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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (/ˈtʃɑrlz/ or /ˈʃɑrl dəˈɡɔːl/; French: [ʃaʁl də ɡol] ( listen); 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969.
A veteran of World War I, in the 1920s and 1930s de Gaulle came to the fore as a proponent of mobile armoured divisions, which he considered would become central in modern warfare. During World War II, he earned the rank of brigadier general (retained throughout his life), leading one of the few successful armoured counter-attacks during the 1940 Battle of France in May in Montcornet, and then briefly served in the French government as France was falling. De Gaulle was the most senior French military officer to reject the June 1940 armistice to Nazi Germany right from the outset.
He escaped to Britain and gave a famous radio address, broadcast by the BBC on 18 June 1940, exhorting the French people to resist Nazi Germany and organised the Free French Forces with exiled French officers in Britain. As the war progressed de Gaulle gradually gained control of all French colonies except Indochina most of which had at first been controlled by the pro-German Vichy regime. Despite earning a reputation for being a difficult man to do business with, by the time of the Allied invasion of France in 1944 he was heading what amounted to a French government in exile, but although he insisted that France be treated as a great independent power by the other Allies, the Americans in particular remained deeply suspicious of his motives. De Gaulle became prime minister in the French Provisional Government, resigning in 1946 because of political conflicts.
Actors: André Penvern (actor), Yvonne Gradelet (actress), Milo Ventimiglia (actor), Tim Roth (actor), Robert Lindsay (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Olivier Rabourdin (actor), Jean Dell (actor), Frank Langella (actor), Yves Jacques (actor), Nicholas Farrell (actor), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Jeanne Balibar (actress), Parker Posey (actress), Nicole Kidman (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Douglas Edward (composer), Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld (actress), Adam Varney (producer), John Friedmann (actor), Philippe Reinhardt (actor), Mark A. Marple (actor), Bobby Marinelli (miscellaneous crew), Jaye Sarah Davidson (miscellaneous crew), Nicholas Economides (editor), Ling Li (costume designer), Stephen Bell (director), Stephen Bell (writer), Stephen Bell (writer), Olivier Tramino (actor), Beau DeMayo (writer),
Plot: Set just days after the Allied Invasion of Normandy, "The Quartering Act" tells the story of a mother's struggle to come to terms with the recent death of her son, a fighter pilot in the Free French Air Force under Charles DeGaulle. Renowned German actress Alexandra Kamp (Antonia, Sumuru) stars as Colette, a woman in stasis, ever-battling to keep her anger at bay. That struggle is intensified as three German deserters on the run with looted gold invade her home, demanding a night's quarter. Coming face-to-face with an enemy she has never known, but one she bitterly resents, Colette is forced to take desperate measures in order to survive the night and hide her crimes from her captors. Fellow German star John Friedmann (Erkan and Stefan) makes his US film debut as Werner, a disillusioned former officer who both deeply distrusts and is simultaneously fascinated by Colette's plight. Friedmann's compatriots include up-and-coming German television and film actor Philippe Reinhardt and French native Tom Vlay. "The Quartering Act" is a jagged look at the damaging toll grief takes on the human spirit.
Genres: Crime, Drama, Short, Thriller, War,Actors: Cyril Morin (composer), Serge Moati (director), Thierry Hancisse (actor), Serge Moati (writer), Pierre Arditi (actor), Pierre Arditi (actor), Bernard Verley (actor), Manuel Blanc (actor), Eric Laugérias (actor), Jérémie Covillault (actor), Arnaud Giovaninetti (actor), Alexis Loret (actor), Marielle Issartel (editor), Mathieu Bisson (actor), Judith Davis (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Maud Rayer (actress), Philippe Clévenot (actor), Patrick Bonnel (actor), Marc Rioufol (actor), Jean-Louis Tribes (actor), Françoise Lebrun (actress), Elisabeth Kaza (actress), Denis Podalydès (actor), Daniel Martin (actor), Eric Moreau (actor), Eric Moreau (actor), Olivier Hémon (actor), Raphaël Personnaz (actor), Matthias Van Khache (actor), Bernard Waver (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Ronald Reagan (actor), Marcel Sabourin (actor), Bill Lake (actor), Elvis Presley (actor), Andrew McCarthy (actor), Tim Matheson (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Lyndon Johnson (actor), Jason Cavalier (actor), Richard Nixon (actor), Frank Fontaine (actor), Alan Fawcett (actor), Adrian Hough (actor), Frank Sinatra (actor), Chuck Shamata (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Carl Duering (actor), Ronny Coutteure (actor), Rick McCallum (producer), Sean Pertwee (actor), Ben Burtt (editor), Edgar Burcksen (editor), George Lucas (producer), James Nesbitt (actor), Sean Patrick Flanery (actor), Jason Flemyng (actor), Yves Beneyton (actor), George Lucas (writer), Simon Wincer (director), Julia Overton (miscellaneous crew), Charlotte Holdich (costume designer),
Plot: August, 1917. Using the name 'Henri Defense', 17 year old Indiana Jones has enlisted in the Belgian army to fight in the Great War. After all his commanding officers have been wiped out during combat in Flanders, Corporal 'Defense' is left in charge of what's left of the 9th Belgian Infantry. They are assigned to the French 14th Company and dispatched into the Battle of the Somme. When Indy is captured by the Germans, he quickly gains a reputation as an escape artist, and is sent to the maximum security prison at Dunsterstadt on the Danube
Keywords: 1910s, action-hero, adventure-hero, adventurer, army, attack, battle, battlefield, bayonet, behind-enemy-linesActors: Jean-Philippe Écoffey (actor), Gérard Lartigau (actor), Henri Serre (actor), Christian Bouillette (actor), Yves Brainville (actor), Donald Pleasence (actor), Christian Pereira (actor), Michel Duchaussoy (actor), Roland Bertin (actor), Artus de Penguern (actor), Jean-Pierre Gos (actor), Geoffrey Carey (actor), André Chazel (actor), Arielle Dombasle (actress), Marie-Christine Barrault (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Yves Vincent (actor), André Falcon (actor), Victor Garrivier (actor), Yves-André Hubert (director), Renée Faure (actress), Bernard Dhéran (actor), Michel Ruhl (actor), Serge Berry (actor), Michel Puterflam (actor), Charles Charras (actor), Pierre Hatet (actor), Georges Audoubert (actor), Richard Leduc (actor), Annick Fougery (actress), Bernard Tixier (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: André Weber (actor), Donald O'Brien (actor), Louis Velle (actor), Paul Pavel (actor), Gilbert Servien (actor), Hélène Dieudonné (actress), Henri Labussière (actor), Georges Chamarat (actor), Walter Rilla (actor), Marcel Gassouk (actor), Maurice Escande (actor), Jean Martin (actor), Reinhard Kolldehoff (actor), Nina Companeez (writer), Pierre Braunberger (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jackson Beck (actor), Charles de Gaulle (actor), George C. Marshall (actor), Richard De Rochemont (producer), Richard De Rochemont (writer), Richard De Rochemont (director), Morrie Roizman (editor), Robert Schuman (actor),
Plot: The subject deals with Europe's problem of economic recovery, following WWII, and the struggle against the expanding pressure by Russia. The film shows that the Communists lost their first test of strength in France when Premier Robert Schuman succeeded in breaking the Communist-agitated strikes. Life in present-day France (1948), with its economic and political stress, is exemplified by a typical Parasian family that wants neither the extreme Left nor the extreme Right. They prefer the middle-of-the-road party led by Robert Schuman. The conclusion is that The Marshall Plan (designed by and named after U. S. Army General George C. Marshall) will stabilize European economics.
Keywords: 1940s, agitation, american, archive-footage, cold-war, communism, communist, economic-reform, economics, economy