Pierre Léon
Acting
Biography
Pierre Léon was born on November 11, 1959 in Moscow, Russia. He is an actor and director, known for L'idiot (2008), L'adolescent (2001) and Guillaume et les sortilèges (2007).
Born: November 11, 1959
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Known For
Correspondences
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.
The Bridge of Arts
The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980.
The Idiot
Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.
House of Pleasures
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
La France
During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.
The Portuguese Woman
North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreigner' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?
Open Season
A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.
Saint Laurent
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
My Dear Spies
Two brothers, Pierre and Vladimir, wonder if their Russian grandparents, Lily and Constantin, worked for the Soviet secret services in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Their research begins in Russia. After meetings and conversations, yellowish photos and vodka glasses, a lost world begins to emerge harassing the present.
The Adolescent
Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.
Filmography
as Charles
as Benoit Barnum (segment "Nano")
as Paul
as The newspaper seller
as Velho Criado
as L'inspecteur
as Jacques Tournier (jeune)
as Léon Méchain
as Admissions employee
as Réceptionniste hôtel
as Self
as Pierre
as Invité Lutetia
as Customer
as General Epanchin
as Alfred
as Elève
as Un spectateur du Nô
as Self
as Hermès
as Adrien
as Benoît Barnum
as l'apprenti chef d'orchestre
as Homme au journal
as Pierre
as Pierre