Jacques Ertaud

Directing

Jacques Ertaud

Born — Died

1924-11-18 — 1995-11-18

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

35 titles

Jacques Ertaud (18 November 1924 – 18 November 1995) was a French film director and screenwriter. Along with Marcel Ichac, he co-directed the film Stars at Noon, which entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. Source: Article "Jacques Ertaud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

Reflets de Cannes poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Reflets de Cannes

1954

A Man Escaped poster
8.0

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

A Man Escaped

1956

Snows of Grenoble poster
5.6

Film about the 10th Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968. Using a subjective camera, Ertaud and Languepin take the pulse of the Games, cutting out the eyes and slowing down the movement when necessary. The dominant figure at the Grenoble Winter Games is Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy, whose three gold medals matched Toni Sailer's 1956 feat. The filmmakers bet on his winning streak, and include commentary from him as he prepares for each race. Another athlete, Marielle Goitschel, is treated insightfully on screen and wins the women's slalom. Ice dancing fans will appreciate the coverage of winner Oleg Protopopov and his partner Ludmila Belousova. President Charles De Gaulle was present for the spectacular Opening Ceremony.

Snows of Grenoble

1968

Stars at Noon poster
7.0

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French mountain climbers over the last several decades. In one re-enacted story, there is a wartime escape through the mountains, and in another, a daring rescue of a pair of climbers who had been missing. The actors themselves are adept at the sport of climbing, and they give the scenes an immediacy and real daring that brings the stories alive. A combination of their acrobatics and skill and the outstanding episodes in the history of French climbing creates a winning 78 minutes.

Stars at Noon

1959

Film credits

2010s · 1 titles

1960s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Snows of Grenoble poster
5.6

Film about the 10th Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968. Using a subjective camera, Ertaud and Languepin take the pulse of the Games, cutting out the eyes and slowing down the movement when necessary. The dominant figure at the Grenoble Winter Games is Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy, whose three gold medals matched Toni Sailer's 1956 feat. The filmmakers bet on his winning streak, and include commentary from him as he prepares for each race. Another athlete, Marielle Goitschel, is treated insightfully on screen and wins the women's slalom. Ice dancing fans will appreciate the coverage of winner Oleg Protopopov and his partner Ludmila Belousova. President Charles De Gaulle was present for the spectacular Opening Ceremony.

Snows of Grenoble

1968

Snows of Grenoble poster
5.6

Film about the 10th Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968. Using a subjective camera, Ertaud and Languepin take the pulse of the Games, cutting out the eyes and slowing down the movement when necessary. The dominant figure at the Grenoble Winter Games is Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy, whose three gold medals matched Toni Sailer's 1956 feat. The filmmakers bet on his winning streak, and include commentary from him as he prepares for each race. Another athlete, Marielle Goitschel, is treated insightfully on screen and wins the women's slalom. Ice dancing fans will appreciate the coverage of winner Oleg Protopopov and his partner Ludmila Belousova. President Charles De Gaulle was present for the spectacular Opening Ceremony.

Snows of Grenoble

1968

Stars at Noon poster
7.0

Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French mountain climbers over the last several decades. In one re-enacted story, there is a wartime escape through the mountains, and in another, a daring rescue of a pair of climbers who had been missing. The actors themselves are adept at the sport of climbing, and they give the scenes an immediacy and real daring that brings the stories alive. A combination of their acrobatics and skill and the outstanding episodes in the history of French climbing creates a winning 78 minutes.

Stars at Noon

1959

La Tuile à loups poster
8.5

Winter 1970, France. In a small village covered in snow, an outcast bonesettler starts predicting the return of wolves in the area, but nobody wants to believe his superstitious omens. Until one day, a young man is attacted by a wolf.

La Tuile à loups

1972

Les Allumettes suédoises poster
5.5

Oliver has a happy childhood in the streets of Montmartre, Paris, in the 30's. Suddenly his mother dies. He is alone and helpless. He seeks comfort with the offbeat adults.

Les Allumettes suédoises

1996

L'Âge bête poster
7.0

A bad joke by two unruly teenagers backfires. Julien and Hervé give their teacher, Eliane, a hard time until they are suspended. To get revenge, he decides to kidnap her and hide her in an isolated house to scare her, but nothing will go as planned.

L'Âge bête

1980

L'Âge bête poster
7.0

A bad joke by two unruly teenagers backfires. Julien and Hervé give their teacher, Eliane, a hard time until they are suspended. To get revenge, he decides to kidnap her and hide her in an isolated house to scare her, but nothing will go as planned.

L'Âge bête

1980

K2 La Montagne Inachevée poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

K2 La Montagne Inachevée

1980

K2 La Montagne Inachevée poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

K2 La Montagne Inachevée

1980

Anatomy of a First poster
10.0

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini traveled to the Atakor massif, in the Hoggar mountain range of the Sahara in southern Algeria. There, they attempted a challenging first ascent: the Takouba spur, one of the peaks adjacent to Garet El Djenoun, a legendary mountain in the Hoggar massif, first climbed by Roger Frison-Roche and Raymond Coche in 1935. The documentary, superbly filmed by Jacques Ertaud, won the Grand Prize at the Trento International Mountain Film Festival in 1966.

Anatomy of a First

1966

Anatomy of a First poster
10.0

In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini traveled to the Atakor massif, in the Hoggar mountain range of the Sahara in southern Algeria. There, they attempted a challenging first ascent: the Takouba spur, one of the peaks adjacent to Garet El Djenoun, a legendary mountain in the Hoggar massif, first climbed by Roger Frison-Roche and Raymond Coche in 1935. The documentary, superbly filmed by Jacques Ertaud, won the Grand Prize at the Trento International Mountain Film Festival in 1966.

Anatomy of a First

1966

Death of a Guide poster
8.3

Veteran Chamonix mountain guide Michel Servoz and the young aspiring guide Patrick Falavier attempt to climb the west face of the Dru in the Mont-Blanc massif. When they are gone for five days, the captain of the gendarmerie in Morteau is worried, but he cannot undertake research for a rescue without the permission of the family.

Death of a Guide

1975

Death of a Guide poster
8.3

Veteran Chamonix mountain guide Michel Servoz and the young aspiring guide Patrick Falavier attempt to climb the west face of the Dru in the Mont-Blanc massif. When they are gone for five days, the captain of the gendarmerie in Morteau is worried, but he cannot undertake research for a rescue without the permission of the family.

Death of a Guide

1975

Retour à Malaveil poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Retour à Malaveil

1989

Retour à Malaveil poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Retour à Malaveil

1989

No artwork available
10.0

An apprentice writer with an odd attitude is arrested for killing his girlfriend's lover.

Le Temps D'Anaïs

1987

La Mort amoureuse poster
8.0

A young woman, elegant, cold and inhuman, who is none other than Death, reigns over a universe dominated by electronics, the firm Thanatos Unlimited Corporation. A file in a computer and life stops. But death is also capable of knowing love. Thus she keeps Robert, a worker in eternal youth and forces him to love her until he falls in love with Marie, a barmaid. But can we defy Death with impunity?

La Mort amoureuse

1977

Un jour avant l'aube poster
6.0

At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany.

Un jour avant l'aube

1994

No artwork available
NR

Follows the scientific research carried out in the natural cavity of Fontaine-de-Vaucluse by Cousteau and OFRS (French Underwater Research Office) divers, who reach for the first time a depth of 243 ft.

La Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

1955

The Cousteau Collection N°36-1 | Clipperton: Island of Solitude poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Cousteau Collection N°36-1 | Clipperton: Island of Solitude

1980

The Sunken Galley poster
NR

Off the coast of Marseille, near a rocky cliff, a Greek ship was discovered at a depth of forty meters in Mediterranean waters, loaded with amphorae and other pottery. The cargo has been lying on that sandy stretch of seabed for more than two thousand years. The documentary follows the dives of divers who recover cups, vases, plates and jars still full of wine. We are also witnessing new recovery systems, with the use of compressed air.

The Sunken Galley

1957

The Sunken Galley poster
NR

Off the coast of Marseille, near a rocky cliff, a Greek ship was discovered at a depth of forty meters in Mediterranean waters, loaded with amphorae and other pottery. The cargo has been lying on that sandy stretch of seabed for more than two thousand years. The documentary follows the dives of divers who recover cups, vases, plates and jars still full of wine. We are also witnessing new recovery systems, with the use of compressed air.

The Sunken Galley

1957

The Link and the Chain poster
7.0

A 1963 French documentary film directed by Jacques Ertaud.

The Link and the Chain

1963

Ne pleure pas poster
5.2

Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thomas has a soul of justice. Thus, returning home with Marc after a fight, he hits a little thug who has just robbed an old lady.

Ne pleure pas

1978

Les rendez-vous de l'été poster
10.0

The French track and field team prepares for the world championships. A paean to sport as a shining example of human nobility, as well as an almost anthropological investigation into a most particular company of people who manage to be rivals and comrades at the same time.

Les rendez-vous de l'été

1966

Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot poster
7.0

Today, the only inhabitants of this environmentally inhospitable Pacific island are birds and crabs. Yet over 80 years ago, Clipperton hosted other visitors: a demented rapist and a terrified group of women and children. Cousteau returns to the island to recreate the deadly series of events - from the death of the brave French captain to the courage of the widow who killed her torturer - through the eyes of one of the survivors, then a child.

Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot

1981

Hoggar poster
10.0

A 1959 documentary about climbing in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria. For the first time, a mountain expedition was organized for 60 young aspiring climbers, accompanied by renowned mountaineers such as Lionel Terray, Lucien Bérardini, Maurice Herzog, and Jean-Paul Gardinier. In two weeks, dozens of new routes, often extremely difficult, were established. Jacques Ertaud's camera followed the climbers through all the challenging sections of the first ascent of the south spur of Assekrem.

Hoggar

1959

Hoggar poster
10.0

A 1959 documentary about climbing in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria. For the first time, a mountain expedition was organized for 60 young aspiring climbers, accompanied by renowned mountaineers such as Lionel Terray, Lucien Bérardini, Maurice Herzog, and Jean-Paul Gardinier. In two weeks, dozens of new routes, often extremely difficult, were established. Jacques Ertaud's camera followed the climbers through all the challenging sections of the first ascent of the south spur of Assekrem.

Hoggar

1959