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Marc Allégret
Director 1900 - 1973

Marc Allégret

Bâle, Suisse

Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter and film director. He was born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven. Later, Marc was to... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

14 titles
Un drôle de dimanche

Un drôle de dimanche

Marc Allégret 1958 1h 30m 6.0

Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make its work. One day, by chance, he meets her in the bus...

En effeuillant la marguerite

En effeuillant la marguerite

Marc Allégret 1956 1h 41m

Agnès Dumont fuit sa Province et son père pour retrouver son frère Hubert à Paris. Pour gagner de l'argent, elle participe à un strip-tease masquée auquel assiste un journaliste qui tombe sous son charme.

L'amant de lady Chatterley

L'amant de lady Chatterley

Marc Allégret 1955 1h 39m

After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

Futures vedettes

Futures vedettes

Marc Allégret 1955 1h 36m

At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter.

Maria Chapdelaine

Maria Chapdelaine

Marc Allégret 1950 1h 40m

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police.

Pétrus

Pétrus

Marc Allégret 1946 1h 35m

Petrus,a Montmartre photographer,is accidentally wounded by Migo,a dancer at the Frou Frou night club,when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue,a counterfeiter.Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.

Félicie Nanteuil

Félicie Nanteuil

Marc Allégret 1944 1h 39m 8.0

Two men are in love with the same woman.

Orage

Orage

Marc Allégret 1938 1h 38m

The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.

Entrée des artistes

Entrée des artistes

Marc Allégret 1938 1h 39m 6.0

Isabelle, Cécilia et François, sont étudiants au conservatoire d'art dramatique. Cécilia est amoureuse de François, mais le jeune homme est amoureux d'Isabelle. Désespérée, Cécilia se suicide en s'arrangeant pour faire passer son suicide pour un meurtre que François aurait commis.

Gribouille

Gribouille

Marc Allégret 1937 1h 26m

Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house.

Zouzou

Zouzou

Marc Allégret 1934 1h 32m

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

Lac aux dames

Lac aux dames

Marc Allégret 1934 1h 31m 8.0

A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night.

Fanny

Fanny

Marc Allégret 1932 2h 7m 8.5

After Fanny's boyfriend leaves her and sails away, she finds out she's pregnant.

Voyage au Congo

Voyage au Congo

Marc Allégret 1927 1h 40m

A love partner of the writer André Gide, as well as his travel companion in their journey to the French colonies of Central Africa, Marc Allégret decided to film their 11-month wandering in the exotic continent, though stripping away the element of adventure.

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