Jean Négroni

Acting

Jean Négroni

Born — Died

1920-12-04 — 2005-05-28

Place of birth

Constantine, Algeria, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Jean Négroni (4 December 1920 – 28 May 2005) was a French actor and theatre director particularly known for his voice work, such as his role as the narrator in La Jetée (1962). Jean Négroni was educated in theater by Albert Camus, and was an early companion of Jean Vilar at the Théâtre National Populaire and at the Festival d'Avignon. Négroni founded the Maison des arts et de la culture de Créteil at Créteil in 1968, and was its director until 1978. Négroni's career was marked by his portrayal of Robespierre — first on an episode of the television program La caméra explore le temps, and later in the theater under the direction of Robert Hossein. Négroni provided the voice of the narrator …

Known for

Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea poster
8.0

The Arkadians are a civilization that survived a great cataclysm and moved to the center of the earth, thriving under the power of their artificial sun, The Tehra, until one day it began to fail. In desperation, the Arkadians broke the ancient law and entered the Forbidden Archives to search for an answer. They used their special powers and created a messenger to the people above, naming her Arkana. She meets up with Matt and Rebecca, two ordinary kids from the surface world, Bic and Bac, two strange anteaters from Arkadia, and Spartakus, a mysterious warrior. Together they search the worlds of the strata for a way to save a people and possibly the world.

Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea

1985

Blake and Mortimer poster
6.8

Blake and Mortimer is an animated television series, based on the Blake and Mortimer comic book by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. The series was directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, and produced by Ellipse, and shown in 1997. The first nine stories were used in this series, as well as four brand new stories, devised by the creators: The Viking's Bequest, The Secret of Easter Island, The Alchemist's Will, and The Druid. New writers, mostly connected to the production company as writers, dialogists or translators, were asked to come up with original plotlines which used the characters of Jacobs' stories, respected the magical/scientific Universe, but rang interesting changes.

Blake and Mortimer

1997

Rahan, fils des ages farouches poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Rahan, fils des ages farouches

1987

I... for Icarus poster
7.6

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

I... for Icarus

1979

La Jetée poster
7.9

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

La Jetée

1962

Love Rites poster
4.7

Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.

Love Rites

1987

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 21 titles

La Jetée poster
7.9

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

La Jetée

1962

Le Deuxième Souffle poster
7.7

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Le Deuxième Souffle

1966

Évariste Galois poster
6.3

Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.

Évariste Galois

1965

Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir poster
NR

This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works.

Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir

1962

The Queen of Spades poster
8.0

A gambling countess comes by a secret three card combination that wins her a fortune, but she is allowed to use it only once and not gamble again. She passes on the info twice, and the recipients both die violently. She is warned that if she passes it on again, she too will die. Many years later, a young soldier discovers that the countess has the secret, and he resolves to get it out of her.

The Queen of Spades

1965

God Chose Paris poster
6.5

An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starting as a young photographer around 1900, a reporter in both world-wars and doing fictional interviews with lots of celebrities.

God Chose Paris

1969

From a Distant Gaze poster
NR

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

From a Distant Gaze

1964

Illuminations poster
6.5

Light is everywhere. Sunlight illuminates the beauty of solitary landscapes. Twilight, on the other hand, illuminates New York City, a city both swarming with people and spectral. This is a mysterious spectacle, enhanced by Rimbaud's poetry and Michel Legrand's music.

Illuminations

1963

Les enfants de Néant poster
6.2

Morbihan is one of the poorest regions in Brittany. Joseph, a 33-year-old farmer, can no longer live off the land. He is hired at the fancy new plant that has just opened where he enters a world of rote work. Fortunately he can go home to his farm every evening, far from the large urban centers where workers must usually live.

Les enfants de Néant

1968

Terror and Virtue: Robespierre poster
9.0

From April to July 1794, Robespierre forms a triumvirate with Saint-Just and Couthon. He plans to instate his ideal based on virtue and in times of revolutionary crisis, on terror. In May, he establishes the Cult of the Supreme Being. However, he still has numerous enemies...

Terror and Virtue: Robespierre

1964

No artwork available
8.0

We join the idyllic world of conductor Petre Mihajlovski, whose slow, narrow-gauge Macedonian train was built in 1895, and runs from Prespa to Ohrid. Here are charming scenes of laundry washed by the lake, the soapy water heated in large copper kettles.

Ohrid Express

1965

Le Sourire poster
7.0

In the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kagi by Kon Ichikawa -- 'Le Sourire' won the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film in 1960. This quiet and intelligent film is a remarkable interpretation of a young monks perspective into a world of meditation, sacred geometry, and coming of age. A tribute to Buddhism, introspection and the wonders of nature...a short but lasting work of art.

Le Sourire

1960

The Glass Cage poster
10.0

A study of conscience set against the trial of Eichmann in Israel.

The Glass Cage

1965

Short Memory poster
8.0

This collection of rare footage examines WWII from an unusual perspective, that of everyday people. How did civilians cope with the ferocity of the "Blitz", occupation, and devastation?

Short Memory

1963

No artwork available
9.5

From November 1793 to April 1794, in order to reinforce the power of the Revolution, Robespierre strikes right and left. He successively sends the Hébertists to the guillotine, followed by Danton, the chief of the Indulgents, and Camille Desmoulins, who asked the new regime for clemency in his journal, Le Vieux Cordelier. Robespierre triumphs, but he is alone...

La terreur et la vertu - Première partie: Danton

1964

L'Arlésienne poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Arlésienne

1967

The Infernal Machine poster
8.0

A television adaptation of Jean Cocteau's surréalist take on the tragedy of Oedipus.

The Infernal Machine

1963

La Demoiselle de Coeur poster
10.0

The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them.

La Demoiselle de Coeur

1963

Enclosure poster
6.7

In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive.

Enclosure

1961

No artwork available
7.0

Evocation of the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were slaughtered by a Nazi Waffen SS company, based on a visit to Diors' Museum of the Three Wars" and archive photographs.

June 10, 1944

1961

Bassae poster
8.1

"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no white marble, no nothing. All Greek temples are dedicated to Apollo etc, and this particular one was not dedicated to anyone and is in a place where there never was a city nearby, in a kind of wasteland, in a ditch. But, just by going up a bit –you are in the centre of Peloponissos- on a clear day, you can see the sea on both your left and right. I went back there, at least six, seven or eight times, as if I wanted to think or find myself. So, at the temple in Bassae, I made a short 10 minute film and I was lucky enough to encounter two days of clouds and mist between the columns."

Bassae

1964

1950s · 3 titles

1940s · 4 titles

Strangers in the House poster
7.0

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.

Strangers in the House

1942

Les Cadets de l'océan poster
6.0

In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and experts of the Navy is punctuated by permissions in town, friendships, bullying, and loves.

Les Cadets de l'océan

1945

Her First Affair poster
6.7

Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...

Her First Affair

1941

Homeland poster
6.0

Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to power. Now, the count's lieutenant, has an affair with Elisabeth, Rysoor's wife. For the time being, the count, who thinks of his homeland first, turns a blind eye. But such a relationship might well undermine the whole rebellion movement.

Homeland

1946

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