Les grands moments
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The Grand Moments is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch in 1965
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1965 in film
The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...
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Details
- Title : The Grand Moments
- Director: Claude Lelouch
- Photography : Jean Collomb
- Producers: Films 13, Films de la Pléiade
- Scenery : Robert Luchaire
- Format : 2,35:1Aspect ratio (image)The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of the width of the image to its height, expressed as two numbers separated by a colon. That is, for an x:y aspect ratio, no matter how big or small the image is, if the width is divided into x units of equal length and the height is measured using this...
(Franscope) - Mono - 35 mm - Release date : 19651965 in filmThe year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...
Starring
- Amidou : Roger Amy
- Pierre BarouhPierre BarouhPierre Barouh is a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyric writer/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film....
: Karl Martin - Jean-Pierre KalfonJean-Pierre KalfonJean-Pierre Kalfon is a French film and television actor.-Selected filmography:* The Rabbi's Cat * Parc * The Dreamers * Lulu * La Repetition...
: Jean Mafitte - Janine Magnan : Janine
- Jacques Portet : Jacques Framm
About the film
- After four attempts to destroy the negatives, Claude Lelouch eventually succeeded in 1964, within fifteen days of the success of Une fille et des fusilsUne fille et des fusilsUne fille et des fusils is a French film, directed by Claude Lelouch, released in 1964.-Synopsis:Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work...
. Les Grands Moments was a parody of the James BondJames BondJames Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
style of the period, but the film never found a distributor, and Lelouch thought the film was so bad that he attempted to destroy the negatives of the film, so that it would never be shown. Lelouch then drove all night, stopping only in DeauvilleDeauvilleDeauville is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.With its racecourse, harbour, international film festival, marinas, conference centre, villas, Grand Casino and sumptuous hotels, Deauville is regarded as the "queen of the Norman beaches" and...
, where he saw a couple on a beach, who gave him the idea for a film, that went on to become Un homme et une femme. - Janine Magnan was the partner of Lelouch at the time.