Jean Vilar

AKA: Jean Louis Côme Vilar
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1912-03-25

Sète, Hérault, France

Biography

Crew Roles

Le Théâtre National Populaire
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {20}

Horace

1971-04-02 5.8

Raphael or the Debauched One

In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical romance. ...
Genre :Drama

Le clochard / La fortune

1946-12-03 7.1

Gates of the Night

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Typographer

1950-03-31 0

Thirst Of Men

During the colonial period in Algeria, Sergeant Bouvard helps Broussole and his two daughters, Alise and Julie, settle in Hassi Ben Okba. Demobilized, he plants vines with them. Seduced by Julie's cha ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Lui-même

2021-07-23 0

Jean Vilar, le rêve du théâtre pour tous

Genre :Documentary

Inspector Dominique

1948-06-16 0

Carrefour du crime

Suffering from mental disorders, a detective is trapped by his own associate who compromises him in a heinous crime. ...
Genre :Drama

Priest

1948-01-11 7

The Bouquinquant Brothers

A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon ...
Genre :Drama

Percy Carters

1947-11-14 0

The Sharks of Gibraltar

In order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy Gordon has the ingenious idea of ​​transforming a lamentable drunkard into a Lady, haughty but submissive ...
Genre :Drama

Priest at the printing press

1950-09-20 6.2

Justice Is Done

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Ulysse

1949-08-26 5

Troubled Waters

A woman returns to her hometown along the French coast, seeking answers about the death of her brother. ...
Genre :Drama

The Superior of the new seminary

1952-01-18 0

Jocelyn

In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie. In 1793, on the point of being ordained a priest, the Revolution forced him to take refuge in ...
Genre :Drama

Duke of Albe

1956-11-07 5.4

Bold Adventure

In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, Duke of Alba, and from there organize resistance ag ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

1958-08-13 0

Happy Arenas

A watchman with a sensitive heart, Fernand falls in love with Violette and Pervenche, two of the daughters of his boss, Maître Arno. At a bullfight starring three attractive Spaniards, the girls and t ...
Genre :

Paul

1971-04-21 3.875

Le Petit Matin

Nina lives with her family in a superb property in the French region of Landes. She loves her cousin Jean who is overprotected by his possessive mother, Eva. There is war and, after the French defeat, ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, War

L'innocent

1948-11-05 5.8

Bagarres

A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to become the heiress, but she plays the rival men against each other. ...
Genre :Drama

L'homme gris

1949-09-16 5.7

The Farm of Seven Sins

In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1956-06-08 0

Le Théâtre National Populaire

The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar. Franju combines sequences from theatrical performances with documentary images, creating links and ...
Genre :Documentary

Submarine Commandant Jean L'Herminier

1951-05-17 5.3

Casabianca

In November of 1942, the French submarine, the "Casabianca,", escapes from German-held Toulon, and, upon joining the Free French forces at Algiers, is sent on a secret mission to Corsica to take two s ...
Genre :War, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1961-07-18 6.4

Enclosure

In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1972-06-04 0

La Légende du siècle

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Narrator (voice)

1960-06-30 7.3

Description of a Struggle

Chris Marker’s documentary portrays Israel twelve years after its founding, blending location and archival footage to explore its diverse communities—from kibbutzim and Arab villages to Orthodox quart ...
Genre :Documentary