In a boxcar, three escapees hope to get to Sweden; there’s the military man who wants to resume the fight, the simple private who’s tired of being a fighter, and the intellectual, a schoolteacher fluent in German -which is useful- who does not exactly what he is going to do. Their main problem is water. On the train,their journey will be perilous: every station is a threat, for they may be discovered by the German soldiers.Read More »
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
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Jean-Paul Le Chanois – Les évadés AKA The Fugitives (1955)
France1951-1960DramaJean-Paul Le ChanoisWar -
Various – La Vie est à nous AKA Life Is Ours (1936)
France1931-1940Jacques B. BruniusJacques BeckerJean RenoirJean-Paul Le ChanoisPoliticsVariousQuote:
A propaganda film produced by the French Communist Party (PCF) for the campaign for the May 1936 elections – which brought the Popular Front to power – “La vie est à nous”, by Jean Renoir, was shot by a team of militant filmmakers and technicians.Read More » -
Jean-Paul Le Chanois – L’école buissonnière AKA I Have a New Master (1949)
1941-1950ComedyDramaFranceJean-Paul Le ChanoisSynopsis
Soon after the Great War, the Provence village of Salezes gets a new boys’ teacher: Mr. Pascal, a war hero with a diploma from a teachers’ college. He rejects old methods: boys’ sitting still with arms folded memorizing facts. He uses modern methods: he becomes their guide…Read More » -
Jean-Paul Le Chanois – Les misérables (1958)
1951-1960ClassicsDramaFranceJean-Paul Le ChanoisSynopsis:
Jean Valjean (Jean Gabin) is paroled after serving 19 year term in a hard labor prison for stealing some bread. After spending a night in a missionary, he tries to steal some silverware, but he is set straight by a kindly bishop (Fernand Ledoux) who protects him from the police and gives him a set of expensive candlesticks and makes him promise that he has to become a new man that day. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and a mayor.Read More »