Georges Rouquier
Directing
Biography
Georges Rouquier (23 June 1909 – 19 December 1989) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He worked principally on documentary films, and his best-known work is Farrebique (1947) a lyrical evocation of farming life in Aveyron.
Born: June 23, 1909
Place of Birth: Lunel-Viel, Hérault, France
Known For
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A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
Letter from Siberia
A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical musings on its people and places, wildlife and culture.
Le Sabotier du Val de Loire
This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
Le Secret des Flamands
Inspired by the book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by painter Giorgio Vasari, this historical soap opera, in which betrayals, kidnappings, murders and police investigations are interwoven, relates the discovery by the Italians of the secret of Flemish painting around 1470.
Jeff
Jeff is a gangster who's disappeared with a million dollars, and Laurent is looking for him to catch him before the other members of the gang find him.
L'Amour nu
Claire, a UNESCO interpreter, begins a romance with an oceanographer named Simon. Their relationship is challenged when Claire receives a breast cancer diagnosis. Faced with her illness and the potential for a mastectomy, she struggles with her self-image and decides to push Simon away, believing the diagnosis will change their future together.
Mandrin
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.
Pitchi-Poï ou La parole donnée
May 1944, in Provence, a young Jewish woman fleeing Nazi persecution, entrusts her three-month-old granddaughter to a stranger, Mathieu, a solitary shepherd who will raise her alone. Once the war is over, he will leave with her, in search of the mother. A research that will last more than twenty years and that will lead them to several European countries.
Lourdes et ses miracles
The life of the pilgrims in Lourdes and the cases of healing recorded by the Bureau of Medical Findings.
Handsome Face
Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a strikers' demonstration she leads, where he is bludgeoned to death by the CRS.
Filmography
as Jean Lafaye
as Battestini
as Vizille
as Jeff
as Attorney General (uncredited)
as Mathieu
as Voltaire (uncredited)
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)