Gérard Chaillou

Acting

Gérard Chaillou

Born January 11, 1946 · Juziers, Yvelines, France

Died August 2, 2025 · aged 79

No biography available.

Known For

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-SecThe Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec · 2010
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
★ 6.32010
MovieFantasyAdventure
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
An Officer and a SpyAn Officer and a Spy · 2019
An Officer and a Spy
★ 7.12019
MovieHistoryDrama
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
Superwho?Superwho? · 2022
Superwho?
★ 6.32022
MovieComedyAction
A struggling actor seems doomed to live life as a loser. When he finally snatches a lead role as a superhero named “Badman,” he feels like everything is possible, but fate strikes again.
ÉlisaÉlisa · 1995
Élisa
★ 6.41995
MovieDrama
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
MiserereMiserere · 2013
Miserere
★ 5.92013
MovieThriller
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
The ConquestThe Conquest · 2011
The Conquest
★ 5.82011
MovieComedyDrama
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
By the Pricking of My ThumbsBy the Pricking of My Thumbs · 2005
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
★ 6.22005
MovieComedyMystery
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
The AntidoteThe Antidote · 2005
The Antidote
★ 5.12005
MovieComedy
JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.

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Mémoire CommuneMémoire Commune · 1978
Mémoire Commune
★ 10.01978
Movie
A character, directly addressing the viewer, attempts, through his or her knowledge, a historical reflection on the Paris Commune of 1871. A series of five tableaux retraces the major phases of the events. First comes the analysis of the Second Empire. Then comes the fall of the Empire and the proclamation of the Republic on September 4, 1870. Based on texts by Jules Vallès, several actors evoke the event in the contemporary setting of the large housing estates of Bobigny. The third part deals with the period October-March 1871, during which the people of Paris felt, little by little, betrayed by the government. Finally, March 18 is the revolutionary day. Inspired by Bertold Brecht's "Days of the Commune," actors perform the episode "Madame Cabet's Canon." The fifth part, entitled "Two or Three Things I Know About Her," directly evokes the work of the Commune, building and imagining a better world...