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Filmography - Brel the actor
| Les risques du métier |
| Director: |
André Cayatte |
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| Screenplay: |
André Cayatte and Armand Jammot |
| Frames: |
Christian Matras |
| Soundtrack: |
Jacques Brel and François Rauber |
| Editor: |
Hélène Plewianikoff |
| Production company: |
Gaumont Internationale |
| Length: |
105 min. Released: 21/12/1967 |
| Cast: |
Jacques Brel, Emmanuelle Riva, Jacques Harden, Nadine Alari, Christine Fabrega, René Dary, Muriel Baptiste, Delphine Desyeux. |
| Synopsis: |
Catherine, a 14-year-old girl, comes back from school, crying, with a ripped dress. She tells her parents that the primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet, has tried to rape her. The police and the mayor are called in to investigate the allegations but Jean Doucet denies. Two class friends of Catherine come forward to reveal the tutor's misconduct. Hélène confesses that she is the schoolteacher's mistress and Josette claims that he has stroked and kissed her. Doucet could get trial and could be sentenced to hard labour. |
| La bande à Bonnot or Les Anarchistes |
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Director: |
Philippe Fourastié |
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| Screenplay: |
Rémo Forlani and Philippe Fourastié |
| Frames: |
Alain Levent |
| Soundtrack: |
François Rauber and Jacques Brel |
| Editor: |
Jacqueline Thiédot |
| Production companies: |
Intermondia, Kinésis, Mega Films |
| Length: |
110 min. Released: 30/10/1968 |
| Cast: |
Jacques Brel, Annie Girardot, Bruno Cremer. |
| Synopsis: |
Paris 1911. Raymond-la-science, a strong anarchist, has just served his prison sentence for attempting to spread agitation through workers. He meets up with his friends Garnier, Carouy, Dieudonné and Soudy again who live together with their wives and children in the villa of their leader, Kibalthine. They take up with the notorious gangster Bonnot, who has chosen to express his revolt against the established order and the society by acting instead of speaking. With him, the gang robbers a gunsmith's, steals cars, attacks a bank employee, killing all embarrassing witnesses. After a bloody raid in Brussels, where they kill again cool-bloodedly many people to the police, they come back in Paris ans split up. |
Mon oncle Benjamin
(L'Homme à l'Habit rouge) |
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Director: |
Edouard Molinaro |
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| Screenplay: |
André Couteaux and François Hauduroy |
| Frames: |
Alain Levent |
| Soundtrack: |
Jacques Brel |
| Editor: |
Robert and Monique Isnardon |
| Production company: |
Gaumont |
| Length: |
90 min. Released: 28/11/1969 |
| Cast: |
Jacques Brel, Claude Jade, Bernard Blier. |
| Synopsis: |
Louis XVI is on the throne. Benjamin Rathery, country doctor, has a way with women and is devoted poor people, who know that they can count on him. The bachelorhood represents for ideal state and he refuses to marry Manette, the innkeeper's daughter, with whom he is nevertheless in love. But she has no intention of giving in to the doctor until she sees the marriage contract. That is why he resists the plan of his sister, Bettine, who would like to marry him to Arabelle, the daughter of the old doctor Minxit, who considers Benjamin as his son. But Arabelle is in love with the viscount of Pont-Cassé... |
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| Mont-Dragon |
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Director: |
Jean Valère |
| Screenplay: |
d'après le roman de Robert Margerit |
| Frames: |
Alain Levent |
| Soundtrack: |
Jack Arel |
| Editor: |
Paul Cayatte |
| Production companies: |
Alcinter-Films Leitienne |
| Length: |
95 min. Released: 16/12/1970 |
| Cast: |
Jacques Brel, François Prévost, Paul le Person, Catherine Rouvel. |
| Synopsis: |
After having seduced Germaine de Boismesnil, Georges Dormond is diven out of the army by the Colonel who is Germaine's friend. After the Comte de Boismesnil's death, killed by his whole blood Erèbe, Dormond arrives at the widow's castle and is out for revenge. He seduces promptly Pierrette, the maid, and remembers Germaine their love affair. He obtains a rendez-vous with the widow, he underdresses her, humiliates her and leaves her. Marthe, the proud orphan, has seen the scene. She throws herself in Gaston's arms, the Colonel's faithful orderly, to avenge her mother. it does not take Georges long to scoff at their feelings. He drives Germaine to reveal her attachment to Pierrette and causes a scandal. Gaston is the only one who could stop his revenge. |
| Les assassins de l'Ordre |
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Director: |
Marcel Carné |
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| Screenplay: |
Marcel Carné |
| Frames: |
Jean Badal |
| Soundtrack: |
Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier |
| Editor: |
Henri Rust |
| Production: |
Jean Kerchner |
| Length: |
110 min. |
| Released: |
07/05/1971 |
| Cast: |
Jacques Brel, Paola Pitagora, Catherine Rouvel, Charles Denner. |
| Synopsis: |
Bernard Level, a provincial judge, is in charge of a delicate case. A man, arrested for a minor crime, died at the police office during his questioning. Aware of the stir, that this case could cause, Level decides to prosecute the policemen and initiates a meticulously investigation. At the same time, he begins to receive repetitve threats from those who want him to stop. |
| L'Aventure c'est l'aventure |
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Director: |
Claude Lelouch |
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| Frames: |
Jean Collomb |
| Soundtrack: |
Francis Lai |
| Editor: |
Jeannine Boublil |
| Production companies: |
Films 13, Artistes Associés, Films Ariane |
| Length: |
120 min. Released: 04/05/1972 |
| Cast: |
Jacques Brel, Lino Ventura, Charles Denner, Aldo Maccione, Charles Gérard, Johnny Hallyday, Nicole Courcel. |
| Synopsis: |
Everything goes wrong in the underworld... The banks are empty, the prostitutes independent and crime does not pay anymore. Threee gangsters, Simon, Lino and Jacques, feel a little overtaken by the society which does not even bring them fresh money. Simon, the intellectual of the group, decides that they have to change direction. They begin to commit political kidnapping and aircraft hijackings. Their first crimes will prove his right: they are highly profitable... |
| Le Bar de la Fourche |
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Director: |
Alain Levent |
| Screenplay: |
Alain Levent, François Boyer, P. Dumarcay |
| Frames: |
Alain Levent |
| Soundtrack: |
Jacques Brel |
| Editor: |
Eric Pluet |
| Production company: |
SNC Production Dela |
| Length: |
85 min. Realeased: 23/08/1972 |
| Cast: |
Jacques Brel, Rosy Varte, Isabelle Huppert, Pierre-François Pistorio. |
| Synopsis: |
Vincent Van Horst is a real bon viveur, a drinker, who has a great love liberty and is an unrepentant skirt-chaser. He leaves in 1916 the European continent, torn apart by the war and decides to settle in Canda. He intends to meet up with Maria, the only woman he ever could be really in love with. On his way, he meets Olivier, a young boy who only dreams about one thing: he would like to take part in the European war. When he arrives at the "Bar de la Fourche", managed by Maria, Vincent finds her looking older. He consoles himself in his disappointment with the disturbing Annie, a tease, who openly looks down on him. She even succeed to drive Vincent and Olivier to fight a duel against each other. |
| L'emmerdeur |
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Director: |
Edouard Molinaro |
| Screenplay: |
Francis Weber from the play "Le Contrat" |
| Frames: |
Raoul Coutard |
| Soundtrack: |
Jacques Brel et François Rauber |
| Editor: |
Robert and Monique Isnardon |
| Length: |
80 min. Realeased: 20/09/1973 |
| Cast: |
Jacques Brel, Lino Ventura, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras. |
| Synopsis: |
Ralph Milan, a contract killer in the pay of the Mafia has been put in charge to kill a Mr. Randoni, whom testimony in different trials could seriously harm the organisation. Ralph holes up in his hotel room, patiently awaiting the opportunity to knock off his target. Unfortunately, his neighbour, a Mr. Pignon, is a real nuisance. He is a warm person but he is going through a bad patch... |
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