Dorothée Blanck
Acting
Biography
Dorothée Blanck was born on February 24, 1934 in Aichach, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). She died on January 16, 2016 in Paris, France.
Born: February 24, 1934
Place of Birth: Aichach, Germany
Known For
Josef von Sternberg, A Retrospective
An interview with film director Josef von Sternberg, produced for Belgium television.
L'annonciation
Study of the suffocating materialism of modern society as an expression of prima ry retreat to infantilism.
The Young Girls of Rochefort
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
A Woman Is a Woman
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
French Cancan
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
Lola
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
La Lumière des étoiles mortes
June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and Lea, and Mademoiselle, the beautiful jewish governess.
Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged actors in the same spots, telling stories, and listening to others' reflections on the making of the film. She and they talk about making a film on a low budget, its showing at Cannes, and trying to fix a problem in the last shot. Her assistant directors discuss casting, costumes, sets, and the ways the film changed their approaches to filmmaking.
Filmography
as La dame au Caddie
as La mère de Jeanne
as Paula
as L'infirmière
as Interviewer
as Tsarina Alexandra (uncredited)
as Passerby
as Tenacq's assistant
as Girl at the hotel particulier
as Girl in Cafe
as Sophie
as SS Auxiliary / Ivan's Girlfriend
as Dorothée
as Diomira
as Prostitute 3 / 'L'Opera Mouffe' shown on TV screen (uncredited)
as Dolly
as The Lover
as Woman (uncredited)