Liliane de Kermadec

Directing

Liliane de Kermadec

Born 1928-10-06 · Warsaw, Warszawskie [now Mazowieckie], Poland

Liliane de Kermadec (6 October 1928 – 13 February 2020) was a Polish-French film director and screenwriter, known for Aloïse (1975), La piste du télégraphe (1994) and Sophie et le Capitaine (1978). She directed more than twenty films and documentaries between 1965 and 2016. Kermadec began as a set photographer, working with Agnes Varda on Cléo from 5 to 7, Alain Resnais on Muriel, and Yves Robert on Berbert and the Train. Her first two feature films, Home Sweet Home (1972) and Aloïse (1975), were both screened at Cannes Film Festival.

Acting credits

The Young Girls of Rochefort poster
7.7

In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.

The Young Girls of Rochefort

1967

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

Delphine and Carole poster
6.4

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.

Delphine and Carole

2020

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète poster
7.5

Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Marguerite Duras, she played in 34 films for cinema, 13 films for television and 33 plays. Jacqueline Veuve, filmmaker and friend of Delphine Seyrig, wanted to break the silence that has fallen on her memory by making a documentary that traces with emotion and subjectivity the life of the mythical actress, the fierce feminist but also the simple friend.

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

2000

Behind the camera

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles poster
7.4

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1976

Aloïse poster
6.2

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

Aloïse

1975

Aloïse poster
6.2

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

Aloïse

1975

Aloïse poster
6.2

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.

Aloïse

1975

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10.0

Two boys meet a girl, and the three of them go wandering together; they stop in a house, and there the past mixes with the present. Cannes Film Festival 1973.

Home Sweet Home

1973

No artwork available
10.0

Two boys meet a girl, and the three of them go wandering together; they stop in a house, and there the past mixes with the present. Cannes Film Festival 1973.

Home Sweet Home

1973

The Telegraph Route poster
6.0

This French film chronicles the amazing-but-true story of Lisa Alling who in 1928 successfully walked from New York City to Siberia via the Bering Straight by following telegraph poles. It was shot entirely in the Ukraine. Lisa, a chambermaid, has had enough of American life and wants go home to Siberia. Because she had no money, she decided it was better to walk than stay in the U.S. any longer. An opportunist, she takes whatever food, warmth and even romance that is offered along the way.

The Telegraph Route

1994

The Telegraph Route poster
6.0

This French film chronicles the amazing-but-true story of Lisa Alling who in 1928 successfully walked from New York City to Siberia via the Bering Straight by following telegraph poles. It was shot entirely in the Ukraine. Lisa, a chambermaid, has had enough of American life and wants go home to Siberia. Because she had no money, she decided it was better to walk than stay in the U.S. any longer. An opportunist, she takes whatever food, warmth and even romance that is offered along the way.

The Telegraph Route

1994

Qui donc a rêvé? poster
4.8

A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.

Qui donc a rêvé?

1965

Qui donc a rêvé? poster
4.8

A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.

Qui donc a rêvé?

1965

Mersonne ne m'aime poster
10.0

After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.

Mersonne ne m'aime

1982

Tomorrow's Children poster
6.0

The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wife dies, he makes plans to seek out whatever remnants of civilization exist. However, the arrival of a group of children and their older mentor changes his plans.

Tomorrow's Children

1976

Un moment d'inattention poster
7.0

Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fidelity, but Laurent's opinions and appetites are starting to shift with the times.

Un moment d'inattention

1986

Le petit Pommier poster
4.5

Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs.

Le petit Pommier

1981

Le petit Pommier poster
4.5

Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs.

Le petit Pommier

1981

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NR

Unfinished movie after two weeks shooting in May 1978.

Sophie et le Capitaine

1978

No artwork available
NR

Unfinished movie after two weeks shooting in May 1978.

Sophie et le Capitaine

1978

Le Cinéma de grand-père poster
NR

Remarkable life story of Henri Diamant-Berger, a director and screenwriter whose devotion to cinema led him to collaborate with some of the greatest actors and filmmakers of his time.

Le Cinéma de grand-père

1995

Viva Varda! poster
5.0

Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French television in 1970.

Viva Varda!

1970

Paris ou l’utopie perdue poster
NR

A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier.

Paris ou l’utopie perdue

2018

Paris ou l’utopie perdue poster
NR

A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier.

Paris ou l’utopie perdue

2018

Le Murmure Des Ruines poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Murmure Des Ruines

2008

Le Murmure Des Ruines poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Murmure Des Ruines

2008

La récré poster
NR

Friendships, games, boredom, first emotions: the playground.

La récré

1967