Jacques Deval

Writing

Jacques Deval

Born June 27, 1895 · Paris, France

Died December 19, 1972 · aged 77

Jacques Deval was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.

Known For

L'altra metà del cieloL'altra metà del cielo · 1977
L'altra metà del cielo
5.81977
MovieComedyRomance
Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
Şahane ZüğürtlerŞahane Züğürtler · 1964
Şahane Züğürtler
8.01964
MovieComedy
Fikret is a wealthy cotton merchant. He married his childhood sweetheart Leyla and built a happy home. The young couple's kindness touched many people around them. However, one day, things took a turn for the worse. Fikret's business failed. Yusuf, whom he had once saved from bankruptcy, refused to help him. He was acting out of resentment that Leyla had chosen Fikret over him. Fikret is an honorable man. He has been appointed guardian of the young son of his closest friend, who died in a traffic accident. The management of a large fortune has fallen to him. However, he prefers to work as a servant in Istanbul rather than touch the money. The couple builds a new life for themselves in Istanbul. But Yusuf's resentment shows no signs of abating.
BalalaikaBalalaika · 1939
Balalaika
5.31939
MovieRomanceMusic
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
TovarichTovarich · 1937
Tovarich
6.41937
MovieRomanceComedy
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Club of WomenClub of Women · 1956
Club of Women
5.01956
MovieDrama
A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluckings of local busybodies and do-gooders. Complications ensue when a huge corporation announces plans to raze the building and erect a factory. Amazingly, the ladies are saved by the very company that wants to evict them.
Marie GalanteMarie Galante · 1934
Marie Galante
4.91934
MovieThrillerDrama
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
The Passionate PlumberThe Passionate Plumber · 1932
The Passionate Plumber
6.01932
MovieComedy
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
New MoonNew Moon · 1940
New Moon
6.91940
MovieRomanceAdventure
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

Filmography

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Şahane ZüğürtlerŞahane Züğürtler · 1964
Şahane Züğürtler
8.01964
MovieComedy
Fikret is a wealthy cotton merchant. He married his childhood sweetheart Leyla and built a happy home. The young couple's kindness touched many people around them. However, one day, things took a turn for the worse. Fikret's business failed. Yusuf, whom he had once saved from bankruptcy, refused to help him. He was acting out of resentment that Leyla had chosen Fikret over him. Fikret is an honorable man. He has been appointed guardian of the young son of his closest friend, who died in a traffic accident. The management of a large fortune has fallen to him. However, he prefers to work as a servant in Istanbul rather than touch the money. The couple builds a new life for themselves in Istanbul. But Yusuf's resentment shows no signs of abating.

Story

Queen of AtlantisQueen of Atlantis · 1932
Queen of Atlantis
6.41932
MovieFantasyScience Fiction
Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful Antinéa, queen of the city of Atlantis. Saint-Avit, blinded by his love for her, obeys her when she orders him to kill his comrade... With L’Atlantide, Pabst offers a psychoanalytic reading of Benoit’s novel, with a dominant female figure who enslaves her lovers before destroying them. The film’s fantasy dimension is disturbing, L’Atlantide bathes in a humid nightmare atmosphere, between the desperate search for a missing friend and the apparitions of an underworld lost in the desert. A long, discursive flashback suggests the Parisian origins of Antinéa, born from the marriage between Clémentine, a pretty, light-thighed French Cancan dancer, and an Arab prince seduced during a theatrical performance. But again, it's impossible to know whether these are the ramblings of an old alcoholic or the strange truth.

Dialogue