André Cerf (Writer)
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Works
The Sad Sack
The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.
Release Date1928-07-18
Charactersd Un 'Bleu'
Vote Count10
Little Red Riding Hood
This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she once again comes up against a wolf. This time around the big bad wolf has become a lecherous tramp who keeps stalking the girl trying to wolf her down ... in his own way of course.
Release Date1930-05-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Charactersd The Notary
Charleston Parade
Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
Release Date1927-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobIdea
Charactersd Angel
Vote Count23
Forty Little Mothers
After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become his forty little mothers. At the same time, the child's true mother searches for him.
Release Date1936-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Three of the Canebière
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible fish for sardines in Marseille. To dazzle their conquests, they present themselves as rich can manufacturers, while the little flower girls play movie stars. A ridiculous suitor wants to discuss a business deal, a potential sponsor appears and the whole tohu-bohu reclaims the songs of Vincent Scotto.
Release Date1955-12-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Comedy of Happiness
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
Release Date1940-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Versatile Lovers
Isabell runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev, a petty gangster, has pulled off a big hit but his partners have denounced him to the police in order to appropriate his share of the loot. Isabelle takes him in and hides him in an attic of this strange house. In love with Isabelle, Philippe Lansac, the owner of the place, decides to close the castle...
Release Date1970-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4
The Bouquinquant Brothers
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon turns out to be violent, alcoholic and lazy. Faced with her misfortune, Julie gets closer to her brother-in-law Pierre, the opposite of Léon, serious and hardworking, and they become lovers. The drama will rush when Julie becomes pregnant with Pierre.
Release Date1948-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Si jeunesse savait...
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
Release Date1948-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Tournament
Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir.
Release Date1928-12-09
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count5
La salamandre d'or
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.
Release Date1962-12-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Les Mohicans de Paris
Release Date1973-09-25
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
La Veuve et l'innocent
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proclaims to Claude, her fiance, that the marriage is canceled as long as Panoyau is threatened. Claude manages to steal the guillotine and the couple go on a trip and discover the real assassin.
Release Date1949-08-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
La Mode rêvée
An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that the painting's characters, beautiful ladies, escape, scattering across Paris after a tour of the fashion houses.
Release Date1940-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Forfaiture
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and therefore is forced to borrow money from Prince Lee-Lang. The Prince immediately begins to flirt and make advances towards Denise. Advances she rejects.
Release Date1937-11-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count7
Si j'étais le patron
An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were the boss, we would see what we would see. One of the main shareholders of the factory takes him at his word for twenty-four hours.
Release Date1934-10-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Scent of the Woman in Black
The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.
Release Date1931-11-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count5
The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans
Suzanne Beulemans's fiancé, Séraphin Meulenmeester, once tells her that he has... a mistress and a... son! The bad news falls rather well though given that Suzanne has developed a fondness for Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who has come to Brussels to study the brewing methods of her father. She decides to break up amicably but Séraphin does not dare admit it to his father, who becomes angry with the Beulemanses. Suzanne's uncle, a vicar, tries to settle the whole thing but the coronation of King Albert I gives rise to renewed resentment. Suzanne finally finds the way to solve the problem: she takes Meulenmeester apart, reminds him of his own misconduct when he was a young man, asks him to forgive Séraphin while her own father accepts Albert as his son-in-law.
Release Date1950-02-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Citadel of Silence
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
Release Date1937-06-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Le crime du Bouif
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
Release Date1952-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Backbiters
About the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an orphan girl, who is a victim of the jealousy of women and the greed of men.
Release Date1927-11-09
Vote Count8