Gilles Quéant

AKA:
0.1929

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {26}

A college student (uncredited)

1941-08-14 6.5

Her First Affair

Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charmi ...
Genre :Romance

(uncredited)

1942-01-16 4.5

Miss Bonaparte

Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III. ...
Genre :Drama

1945-09-21 6.9

Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Rémi

1948-09-17 0

The Secret of Monte-Cristo

One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard ...
Genre :

1949-06-03 5.1

Du Guesclin

A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century. ...
Genre :History, Drama

Duval

1951-11-15 0

Captain Ardant

Representing the French authority in Morocco, Captain Ardant is the target of the bloodthirsty rebel leader Malek. In order to appropriate himself in arms, he does not hesitate to take the captain's c ...
Genre :

Villerupt

1949-10-19 8.5

Mademoiselle de la Ferté

Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him. ...
Genre :Drama

1951-10-06 5.179

Adventures of Captain Fabian

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman fr ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Rudy

1948-09-22 6.9

The Eagle with Two Heads

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poe ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Racine

1954-02-10 6.69

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in m ...
Genre :Drama, History, Comedy

Stranger (segment "Gare du Nord")

1965-05-19 6.5

Six in Paris

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Examining Judge

1968-03-22 7.123

The Bride Wore Black

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose? ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

First Customer

1962-09-20 7.7

Vivre Sa Vie

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution. ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1961-12-01 7.5

Strangers of the Earth

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short introduction. This is followed by a number of interviews, in which ...
Genre :Documentary

Dance madman

1942-12-23 6.1

Love Letters

A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions. ...
Genre :Drama

Le duc d'Albe

1948-02-17 6.9

The Queen's Lover

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew ...
Genre :Drama

Valentino

1949-09-07 6

Faust and the Devil

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for ...
Genre :Music, Drama

1964-08-27 6.7

The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows

One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s included in the anthology film That Tender Age (La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes). The three other sk ...
Genre :Drama, Documentary

Jacques (as Gilles Queant)

1950-10-02 6.2

Odette

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration c ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

Narrator

1956-11-01 6.3

Sunday in Peking

Chris Marker’s travel essay Sunday in Peking transforms a long-held childhood dream into a cinematic journey through Beijing. Blending documentary observation with reflective narration, Marker capture ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1958-01-01 6

Les hommes de la baleine

In a small fishermen's village in the Azores, an enormous whale is being jointed, carved and stocked. Once this task is over, the whalers ready themselves for another hunt, a fascinating but trying an ...
Genre :Documentary

1965-05-19 6

Gare du Nord

In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second thoughts after meeting an intriguing stranger. ...
Genre :Drama

A Character from the Hotel

1961-05-25 7.443

Last Year at Marienbad

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Le juge

1956-11-23 9

Soupçons

"Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take l ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Deffand

1951-04-03 6.7

Night Without Stars

A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murder ...
Genre :Crime

Narrateur

1964-01-01 0

La Saint Firmin

Genre :Documentary