Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe

Director

June 26, 1944 (82 years)

France

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

8.0

Discorama

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7.4

Chez Maupassant

"Chez Maupassant" is a French anthology television series based on short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Created by Gérard Jourd'hui and Gaëlle Girre, it ran on France 2 in three seasons in 2007, 2008 and 2011. It consists of a total of 24 episodes of which half are 60 minutes long and half are 30 minutes.

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The Red and the Black

Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle, or insanity-that will bring about his downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical picture of French Restoration society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui.

5.7

The Red and the Black

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a noble who had hired him as tutor to his children.

6.0

Les Thibault

Between 1905 and 1918, the opposing destinies of two brothers from a large Catholic bourgeois family.

6.0

L'Abolition

The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France .

8.0

Le Clan Pasquier

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6.9

Without Family

Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair.

4.4

Eugénie Grandet

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.

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A Woman and The Revolution

Manon, takes refuge in Paris in 1789. When the people rise up to change the established order and conquer their freedom, Manon's convictions are shaken.

9.0

Madame De...

The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed cash. She decided to sell the family jeweler Remy earrings — a gift from her husband…

5.4

The Great Meaulnes

A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty.

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Duras/Godard

On December 2, 1987, the filmmaker visited the novelist at her home in Paris. This meeting gave rise to this hour-long documentary in which JLG and Marguerite Duras attempt to establish a dialogue about artistic creation.

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Sans famille

Young orphan Rémi lives with his impoverished adoptive parents on a farm. When money runs out, his father sells Rémi to homeless street performer Vitalis, once a famous opera singer who ended up destitute after a tragic love story.

4.5

Old Goriot

A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.

7.3

Bérénice

An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Palestine).

5.3

Les Steenfort, maîtres de l'orge

History of a family of Ardennes brewers over three generations from 1855 to 1973.

8.0

L'Interdiction

An upright judge must consider the petition of a scheming marquise who wants to have her estranged husband stripped of his rights.

6.4

In Case of Bad Luck

Lucie was supposed to sleep with the jeweler but hadn’t foreseen the alarm. The jeweler noticed the scheme and attacked Lucie’s accomplice Noémie. Lucie defended her, pushed her and the jeweler fell , stunned. Thinking to have killed her, Lucie goes to see a lawyer, who will take her under her wing.

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The Desert of Love

A doctor and his son fall in love for the same woman, who has lost her child.