Jean Rougeul
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 22, 1905
Place of Birth: Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Known For
8½
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
Duck, You Sucker
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Slap the Monster on Page One
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
Coup D'Etat
Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Interior reveals that the party with the highest number is the Italian Communist Party.
The Mattei Affair
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
The Monsters
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Two Men in Town
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
The Possessed
While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon the sudden death of the Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, he must face a challenging destiny that will put the future of the entire world in his hands.
Filmography
as Alexandre
as Genty
as Collector
as Bishop
as Valnoble
as Santini
as (uncredited)
as High Manager of Police
as Direttore de 'Il Giornale'
as il Vescovo
as French journalist
as Priest on Stagecoach
as Dad
as Member of PCI (uncredited)
as Dominican
as Crisantemo
as #4 Praying Man (uncredited)
as The Journalist (uncredited)
as Speaker (segment "Gli amanti celebri") (uncredited)
as Literary Critic (segment "La Musa") (uncredited)
as Carini, the Film Critic