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• Kevork Malikyan
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• Nina Sosanya
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  France
  France (English ⁱ/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] ( listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km² (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km² / 4,383,000 sq mi).
  Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.
  
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  Luxembourg
  Luxembourg (ⁱ/ˈlʌksəmbɜrɡ/ LUKS-əm-burg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg, French: Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, German: Großherzogtum Luxemburg, Dutch: Groothertogdom Luxemburg), is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland ("good country") in the south. Luxembourg has a population of over half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (998 sq mi). A representative democracy with a constitutional monarch, it is ruled by a grand duke. It is now the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy. The country has a highly developed economy, with the world's highest GDP (nominal) per capita according to the IMF. Its historic and strategic importance dates back to its founding as a Roman era fortress site and Frankish count's castle site in the Early Middle Ages. It was an important bastion along the Spanish Road when Spain was the principal European power influencing the whole western hemisphere and beyond in the 16th–17th centuries.
  
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  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
  The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
  
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• Catherine McCormack
  Catherine McCormack (born April 3, 1972), is an English actress, known for her stage acting as well as her screen performances in films such as Braveheart, Spy Game, 28 Weeks Later, and Dangerous Beauty.
  McCormack was born in Epsom, Surrey, England. She has Irish ancestry, as one of her grandfathers was Irish. Her mother died of lupus when McCormack was six years old, and her steelworker father subsequently brought her and her brother Stephen up. She was brought up in the Catholic religion (though is now a "lapsed Catholic") and attended Convent of Our Lady of Providence. She then went on to study at the Oxford School of Drama.
  McCormack's first notable role was as the character Murron MacClannough in the multiple Academy Award winning movie Braveheart. Her screen debut however was as the lead in the Anna Campion directed film Loaded, and has subsequently stated that she had a "miserable time with the director (Anna Campion)... it was my first film job, I needed to be mollycoddled, I needed to be helped through it, and I wasn't. Mostly, it was a horrible experience." After Braveheart, McCormack had lead roles in Nils Gaup's Northstar and Marshall Herskovitz's Dangerous Beauty. Other films include Spy Game and 28 Weeks Later. Despite being in demand, she does few films, stating that "I read very few scripts I'm passionate about... Maybe one in every twenty or thirty."
  
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• Christian Volckman
  Christian Volckman (b. 1971 ) is a French painter, graphic designer, photographer, author and director. He is a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris.
  He is mostly known for his motion capture animation effort Renaissance, for which he was granted the Award for Best Feature Film at the 5th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials The film was internationally released in 2006 and received mixed reviews from movie critics. It was awarded the Feature Film Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2006, however it did poorly at the box office in America and Europe.
  His other film work includes two clips and the short, Le cobaye, which received a Prix du Jury at Annecy in 1995. Maaz has been shown at nearly 100 festivals and has won 30 prizes, including two for sound.
  He and visual artist Raphael Thierry in 2008 started the duo ©®, an artistic collaboration source of a series of thematic films and exhibitions named THEFLOW.
  
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  Chroma key
  Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together, used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video - particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries. A color range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay (CSO; primarily by the BBC), or by various terms for specific color-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen - chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most distinctly in hue from most human skin colors and no part of the subject being filmed or photographed may duplicate a color used in the background. It is commonly used for weather forecast broadcasts, wherein the news presenter appears to be standing in front of a large map during live television newscasts, though in actuality it is a large blue or green background. When using a blue screen, different weather maps are added on the parts of the image where the color is blue. If the news presenter wears blue clothes, his clothes will also be replaced with the background video. A complementary system is used for green screens. Chroma keying is also used in the entertainment industry for special effects in movies and videogames. The advanced state of the technology and much commercially available computer software, such as Pinnacle Studio, Adobe Premiere, and dozens of other computer programs, makes it possible and relatively easy for the average home computer user to create videos using the "chromakey" function and easily affordable greenscreen or bluescreen kits.
  
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  Daniel Craig
  Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor best known for playing British secret agent James Bond in a 2006 reboot of the film series and its sequels.
  Craig is an alumnus of the National Youth Theatre and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began his career on stage. His early on screen appearances were in the films Elizabeth, The Power of One and A Kid in King Arthur's Court, and on Sharpe's Eagle and Zorro in television. His appearances in the British films Love Is the Devil, The Trench and Some Voices attracted the industry's attention, leading to roles in bigger productions such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Road to Perdition, Layer Cake and Munich.
  Craig achieved international fame when chosen as the sixth actor to play the role of Bond, replacing Pierce Brosnan. His debut in Casino Royale was highly acclaimed and earnt him a BAFTA award nomination, with the film becoming the highest grossing in the series to date. Quantum of Solace followed two years later, with the third film Skyfall set for release in 2012, having been delayed due to MGM's financial troubles.
  
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  Ian Holm
  Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September 1931) is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in The Homecoming and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of King Lear. He was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire. Other well-known film roles include the android Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
  
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  Jonathan Pryce
  Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born 1 June 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet, led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil.
  Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has participated in big-budget films such as Evita, Tomorrow Never Dies, Pirates of the Caribbean and The New World, as well as independent films such as Glengarry Glen Ross and Carrington. His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards—the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in Comedians, the second for his 1991 role as "The Engineer" in the musical Miss Saigon.
  
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• Kevork Malikyan
  Kevork Malikyan (born 1943 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) is an English character actor of Turkish-Armenian descent, perhaps best known for his role as Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
  He graduated in Surp Haç Armenian High School in İstanbul then moved to London for acting education.
  In addition to film work, he has appeared in numerous television productions, including episodes of The Saint, The Professionals, Mind Your Language, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Avengers, Doctor Who and twice in Minder. He played a number of roles in the RSC production, Arabian Nights (December 2009 - January 2010), at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon.
  
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• Marc Alfos
  Marc Alfos is a French actor who specializes in dubbing. He is the official dubover voice of Russell Crowe.
  
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• Nina Sosanya
  Nina Sosanya (born 1969) is an English actress. She was born in London to a Nigerian father. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, gaining A-Levels in performing arts.
  She has appeared in many roles in the theatre, on television and in films, for example in Sorted, People Like Us, Teachers, Love Actually, Nathan Barley, Renaissance, Casanova, Jonathan Creek, Much Ado About Nothing, Cape Wrath/Meadowlands, the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her", and FM.
  In 2008 she returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost and in 2009 appeared in a radio adaptation of a story from the short-story collection The State of the Art.
  She reads the part of Sephy on the audio book versions of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses series.
  In January 2010 Nina was in a production at the Novello Theatre, London, in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams as Mae Pollock.
  She appeared as Colly Trent in series 2 of the BBC television drama, Five Days. Most recently she appeared in the BBC4 television series Twenty Twelve, a comedy about the London 2012 Olympic buildup, and the BBC1 drama series Silk and Hustle.
  
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• Rick Warden
  Richard George Warden (born 29 September 1971) is an English television and movie actor.
  Warden studied at Dr Challoner's Grammar School and received a B.A. Honours in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, 1994. He married actress Lucy Barker on 1 May 2004.
  He is probably best known for his appearances in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers as 1st Lt. Harry Welsh, the BBC docudrama Dunkirk as Major Phillip Newman RAMC, and the HBO/BBC2 historical drama, Rome, as Quintus Valerius Pompey. He also appeared in Evol (2006) (with his wife) and in the film adaptation of Bravo Two Zero. He most recently performed in the BBC serial production, Apparitions, as the character Michael, who is possessed by a demon.
  
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  Romola Garai
  Romola Sadie Garai ( /ˈrɒmələ ˈseɪdi ˈɡæri/; born 6 August 1982) is an English actress. She is known for appearing in the films Amazing Grace, Atonement, Glorious 39, and in the BBC adaptation of Emma.
  Garai was born in Hong Kong to British parents. Her mother, Janet A. (née Brown), worked as a journalist, and her father, Adrian E. R. Garai, is a banker. Her first name is the female version of Romulus, one of the founders of Rome. Garai's great-grandfather, Bernhard "Bert" Garai, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, founded the Keystone Press Agency, a photographic agency and archive, in London in the early twentieth century.
  Garai is the third of four siblings. She moved to Singapore at five, before her family returned to Wiltshire in England when she was eight. She attended an independent boarding school, Stonar School in Wiltshire, and later moved at sixteen to London to attend the City of London School for Girls, where she completed her A-levels. She was fond of drama and appeared in school plays, and also with the National Youth Theatre up until the age of eighteen, where she was spotted by an agent who signed her to play the younger version of Dame Judi Dench's character in the BBC Films/HBO co-production for television, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
  
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• Sean Pertwee
  Sean Pertwee (born 4 June 1964) is an English actor.
  Pertwee was born in London, the son of Ingeborg and Jon Pertwee, who played the third incarnation of The Doctor in the television series Doctor Who. They moved to the town of Stockton-on-Tees when Pertwee was twelve years old. He attended Teddington School in London.
  In the early 1980s, Pertwee was cast as Captain Fitzpatrick in the play Tom Jones, based on the novel by Henry Fielding. After leaving Sunbury College, Pertwee trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and, after graduating in 1986, toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company for three years. He co-owned the Natural Nylon film production company along with Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewan McGregor. The company folded in 2003.
  Pertwee starred in the 2008 film Doomsday as Doctor Talbot. His voice is frequently heard in a variety of television commercials, documentaries and video games, including the medieval empire-building computer game Medieval: Total War and futuristic war games Killzone (as Colonel Gregor Hakha), Killzone 2 (as Colonel Mael Radec) and Fire Warrior (as Governor Severus). He is also the voice behind the Northeast's tourism advertisement which started broadcasting at the start of 2009. He is the current narrator of Masterchef: The Professionals, replacing India Fisher for the fourth series which began on 7 November 2011.
  
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Renaissance (2006)

Actors

• Daniel Craig
• Patrick Floersheim
• Catherine Mccormack
• Laura Blanc
• Romola Garai
• Virginie Mery
• Jonathan Pryce
• Gabriel Le Doze
• Ian Holm
• Marc Cassot
• Jerome Causse
• Rick Warden
• Bruno Choel
• Kevork Malikyan
• Marc Alfos

Director

• Christian Volckman

• Can You Hear Me
• Carpet of the Sun
• Day of the Dreamer
• Midas Man
• Northern Lights
• Things I Don't Understand

• Running Hard
• I Think of You
• Things I Don't Understand
• Black Flame
• Cold is Being
• Mother Russia

• Trip to the Fair
• The Vultures Fly High
• Ocean Gypsy
• Song of Scheherazade

• Kings and Queens
• Innocence
• Island
• Wanderer
• Bullet
• The Sea
• Island (edit)

• Kings and Queens
• Innocence
• Island
• Wanderer
• Bullet
• Island (single version)
• The Sea

• Carpet of the Sun
• Opening Out
• Midas Man
• Lady from Tuscany
• Pearls of Wisdom
• Dear Landseer
• Northern Lights
• Moonlight Shadow
• Precious One
• Ananda

• Prologue
• Ashes Are Burning
• Running Hard
• You (Parts 1 & 2)
• Midas Man
• Touching Once
• Mother Russia

• Lady From Tuscany
• Pearls of Wisdom
• Eva's Pond
• Dear Landseer
• In the Sunshine
• In My Life
• The Race
• Dolphins Prayer
• Life in Brazil
• One Thousand Roses

• Jekyll and Hyde
• The Winter Tree
• Only Angels Have Wings
• Golden Key
• Forever Changing
• Secret Mission
• Kalynda (A Magical Isle)
• The Discovery
• Friends
• The Flood at Lyons

• Can You Hear Me?
• The Sisters
• Midas Man
• The Captive Heart
• Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)

• Opening Out
• The Day of the Dreamer
• Closer Than Yesterday
• Kindness (At the End)
• Back Home Once Again
• She Is Love
• Northern Lights
• A Song for All Seasons

• Can You Hear Me Call Your Name
• Carpet of the Sun
• Day of the Dreamer
• Back Home Once Again
• Can You Understand / The Vultures Fly High
• A Song for All Seasons
• Prologue
• Ocean Gypsy
• Running Hard

• Can You Understand
• Carpet of the Sun
• Midas Man
• Okichi-San
• I Think of You
• Black Flame
• Mother Russia
• Northern Lights
• Young Prince & Princess
• Trip to the Fair
• The Vultures Fly High
• Running Hard

• Prologue
• Vultures Fly High
• Midas Man
• Day of the Dreamer
• Touching Once
• Song of Scheherazade

• Kings and Queens
• Innocence
• Island
• Wanderer
• Bullet
• The Sea
• Island (single version)
• Prayer for Light
• Walking Away
• Shining Where the Sun Has Been
• All the Falling Angels

• Running Hard
• Midas Man
• Mother Russia
• Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)
• Ashes Are Burning
• Prologue

• Flight
• Missing Persons
• Chagrin Boulevard
• Richard IX
• The Entertainer
• Electric Avenue
• Majik
• Distant Horizons
• Orient Express
• Auto-Tech

• Africa
• Dreamaker
• Northern Lights
• No Beginning No End
• Only When I Laugh
• The Body Machine
• Writers Wronged
• Island of Avalon
• America
• You

• Kings & Queens
• Island
• Love Goes On
• Love Is All
• Prologue
• Bound for Infinity
• Carpet of the Sun
• Ashes Are Burning
• Black Flame
• Running Hard
• Mother Russia
• Africa

• Running Hard
• Midas Man
• Mother Russia
• Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)
• Ashes Are Burning
• Prologue
• You (Part 1 and 2)

• Camera Camera
• Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)
• Remember
• Bonjour Swansong
• Tyrant-Tula
• Okichi-San
• Jigsaw
• Running Away From You
• Ukraine Ways

• Deja Vu
• Love Lies, Love Dies
• Don't Talk
• The Other Woman
• Lock in on Love
• Northern Lights
• So Blasé
• Quicksilver
• May You Be Blessed
• Somewhere West of Here

• Love Goes On
• Golden Thread
• Love Is All
• Mr. Pine
• Face of Yesterday
• Past Orbits of Dust

• Can You Understand?
• Let It Grow
• On the Frontier
• Carpet of the Sun
• At the Harbour
• Ashes Are Burning

• Prologue
• Ocean Gypsy
• Can You Understand
• Carpet of the Sun
• Running Hard
• Mother Russia

• Moonlight Shadow
• The Angels Cry
• One More Arrow
• Carpet of the Sun
• Ocean Gypsy
• Mother Russia
• When a Heart Finds Another
• Wildest Dreams
• Wishin' on a Star
• Ashes Are Burning

• Prologue
• Kiev
• Sounds of the Sea
• Spare Some Love
• Bound for Infinity
• Rajah Khan

• Prologue (live)
• Can You Understand (live)
• Carpet of the Sun (live)
• Running Hard
• I Think of You
• Black Flame
• Mother Russia
• Ocean Gypsy
• Trip to the Fair
• The Vultures Fly High
• The Young Prince and the Princess as Told by Scheherazade

• Can You Hear Me?
• Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)
• Midas Man
• Northern Lights
• A Song for All Seasons
• Jekyll and Hyde
• The Winter Tree
• Ashes Are Burning (live)

• Prologue
• Kiev
• Sounds of the Sea
• Spare Some Love
• Bound for Infinity
• Rajah Khan (edit)
• Can You Understand?
• Let It Grow
• On the Frontier
• Carpet of the Sun
• At the Harbour (edit)
• Ashes Are Burning (edit)

• Can You Understand
• Running Hard
• Ocean Gypsy
• Prologue
• Song of Scheherazade, Part 1- Fanfare; Parts 2 - The Betrayal; Pt.3 - The Sultan; Pt.4 -...
• Ashes Are Burning

• Kings & Queens
• Innocence
• Island
• Wanderer
• Bullet
• Running Hard
• I Think of You
• Things I Don't Understand
• Black Flame
• Cold Is Being
• Mother Russia

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