Writing

Jacques Viot

Born — Died

1898-11-20 — 1973-01-29

Place of birth

Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

Known for

Writing

Credits

13 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Black Orpheus poster
7.0

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Black Orpheus

1959

The Pioneers poster
10.0

In Brazil, a diamond prospector sets out in pursuit of a thief who has robbed him and left him for dead. Along the way, he meets one of his adversary's former mistresses and tries to extract some information from her.

The Pioneers

1960

The Long Night poster
5.8

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

The Long Night

1947

Daybreak poster
7.6

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

Daybreak

1939

Under Western Eyes poster
6.3

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.

Under Western Eyes

1936

The Call of Destiny poster
7.5

Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism.

The Call of Destiny

1953

Bird of Paradise poster
7.0

A beautiful dancer has two admirers -- one is a young worker whom she has only met by accident, and the other is an unscrupulous businessman. The worker had been training as a Buddhist monk and as his interest in the dancer and the businessman's pursuit of the woman develop, the dancer and the former monk end up at the archaeological site of Angkor.

Bird of Paradise

1962

No artwork available
NR

Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.

Il prigioniero del re

1954

House on the Waterfront poster
7.1

Martine is searching for her sister that disappeared mysteriously. Lequévic agrees to help her.

House on the Waterfront

1955

The Forest of Farewell poster
7.0

A young girl marries a man she doesn't love and delights in humiliating him.

The Forest of Farewell

1952

The Crazy Hostel poster
7.5

As a favor to his grandmother, singer Rudy Hirigoyen agrees to sing incognito, under the name Romano, in the nightclub his cousin Gustave has just opened in a small seaside resort. The staff and musicians are students camping out in the pine forest near "L'Auberge Fleurie". Grandma has rented the apartment above the club to summer guests: Commandant Portafaux and his wife.

The Crazy Hostel

1957

Marie-Martine poster
6.9

The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying the price. After the drama that had thrown her in prison, she met a brave boy ready to make his life with her. Will the scandal separate them?

Marie-Martine

1943

Fahrendes Volk poster
5.0

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son, now grown up, Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father. Marcel loves Yvonne, the daughter of director Barlay. He is against the connection, sends his daughter to Italy and convinces Marcel that Yvonne does not return his feelings.

Fahrendes Volk

1938