Henri Verneuil
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Belmondo par Belmondo
Régis Mardon
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s movies drew over 130 million people into cinemas. This logbook takes us back to sets and countries, from where we can revisit the films in reference and find out about his fruitful collaborations with various directors. Paul Belmondo will lead the investigation, meeting the stars and his father’s friends (eye-witnesses all) and questioning his father about his journey, sharing it with us so we can discover the man and his story like never before.
Belmondo by Belmondo
Mother
Henri Verneuil
Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
Mother
La vingt-cinquième heure
Henri Verneuil
Anthony Quinn, Serge Reggiani
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
The 25th Hour
Any Number Can Win
Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin, Alain Delon
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Any Number Can Win
The President
Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier
Эмиль Бофор, бывший премьер-министр Франции живёт в уединении в своей усадьбе. Он диктует мемуары своему секретарю и слушает новости, в которых сообщается о кризисе в нынешнем французском правительстве. Воспоминания возвращают бывшего премьера к событиям 20-летней давности, приведшим к его отставке.
The President
Des gens sans importance
Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...
People of No Importance
Greed in the Sun
Henri Verneuil
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper until the climactic fight.
Greed in the Sun
Mille milliards de dollars
Henri Verneuil
Patrick Dewaere, Michel Auclair
A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Weekend at Dunkirk
Henri Verneuil
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Weekend at Dunkirk
