Daniel Vaissaire Movies
This gentle French comedy has a meandering plotline as it traces the exploits of a young man recognized as a the son of a star. The main protagonist is 23-year old Harvey who works as the guide for a group of Georgian singers who have a Paris gig. He is interested in Dinara, the 18-year old interpreter for the group. While in a restaurant, they encounter Marco Garciano who tells them he played the small lad in Crin blanc, a classic French film. He is really a half-time chauffeur and con-artist. Marco tells Harvey that he is the son of Gascogne, the father of the New Wave, and close friend and inspiration to many directors between 1958 and 1962. Marco tries to prove his point by taking Harvey and Dinara to meet some former French film impresarios. They see Alexandra Stewart and Bernadette Lafont. They also meet Claude Chabrol while he eats lunch. They meet many more including director Michel Deville. All they meet are convinced that Harvey is indeed Gascogne's son. Many of the female stars claim to be his mother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Grégoire Colin, (more)
- 1985
This West German spy drama moves along a fairly predictable course that begins when French industrialist Bernard Corain (Bruno Cremer) is asked to determine whether Heinz Steger (Heinz Bennent), an East German ex-intelligence officer, would be willing to defect. On his next business trip to East Germany, Corain discovers that yes, indeed, Heinz and his wife are willing to leave. After consulting with the authorities in the West, Corain returns to help smuggle Steger and his wife out of the country -- but things get fouled up, and the flight to the West is not going to work as planned. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bruno Cremer, Heinz Bennent, (more)
- 1983
Although this film about prison life in the sterile, antiseptic jail at Libertad in Uruguay is technically not a documentary, it is closer to a docudrama than complete fiction. In the story, a Red Cross inspection team visits the prison and holds interviews with a range of inmates there. Once the Red Cross finds out the supposedly private interviews have been recorded by prison authorities, the head of the team orders his workers to keep quiet, and prisoners then suffer the consequences. As truckloads of prisoners are driven away into the night, the enormity of the crime of silence is brought home. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roland Amstutz, Philippe Clevenot, (more)
