The President (film, 1961)

the President is a French film carried out by Henri Verneuil, left in 1961.

Synopsis

Former president of the Council, Emile Beaufort devotes the essence of his time to write his memories. At the time of a political serious attack, the name of Philippe Chalamont, already several times minister, is had a presentiment of as chief of the government. However Beaufort, and France also, has an account to regulate with him. Indeed, Chalamont, 15 years rather, had been made guilty of an offense of initiate, and Beaufort had kept the written consents of them. Holding up the threat to give the letter to the press, constrained Beaufort Chalamont to be given up this so much coveted station…

Data sheet

  • Title: the President
  • Realization: Henri Verneuil
  • Scenario: According to the novel éponyme of Georges Simenon
  • Adaptation: Henri Verneuil, Michel Audiard
  • Dialog: Michel Audiard
  • Assistants realizer: Michel Wyn, Robert Valin
  • Images: Louis Page
  • Operator: Andre Dumaître
  • Sound: Jean Rieul
  • Decorations: Jacques Dovecote
  • Assembly: Jacques Desagneaux, assisted Roger Cacheux
  • Music: Maurice Guard hair - Opening of the Ghost ship of Richard Wagner directed by Richard Blareau (music publishings World Music)
  • Make-up: Yvonne Gasperina
  • Script girl: Lucile Costa
  • general Manager: Boreal Paulette
  • Interior designer: Andre Labussière
  • Film: 35mm - black and white
  • Recording: Parisian station, Western sound Electric System
  • Pulling: Laboratory C.T.M of Gennvilliers
  • Turning: Franstudio studios of Saint-Maurice and Generic Joinville
  • : Jean Fouchet
  • Poster artist: Clement Hurel
  • Production: City Films - Terra Films - Fidès (Paris), Gesi Cinematografica (Rome) Franco-Italian
  • Distribution: Directing U.F.A-Comacico
  • of production: Paul Jolly
  • Chief of production: Jacques Bar
  • Kind: Political drama
  • Lasted: 102 minutes
  • Coming out date: March 1st 1961

Distribution

Around film

  • One of very rare films of policy fiction of the French cinema.
  • not to confuse with President , another French film of policy fiction left in 2006.
  • the end of film is different from that of the book of Simenon.

Quotations

Jean Gabin (the president):

“My dear friend, Wagner is surely inécoutable or sublime according to the tastes, but exquisite… not! ”
Jean Gabin (the president):
“It is a quite French practice to entrust a mandate to people and to dispute the right to them to use about it. ”
A deputy/Jean Gabin (the president):
“There are owners of left, I hold with you to learn it!
- There are also flying fish, but which do not constitute the majority of the kind! ”
Jean Gabin (the president):
“I am a mixture of anarchist and conservative, in proportions which remain to be determined. ”
Jean Gabin (the president):
“Except for the dictators and the imbeciles, the order is not an end in itself”
Jean Gabin (the president):
“I believe to have been one of the most hated men of his time, it was a long time my sorrow, it is my pride today. ”
Jean Gabin (the president) with the priest of his village:
“Any anti-semite has his Jew, any anticlerical can have his priest well (...)”
Jean Gabin (the president) in Bernard Blier (Chalamont, its principal private secretary):
“One does not say anything to his wife when a bank was married! Ca treats to fortune, it is which is most expensive. ”
Jean Gabin (the president) in Bernard Blier (Chalamont):
“For particular reasons, I a long time took you for a bastard, and I note with pleasure that there too, I was 15 years old in advance. ”

See too

External bond

  • the President on Internet Movie Database
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