Julien Duvivier — Playwright (38)

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The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans
other title: Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans / 貝萊曼斯小姐的婚姻 …
Set in Brussels, where Suzanne Beulemans, the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester, the son of a rival brewer. The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée. But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young woman. Albert learns Séraphin's secret that he is having an affair with a worker and that they have had a child. He promises Séraphin that he will never reveal any of it to Suzanne, but she is told by Isabelle, her maid.

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The Man of the Day (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
L'Homme du jour
other title: L'Homme du jour / 白昼男子 …
Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the man of the hour. Grateful to him, Mona helps Alfred to become a singing star. But his fame will be short-lived.

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S.S. Tenacity (1934) IMDb Douban
Le paquebot Tenacity
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Albert Préjean / Marie Glory …
other title: 不屈号商船 / Le paquebot Tenacity …
Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canadian notions.

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玛丽亚·夏德莱娜 (1934) IMDb Douban
Maria Chapdelaine
director: 朱利安·杜维威尔 Julien Duvivier actor: 马德莱娜·雷诺 / 让·迦本 …
other title: 白色处女地 / Maria Chapdelaine
A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an immigrant from Paris.

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The Impostor (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Impostor
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Jean Gabin / Ellen Drew …
other title: L'Imposteur / El falsario …
A condemned murderer named Clement is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.

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Lydia (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lydia
other title: Ein Frauenherz vergißt nie / 莉迪亚 …
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.

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Moon over Morocco (1932) IMDb Douban
Les Cinq gentlemen maudits
other title: Les Cinq gentlemen maudits / 五位被诅咒的绅士 …
When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...

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卷心菜 (1935)
Bout de chou
director: Henry Wulschleger actor: 更多...
other title: Bout de chou
达纳塔尔先生受到他的侄子乔治的邀请,参加了他在巴黎举行的盛宴的首映式;但是他的伴侣(他没有嫁给她,即使这么多年了)也不准备接受,他利用他最好的朋友作为不在场证明;这两位朋友打算在首都有很多可爱的女孩,过着疯狂的生活。但叔叔发现,他亲爱的侄子有一个未婚妻,实际上是个未婚的母亲,因为她有一个小孩。年轻人爱上了他的综艺节目明星,一个变化无常的香奈德,他最后只看到了她在剧中的合作明星。叔叔生气了,威胁要剥夺这个臭名昭著的侄子的继承权,并娶了这位年轻的母亲,而这位50多岁的伙伴是来巴黎见他的。

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Little One (1935) IMDb Douban
Bout de chou
director: Henry Wulschleger actor: 更多...
other title: 卷心菜 / Bout de chou …
Mister Darnétal is invited by his nephew Georges to the premiere of his extravaganza in Paris;but his partner (he did not marry her,even after all those years)is not prepared to accept it and he uses his best friend as an alibi ;the two pals intend to live a wild life in the capital where there are plenty of lovely girls.But the uncle discovers that his dear nephew has a fiancee ,actually an unwed mother for she's got a little kid.The young man has fallen for the star of his variety show,a coquette fickle Chanteuse who ,in the end ,only has eyes for her co-star in the show .Uncle gets angry ,threatens to disinherit this infamous nephew and marries the young mom ,unbeknown to his fifty-something partner who has come to meet him in Paris.

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The Return of Don Camillo (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Le Retour de Don Camillo
director: 朱利安·杜维威尔 actor: 费南代尔 / 吉诺·塞尔维 …
other title: Il ritorno di Don Camillo / Le Retour de Don Camillo …
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

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Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1932) IMDb Douban
Allo Berlin? Ici Paris!
other title: Here's Berlin / 喂,柏林吗?这里是巴黎! …
Lily is in love, but with a man she has never seen. She and Erich both work as switchboard operators, she in Paris, he in Berlin. They talk to each other every day and now they are hopelessly in love. Finally, they decide to meet up in Paris. Lily has a photograph of Erich and so is surprised when the man who meets her at the station looks nothing like the man she had been expecting. Not realising that the man is an impostor, Lily allows herself to be courted by him. Meanwhile, Erich has mistaken another woman, Annette, for Lily, and ends up seeing far more than he expected to on a first date. The weekend adventure over, Lily and Erich return to their humdrum lives, only to be dismissed by their employers for their unorthodox method of cementing Franco-German relations over the phone. Just when all seems lost, Fate conspires to bring the two young lovers together...

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Revelation (1927) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
L'agonie de Jérusalem
director: 朱利安·杜维威尔 actor: 埃德蒙·凡·达埃勒 / Marguerite Madys …
other title: 耶路撒冷的受难 / L'agonie de Jérusalem …
A former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.

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Haceldama (1919) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Haceldama ou Le prix du sang
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Suzy Lilé / 卡米耶·贝尔 …
other title: 血之代价 / Haceldama ou Le prix du sang …
Landry Smith, lives with Minnie, his ward, in Corrèze, in France. Kate Lockwood, his servant, asks Bill Stanley, a sadistic Mexican cowboy, to come kill her master and fins his money. Bill arrives in the area in the same time of Jean Didier, a man whose father suicided because of Landry Smith.

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The Phantom Wagon (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
La Charrette fantôme
director: 朱利安·杜维威尔 actor: 皮埃尔·弗雷奈 / Marie Bell …
other title: 幽灵马车 / La Charrette fantôme …
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.

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The Red Head (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Poil de carotte
director: 朱利安·杜维威尔 actor: Robert Lynen
other title: 红头男孩 / Poil de carotte …
Drawing heavily on the poignant novel by Jules Renard on which it is based, Poil de carotte is a modest yet appealing film which has stood the test of time mainly because of the quality of its acting performances and its inherent humanity. It is more memorable than Julien Duvivier’s earlier silent version of 1925, also named Poil de Carotte.
The part of Poil de Carotte was played by 11 year old Robert Lynen, who was alleged to have been discovered whilst walking down the Champs-Elysées in Paris. Lynen is totally captivating and the film made him an instant star, launching what looked like becoming a very promising film career – until he was shot dead whilst fighting against the Germans in 1944. Harry Baur, a legendary stage and film actor (who also died during World War II, allegedly at the hands of the Gestapo), also turns in a typically fine performance. The reconciliation between father and son at the end of the film provides its most enduring image, enough to melt the heart of all but the most stoical of spectators.