Daniel Emilfork

Acting

Daniel Emilfork

Born — Died

1924-04-07 — 2006-10-17

Place of birth

Providencia, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 – October 17, 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor. Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile. Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Ta…

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

The City of Lost Children poster
7.2

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

The City of Lost Children

1995

The First Circle poster
5.0

In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.

The First Circle

1992

Lou Didn’t Say No poster
7.5

Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis.

Lou Didn’t Say No

1994

The Flying Dutchman poster
6.2

Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.

The Flying Dutchman

1995

Halloween Monster Bash poster
NR

1991's NBC Halloween special with John Astin and Rhonda Shear. Features clips from classic horror movies with commentary.

Halloween Monster Bash

1991

Taxandria poster
5.9

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.

Taxandria

1996

1980s · 8 titles

Pirates poster
6.3

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Pirates

1986

The Beautiful Prisoner poster
6.1

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?

The Beautiful Prisoner

1983

The Passage poster
4.4

Film-maker Jean Diaz lives with his son David after separated from his wife. On their way to the new house near the sea, Jean and David have a car accident provoked by The Death (portrayed here like a grim-reaper). The doctor actually can save Jean, but The Death sabotages the equipment with his computer. The Death offers Jean to wake David from his coma, but Jean must make an animation movie against the violence for him.

The Passage

1986

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ poster
6.0

In ancient Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the locals who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

1982

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober poster
6.6

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober

1988

No artwork available
7.0

A former spy named Kelly comes to the south of France to open a hotel for his post-spy career. However, he learns that three of his former colleagues have been betrayed and murdered, so he returns to the job he had left to search out the traitor. Meanwhile, Kelly's friend, a European mercenary named Rykker, is employed by an archaeologist's daughter to search for her father, who has been kidnapped for holding the key to a grand treasure hidden in the Pyramids.

Riviera

1987

The Apartment Murders poster
7.5

A murder is committed in the building where Aurélia Maudru, inspector of the judicial police in charge of the investigation, lives.

The Apartment Murders

1982

La Fée Carabine poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Fée Carabine

1988

1970s · 9 titles

The Devil's Nightmare poster
6.2

Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins.

The Devil's Nightmare

1971

The Thief of Baghdad poster
5.5

A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.

The Thief of Baghdad

1978

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? poster
6.2

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978

Fellini's Casanova poster
6.9

Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using his fluid sexuality to find his place in life amid a variety of eccentric and strange characters.

Fellini's Casanova

1976

Travels with My Aunt poster
6.0

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.

Travels with My Aunt

1972

Kill! poster
6.0

Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

Kill!

1971

Subversion poster
9.0

A blind, paralyzed president uses his remarkable hearing and his corrupt daughter to keep his country in line. His beautiful, clever daughter works her own agenda while striving to be the equal of men. She appoints herself Chief of Firefighters and then commits arson to ensure that her job is needed.

Subversion

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques

1970

Noon and Midnight poster
7.5

A woman marries into a family of insane psychopaths in this bizarre French horror film with strong sadomasochistic overtones.

Noon and Midnight

1970

1960s · 23 titles

Lady L poster
5.8

Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.

Lady L

1965

What's New Pussycat? poster
5.9

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

What's New Pussycat?

1965

Who Stole the Body? poster
7.0

Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the dead man's many female acquaintances. All the seducer's conquests are sifted through, to find the one who left her jewels at the scene of the crime.

Who Stole the Body?

1963

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff poster
6.8

In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

1961

The Liquidator poster
6.3

Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enjoys all the perks, and signs all the forms before learning that his job depends on murdering people, and not romancing all the beautiful civilian staff in Whitehall.

The Liquidator

1965

The Unknown Man of Shandigor poster
5.9

Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a mad herd of rival spies are desperate to get their hands on the device, including a sect of bald, turtleneck-wearing assassins.

The Unknown Man of Shandigor

1967

Trans-Europ-Express poster
6.6

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.

Trans-Europ-Express

1966

OSS 117 Is Unleashed poster
6.1

An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.

OSS 117 Is Unleashed

1963

Danger in the Middle East poster
7.0

A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.

Danger in the Middle East

1960

Nutty, Naughty Chateau poster
5.6

An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.

Nutty, Naughty Chateau

1963

Tell Me Whom to Kill poster
9.0

On the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the courteous challenge of discovering a war treasure lying at the bottom of a bay. But Basta, an old original who alone knew the location of the wreck, is murdered. And Pitou, the jovial nightclub owner, is determined to get his hands on all the loot.

Tell Me Whom to Kill

1965

Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent poster
5.1

Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.

Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent

1964

L'assassin viendra ce soir poster
6.0

A woman's father, a scientist, receives repeated death threats and eventually ends up dead. Receiving no help from the police, the woman begins to realize that she is next.

L'assassin viendra ce soir

1964

Ballad for a Hoodlum poster
6.5

Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.

Ballad for a Hoodlum

1963

Le commissaire mène l’enquête poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le commissaire mène l’enquête

1965

Mission to Venice poster
7.0

An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.

Mission to Venice

1964

L'Or du duc poster
4.0

A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.

L'Or du duc

1965

Lotosblüten für Miss Quon poster
8.2

American Mark Jason is stranded in Southeast Asia and works there as a teacher. One day, he finds diamonds worth several million dollars in his apartment. Jason quickly succumbs to the temptation to keep the treasure stashed here by the previous tenant for himself rather than handing it in to the police. When his Asian servant, who witnessed Jason's find, is found murdered, the teacher comes under suspicion of having disposed of him. Now Jason has the local police on his tail after all, and he has to flee. The American is accompanied by his Asian girlfriend, Nhan Lee Quon. The local police inspector Gonsart is extremely keen to catch Jason and hunts him down without mercy.

Lotosblüten für Miss Quon

1967

Seul... à corps perdu poster
9.0

An unscrupulous reporter investigates the discovery of a corpse in the trunk of a car stolen by his young brother, a petty criminal.

Seul... à corps perdu

1963

Midnight Meeting poster
7.2

A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?

Midnight Meeting

1962

Pantalaskas poster
10.0

An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.

Pantalaskas

1960

The Hand poster
9.0

Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.

The Hand

1969

The Doll poster
5.5

An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.

The Doll

1962

1950s · 12 titles

Frou-Frou poster
6.0

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.

Frou-Frou

1955

Sans famille poster
6.1

The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...

Sans famille

1958

The Spies poster
6.6

A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.

The Spies

1957

La Parisienne poster
5.8

Brigitte, the beautiful daughter of the French premier, falls for one of her father's aides, the womanising Michel, and attempts to get him to settle down with her. However, as Michel can't curb his flirtations with other women, Brigitte makes a play to seduce the married Prince Charles, resulting in a battle of wills between the gorgeous girl of privilege and her beau.

La Parisienne

1957

Goha poster
5.6

As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).

Goha

1959

School for Love poster
5.1

Sophie and Elis, two young women at the Conservatory of Vienna. vie for the affection of head singing teacher Walter.

School for Love

1955

No Sun in Venice poster
5.5

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.

No Sun in Venice

1957

Girl on the Third Floor poster
5.8

A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.

Girl on the Third Floor

1955

Riff Raff Girls poster
5.3

Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...

Riff Raff Girls

1959

The Motorcycle Cops poster
5.5

Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.

The Motorcycle Cops

1959

Tower of Lust poster
5.1

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.

Tower of Lust

1955

Hardboiled Egg Time poster
5.5

A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.

Hardboiled Egg Time

1958

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