Directing

Jacques de Baroncelli

Born June 25, 1881 · Bouillargues, Gard, France

Died January 12, 1951 · aged 69

Jacques de Baroncelli (25 June 1881 – 12 January 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He came from a Florentine family who had settled in Provence in the 15th century, occupying a building in the centre of Avignon then called the Baroncelli Palace (now the Palais du Roure). His father's side of the family were of Tuscan origin and part of th…

Known For

The Dream

The Dream · 1931

In the snow as bells toll, a hooded figure makes its way through the streets to a church.

Beautiful Star

Beautiful Star · 1938

MovieComedyDrama

Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.

The Awakening

The Awakening · 1925

L'Arlésienne

L'Arlésienne · 1930

Frédéri, a young man from a good family, is in love with a woman he met in the arena of Arles. He wishes to marry this woman.

The Midnight Chimes

The Midnight Chimes · 1924

The Midnight Chimes

The film is based on the bitter rivalry of two pigeon racers, Fred, the bell-ringer of Bruges and Neel, the fiancé of Fred's partially sighted sister. Following a major tournament, won by Neel's bird, Fred's resentment drives him to mount an attack upon his rival so ferocious that he believes he has killed him. Seized by remorse, he intends to throw himself from the belfry, but his disabled sister risks her own life to mount to the tower and try to save him.

One Step to Eternity

One Step to Eternity · 1954

One Step to Eternity

MovieDramaThriller

Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper invites four women to a housewarming at his penthouse apartment. He plans on one of them to meet death by means of a loose railing on the balcony.

Le Rêve

Le Rêve · 1921

During this harsh winter, as Christmas approaches, Angélique, a poor child, is found by an old couple, Hubertine and Hubert. But this couple is not the richest, and the life of this small family is hard and laborious. Angélique likes to escape to the city, to dream. One day, she meets Félicien, with whom she falls in love. But she is told that this handsome man is the bishop's son, so marrying him is impossible.

The Cigarette

The Cigarette · 1919

A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

Filmography

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The Dream

The Dream · 1931

In the snow as bells toll, a hooded figure makes its way through the streets to a church.

Director

Beautiful Star

Beautiful Star · 1938

MovieComedyDrama

Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.

Director

The Awakening

The Awakening · 1925

Director

L'Arlésienne

L'Arlésienne · 1930

Frédéri, a young man from a good family, is in love with a woman he met in the arena of Arles. He wishes to marry this woman.

Writer

The Midnight Chimes

The Midnight Chimes · 1924

The Midnight Chimes

The film is based on the bitter rivalry of two pigeon racers, Fred, the bell-ringer of Bruges and Neel, the fiancé of Fred's partially sighted sister. Following a major tournament, won by Neel's bird, Fred's resentment drives him to mount an attack upon his rival so ferocious that he believes he has killed him. Seized by remorse, he intends to throw himself from the belfry, but his disabled sister risks her own life to mount to the tower and try to save him.

Director

One Step to Eternity

One Step to Eternity · 1954

One Step to Eternity

MovieDramaThriller

Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper invites four women to a housewarming at his penthouse apartment. He plans on one of them to meet death by means of a loose railing on the balcony.

Dialogue

Le Rêve

Le Rêve · 1921

During this harsh winter, as Christmas approaches, Angélique, a poor child, is found by an old couple, Hubertine and Hubert. But this couple is not the richest, and the life of this small family is hard and laborious. Angélique likes to escape to the city, to dream. One day, she meets Félicien, with whom she falls in love. But she is told that this handsome man is the bishop's son, so marrying him is impossible.

Director

The Cigarette

The Cigarette · 1919

A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

Writer

Volpone

Volpone · 1941

Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.

Director

Crainquebille

Crainquebille · 1934

MovieComedyDrama

Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele moves away from him and Crainquebille thinks of suicide, when the affection of a kid from Montmartre makes him change his mind.

Director

Nitchevo

Nitchevo · 1926

Writer

She Played and Paid

She Played and Paid · 1920

She Played and Paid

Director

Rocambole

Rocambole · 1948

In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him.

Director

The French Way

The French Way · 1940

MovieRomanceComedy

Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.

Director

The Last Blow

The Last Blow · 1932

The captain of a Marseille freighter suspects his wife of cheating on him with his childhood friend. The ulcerated wife decides to take a trip with her sister and this friend, and registers herself under a false name on her husband's boat. A disaster caused by the fog reveals to the household their love for each other.

Director

The Woman and the Puppet

The Woman and the Puppet · 1929

The Woman and the Puppet

Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him.

Director

Chansons de Paris

Chansons de Paris · 1934

Chansons de Paris

MovieComedyMusic

A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are.

Director

Before the Battle

Before the Battle · 1925

Before the Battle

When the commander of a cruiser ,which sank in a confrontation,is tried for negligence, will the wife speak up in his defense? Unknown to him, she was trapped in the cabin below with her former lover, a subordinate officer.

Director

Feu!

MovieAdventureRomance

During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who is married to a brutal and jealous baron.

Writer

Iceland Fisherman

Iceland Fisherman · 1924

Iceland Fisherman

Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.

Writer

The Terror of Batignolles

The Terror of Batignolles · 1931

The Terror of Batignolles

MovieComedyCrime

An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and E.A. Dupont and began scripting French versions of German films at Berlin’s UFA studios.

Writer

In Old Alsace

In Old Alsace · 1933

MovieComedyDrama

The adaptation of a french novel from 1864 describes the idyllic life of a convinced bachelor, Fritz Kobus, in a village in Alsace. With help by the local rabbi, he does get married to young Suzel in the end.

Director

Destitute Mary

Destitute Mary · 1945

Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ... poverty! She does not remain the companion of a banker too long for obvious reasons. But when she can be the muse of a poor music composer it is fine by her. Unless the musician becomes too famous...! Then, she leaves him! But maybe not forever... He can fall into poverty again, can't he?

Director

The Pavilion Burns

The Pavilion Burns · 1941

The Pavilion Burns

Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occurred that compromises the mine. An accident occurs and about fifteen workers, including Denise's fiancé, are buried under rubble in a collapsing shaft.

Director