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Gérard Blain
Director 1930 - 2000

Gérard Blain

Paris, France

Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director. Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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Un enfant dans la foule

Un enfant dans la foule

Gérard Blain 1976 1h 25m

Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the Resistance, and when the Americans come to stay, he is really in his element with them.

Le pélican

Le pélican

Gérard Blain 1974 1h 23m

Paul has been imprisoned for ten years for passing counterfeit money. He feels victimized enough, both for the prison time and for the crime which led to it; he committed the crime to give his wife the nice things she asked him for. When he discovers that she has remarried a quite wealthy man, he is outraged.

Les amis

Les amis

Gérard Blain 1971 1h 28m

Philippe is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed. They have no children. As he is preparing to go on a vacation to the seaside, he strikes up an acquaintance with Paul, a young working-class boy, and decides to bring him along.

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