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Fred Zinnemann is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director American born on 29 april 1907 at Rzeszów (Pologne)
Fred Zinnemann (29 April 1907 – 14 March 1997) was an Austro-American film director. He won Academy Awards for directing films in many genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir, and play adaptations. Nineteen actors appearing in Zinnemann's films received Academy Award nominations for their performances: among that number are Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell.
Il réalise en 1952 ce qui est considéré désormais comme un chef-d'œuvre du western : Le train sifflera trois fois (High Noon) avec Gary Cooper et Grace Kelly. Le réalisateur calque la durée du récit sur celle du film (l'action se déroule sur 85 minutes) et illustre la solitude du héros par un jeu d'ombres saturées et des cadrages étroits.
Il arrête sa carrière cinématographique après le tournage de Cinq jours, ce printemps là .
Son cinéma traite de la révolte intime et de la révolte politique, des valeurs héroïques et du refus des compromis. Il se veut une réflexion sur la dignité humaine.
Il est le père du producteur et acteur de cinéma Tim Zinnemann .
Il décède des suites d'un infarctus le 14 mars 1997 à Londres.
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Birth name Alfred Zinnemann
Nationality USA
Birth 29 april 1907 at Rzeszów (Pologne)
Death 14 march 1997 (at 89 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
Nationality USA
Birth 29 april 1907 at Rzeszów (Pologne)
Death 14 march 1997 (at 89 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
Biography
Fred Zinnemann naît à Vienne dans l'ancien Empire austro-hongrois, il est le fils d'Oscar Zinnemann et d'Anna Feivel Zinnemann de confession juive. Après avoir suivi des études de droit et de violon, il part étudier le métier d'opérateur à Paris. Il est élève de l'École de la rue de Vaugirard, devenue aujourd'hui l'École nationale Louis-Lumière, dans la promotion Cinéma de 1929) puis à Berlin. Il part pour Hollywood en 1929 et réalise huit ans plus tard son premier film au Mexique : Les Révoltés d'Alvarado. Zinnemann a obtenu l'Oscar du meilleur réalisateur à deux reprises : en 1954 pour Tant qu'il y aura des hommes (from Here to Eternity), drame se déroulant à Hawaï juste avant les évènements de Pearl Harbor puis en 1967 pour Un homme pour l'éternité (A Man for All Seasons), biographie filmée de Thomas More. Ces deux œuvres ont par ailleurs reçu l'Oscar du meilleur film.Il réalise en 1952 ce qui est considéré désormais comme un chef-d'œuvre du western : Le train sifflera trois fois (High Noon) avec Gary Cooper et Grace Kelly. Le réalisateur calque la durée du récit sur celle du film (l'action se déroule sur 85 minutes) et illustre la solitude du héros par un jeu d'ombres saturées et des cadrages étroits.
Il arrête sa carrière cinématographique après le tournage de Cinq jours, ce printemps là .
Son cinéma traite de la révolte intime et de la révolte politique, des valeurs héroïques et du refus des compromis. Il se veut une réflexion sur la dignité humaine.
Il est le père du producteur et acteur de cinéma Tim Zinnemann .
Il décède des suites d'un infarctus le 14 mars 1997 à Londres.
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, 1h20Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about historical events
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Marlene Dietrich, Hedy Lamarr, Elsa Lanchester, Peter Lorre, Billy Wilder
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating77%
Ce documentaire, mêlant document d'archives, extraits de films et interviews, retrace le parcours de personnalités du cinéma allemand qui à l'arrivée d'Adolf Hitler au pouvoir en 1933, choisissent, plus ou moins forcés, de s'exiler à Hollywood. On découvre comment des hommes et des femmes du cinéma germanophone (Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Peter Lorre, Marlène Dietrich, Billy Wilder entre autres) ont dû s'adapter au système hollywoodien et se faire une place dans le cinéma américain. Ils ont grandement contribué à la création du film noir et ont apporté du sang neuf au genre de la comédie.
Hands Up! (1985)
, 1h30Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jerzy Skolimowski, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Bogumił Kobiela, Alan Bates, Jane Asher, David Essex
Roles Self (1981 footage)
Rating64%
Dix ans après la fin de leurs études de médecine, cinq jeunes gens se retrouvent à bord d'un train de marchandises. Ils y évoquent leur passé commun, le temps où la Pologne était régentée par le stalinisme intransigeant : à cette époque, ils avaient été chargés d'accoler des panneaux de papier afin d'ériger un immense portrait de Staline pour le défilé du premier mai. Or sur l'affiche, le despote avait été affublé de deux paires d'yeux.
The Search (1948)
, 1h45Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Films about children
Actors Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotná, Wendell Corey, Ivan Jandl, Fred Zinnemann
Roles Interpreter (uncredited)
Rating77%
Trains bring homeless children (Displaced Persons or DPs), who are taken by Mrs. Murray (Aline MacMahon) and other United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) workers to a nearby transit camp, where they are fed and cared for. The next morning, the children are interviewed by UNRRA officials to try to identify them and reunite them if possible with their families.
, 2h32Directed by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Louis Wolheim, Richard Alexander, Lew Ayres, John Wray, William Bakewell, Ben Alexander
Roles German Soldier / French Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Rating80%
Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland". On the brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who bluntly informs them, "You're going to be soldiers—and that's all."
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Five Days One Summer (1983)
, 1h36Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films
Actors Sean Connery, Lambert Wilson, Betsy Brantley, Isabel Dean, Gérard Buhr, Anna Massey
Rating60%
It is the story of an illicit romance, set in the Swiss Alps. Connery plays Douglas, a middle-aged Scottish doctor on vacation in the Alps in 1932 with a young woman, Kate (Betsy Brantley), whom he introduces as his wife. Douglas has brought Kate to the Alps for a mountain climbing trip. Douglas and Kate are absorbed with a psychological melancholy. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Kate has been in love with Douglas since she was a little girl and that she seduced him away from another woman. The flashbacks also reveal that Kate is not his wife, but his niece. But then, in their mountain retreat, climbing guide Johann (Lambert Wilson) appears and he develops an attraction for Kate.
Julia (1977)
, 1h58Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Biography, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Maximilian Schell
Rating70%
The young Lillian and her friend Julia, daughter of a wealthy family being brought up by her grandparents in the U.S., enjoy a childhood together and an extremely close relationship in late adolescence. Later, while medical student/physician Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) attends Oxford and the University of Vienna and studies with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Lillian (Jane Fonda), a struggling writer, suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometime lover, famed author Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards) at a beachhouse.
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
, 2h23Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Andrew Marton, Alain Bonnot
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Assassinat, Spy films, La provence, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair, Terence Alexander, Derek Jacobi, Alan Badel
Rating77%
In the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on 22 August 1962, an assassination attempt is made on the President of France General Charles de Gaulle by the militant French underground organisation OAS in anger over the French government granting independence to Algeria. As the president's motorcade passes, de Gaulle's unarmoured Citroën DS car is raked with machine gun fire, but the entire entourage escapes without injury. Within six months, OAS leader Jean Bastien-Thiry and several other members of the plot are captured and Bastien-Thiry is executed.
Man's Fate (1970)
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Actors David Niven, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
, 2hDirected by Fred Zinnemann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films about royalty
Actors Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, Susannah York
Rating76%
Cardinal Wolsey, the Lord Chancellor of England, summons Sir Thomas More to Hampton Court. King Henry VIII of England wishes to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn. Saying that England needs a male heir to prevent another civil war, Wolsey chastises More for being the only member of the Privy Council to argue against him. When More states that the Pope will never grant a divorce, he is appalled by Wolsey's suggestion that they apply "pressure" on Church lands to force the issue. To Wolsey's fury, More responds, "No, Your Grace. I am not going to help you.
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
, 1h58Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about anarchism, Politique, Films about religion, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin, Paolo Stoppa, Mildred Dunnock
Rating66%
The movie opens with shots from the Spanish Civil War, and a line of Spanish refugees crossing the border into France after defeat by the Francoists, Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck) turns away from the border and back towards Spain. His friends stop him, saying "Manuel, the war is over!".
The Sundowners (1960)
, 2h13Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Bryan Pringle
Rating70%
Irish-Australian Paddy Carmody (Robert Mitchum) is a sheep drover and shearer, roving the sparsely-populated back country with his wife Ida (Deborah Kerr) and son Sean (Michael Anderson, Jr.). They are sundowners, constantly moving, pitching their tent whenever the sun goes down. Ida and Sean want to settle down, but Paddy has wanderlust and never wants to stay in one place for long. While passing through the bush the family meet refined Englishman Rupert Venneker (Peter Ustinov) and hire him to help drive a large herd of sheep to the town of Cawndilla. Along the way, they survive a dangerous brush fire.
The Nun's Story (1959)
, 2h29Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Sergio Leone, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Mildred Dunnock, Dean Jagger
Rating74%
Gabrielle "Gaby" Van Der Mal (Audrey Hepburn), whose father Hubert (Dean Jagger) is a famous surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s in the hopes of eventually becoming a missionary nursing sister in the Belgian Congo. After being given the name of Sister Luke and undergoing a postulancy and novitiate which foreshadow her future difficulties with the vow of obedience, she takes her first vows and is sent to a school of tropical medicine.
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
, 1h26Directed by Henry King, Fred Zinnemann, John Sturges, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Vieillesse, Mise en scène d'un poisson
Actors Spencer Tracy, Harry Bellaver, Don Diamond, Don Alvarado, Tony Rosato, Mauritz Hugo
Rating68%
Spencer Tracy is the Old Man, a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish that he catches far from shore.
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
, 1h49Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan, Henry Silva, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Rating71%
The setting is a housing project apartment in New York City near the Brooklyn Bridge. Johnny Pope (Don Murray) is a soldier who returns from the Korean War, where a stay in a military hospital has left him secretly addicted to morphine. His emotional distance (and his tendency to stay out all night) alienates him from the apartment's other residents: Johnny's pregnant wife Celia (Eva Marie Saint) and his brother Polo (Anthony Franciosa). Celia is convinced that Johnny is having an affair, but of course the truth is something quite different. Johnny and Polo's father, John Sr. (Lloyd Nolan), arrives in town and stays with them in the small apartment, further complicating a tense situation and leading to a dynamic and dramatic climax.
Oklahoma! (1955)
, 2h25Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger
Rating69%
À la fin du XIX siècle, le territoire indien de l'Oklahoma est ouvert à la colonisation. C'est dans ce contexte que se déroule le récit qui concerne les problèmes de cœur que rencontrent les cow-boys Curly et Will avec deux demoiselles, Laurey et Annie.