Directing
Jean-Henri Roger
Born January 24, 1949 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Died December 31, 2012 · aged 63
Jean-Henri Roger (24 January 1949 – 31 December 2012) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He co-directed with Juliet Berto the 1983 film Cap Canaille, which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. Source: Article "Jean-Henri Roger" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Imago · 2001Imago
★ 8.02001
MovieFantasy
Recently the victim of a car accident, Paul, a teacher, is no longer the same man. He no longer shows any interest in his environment and, even more worryingly, he seems to have become impervious to all feelings, all emotions. His wife, Marianne, and his mistress, Luisa, are of little more interest to him than his students, which is to say very little. Desperate, Luisa meets Marianne to try to understand.
Snow · 1981Snow
★ 6.01981
MovieDramaCrime
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro · 2011The Snows of Kilimanjaro
★ 6.72011
MovieDrama
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
Bamako · 2007Bamako
★ 7.12007
MovieDrama
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
British Sounds · 1970British Sounds
★ 5.21970
MovieDocumentary
Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director Dziga Vertov's agitprop techniques), it combines a diverse range of footage, from students discussing The Beatles to the production line at the MG factory in Oxfordshire, burnished with onscreen political sloganeering.
Clara · 1989Clara
1989
MovieDocumentary
"Clara, screenplay and dialogues of a Franco-Czechoslovak film, the co-director should have been the Czech filmmaker Kadar. Screenplay adaptated in 1989 by Philippe Garrel and students of the University of Paris X (Nanterre). The subject of the film - which is also a love story - is part of the political atmosphere, release the XXth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party has changed both individual for a certain way of seeing and understanding History: political trials, purges in Czechoslovakia, Hungary events of 1956, Algeria war, cold war." - KG
Cap Canaille · 1983Cap Canaille
★ 4.11983
MovieDramaCrime
Paula Barretto (Juliet Berto) is caught in the underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
Pravda · 1970Pravda
★ 5.81970
MovieDocumentary
Filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It's one of the films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov - a Marxist film about the political situation after the '68 revolution.


