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- Director
Jacques Nolot was born on 31 August 1943 in Marcillac, France and is a well known stage and character actor whose first feature film L'arrière pays (1998) won the First Film Special Distinction Award at the Montreal World Film Festival and a FIPRESCI Special Mention Award at the Venice Film Festival both in 1998. It earned a nomination for Best New Director of a Feature Film at the César Awards in 1999. His next movie The Eagle with Two Heads (1948) also was critically acclaimed. He previously shot the short film Manège (1986) and also wrote several screenplays including I Don't Kiss (1991) and La Matiouette (1983), both directed by André Téchiné and Guys in the Cafe (1988), directed by Paul Vecchiali. Nolot first appeared in Hotel America (1981) and performed in many other films including Viva la vie (1984), Scene of the Crime (1986), Les innocents (1987) or Nénette and Boni (1996).- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Grichka Bogdanoff was born on 29 August 1949 in Saint-Lary, Gers, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Steps to the Future (2010), Robo Story (1985) and Chassé-croisé (1982). He died on 28 December 2021 in Paris, France.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sarah Maldoror is the author of some forty films making up a multiple and rebellious work, made of fiction, documentary and poetry, and interpreted by a war song: the short film Monangambée, shot in 1969 in Algiers where she was then living, which evokes the torture by the Portuguese colonial army of a sympathizer of the struggle for the liberation of Angola, visited in prison by his company.
Before becoming a pioneer of pan-African cinema, Sarah Maldoror lived part of her youth in Paris where, passionate about theater and received at the school in rue Blanche (according to her friend, the future Ivorian filmmaker Timité Bassori, they are among the first black students to enter), she co-founded in 1956 with the same Bassori, Toto Bissainthe, Ababacar Samb Makharam and Robert Liensol the company Les Griots, which became the first black theater company in France. The Tragedy of King Christophe by Aimé Césaire and Les Nègres by Jean Genet (directed by Roger Blin) are among the plays created by the troupe, which Maldoror presides for a time, with the material help and intellectual support of Alioune Diop, founder in 1947 of the important Parisian anti-colonialist review Présence africaine.
In 1961, Sarah Maldoror left France and went to study at the VGIK, the Moscow film school, before joining the African decolonization movements (in Algeria, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau) with her companion Mario Pinto de Andrade, whom he met in Paris and co-founder of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola, in exile during the war of independence (1961-1975) against the Portuguese metropolis.
It was in Algiers, where she settled in 1966, that she made her debut on the cinematographic front of the anti-colonial struggles: assistant on the Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966) and Pan-African Festival of Algiers 1969, documentary by William Klein, she quickly made her first film, followed by a lost film shot in Guinea-Bissau and a first "fiction" feature film, Sambizanga (1972). Filmed in the Republic of Congo, based on an Angolan novel by José Luandino Vieira, adapted by his companion Pinto de Andrade with the French writer Maurice Pons, Sambizanga takes place in 1961 and describes the repression of the Angolan Liberation Movement from point of view of Maria, wife of a revolutionary activist imprisoned and tortured by the Portuguese army, who sets out to find him across the country. Shot with real actors from the struggle then in progress, and one of the first African films directed by a woman in the history of cinema, Sambizanga remains seen and visible today - it is easily found on the Internet.
Leaving Algeria following a disagreement with the hierarchy of the FLN in power (some sources mention that she was imprisoned and then expelled from the country), Sarah Maldoror settled in France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis ), and continues to make films. His work includes documentaries (shot in Seine-Saint-Denis, Martinique, Guyana or Cape Verde for Fogo, the island of fire in 1978) and numerous portraits of artists and writers (the poets Léon Gontran-Damas, Aimé Césaire, Assia Djebar, René Depestre or Louis Aragon, singer Toto Bissainthe, musician Archie Shepp). Visible on the site of the CNRS video library, a 1974 short film, And the Dogs Are Silenced, shot in the reserves of the Musée de l'homme dedicated to objects from black Africa, adapted from extracts from the play of the same name by Aimé Césaire, with the actor Gabriel Glissant (seen in Soleil O du grand Med Hondo) and the filmmaker herself in the role of the revolutionary's mother, dressed in an ironic white scientific coat. But if there is a science of revolt, Sarah Madoror will have written, shot, played and some of the greatest pages. We hear more than twice, everywhere behind the scenes of the Musée de l'Homme, the sound of fire.
She died in April 2020 as a result of Covid-19. In November 2021, "Sarah Maldoror, Cinéma Tricontinental" presented by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, is a retrospective of her work, her life and her political commitment. The exhibition extends to the Musée de l'Homme, the Museum of the History of Immigration and the Museum of Art and History Paul Éluard in Saint-Denis.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Igor Bogdanoff was born on 29 August 1949 in Saint-Lary, Gers, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Steps to the Future (2010), Robo Story (1985) and Chassé-croisé (1982). He was married to Amélie de Bourbon Parme and Ludmilla d'Oultremont. He died on 3 January 2022 in Paris, France.- Actor
- Writer
Patrick Ligardes was born on 24 May 1962 in Lectoure, Gers, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Frontier(s) (2007), Hitman (2007) and Madame Edouard (2004).- Laura Bove was born on 22 July 1947 in Gerli, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Operación rosa rosa (1974), Nuestra galleguita (1969) and El hombre que volvió de la muerte (1969). She died on 3 November 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Stella Maris Lanzani was born on 2 July 1957 in Gerli, Argentina. She is an actress, known for El precio del poder (1992), La gran aventura (1974) and ¡Qué viudita es mi mamá (1974).
- Jean-Luc Lagardère was born on 10 February 1928 in Aubiet, Gers, France. He was married to Bethy Lagardère and Corinne Levasseur. He died on 14 March 2003 in Paris, France.
- René Gouzenne was born on 7 February 1925 in Mirande, Gers, France. He was an actor, known for Hell (1994), Je t'aime quand même (1994) and Un juge, un flic (1977). He died on 20 July 2007 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Maurice Cazeneuve was born on 4 January 1923 in Lectoure, Gers, France. He was a director and writer, known for Cette nuit là... (1958), Vendredi (1976) and Illusions perdues (1966). He was married to Martine Sarcey. He died on 28 June 2016 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.- Actor
- Production Designer
Jean-Paul Chambas was born on 11 March 1947 in Vic-Fezensac, Gers, France. He is an actor and production designer, known for Open at Night (2016), Le nozze di Figaro (1996) and Mémento (1968).- Georges Pelletier d'Oisy was born on 9 May 1892 in Auch, Gers, France. He was an actor, known for Le p'tit Parigot (1926). He died on 26 May 1953 in Marrakech, Morocco.
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Pierre-André Dousset was born on 28 September 1938 in Nogaro, Gers, France. He is known for Docteur Justice (1975), J'ai rencontré le Père Noël (1984) and Mon père, ce héros. (1991). He died on 25 May 2023 in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Arthur Lamothe was born on 7 December 1928 in Saint-Mont, Gers, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le silence des fusils (1996), Bûcherons de la Manouane (1963) and La neige a fondu sur la Manicouagan (1965). He died on 18 September 2013 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.- Oléo was born on 19 June 1906 in Gimont, Gers, Midi-Pyrénées, France. She was an actress, known for Le tampon du capiston (1930), A Man's Head (1933) and Heart of Paris (1937). She died on 21 February 1978 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
- Eugène Frouhins was born on 9 May 1888 in Estang, Gers, France. He was an actor, known for Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949), Quartier sans soleil (1939) and Chantons quand même (1940). He died on 29 May 1966 in Paris, France.
- André Daguin was born on 20 September 1935 in Auch, Gers, France. He was married to Jocelyne Grass. He died on 3 December 2019 in Auch, Gers, France.
- Editor
- Producer
- Director
Marie-Claire Korber was born on 7 July 1937 in Lombez, Gers, France. She is an editor and producer. She was previously married to Serge Korber.- Jean-Marc Rouillan was born on 30 August 1952 in Auch, Gers, France. He is an actor, known for Faut savoir se contenter de beaucoup (2015), Uchronia (2016) and Chutes libres (2016).
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Jean-Paul Török was born on 17 October 1936 in Saint-Jean-Poutge, Gers, France. He was a director and writer, known for La ligne de Sceaux (1973), A Bad Son (1980) and Histoires abominables (1979). He died on 3 January 2017 in Valognes, France.- Jean Castex was born on 25 June 1965 in Vic-Fezensac, Gers, France.
- Nicolas Portal was born on 23 April 1979 in Auch, Gers, France. He died on 3 March 2020 in Andorra la Vella, Andorra.
- Yves Navarre was born on 24 September 1940 in Condom, Gers, France. He was a writer, known for Le troisième cri (1974), Straight for the Heart (1988) and Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches (1988). He died on 24 January 1994 in Paris, France.