Cap Tourmente (film)
Cap Tourmente is a Canadian drama film, released in 1993.
The film centres on Jeanne O'Neil( Andrée Lachapelle), a single mother running a small inn in rural Quebec with her daughter Alfa( Élise Guilbault).
The family's life is turned upside down, however, when bisexual prodigal son Alex( Roy Dupuis) and old family friend Jean- Louis McKenzie( Gilbert Sicotte) simultaneously arrive for a visit, causing chaos as Alex's sociopathic tendencies begin to blow the lid off the family's dysfunctional and borderline incestuous emotional life.
Supporting cast members in the film include Macha Limonchik, Gabriel Gascon, Luc Picard, André Brassard, Caroline Dhavernas and Michèle Deslauriers.
The film garnered Genie Award nominations for all four of its lead actors at the 14th Genie Awards, with Dupuis and Sicotte nominated for Best Actor and Guilbault and Lachapelle nominated for Best Actress.
The film was originally inspired by a family- owned inn in Saint- Joseph- de- la- Rive where director and screenwriter Michel Langlois had worked in his youth.
The film first entered development in 1984 as" La Traversée", with Léa Pool originally slated to direct.
However, she dropped out of the project, and Langlois brought it to French director Paul Vecchiali.
Vecchiali was subsequently also unable to direct the film and Pool returned to the project a second time, but was again forced to drop out.
Langlois subsequently put the film on hold, opting to take other jobs in the film industry so that he could learn how to direct the film himself.
He continued to write other screenplays, and directed several short films before completing a final draft of" Cap Tourmente" in 1991 and entering production in 1992 as the film's director.
Both Dupuis and Guilbault had previously also acted in Langlois' short film" Sortie 234".
In 2009, Langlois released" Mère et monde", a documentary film about the real family who had inspired the film.
Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt( 15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a German film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt.
He trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1924, with" Nameless Heroes".
Other films include" A Stolen Life"( 1946) and" Sirocco"( 1951).
Bernhardt made films in Germany from 1925 until 1933, when he was forced to flee the Nazi regime — who briefly had him arrested — because he was Jewish.
Bernhardt directed films in France and England before moving on to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers in 1940.
He produced and directed his last Hollywood picture," Kisses for My President"( 1964), about the nation's first female Chief Executive starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray.
He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, near his wife, Pearl Argyle Wellman Bernhardt.
Happy Go Lucky (1972 film)
Happy Go Lucky is a 1972 Soviet comedy film directed by Vasily Shukshin.
Michel Langlois
Michel Langlois is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.
He is a two- time nominee for the Genie Award for Best Screenplay, garnering nominations at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for" A Woman in Transit( La Femme de l'hôtel)" and at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991 for" The Savage Woman( La Demoiselle sauvage)".
His other screenwriting credits include" Trois pommes à côté du sommeil" and" Cargo".
As a director, he made the short films" Sortie 234 La nuit du visiteur" and" Lettre à mon père" before releasing his feature debut," Cap Tourmente", in 1993.
Following" Cap Tourmente", however, Langlois has concentrated exclusively on documentary films.
His first documentary, released in 2002, was" Le fil cassé", an exploration of his own family genealogy.
The film, whose title translates as" The Broken Thread", was inspired by the fact that as a gay man he would not be fathering children, and thus documenting his ancestry would be his primary contribution to the family history.
He followed up with" Mère et monde", a documentary about the family whose small inn in Saint- Joseph- de- la- Rive had inspired" Cap Tourmente", in 2009; and" Anne des vingt jours", a biographical documentary about writer Anne Hébert, in 2013.
Happy Go Lucky (1943 film)
Happy Go Lucky is a 1943 American comedy film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and written by Walter DeLeon, Melvin Frank, John Jacoby and Norman Panama.
The film stars Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Rudy Vallée, Mabel Paige and Eric Blore.
The film was released on January 4, 1943, by Paramount Pictures.
It might be best remembered now for Betty Hutton's energetic performance of the song" Murder, He Says," written by Frank Loesser and Jimmy McHugh.
Mel B. Kaufman
Melville Bernd Kaufman (Newark, New Jersey, April 23, 1879 - New York City, February 21, 1932) was an American ragtime piano composer.
Among his best known works were "Step With Pep" and "Happy Go Lucky".
Rickshaw Man
The film is a remake of a 1943 film of the same name.
Let's Get Lost (1988 film)
Let's Get Lost is a 1988 American documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker written and directed by Bruce Weber.
The title is derived from the song" Let's Get Lost" by Jimmy McHugh and Frank Loesser from the 1943 film" Happy Go Lucky", which Baker recorded for Pacific Records.
Shiwani Saini
Shiwani Saini is an Indian actress and model who appears in Hindi and Punjabi language films.
She made her debut with the Punjabi film" Happy Go Lucky".
Karina Fernandez
Karina Fernandez is a British actress.
She is best known for her performances in three of Mike Leigh's films –" Another Year" and" Happy- Go- Lucky" and" Mr. Turner".
Fernandez graduated from Drama Centre London.
She is an instructor at City Academy, London.

Question: Do both directors of films Cap Tourmente (Film) and Happy Go Lucky (1943 Film) have the same nationality?
Answer: no