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Jean Dréville was a prolific French film director whose career spanned from the late 1920s to the late 1960s. Initially trained in advertising design and photography, he began his cinematic journey by publishing articles in film sections of newspapers like L'Intransigeant and Comœdia. Dréville directed his first film, Autour de L'Argent (1928), a documentary on the making of Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent. His notable works include A Cage of Nightingales (1945), which inspired the 2004 film The Chorus, and The Battle of the Rails (1946), a realistic portrayal of French railway workers' resistance during World War II. Dréville's films are recognized for their narrative clarity and humanistic approach.
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19 May 2019
Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge.
26 November 1937
A middle aged baroness thinks she is still young enough to have an affair with a military man the age of her son.
28 July 1943
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals.
20 August 1957
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole.
15 June 1929
A documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more complicated moving camera shots.
21 August 1958
Georgina comes to see her sister Gladys in Paris in order to dissuade her from becoming attached to Rigo, a gypsy conductor.
01 November 1935
A young supervisor is expelled from his high school after misleading his students during an outing. He made his fortune and basked on the Côte d'Azur.
16 February 1962
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
14 November 1945
In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and experts of the Navy is punctuated by permissions in town, friendships, bullying, and loves.
25 November 1954
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre.
25 November 1938
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
26 April 1939
The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching.
11 April 1940
A public prosecutor wants his son to marry an ugly girl(who has a squint) because her mom is very rich.
09 September 1958
A French animal lover protects a dog and a mouse wanted by Soviet scientists for their space program.
01 January 1930
Documentary about Physiopolis, a naturist camp in France.
04 May 1982
Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
08 April 1929
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy.
27 March 1952
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
24 February 1960
A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR.
09 July 1947
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist.
06 October 1943
In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his father, a rich owner of gold mines.
16 March 1942
Based on the short story by Georges Simenon. Annoying Annette is bent on seducing Maurice, a handsome lawyer who has his eye on a haughty American Myriam who is running after bashful Bernard.
06 September 1945
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
25 September 1952
The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
26 November 1948
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects.
16 March 1955
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route.
27 July 1936
A young girl has left her family and lives as best she can on the generosity of her lovers. A naval officer introduces her to Toulon in a special environment which provides companions to sailors on leave.
09 March 1938
Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide.
10 February 1950
One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.
16 November 1965
Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer.
09 November 1934
An honest civil servant learns about his wife’s infidelity. He pretends not to be aware of it and decides to start a businessman career.
04 December 1946
Louberger, director of an orphanage, is full of praise for a former boarder, Mr. Sauval, who has become their benefactor.
05 February 1948
A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.
18 June 1937
Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase during which the trafficker loses his life.
03 February 1934
Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings.
21 January 1966
In 1812, Napoleon I set off for the Russian Campaign and planned to spend a night in Châlons-sur-Marne.
15 September 1934
Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her.
26 April 1953
The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons).
04 September 1931
Of two men, Radu and Floréa, the young Romanian woman Zanfira does not choose the one most worthy of her love.
14 September 1949
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
10 September 1942
Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl is in love with a young scientist.
05 December 1945
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field.
26 January 1932
Commissioned film for the Continental Commission for the Propagation of Creosote Oil about extraction and application of creosote oil (carboleum), a preservative distilled from coal tar that protects wood from fungi and insects.
08 June 1939
A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy.
10 April 1936
In Pisa, chance forces an old bookseller out of his isolation. He unleashes the fury of the tenants of his building, he undergoes the rigors of the law and he is involved in the adventure of two lovers whose marriage he arranges.
26 September 1952
Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta.
