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Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. Vian's other fiction, published under his real name, featured a highly individual writing style with numerous made-up words, subtle wordplay and surrealistic plots. L'Écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) is the best known of these works, and one of the few translated into English.
Vian was also an important influence on the French jazz scene. He served as liaison for Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews (Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France. His own music and songs enjoyed popularity during his lifetime, particularly the anti-war song "Le Déserteur" (The Deserter).
Actors: Didier Flamand (actor), Laurent Lucas (actor), Philippe du Janerand (actor), Jean Bigot (miscellaneous crew), Bernard Verley (actor), Véronique Hallu (miscellaneous crew), Julie Gayet (actress), Corinne Devaux (miscellaneous crew), Bernard Le Coq (actor), Elisabeth Tavernier (costume designer), Philippe Fretun (actor), Alain Libolt (actor), Christophe Salengro (actor), Hervé Pierre (actor), Philippe Le Guay (director),
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Plot: Lucien Ginsburg, a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination, hates playing the piano like his father, a bar professional, and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as painter, where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive he occupation. After the war, he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring him success, even his parents's approval, and lots of lovers, yet his marriages are all utter failures.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, alcohol-abuse, animated-credits, bare-breasts, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-graphic-novelActors: Antoine de Caunes (actor), Jean-Pierre Marielle (actor), Joan Baez (actress), Jeanne Moreau (actress), Iggy Pop (actor), Jacques Prévert (actor), Arielle Dombasle (actress), Fedele Papalia (actor), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (actor), Lio (actress), Emma de Caunes (actress), Arsène Mosca (actor), Ute Lemper (actress), Philippe Katerine (actor), Maurane (actress),
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