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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 Awakening

The Awakening · 1925

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.

She Played and Paid

She Played and Paid · 1920

She Played and Paid

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.

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.

The Sea Rose

The Sea Rose · 1946

Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and collect the insurance premium.

The Revenge of Baccarat

The Revenge of Baccarat · 1948

The Revenge of Baccarat

In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomplices have the Count's fortune handed over to them. But their trickery is discovered by an intriguer, Baccarat, who finds the real Count of Chamery, a young painter without fortune, in love with Carmen de Montevecchio. Rocambole, who stops at nothing, kills Sir William, gets rid of Armand and makes Carmen love him. But Baccarat is determined not to let him continue his villainies.

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.

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The Awakening

The Awakening · 1925

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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

She Played and Paid

She Played and Paid · 1920

She Played and Paid

Director

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.

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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

The Sea Rose

The Sea Rose · 1946

Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and collect the insurance premium.

Director

The Revenge of Baccarat

The Revenge of Baccarat · 1948

The Revenge of Baccarat

In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomplices have the Count's fortune handed over to them. But their trickery is discovered by an intriguer, Baccarat, who finds the real Count of Chamery, a young painter without fortune, in love with Carmen de Montevecchio. Rocambole, who stops at nothing, kills Sir William, gets rid of Armand and makes Carmen love him. But Baccarat is determined not to let him continue his villainies.

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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

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.

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The French Way

The French Way · 1940

MovieRomanceComedy

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

Director

Nitchevo

Nitchevo · 1926

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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.

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La Flambée des rêves

La Flambée des rêves · 1924

La Flambée des rêves

Claire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood friend René.

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Mysteries of Paris

Mysteries of Paris · 1943

Mysteries of Paris

MovieDramaComedy

Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.

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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

Wicked Duchess

Wicked Duchess · 1942

Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.

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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.

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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.

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Michel Strogoff

Michel Strogoff · 1936

Michel Strogoff

The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he encounters a number of adventures.

Director

The Dream

The Dream · 1931

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

Director

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.

Writer

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.

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As Long As I Live

As Long As I Live · 1946

As Long As I Live

Following a trivial road accident, Ariane, an international adventuress, falls in love with Bernard Fleuret, a young artist-painter with diseased lungs. Being pursued by the police, she chooses to hide in the sanatorium where the young man is treated. Ariane proves so smitten by love that she finally changes her ways: she decides to let herself be arrested, sure as she is she will be reunited with her loved one later on.

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Essais d'acteurs : Ève Francis

Essais d'acteurs : Ève Francis · 1926

Essais d'acteurs : Ève Francis

MovieDocumentary

Shot circa 1926, these two screen tests are made up of various takes for two films by Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques de Baroncelli.

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