"Germinal (1993 film) Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the novel by Émile Zola. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud. At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. The film had 6,161,776 admissions in France making it the 4th most attended film of the year. It won the César Award for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best director, Best Writing, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Music and Best Production Design."
"entered the Marxist vocabulary as referring to revolutionaries who destroy the revolution from the inside and turn against its true aims. For example, Leon Trotsky and his followers used this term about Joseph Stalin. Émile Zola's novel ""Germinal"" takes its name from the calendar's month of Germinal. The seafood dish lobster thermidor was probably named after the 1891 play ""Thermidor"", set during the Revolution. The French frigates of the ""Floréal"" class all bear names of Republican months. The Convention of 9 Brumaire An III, 30 October 1794, established the École Normale Supérieure. The date appears prominently on the entrance to"
"Germinal (French Republican Calendar) Germinal () was the seventh month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word ""germen"", ""germination"". Germinal was the first month of the spring quarter (""mois de printemps""). It started March 21 or March 22, and ended April 19 or April 20. It follows Ventôse and precedes Floréal. In the context of the French Revolution, ""Germinal"" sometimes refers to the downfall and execution of the Indulgents, Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins, which took place during Germinal of 1794, four months before the Thermidorian Reaction in which Robespierre himself was executed. The"
"Chaval at the bottom. The ensuing drama and the long wait for rescue are among some of Zola's best scenes, and the novel draws to a dramatic close. Étienne is eventually rescued and fired but he goes on to live in Paris with Pluchart. The title, ""Germinal"", is drawn from the springtime seventh month of the French Revolutionary Calendar and is meant to evoke imagery of germination, new growth and fertility. Accordingly, Zola ends the novel on a note of hope and one that has provided inspiration to socialist and reformist causes of all kinds throughout the years since its"
"Mars and April Mars et Avril (English: Mars and April) is a 2012 Canadian science fiction film starring Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani and Robert Lepage. The film, based on the photo novels of the same name published by Sid Lee & la Pastèque, is written, produced and directed by Martin Villeneuve. Shot on a very tight budget of C$2.3 million and with abundant use of green screen, Villeneuve's feature film debut has a significant amount of visual effects. Belgian comic book artist François Schuiten is the production designer, former ILM Senior Compositor Carlos Monzon worked as VFX supervisor,"
"Hélas pour moi Hélas pour moi (English: ""Alas for Me"" or ""Oh Woe is Me"") is a 1993 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Gérard Depardieu. This film is inspired by the legend of Alcmene and Amphitryon and attempts to show the desire of a god to experience the truth of human desire, suffering and pleasure. Abraham Klimt arrives in a small Swiss village to investigate an incident that occurred on July 23, 1989 involving Rachel and Simon Donnadieu, a local couple. He interviews several of the townsfolk and enlists the aid of a poet, Aude Amiel. In"
"April and the Extraordinary World April and the Extraordinary World () is a 2015 French-Belgian-Canadian animated science fiction adventure film co-directed by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci, co-written by Ekinci and Benjamin Legrand, and starring Marion Cotillard. It depicts an alternate steampunk world with a visual style based on the work of French cartoonist Jacques Tardi. In 1870 on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War, French Emperor Napoleon III visits the lab of Gustave Franklin to access his project of breeding invulnerable supersoldiers. The emperor is disgusted with the results - two intelligent, talking komodo dragons ill-fit for war -"
"a book. The title () refers to the name of a month of the French Republican Calendar, a spring month. ""Germen"" is a Latin word which means ""seed""; the novel describes the hope for a better future that seeds amongst the miners. As the final lines of the novel read: The novel's central character is Étienne Lantier, previously seen in ""L'Assommoir"" (1877), and originally to have been the central character in Zola's ""murder on the trains"" thriller ""La Bête humaine"" (1890) before the overwhelmingly positive reaction to ""Germinal"" persuaded him otherwise. The young migrant worker arrives at the forbidding coal"
"the school. The French composer Fromental Halévy was named after the feast day of 'Fromental' in the Revolutionary Calendar, which occurred on his birthday in year VIII (27 May 1799). Neil Gaiman's ""The Sandman"" series included a story called ""Thermidor"" that takes place in that month during the French Revolution. The ""Liavek"" shared world series uses a calendar that is a direct translation of the French Republican calendar. Sarah Monette's ""Doctrine of Labyrinths"" series borrows the Republican calendar for one of the two competing calendars (their usage splits between social classes) in the fictional city of Mélusine. Jacques Rivette's 1974"
"interested in engaging with thought-provoking concepts than passively watching generic linear action unfold."" Mars and April Mars et Avril (English: Mars and April) is a 2012 Canadian science fiction film starring Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani and Robert Lepage. The film, based on the photo novels of the same name published by Sid Lee & la Pastèque, is written, produced and directed by Martin Villeneuve. Shot on a very tight budget of C$2.3 million and with abundant use of green screen, Villeneuve's feature film debut has a significant amount of visual effects. Belgian comic book artist François Schuiten is"
"and lost money"". March or Die (film) March or Die is a 1977 British war drama film directed by Dick Richards and starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow and Ian Holm. The film celebrates the 1920s French Foreign Legion. Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), a war-weary American haunted by his memories of the recently ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at a dig site in Erfoud in Morocco from Bedouin revolutionaries led by El-Krim (based on Moroccan revolutionary Abd el-Krim). The song Plaisir d'amour, a tune about lost love and regret"
"directed by Mark Osborne, Scarlet Overkill in the French version of ""Minions"", and that of April in the French-Canadian-Belgian 3D animated film ""April and the Extraordinary World"" (""Avril et le Monde Truqué""), directed by Franck Ekinci and Christian Demares. In 2016, Cotillard played Gabrielle, a free-spirited woman in a convenience marriage, in Nicole Garcia's ""From the Land of the Moon"" (""Mal de Pierres""), an adaptation of the bestselling Italian novel ""Mal di Pietre"" by Milena Agus, which marked her return to French cinema after 2012's ""Rust and Bone"", and earned her a seventh César Award nomination. She also obtained the"
"March or Die (film) March or Die is a 1977 British war drama film directed by Dick Richards and starring Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow and Ian Holm. The film celebrates the 1920s French Foreign Legion. Foreign Legion Major Foster (Hackman), a war-weary American haunted by his memories of the recently ended Great War, is assigned to protect a group of archaeologists at a dig site in Erfoud in Morocco from Bedouin revolutionaries led by El-Krim (based on Moroccan revolutionary Abd el-Krim). The song Plaisir d'amour, a tune about lost love and regret is heard repeatedly"
"those who lived before the revolution knew how sweet life could be"". The names of the characters in the film are the same as those in Stendhal's novel ""La Charteuse de Parme"": the principal character and narrator, Fabrice, is now Fabrizio del Dongo, a young Marxist from a bourgeois family, who attracts his young aunt, Gina, now Gina Sanseverina, and finally marries a girl from a good family, Clélia, now Clelia Conti. Bertolucci said of the context of the film in a 1996 interview: The film, strongly influenced by the French New Wave, was shot between September and November 1963."
"Gérard Depardieu Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed more than 170 films since 1967. He has received acclaim for his performances in ""The Last Metro"" (1980), for which he won the César Award for Best Actor, in ""Police"" (1985), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, ""Jean de Florette"" (1986), and ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" (1990), winning the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor, his second César Award for Best Actor, and his first Academy Award nomination"
"Greek derivations formed the fundamental blocks from which the new systems were built. The new calendar was created by a commission under the direction of the politician Charles-Gilbert Romme seconded by Claude Joseph Ferry and Charles-François Dupuis. They associated with their work the chemist Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, the mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange, the astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande, the mathematician Gaspard Monge, the astronomer and naval geographer Alexandre Guy Pingré, and the poet, actor and playwright Fabre d'Églantine, who invented the names of the months, with the help of André Thouin, gardener at the Jardin des Plantes"
"same name) depicts, through the character of Luc Jardie, played by Paul Meurisse, several events in Moulin's war experience with some inaccuracy - in the film his homosexual male secretary is replaced by a female assistant. In 1993, commemorative French two-franc, one hundred franc and five hundred franc coins were issued showing a partial image of Moulin against the Croix de Lorraine, using a fedora-and-scarf photograph which is well recognised in France. Jean Moulin Jean Moulin (20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943) was a high-profile member of the Resistance in France during World War II. He is remembered today"
"in 1825 in Haiti. Camille Desmoulins is among the central characters in the following works of fiction: There is also a scene ""Jefferson in Paris"" (film; 1995) where Camille Desmoulins makes his famous call to arms in the start of the French revolution. Vincent Cassel plays the part of Desmoulins. The ""Britannica"" gives the following references: Camille Desmoulins Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins (; 2 March 17605 April 1794) was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. He was a schoolmate of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were influential"
"he would again play a masked swashbuckler in his Zorro film. The Black Tulip (1964 film) The Black Tulip (French: La Tulipe noire) is a French-Italian-Spanish film which reused some names in the novel of the same title by Alexandre Dumas but its story does not follow the novel. It is, essentially, a star vehicle for the popular French actor Alain Delon. Like the popular European Karl May movies of the same time, the script actually used only the main characters of a popular novel, but didn't stick to the original story. In June 1789 in the town of Roussillon,"
"is ""Le Hussard sur le toit"", the first part of the definitive version of the story of Angélo Pardi he had sketched in ""Angelo"". It was published in 1951, and made into a film by Jean-Paul Rappeneau starring Juliette Binoche in 1995. Angélo, like Stendhal’s Fabrice del Dongo"" (La Chartreuse de Parme)"" on whom he is modelled, is a chivalrous romantic whose quest constitutes an inquiry into the nature of happiness, while the cholera epidemic he finds himself confronted with in Provence in 1832 is an allegory for the wars that had so deeply affected Giono. In structure it is"
"events of Germinal 1794 signaled the beginning of the end of the Reign of Terror. Like all FRC months, Germinal lasted 30 days and was divided into three 10-day weeks called ""décades"" (decades). Every day had the name of an agricultural plant, except the 5th (Quintidi) and 10th day (Decadi) of every decade, which had the name of a domestic animal (Quintidi) or an agricultural tool (Decadi). The 26th and 27th changed their role in later years. Germinal (French Republican Calendar) Germinal () was the seventh month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word"
"Cinema"" in 2010. Jean de Florette Jean de Florette () is a 1986 period drama film directed by Claude Berri, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol. It is followed by ""Manon des Sources"". The film takes place in rural Provence, where two local farmers plot to trick a newcomer out of his newly inherited property. The film starred three of France's most prominent actors – Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, who won a BAFTA award for his performance, and Yves Montand in one of his last roles before his death. The film was shot back to back with ""Manon des"
"March 2004 under Philippe Cambreling, directed by Patrick Abéjean with Bruno Comparetti (Chappelou / Saint-Phar), Isabelle Poulenard (Madeleine / Madame de Latour), Laurent Alvaro (le Marquis de Corcy), Jean Vendassi (Biju / Alcindor), Michèle Dumont (Rose), and Matthieu Grenier (Bourdon). The latter was a co-production of Opéra Paris-Sud and Opéra de Dijon. ""Act 1"" The newly married postilion, or coachman, (Chapelou) and his wife (Madeleine), an innkeeper, to ensure that their marriage will be a joyous one, decide to consult a clairvoyant, who predicts that things will not go smoothly in their marriage but does not state exactly what will"
"(Decadi) of every decade, which had the name of a domestic animal (Quintidi) or an agricultural tool (Decadi). Prairial Prairial () was the ninth month in the French Republican Calendar. This month was named after the French word ""prairie"", which means ""meadow"". It was the name given to several ships. Prairial was the third month of the spring quarter (""mois de printemps""). It started May 20 or May 21. It ended June 18 or June 19. It follows the Floréal and precedes the Messidor. Like all FRC months, Prairial lasted 30 days and was divided into three 10-day weeks called"
"love with Avril (Caroline Dhavernas), a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak (Robert Lepage), inventor, cosmologist and Arthur's father, who unveils a new theory about man's desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love. In 2005, Robert Lepage optioned the rights to Martin Villeneuve's ""Mars et Avril"" photo novels through his Quebec city-based motion picture company, Films Ex æquo (who had already produced ""The Far Side of the Moon"" in 2003), with the intent of adapting them into a science fiction feature film. While Villeneuve was to write the script, Lepage was attached to"
"the global socialist movement before May 1968 (the grin) with its actual presence in the world after May 1968 (the cat). The film's original French title is ""Le fond de l'air est rouge"", which means ""the air is essentially red"", or ""revolution is in the air"", implying that the socialist movement was everywhere around the world. The film was intended to be an all-encompassing portrait of political movements since May 1968, a summation of the work which he had taken part in for ten years. The film is divided into two parts: the first half focuses on the hopes and"
"June 1787, a month before her first birthday. As the French Revolution erupts with the storming of the Bastille, the royal family resolves to stay in France, unlike most of the court. Rioting Parisians force the family to leave Versailles for Paris. The film ends with the royal family's transfer to Tuileries Palace. The last image is a shot of Marie Antoinette's bedroom at Versailles, destroyed by angry rioters. The production was given unprecedented access to the Palace of Versailles. The movie takes the same sympathetic view of Marie Antoinette's life as was presented in Fraser's biography. Coppola has stated"
"but it was ""Mal di Pietre"" (""From the Land of the Moon"" in English) which brought her to the attention of a wide audience. Translated into five languages, it was a bestseller in France, where it rose to international fame. ""Mal di Pietra"" won the Strega prize, the Campiello prize, and the Stresa di Narrativa prize. In 2016 it was adapted into a feature film called ""Mal de Pierres"", or in English ""From the Land of the Moon"" directed by Nicole Garcia and starring Marion Cotillard. It was entered into competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016. Milena"
"Guillaume Depardieu Guillaume Depardieu (7 April 1971 – 13 October 2008) was a French actor, winner of a César Award, and the oldest child of Gérard Depardieu. Depardieu was the son of actor Gérard Depardieu and his first wife, actress Élisabeth Depardieu (née Guignot). He was the brother of actress Julie Depardieu, and half-brother of Roxane and Jean Depardieu. Guillaume shared the screen with his father several times throughout his career, beginning with his first film role, aged three, playing Gérard's son in Claude Goretta's ""That Wonderful Crook"" (""Pas Si Méchant Que Ça"") in 1974. His next appearance beside his"
"tool (Decadi). Floréal Floréal () was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. , which means ""flower"". Floréal was the second month of the spring quarter (""mois de printemps""). It started 20 April or 21 April. It ended 19 May or 20 May. It follows the Germinal and precedes the Prairial. Like all FRC months Floréal lasted 30 days and was divided into three 10-day weeks called ""décades"" (decades). Every day had the name of an agricultural plant, except the 5th (Quintidi) and 10th day (Decadi) of every decade, which had the name of a domestic animal (Quintidi) or"
"by Marshal Villars over the allies commanded by Prince Eugene of Savoy; and the battlefield is marked by a monolithic monument inscribed with the verses of Voltaire: """""""" (""See in Denain bold Villars/Fighting the eagle of the Caesars""). Denain was an important centre in the industrial revolution, first for coal-mining from 1720, and steelworks from around 1839. The closure of the large Usinor steelworks at Denain was announced in 1978, and the works finally closed in 1988. Émile Zola is thought to have conducted research into the working of the mine and mining communities by visiting Denain before writing Germinal."
"with everything white (and pure: swans, lilies, snow, moons, Pierrots), the legendary star of the Funambules and what Jules Laforgue called Our Lady the Moon became inseparable. Albert Giraud's ""Pierrot lunaire"" (1884) marked a watershed in the moon-maddening of Pierrot, as did the song-cycle that Arnold Schoenberg derived from it (1912). If Carné’s hero had not been moonstruck, his audiences would still be wondering why. Jean-Gaspard Deburau Jean-Gaspard Deburau (born Jan Kašpar Dvořák; July 31, 1796 – June 17, 1846), sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a celebrated Bohemian-French mime. He performed from 1816 to the year of his death at"
"Coquelin. The play is named for the eleventh month of the French Republican Calendar. The dish lobster thermidor is named in honour of the play. Act I It is the era of the French Revolution, just before the fall of Robespierre. It is five in the morning, the month July (Thermidor), and on the banks of the River Seine in Paris, between the Isle Louvier and the Arsenal, the washerwomen come to rinse and beetle soiled linen. Citizen Labussière, a former actor who has been appointed Registering Clerk to the Committee of Public Safety, comes to the banks of the"