Marcel Jullian

Marcel Jullian (31 January 1922—28 June 2004) was a French author, screenwriter for French film and television, and occasional director. He was one of the founders of the TV channel Antenne 2, and its first president from January 1975 to December 1977. Source: Article "Marcel Jullian" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Le Grand Échiquier

Release Date1972-01-12

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Vivement dimanche

Release Date1998-09-20

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Apostrophes

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Release Date1975-01-10

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Episode Count5

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Samedi soir

Release Date1971-01-09

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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.

Release Date2022-01-07

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Télévision (histoires secrètes)

The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have shaped today's television. To explain from the break up of the French broadcasting service ORTF, in 1974, to the creation of Arte, via the birth of Canal+, the life and death of La Cinq and the privatization of TF1 — the succession of political, economic and cultural decisions that have shaped what is known as the “PAF” (French Audiovisual Landscape).

Release Date1996-04-20

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Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

A documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and whom films such as "Les Tontons Flingueurs" immortalized.

Release Date2002-09-01

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La Folle Heure des grandis

Release Date2002-01-01

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The Sucker

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

Release Date1965-03-24

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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

Release Date1966-12-08

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JobScreenplay

Vote Count1422

The Brain

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.

Release Date1969-03-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count287

The Thirst for Gold

Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains. His plan is to deposit all this wealth in a Swiss Bank, where neither his wife - whom he is about to divorce - nor the French State can get at it. Accompanied by his money-grabbing Granny Zézette, Urbain heads off for Switzerland, with his gold concealed in the walls of a model house on the back of a trailer. Unfortunately, his scheme is threatened by his wife and his embittered ex-chauffeur, who are determined to get his money at any cost...

Release Date1993-08-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count112

Lagardère

Lagardère is a French miniseries consisting of six 50-minute episodes, created by Marcel Jullian based on Paul Féval's novel Le Bossu (the eighth film adaptation outside of theater, out of 10 known adaptations), and some of the sequels imagined by Paul Féval Jr.1, directed by Jean-Pierre Decourt, and broadcast from September 20 to October 25, 1967, on the first channel of ORTF.

Release Date1967-09-20

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Sorrel Flower

Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...

Release Date1967-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

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Tom Thumb

Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his way by stones. Second time he is unsuccessful - he has only bread-crumbs and birds eat them. Tom Thumb finds a Giant and a beautiful princess in his entrapment, and is determined to free the princess.

Release Date1972-12-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Vote Count5

The First Circle

In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government.

Release Date1992-02-25

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L'ombra della sera

After being fired for suspecting illegal toxic waste trafficking at her company, a secretary falsely accuses her superior, Marc, of sexual harassment on the radio. This lie drives Marc's fiancée to suicide, while simultaneously, the company owner frames the unsuspecting Marc for the illegal trafficking to cover his own tracks as the police close in.

Release Date1994-03-16

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Greed in the Sun

A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climactic showdown.

Release Date1964-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count151

Docteur Caraïbes

The islands of the Caribbean Sea. Tiberio, an astonishing junk dealer, runs a store selling bits and pieces of wreckage fished here and there... A certain Jeff, a sailor with a passion for the bottle... "works" with Tiberio, perfecting old maps showing ships with precious cargoes lying around. Jeff is attacked with a machine gun by "the sea lice" gangsters led by a certain Nero, in the service of a disturbing character, Denniger, who haunts the area aboard his yacht. A young local doctor, nicknamed Doctor Caraïbe, comes to Jeff's rescue.

Release Date1970-07-29

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The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl

Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.

Release Date1968-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

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William the Conqueror

William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some such as Richard Southern claiming that the Conquest was the single most radical change in European history between the Fall of Rome and the 20th century. Written by jeff davis, III

Release Date1982-11-02

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The Accursed Kings

It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...

Release Date1972-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count6

Delusions of Grandeur

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

Release Date1971-12-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count721

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.

Release Date1994-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count3

Vote Count4

Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission

Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during WW2.

Release Date1996-07-10

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JobWriter

Vote Count4

Atlantic Wall

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.

Release Date1970-10-14

DepartmentWriting

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Vote Count106

Let's Not Get Angry

One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.

Release Date1966-04-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count162

Le Roi mystère

Le Roi mystère

Release Date1991-04-23

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JobCreator

L’Aéropostale, courrier du ciel

Release Date1980-12-13

DepartmentArt

JobCreative Director

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Love Lies

After a harrowing breakup, Marcel returns to his favorite hotel to find his room occupied by a journalist, whom he attempts to impress.

Release Date1983-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

L'Eté de nos quinze ans

It was during their childhood that François and Malène became friends. Years later, the two teenagers find themselves. Their parents, moved by their reunion, will help them not to spoil this new chance.

Release Date1983-05-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Bonnot's Gang

The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.

Release Date1968-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count17

Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année

Parents are not easy this year. That's what 16-year-old Marie realized when she saw the mess her father, a general practitioner, and her mother were in. But Marie is more interested in dancing. The arrival of Laurent, a young student, will reveal her passion for choreography and, as a result, awaken the unconscious but tenacious love she has for Paul, her childhood friend.

Release Date1984-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Entire Days in the Trees

An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of bringing him back with her. But this project fails.

Release Date1977-02-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6