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Nelly Kaplan
Director 1931 - 2020

Nelly Kaplan

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Born in Argentina to a Russian Jewish family, Nelly Kaplan relocated to Paris at age seventeen, where she became an assistant to legendary director Abel Gance before directing her first feature, the caustic revenge comedy A Very Curious Girl. Transgressive, satirical, and... Read full bio →

Filmography

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Charles et Lucie

Charles et Lucie

Nelly Kaplan 1979 1h 38m 7.0

Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.

Papa, les petits bateaux

Papa, les petits bateaux

Nelly Kaplan 1973 1h 40m

Marc and his gang have a brilliant idea (or so they think!) : they will kidnap Vénus de Palma, a (very) rich heiress. Well Venus, also known as Cookie, is duly abducted but holding the lovely twenty-year-old beauty is a horse of another color.

Austerlitz

Austerlitz

Abel Gance 1960 2h 46m

The first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle.

La tour de Nesle

La tour de Nesle

Abel Gance 1955 2h

Under the reign of Louis X, the Tower of Nesle is the scene of murderous bacchanals, of which passing gentlemen are victims. The valiant Captain Buridan escapes the assassins and unmasks the instigator of these crimes.

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