Marcelle Géniat
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 10, 1881
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known For
La Renégate
In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
The Path of Honor
Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign Legion. A snitch having informed the police of Georges' presence at the Legion, he must leave. In Casablanca, Paul helps his brother escape the police by taking his identity to allow him to regain his honor.
La Belle Équipe
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
The Chain Breaker
Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.
The Strange Monsieur Victor
Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...
Crime and Punishment
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Manon of the Spring
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Ugolin
Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and try to obtain her forgiveness…
God Needs Men
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
Filmography
as Pietro's grandmother
as Mme Gretchikine
as Mme Morand
as Baptistine, la Piémontaise
as Baptistine, la Piémontaise
as Madame Pons
as Soeur Saint-Pierre
as Ms. Iturbe
as Mrs. Milleris
as Mother Gourvennec
as Claire's grandmother
as Varbara Ostovska
as Tenant of the sixth
as Aunt Agathe
as The witch, his wife
as Aunt Marguerite
as Grandmother
as Mrs. Moretti
as Noémie
as Nany
as Marceline
as Aunt Louise
as Madame Breuilly
as Aunt Anna
as Mamouret
as Mrs. Imbert
as (uncredited)
as Madame Thibet
as Grandmother
as Mrs. Pelletier
as La marquise d'Amaral
as La mère de Victor
as Marie des Anges
as Alphonsine Boulard - la mère d'Alfred
as la grand-mère d'Huguette
as Véronique
as Tante Sylvestre
as Mrs. de Fallec
as La Chouette
as Madame Raskolnikov, la mère
as The Prowler
as Marie Girbal