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Peace in the Fields (French: Paix sur les champs) is a 1970 French-language Belgian film directed by Jacques Boigelot and based on the eponymous novel by Marie Gevers. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .
And Hope to Die (French: La course du lièvre à travers les champs, Italian: La corsa della lepre attraverso i campi) is a 1972 French-Italian-Canadian crime-drama film directed by René Clément and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Aldo Ray and Robert Ryan. It is loosely based on the novel Black Friday by David Goodis. [2] [3]
TV Guide wrote that the film "boasts good performances from Rains, Toren, and Lom, but is hampered by the static direction of Harold French"; [5] whereas Culture Catch called it a "solid adaptation," which "embraces Simenon's favorite archetype, an innocent who mistakenly thinks he has committed some evil act, and then eventually actually does...Directed by Harold French, a British stalwart ...
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains), first published in French in 1938, is a crime thriller by Georges Simenon about a man's rapid descent into criminality and madness following sudden financial ruination. A film adaptation was released in 1952.
"Les Champs-Élysées" was released by CBS Records as a 7" single in 1969, with "Le Chemin de papa" as the B-side. The single was also included on Dassin's 1969 studio album Joe Dassin (Les Champs-Élysées). [4] Dassin later recorded versions of the song in English, German, Italian and Japanese. [1]
Passer was involved with another film, but after reading Fiskin's script, chose to do Cutter and Bone instead . [3] The initial budget was $3.3 million, but Field learned that United Artists would produce the movie only if the budget was $3 million and a star joined the cast. [3]
Le Roi des Champs-Élysées (1934), by Yves Mirande; Zouzou (1934), by Marc Allégret; La Bandera (1935), by Julien Duvivier; Les Mystères de Paris (1935), by Félix Gandéra; Princesse Tam Tam (1935), by Edmond T. Gréville; La belle équipe (1936), by Julien Duvivier; Le roman d'un tricheur (1936), by Sacha Guitry; Les Rois du sport (1937 ...
Ivan Passer had previously made a short film, A Boring Afternoon, which took home a prize at the Lorcano International Film Festival, but he had not directed any features when he was approached by his screenwriting friend Jaroslav Papoušek to direct Intimate Lighting. According to Passer, Papoušek needed money but he could not get paid until ...