947 he made his first feature film.
Decaë is strongly associated with directors who strongly influenced, or were part of, the French New Wave.
These include Jean- Pierre Melville, Louis Malle and Claude Chabrol.
Decaë first worked as a cinematographer with Melville on" Le Silence de la Mer"( 1949).
Decaë also edited and mixed the sound.
Although Decaë worked with Melville on" Les enfants terribles", which as Williams commented( 1992, p333)" ... the work is more accurately to be viewed as a stunning demonstration of the cinematic possibilities of faithful literary adaptation in the hands of a gifted director", according to Marie( p 88) it was his distinctive camera work on" Bob le flambeur" which caught the attention of the" Cahiers" critics.
Malle hired him for his first two features and Chabrol for his first three features.
They had been lucky as Decaë was finding it hard to get work at that time as he was being informally shunned by many after participating in a critical film about the Korean War.
By the time Decaë worked for François Truffaut on" The 400 Blows" he came with a reputation, which meant that he was the highest- paid person on the film.
Decaë's liking for natural light, his ability to work at speed as well as his excellent photographic sensibility led to him working with René Clément on several features beginning with" Plein soleil"( 1960).
It was Decaë" ... who liberated the camera, from its fixed tripod.
He made the New Wave possible, backing up Melville, Malle, Chabrol and Truffaut."
( Marie, 2003 p 89)
For bibliographical references see bibliography under Cinema of France.
Doan Bui
Doan Bui is a French woman journalist born in Le Mans.
She received the prix Albert- Londres 2013 for her report" Les Fantômes du fleuve" on migrants trying to penetrate Europe in Greece through Turkey, published by" Nouvel Observateur".
In 2016, she was awarded the prix Amerigo Vespucci for her work" Le Silence de mon père"( Éditions L' Iconoclaste).
Le Silence de la mer (1949 film)
Le Silence de la mer (English:
The Silence of the Sea) is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville.
It was Melville's first feature film, and was based on the 1942 book of the same name by Jean Bruller (published clandestinely under the pen name "Vercors").
The story, which takes place in 1941, concerns the relationship of a Frenchman (Jean-Marie Robain) and his niece (Nicole Stéphane) with a German lieutenant, Werner von Ebrennac (Howard Vernon), who occupies their house during the German occupation of France.
The film was actually shot inside Bruller's own home outside of Paris.
The film has been described as an "anti-cinematographic" film due to the unique method of narration used to give voice to the (mostly) silent Frenchman and his niece.
It was made shortly after Melville was demobbed from the French Resistance and is one of several films made by Melville on the Resistance, along with "Léon Morin, prêtre" and "L'armée des ombres".
The film is coloured by Melville's own experience of the sacrifices and the painful moral intransigence that resistance demands.
An unnamed Frenchman and his niece are obliged to provide lodgings for a German officer and register their resistance by refusing to speak to him.
Maintaining their silence becomes harder as the officer, von Ebrennac, talks to them, and reveals a decency and his own doubts about the war. "
He's clearly related to von Stroheim's sympathetic commandant in Renoir's "La Grande Illusion", a figure whose loyalty is to something greater than nationalism.
His unwilling hosts-[and] the echo chamber [of] their mute opposition makes him question both himself and his mission."
"Melville made the film on a very small budget.
It's a remarkably assured apprentice work.
Melville and his cameraman Henri Decae show considerable cinematic technique: despite much of the film taking place in a single room, they avoid any sort of claustrophobia."
Von Ebrennac's monologues and the extensive voiceover mean that, the title notwithstanding, there is a significant amount of talk.

Question: Are both directors of films Le Silence De La Mer (1949 Film) and A Hen On A Wall from the same country?
Answer: yes