Pierre Batcheff
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pierre Batcheff (23 June 1907 – 13 April 1932) was a French actor, whose original name was Piotr Bacev (from Russia), born in Harbin, Manchuria. His best-known film was Un chien andalou (1929) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. He was married to French film editor Denise Piazza. Both Batcheff and the leading actress in Un chien andalou, Simone Mareuil, committed suicide, Mareuil by setting herself on fire in 1954, Batcheff reportedly by overdosing on Veronal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Batcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Napoleon
as General Louis Lazare HocheA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a...
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Un Chien Andalou
as ManUn Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director...
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Siren of the Tropics
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The Late Mathias Pascal
as ScipionMathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible...
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The Chess Player
as Prince Serge OblomoffIn 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose...
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Double Love
as Jacques MarescoJacques Prémont-Solène is a degenerate gambler and his losses at baccarat have bankrupted his...
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Bonaparte et la révolution
as uncreditedAbel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent...
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Baroud
as Si HamedEnglish-language version of Baroud, sometimes referred to as Love in Morocco. 'A sergeant in...
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Sea Fever
as uncreditedThe ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a...
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Monte Cristo
as Albert de MorcerfThis epic adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was directed by Henri Fescourt, and stars Jean...
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The Lovers of Midnight
as MarcelA bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose...
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Two Timid Souls
as FremissinGaradoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not...
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Baroud
as Si HamedIn Morocco, a French sergeant falls in love with the sister of an Arab colleague, a dangerous...
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