Jean-Claude Grumberg

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Jean-Claude Grumberg

Born July 26, 1939 · Paris, France (age 87)

Jean-Claude Grumberg (born 1939) is a French playwright and author of children's books. Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama being an actor in the company. He became a writer in 1968 with Demain, une fenêtre sur rue, and short texts like Rixe which played at the Co…

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The ArtistThe Artist · 2011
The Artist
7.42011
MovieDramaComedy
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
The Last MetroThe Last Metro · 1980
The Last Metro
7.21980
MovieDramaRomance
In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Amen.Amen. · 2002
Amen.
7.02002
MovieDramaHistory
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
The AxThe Ax · 2005
The Ax
6.92005
MovieComedyCrime
Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.
The Most Precious of CargoesThe Most Precious of Cargoes · 2024
The Most Precious of Cargoes
7.72024
MovieAnimationDrama
Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross—including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.
Les Livres qui tuentLes Livres qui tuent · 2011
Les Livres qui tuent
2011
MovieDrama
CapitalCapital · 2012
Capital
6.22012
MovieDramaThriller
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Music HallMusic Hall · 1986
Music Hall
7.01986
MovieDramaWar

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93, rue Lauriston93, rue Lauriston · 2004
93, rue Lauriston
5.72004
MovieCrimeDrama
93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was active between 1941 and 1944 and was headed by Henri Lafont and Pierre Loutrel, two wanted criminals. On the day of 1940 he was demobilized, little did well-meaning Léon Jabinet know that he would be associated with such disreputable characters. And yet, some time later, Odile Panzer, the Jewish girl he has been hiding at his parents'place, is arrested by the Gestapo. On this occasion Léon is offered a deal for her release: collaborating with the Carlingue (another name for the French auxiliaries of the Nazi police) and Odile will be free. Or else... What should he do?

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