Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni. After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting. As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians. In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm. In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure). In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him. He died on 8 August 2019. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Senso
as Un Soldato (uncredited)A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love...
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Godard Mon Amour
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Orpheus
as Band Leader (uncredited)A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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The Mask of the Gorilla
as uncreditedGéo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must...
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Americano
as Le pèreA real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a...
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Ville à vendre
as ShadeA man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
as Albert de MorcerfEdmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend...
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Head Against the Wall
as François GéraneAn aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure...
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Queen's Necklace
as uncreditedThe adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France...
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Aznavour by Charles
as Self - Actor (archive footage)In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera....
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The Vanquished
as PierreA trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of...
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Speaking of Murder
as PierreLouis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his...
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Solo
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No Pockets in a Shroud
as Michel DolannesIn the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing...
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Abandoned
as AndreaA group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans...
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Kill the Referee
as Inspector GranowskiMichel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team...
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
as Tramp with pram (uncredited)Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
as Self (archive footage)Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago...
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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
as Jean AlmereydaAn absurdly brutal and minimalist examination of the desperate search for financial backing by...
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God Needs Men
as PierreThe inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow...
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Graziella
as Alphonse de LamartineNaples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at...
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At the Grand Balcony
as (uncredited)World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the...
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
as ChristopheThe story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest...
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Litan
as JockNora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead.
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Droit de Réponse
as Self"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12,...
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Portrait of a Murderer
as uncreditedA circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a...
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The Spice of Life
as Le postilloneurA series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and...
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The Spice of Life
as uncreditedA series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and...
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as Récitant (voice) (uncredited)An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by...
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as SelfLes portraits désormais cultes de Stéphane Guillon sur Canal+ . S'adressant aux invités, il ose...
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Bibi Fricotin
as uncreditedTo find the heritage of his friend Catherine's ancestors, the leaping Bibi Fricotin, helped by...
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Snobs !
as uncreditedThe director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him...
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Un joueur de belote (uncredited)Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to...
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Tu es si jolie ce soir
as Agent WillyProsecutor Vadim, who has an uneasy relationship with his glamorous wife Chanéac, vanishes at...
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Le mystère des jonquilles
as TarlingThe director of a department store is murdered. He is discovered in a park, a bunch of daffodils...
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Tous flics !
as AlexA comedy on the theme of the law being debated where, in the face of growing insecurity and the...
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Stain on the Snow
as ViolinistLa neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon....
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Illicit Motherhood
as La Fouine, un gars de la bandeA group of drifting youngsters train to commit petty thefts. A certain André puts them on the...
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Love Hate
as Stef TasselA prisoner escapes and kidnaps a woman with her he falls in love. He's involved in a bad...
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Calomnies
as ArmandXavier Durmont young deputy newly elected, is charged by a representative of the Court of...
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The Hell of Lost Pilots
as DenisA plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio,...
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The Big Flag
as Luc Dutoit - a midshipmanFor Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised...
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Il gèle en enfer
as TimBased on Elliott Chaze's "Black Wings Has My Angel", the film tells a story of (nudist)...
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The Eternal Husband
as uncreditedAn adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity,...
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Les araignées de la nuit
as Inspecteur Richard GordoneIn the lead up to the presidential elections five candidates turn up from out of nowhere. Then,...
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
as uncreditedYoung Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend...
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Leon's Husband
as Boris LossefThe tragi-comic chronicle of a passionate friendship between Boris Lassef, brilliant but...
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Vidange
as CastellinMireille Bertillet, a provincial judge, is transferred to Paris. She inherits a heavy file...
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Vénéneuses
as Dick GrantAn aging gangster (Jean-Pierre Mocky) escapes from prison and is taken in by a very beautiful...
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Monsieur Cauchemar
as Valentin EsbirolThe old Mr. Esbirol, a passionate bookseller of crime fiction, had waited for a long time that...
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La bête de miséricorde
as Jean MardetAfter a car accident, Jean Mardet ends the agony of his wife with a rock. Mardet then keeps...
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Le piège à cons
as Michel RayanTen years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing "soixante-huitard" falls in...
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Les Insomniaques
as BorisTwo insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the...
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Dreams of Love
as ExtraParis, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to...
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Long Live Liberty
as uncreditedTwo-sided painting of the German occupation in France: the acts of heroism of the maquis are...
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La Candide Madame Duff
as Jacob DuffMarried to a younger woman, Jacob sinks into jealousy, alcohol and violence.
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Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!
as Vieux 2A small village in the north of France is plagued by zombies after a meteorite landed. 3...
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The Unsewing Machine
as Ralph EngerThe insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children,...
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La Cabane aux souvenirs
as uncreditedLaurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian,...
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Robin des mers
as le père de MathieuIn La Roche-sur-Mer, the factory where the father of Mathieu's boyfriend, a 12-year-old boy,...
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L'éternel espoir
as uncreditedThe war will separate the members of the Valon family, two sons Alexandre and Antoine being...
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The Vertical Smile
as Franco, le prêtre borgneA kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The...
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Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
as SelfA short documentary about Georges Franju.
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A Night at a Honeymoon
as uncreditedGaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a...
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Un risque à courir
as Self - HostA young, idle, half-mad man kidnaps a wealthy woman and confines her to the trunk of his car. He...
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Les Ballets écarlates
as Mathieu, the gunsmithA pedophile network, to which belong notables of a French provincial town is about to be...
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Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
as L'ange LéonardThe young vicar Victor and Sister Marie Ernestine, caught while they were making love, are...
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Divine enfant
as Aurélien BradaMuch against his will, Aurélien Brada is put in charge of a cute orphan girl and her cute dog.
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Votez pour moi !
as Pascal, l'ermiteThe mayor of a small provincial town, caught up in mundane affairs and corruption, summons his...
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The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
as Self (archive footage)The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.
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Le glandeur
as Bruno BombecBruno Bonbeck, a retired soccer referee, is the world’s biggest layabout until his politician...
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Dossier Toroto
as Le professeur LapineA scientist invents a product destined to make vegetables grow larger. His nephew, until then...
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Tout est calme
as LucasA secret society, somewhere in France, is responsible for the major unsolved murder mysteries...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental
as Various Roles (archive footage)A journey into the mind of French actor and director Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929-2019), author of...
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Shadow of a Chance
as Mathias CaralMathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal...
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La parallèle Mocky
as himselfAn episode of the renowned french TV series "Cinéma, de notre temps" (Cinema of Our Times) about...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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C à vous
as SelfEvery day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news....
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Zone interdite
as SelfThe zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France...
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Série noire
as Jean AlmereydaSérie noire is a French crime television series created by Pierre Grimblat in 1984. The series...
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