Claude Barma

Directing

Claude Barma

Born — Died

1918-11-03 — 1992-08-30

Place of birth

Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Claude Barma (3 November 1918, in Nice – 30 August 1992, in Paris), was a French director and screenwriter, and an early creator of French television programmes. After studying electrical engineering, he entered television in 1946 with the drama Chambre 34, his directorial debut. On 24 February 1950, he produced the first live French television show by transmitting part of Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard and the Comédie-Française. His first series followed in 1950, Agence Nostradamus, which was also the first series on French television. In 1955, he staged a trial court scripted by Peter Desgraupes and Dumayet Peter (producers of the series). En votre âme et conscience was an o…

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Three Musketeers poster
5.8

The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.

The Three Musketeers

1959

Ruy Blas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ruy Blas

1965

The Turkey poster
7.1

Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.

The Turkey

1951

Othello poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Othello

1962

Tales of Paris poster
5.5

A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.

Tales of Paris

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maigret en vacances

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maigret en vacances

1971

The Gamblers poster
5.9

Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.

The Gamblers

1950

La Nuit des rois poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

La Nuit des rois

1962

Cyrano de Bergerac poster
8.6

In love with Roxane, who is herself in love with the youngest son of Gascony, Christian de Neuvilette, Cyrano dictates his words of love to the young man. But the Count de Guiche, an unhappy rival, takes revenge by sending Christian and Cyrano to the siege of Arras.

Cyrano de Bergerac

1960

Le Quadrille des diamants poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Quadrille des diamants

1957

La Nuit de Tom Brown poster
7.3

How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nathaniel Hawthorne's character recounts the night when everything changed. In Canada, in a village where everyone seems more virtuous than he is, Tom Brown meets a man who claims to be the devil.

La Nuit de Tom Brown

1959

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Mort de Danton

1970

Un coup dans l'aile poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Un coup dans l'aile

1963

La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière

1973

La mort de Danton poster
NR

In 1794, Danton and Camille Desmoulins go against Robespierre. Danton claimes to be sick of the revolutionary struggle and seeks the company of women. He decides to meet Robespierre but is arrested shortly afterwards. At his trial, he rediscovers his oratorical powers, but whilst in prison, he expresses his feelings in the face of death...

La mort de Danton

1970

Croquemitoufle poster
4.5

Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.

Croquemitoufle

1959

Croquemitoufle poster
4.5

Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.

Croquemitoufle

1959

Dangerous liaisons poster
8.0

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, author of "Dangerous liaisons", finds himself in prison and confronting the marquise de Merteuil. Together they discuss his characters of the marquise and vicomte de Valmont and the web of circumstance and intrigue that connects Laclos's work and life.

Dangerous liaisons

1980

La grande bretèche poster
3.0

Transposed to the 1960s, this short story by Balzac tells the story of a jealous husband who hears a door slam when he returns home. His wife swears there was no one there, but refuses to open the oil tank. To get to the bottom of it, the husband has fuel delivered. To what fatal outcome will their stubbornness lead them?

La grande bretèche

1960

Madame Sans-Gêne poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Madame Sans-Gêne

1963

Paris Casino poster
6.4

Catherine Miller's triumph at the Casino de Paris leads fashionable playwright Alexandre Gordi to ask her to create his next play. Flattered, Catherine moves into Gordi's villa near Cannes, escorted by her entire family. Only Jacques Merval, Gordi's secretary, disagrees. This is understandable, as it is he who writes the plays that Gordi, rather tired, simply signs. Jacques is a one-man band in every sense of the word, allying himself with the Casino manager to bring Catherine back to her music-hall successes. Despite a few clouds, and thanks to Gordi's generous intervention, he succeeds. Wasn't his only thought the happiness of the woman he loves?

Paris Casino

1957