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Alberto Cavalcanti is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director, Editor, Art Direction and Costume Design Brésilien born on 6 february 1897 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (Rio de Janeiro, 6 février 1897 - Paris, 23 août 1982) est un scénariste, réalisateur et producteur d'origine brésilienne.
Maître authentique de l’art cinématographique brésilien du XX siècle, Cavalcanti a enraciné sa réputation en tant que documentariste en Grande-Bretagne pendant les années 1930, avant de renforcer sa renommée par la production de quelques grands films pour les studios Ealing.
Cinéaste cosmopolite, on le découvre à Londres aux côtés de John Grierson dans les années 1930 pour la réalisation d'un documentaire Coal Face ou dans l'équipe son de Courrier de nuit (Night Mail, 1936) produit par Grierson. Il participe au grand mouvement documentaire-réaliste
À la fin des années 1940, de retour au Brésil, il tente de redonner une nouvelle impulsion au cinéma national.
Il tourne ensuite en République fédérale d'Allemagne Maître Puntila et son valet Matti (Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti, 1956) d'après la pièce de Bertolt Brecht, et de nouveau au Brésil, Le Chant de la mer (O Canto do mar, 1954).
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Birth name Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti
Nationality Bresil
Birth 6 february 1897 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)
Death 23 august 1982 (at 85 years) at Paris (France)
Nationality Bresil
Birth 6 february 1897 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)
Death 23 august 1982 (at 85 years) at Paris (France)
Biography
Alberto Cavalcanti arrive à Paris au début des années 1920, et s’installe très tôt en France. Il se lie rapidement aux milieux d'avant-garde de l’époque et, après diverses expériences en tant que décorateur (notamment de L'Inhumaine de Marcel L'Herbier), il commence sa carrière de réalisateur en 1926 avec son premier film, Rien que les heures. La même année, il prend la nationalité française.Maître authentique de l’art cinématographique brésilien du XX siècle, Cavalcanti a enraciné sa réputation en tant que documentariste en Grande-Bretagne pendant les années 1930, avant de renforcer sa renommée par la production de quelques grands films pour les studios Ealing.
Cinéaste cosmopolite, on le découvre à Londres aux côtés de John Grierson dans les années 1930 pour la réalisation d'un documentaire Coal Face ou dans l'équipe son de Courrier de nuit (Night Mail, 1936) produit par Grierson. Il participe au grand mouvement documentaire-réaliste
À la fin des années 1940, de retour au Brésil, il tente de redonner une nouvelle impulsion au cinéma national.
Il tourne ensuite en République fédérale d'Allemagne Maître Puntila et son valet Matti (Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti, 1956) d'après la pièce de Bertolt Brecht, et de nouveau au Brésil, Le Chant de la mer (O Canto do mar, 1954).
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Lettres de Stalingrad (1969)
, 1h20Directed by Gilles Katz
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Paul Crauchet, Pierre Tabard, Gilles Ségal, Frédérique Meininger, Alberto Cavalcanti, Gilles Katz
Roles Astronomer
Rating61%
Katz écrivit le scénario d'après les dernières lettres de soldats allemands de la Bataille de Stalingrad, publiées en Allemagne en 1950 sous le titre Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad .
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, 1h37Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin Austria
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Curt Bois, Maria Emo, Heinz Engelmann, Elfriede Irrall, Otto Schmöle, Elisabeth Stiepl
Rating64%
Le propriétaire terrien finlandais Puntila est devenu un bon ami après avoir bu et raconte ses soucis à son chauffeur Matti. Il veut marier sa fille Eva à un attaché diplomatique, mais cela lui fait mal de devoir donner à son gendre comme une dot un morceau de sa forêt.
Venetian Honeymoon (1959)
, 1h30Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Martine Carol, Vittorio De Sica, Philippe Nicaud, Claudia Cardinale, Marthe Mercadier, Jacques Sernas
Rating55%
Venetian Honeymoon (1959)
, 1h22Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Mario Costa
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Alberto Sordi, Martine Carol, Nino Taranto, Vittorio De Sica, Philippe Nicaud, Claudia Cardinale
Rating65%
L'oncle Arduino Pasti, immigré pauvre en Afrique du Sud, laisse à son décès un héritage remarquable à ses cinq petit-enfant en Italie qui font tout pour en profiter au maximum. Giuseppe (Nino Taranto) et le comte Alfonso (Alberto Sordi) tentent avant tout de faire valoir l'héritage jusqu'au sou.
For Them That Trespass (1949)
, 1h35Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Richard Todd, Patricia Ruth Plunkett, James Hayter, Harry Fowler, Michael Brennan, Joan Dowling
Rating65%
Promising writer Christopher Drew conceals his relationship with a murdered woman in order to protect his career, even though this results in an innocent man going to prison for the killing. The upper-class Drew decides he needs some first-hand experience to invigorate his work, so he explores the seedier areas of town in search of inspiration. Much to his dismay, he witnesses a murder but refuses to help an innocent man, Herbert Logan, arrested for the crime, because his presence in such a neighbourhood would cause a scandal. Logan is freed after serving 15 years in jail and he hears his "crime" detailed on a radio drama written by Drew, which enables him to gather enough evidence to finally clear his name.
The First Gentleman (1948)
, 1h51Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Cecil Parker, Margaretta Scott, Jack Livesey, Ronald Squire, Athene Seyler
Rating58%
The film traces the reign of the Prince Regent following the Napoleonic wars, and the Prince's attempts to marry off his unruly daughter Charlotte to a number of acceptable nobles, but to no avail because she falls for Leopold, a poverty-stricken German prince. Charlotte's marriage to Leopold is a happy one until the birth of their child.
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
, 1h39Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Griffith Jones, Rene Ray, Mary Merrall, Cyril Smith
Rating71%
Clem Morgan, demobilised from the Royal Air Force and unemployed after the war, is drawn into the world of crime. His psychopathic crime boss Narcy (short for Narcissus) deals in the black market, transporting goods in coffins to his headquarters in a funeral parlour. Clem finds the activity harmless enough, until one day he finds drugs in the latest coffin. Clem objects and tells his girlfriend that he will quit after one last job that night, the looting of a warehouse. Narcy betrays him, triggering the burglar alarm while he is inside. Clem manages to get back in the car before his associates drive off. When Narcy orders the driver to run down a policeman, Clem grabs the wheel in an unsuccessful attempt to save the man's life and the car crashes into a lamppost. Narcy knocks him unconscious and has him moved to the driver's seat before fleeing.
, 1h48Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Stanley Holloway, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Cathleen Nesbitt
Rating68%
After the patriarch of the family dies and leaves them with no source of income, Nicholas Nickleby, his mother, and his younger sister Kate venture to London to seek help from their wealthy, cold-hearted uncle Ralph, an investor who arranges for Nicholas to be hired as a tutor at Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire and finds Kate work as a seamstress. Nicholas meets Mr. Squeers just as he concludes business with Mr. Snawley, who is "boarding" his two unwanted stepsons.
Dead of Night (1945)
, 1h42Directed by Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Anthology film, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Renee Gadd, Frederick Valk, Roland Culver, Sally Ann Howes
Rating74%
Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house party where he reveals to the assembled guests that he has seen them all in a dream. He appears to have no prior personal knowledge of them but he is able to predict spontaneous events in the house before they unfold. The other guests attempt to test Craig's foresight, while entertaining each other with various tales of uncanny or supernatural events that they experienced or were told about. These include a racing car driver's premonition of a fatal bus crash; a light-hearted tale of two obsessed golfers, one of whom becomes haunted by the other's ghost (cut from the initial USA release); a ghostly encounter during a children's Christmas party (another tale cut from the initial USA release); a haunted antique mirror; and the story of an unbalanced ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) who believes his amoral dummy is truly alive. The framing story is then capped by a twist ending.
Champagne Charlie (1944)
, 1h45Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Stanley Holloway, Tommy Trinder, Jean Kent, Hugh Grant, Hazel Court, Austin Trevor
Rating64%
Joe Saunders and his brother Fred arrive in London from Leybourne in Kent, and they go to the Elephant and Castle pub, the haunt of Tom Sayers, a leading boxer. While his brother, an aspiring boxer, is having a trial bout with Sayers, Joe Saunders is persuaded to sing a song to entertain the bar's customers. Initially reluctant, he soon gathers his confidence, and his performance is extremely well received by the audience. The impressed landlord offers him a pound a week and two free beers a night if he will perform on a regular basis. Saunders’s brother, meanwhile, is too ill from his past career as a miner to make a serious boxer and he returns home to Leybourne.
Went the Day Well? (1942)
, 1h32Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns, Basil Sydney, C.V. France, Marie Lohr
Rating74%
The story is told in flashback by a villager, played by Mervyn Johns, as though to a person visiting after the war. He recounts: one Saturday during the Second World War, a group of seemingly authentic British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of Bramley End. It is the Whitsun weekend so life is even quieter than usual and there is almost no traffic of any kind. At first they are welcomed by the villagers, until doubts begin to grow about their true purpose and identity. After they are revealed to be German soldiers intended to form the vanguard of an invasion of Britain, they round up the residents and hold them captive in the local church. The vicar is shot after sounding the church bell in alarm.
Yellow Caesar (1941)
, 24minutesDirected by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Sam Lee
Rating60%
Composé de documents d'archives et de quelques passages de fiction, le film brosse un portrait mordant de Benito Mussolini, yellow Caesar : empereur couard.
Coal Face (1935)
, 11minutesDirected by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Actors Montagu Slater
Rating62%
Coralie and Company (1934)
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Françoise Rosay, Robert Burnier, Josette Day, Catherine Hessling, Pierre Bertin, Jeanne Helbling