Jacques Ertaud (18 November 1924 – 18 November 1995) was a French film director and screenwriter. Along with Marcel Ichac, he co-directed the film Stars at Noon, which entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. Source: Article "Jacques Ertaud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Chamonix in the 1930s was a resort where a cosmopolitan, fashionable and sporting society thronged, in search of novelties and thrills found in mountaineering. These people rub shoulders with the Chamoniards but do not meet except on the trails of Mont-Blanc. The accident of Joseph, the patriarch of Servettaz, guides from generation to generation, marked the spirits. It is his son Zian who decides to take up the torch. Married to Bianca, the daughter of the wealthy Milanese industrialist who was partly responsible for her father's death, Zian lives out her great love story - a threesome - with the mountain always remaining the most demanding mistress. Tired of the agonizing expectations and loneliness during her husband's ascents, Bianca returns to Italy, Zian joins her, but society life is not his world, he returns to Chamonix. During an outing in the mountains, Zian falls into a crevasse. Bianca, alerted by a presentiment, returns to the one she loves above all...
Release Date:1999-04-19
Department:Writing
Job:Adaptation
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Oliver has a happy childhood in the streets of Montmartre, Paris, in the 30's. Suddenly his mother dies. He is alone and helpless. He seeks comfort with the offbeat adults.
Release Date:1996-03-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Release Date:1996-03-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany.
Release Date:1994-05-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1989-02-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1989-01-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
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Release Date:1988-10-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Release Date:1987-09-02
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
An apprentice writer with an odd attitude is arrested for killing his girlfriend's lover.
Release Date:1987-02-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
In the Quercy region of France, Marie-Paule Nadal inherits her father's old farm property. But times are hard and the land is not very profitable. Unscrupulous neighbors are looking for any means to recover these 30 hectares: marry Marie-Paule, offer her a meager profit... But Marie-Paule's heart is set on Pierre, a farmer to whom everything succeeds. But neither of them wants to abandon the land of their ancestors...
Release Date:1984-09-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Série noire is a French crime television series created by Pierre Grimblat in 1984. The series was adapted from crime books by the publishing imprint of the same name. 36 episodes were filmed between 1984 and 1989, and were aired until 1991 on TF1.
Release Date:1984-01-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1981-12-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:1
Today, the only inhabitants of this environmentally inhospitable Pacific island are birds and crabs. Yet over 80 years ago, Clipperton hosted other visitors: a demented rapist and a terrified group of women and children. Cousteau returns to the island to recreate the deadly series of events - from the death of the brave French captain to the courage of the widow who killed her torturer - through the eyes of one of the survivors, then a child.
Release Date:1981-03-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1980-05-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
A bad joke by two unruly teenagers backfires. Julien and Hervé give their teacher, Eliane, a hard time until they are suspended. To get revenge, he decides to kidnap her and hide her in an isolated house to scare her, but nothing will go as planned.
Release Date:1980-01-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1980-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thomas has a soul of justice. Thus, returning home with Marc after a fight, he hits a little thug who has just robbed an old lady.
Release Date:1978-03-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
A young woman, elegant, cold and inhuman, who is none other than Death, reigns over a universe dominated by electronics, the firm Thanatos Unlimited Corporation. A file in a computer and life stops. But death is also capable of knowing love. Thus she keeps Robert, a worker in eternal youth and forces him to love her until he falls in love with Marie, a barmaid. But can we defy Death with impunity?
Release Date:1977-11-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Release Date:1976-08-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:7
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Release Date:1975-01-12
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1975-01-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1973-12-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:13
Release Date:1973-12-03
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Winter 1970, France. In a small village covered in snow, an outcast bonesettler starts predicting the return of wolves in the area, but nobody wants to believe his superstitious omens. Until one day, a young man is attacted by a wolf.
Release Date:1972-06-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Film about the 10th Olympic Games in Grenoble in 1968. Using a subjective camera, Ertaud and Languepin take the pulse of the Games, cutting out the eyes and slowing down the movement when necessary. The dominant figure at the Grenoble Winter Games is Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy, whose three gold medals matched Toni Sailer's 1956 feat. The filmmakers bet on his winning streak, and include commentary from him as he prepares for each race. Another athlete, Marielle Goitschel, is treated insightfully on screen and wins the women's slalom. Ice dancing fans will appreciate the coverage of winner Oleg Protopopov and his partner Ludmila Belousova. President Charles De Gaulle was present for the spectacular Opening Ceremony.
Release Date:1968-12-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Release Date:1968-12-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
Biography of ski instructor, mountain guide, mountaineer and filmmaker-lecturer Lionel Terray. Film-portrait of an emblematic figure of French mountaineering in the 1950s and 1960s, reconstructing the life, the great races and the expeditions of the "conqueror" of the most difficult walls and summits of Europe, the Himalayas, the Andes and North America. Marcel Ichac produced in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the Useless" and "Battle for Jannu". This film, presented at the Cannes Film Festival, has won numerous awards at specialized film festivals, including the Trente Festival and the Banff Festival.
Release Date:1966-12-23
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
The French track and field team prepares for the world championships. A paean to sport as a shining example of human nobility, as well as an almost anthropological investigation into a most particular company of people who manage to be rivals and comrades at the same time.
Release Date:1966-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of the summits of Garet El Djenoun, in the Hoggar massif, a mountain range located west of the Sahara, in the south of Algeria. The mountain has been preserved intact since Roger Frison-Roche's expedition in 1935. The documentary, superbly filmed by René Vernadet, won the Grand Prix at the Trento Film Festival in 1966.
Release Date:1966-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
A 1963 French documentary film directed by Jacques Ertaud.
Release Date:1963-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A short documentary about the 1962 Tour-de-France. Topics covered include: crowds of people and motorcycles, drinking raids and feeding, pileups, doping, "the charge," and the mountain stages.
Release Date:1962-10-01
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:20
Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French mountain climbers over the last several decades. In one re-enacted story, there is a wartime escape through the mountains, and in another, a daring rescue of a pair of climbers who had been missing. The actors themselves are adept at the sport of climbing, and they give the scenes an immediacy and real daring that brings the stories alive. A combination of their acrobatics and skill and the outstanding episodes in the history of French climbing creates a winning 78 minutes.
Release Date:1959-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Off the coast of Marseille, near a rocky cliff, a Greek ship was discovered at a depth of forty meters in Mediterranean waters, loaded with amphorae and other pottery. The cargo has been lying on that sandy stretch of seabed for more than two thousand years. The documentary follows the dives of divers who recover cups, vases, plates and jars still full of wine. We are also witnessing new recovery systems, with the use of compressed air.
Release Date:1957-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
Release Date:1956-11-11
Character:Orsini
Vote Count:545
Follows the scientific research carried out in the natural cavity of Fontaine-de-Vaucluse by Cousteau and OFRS (French Underwater Research Office) divers, who reach for the first time a depth of 243 ft.
Release Date:1955-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
"Les Coulisses De L'Exploit" was a French television program of sports information created by Jacques Goddet and Raymond Marcillac, and broadcast on RTF Television then on the first channel of the ORTF from December 13, 1961 to August 16, 1972. The principle of this program is to report on sports news but also to meet men and women performing exceptional feats. According to Raymond Marcillac: "Competitive sport is not our only field of action. It never has been. We want to discover beings whose life is enriching, exhilarating; men who have accomplished acts that can be offered to our admiration without reluctance."
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1954-03-25
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1