Directing

Pierre Cardinal

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Heart of the Casbah poster
7.3

Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.

Heart of the Casbah

1952

Heart of the Casbah poster
7.3

Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.

Heart of the Casbah

1952

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Mare au diable

1972

Madame Bovary poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Madame Bovary

1974

No artwork available
9.0

1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.

Sous le soleil de Satan

1971

No artwork available
9.0

1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.

Sous le soleil de Satan

1971

The Red and the Black poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Red and the Black

1961

Les Fossés de Vincennes poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Fossés de Vincennes

1972

Viper in the Fist poster
7.4

Jean, nicknamed Brasse-Bouillon, and his brother Ferdinand live with their paternal grandmother, who is responsible for their upbringing. But when their parents returned from Japan, they settled in Belle-Angerie and resumed their role with the children, while their grandmother had to leave for cousins. The boys soon come up against the contempt of their mother, Marthe. Faced with this shrew, whom he nicknamed "Folcoche" (a contraction of "madwoman" and "pig"), Jean decided to join the resistance.

Viper in the Fist

1971

Dialogues des Carmélites poster
9.0

The story of a group of nuns executed during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their vows.

Dialogues des Carmélites

1984

Fantaisie d'un jour poster
8.0

Thérèse is the daughter of a modest couple. One day, she wins a voucher for two hundred thousand francs in a department store. Dazzled, the little typist chose a fur cape, much to her parents' disappointment. She has a fiancé, François, whom she now scorns a little. She returns to him, however, after an unfortunate foray into the big wide world, and gets rid of the cumbersome cape forever.

Fantaisie d'un jour

1955

No artwork available
6.9

Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.

Saint-Just and the Force of Things

1975