Birthday:
05-25-1925
Deathday:
10-05-2012 (87 years)
Birthplace:
Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Biography
Claude Pinoteau (25 May 1925 – 5 October 2012) was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. His sister was the actress Arlette Merry.
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Smic, Smac, Smoc
Act like Commissioner
event1971 star_border 5.1
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Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards and live in the same construction facility. One day, Amidou leaves them to marry Catherine, a salesgirl. The trouble for Charles and Jean is that going to their friend's wedding means buying new clothes, which is problematic given their low income Moreover, they are determined to make this day an unforgettable one, despite their lack of money. Will they be able achieve their aim?
Jean Cocteau and His Tricks
Act like Self - Interviewee
event2008
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Filmmaker Marc Caro interviews Claude Pinoteau, assistant director of Jean Cocteau's 1950 film ORPHEUS, about the special effects used in the film.
Lola Montès
Act like Conductor Claudio Pirotto
event1955 star_border 6.8
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Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
It Only Happens to Others
Act like Un collègue de Marcello (uncredited)
event1971 star_border 5.3
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Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 6
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A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
The Party
Director (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 6.6
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A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
The Party 2
Director (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6.5
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A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Up to His Ears
Assistant Art Director (1 ep.)
event1965 star_border 7.1
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A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
The Silent One
Director (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 7.2
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Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
The Seventh Target
Director (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 5.8
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Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
The Student
Director (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 5.9
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An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.
Pierre and Marie
Director (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.6
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A humoristic view of the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity.
Cache Cash
Director (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 5.9
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Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
The Slap
Director (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 6.7
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A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
The Secrets of the Bed
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 1
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Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
The Day and the Hour
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 6.7
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It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
The Angry Man
Director (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 5.6
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Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
Love Is a Funny Thing
Writer (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 6.4
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A composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting a film in the United States.
The Crook
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1970 star_border 7
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A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
Un abbé nommé Pierre, une vie pour les autres
Director (1 ep.)
event2005
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A documentary directed by Claude Pinoteau.
Lovers' Net
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 4.7
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Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive killing of his faithless wife, Gelin manages to find love in the form of gorgeous widow Francoise Arnoul. Alas, it turns out that Arnoul has a sordid past of her own, leaving our hero sadder but wiser.
A Monkey in Winter
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.6
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During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink.
Orpheus
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 7.6
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A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
The Strange Ones
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6.7
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Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.
Houla-Houla
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5
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Fernand Martin, a schoolteacher in Nogent-le-Roi, is in love with Jacqueline, a postal worker and the older sister of one of his pupils. He asks for her hand in marriage, but her father refuses. One morning, he receives an appointment to Tahiti.
Snow and Fire
Story (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 3.5
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While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can join the Free French army and fight with them to help bring about the downfall of the German empire. Both of them are quite young men, and their first love turns out to be the same woman, a lovely nurse named Christiane (Geraldine Pailhas). Michel woos her first, and she becomes pregnant by him. However, she is much more interested in Jacques, even though she is considering marrying an American solely for practical reasons.
The Big Operator
Director (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 4.5
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The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
Iran
Director (1 ep.)
event1971 star_border 6
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Claude Lelouch presents in his own vision of Iran. Between tradition and modernity, the movie reveals all the country's vision contrasts, under the very precise and aesthetic eye of Lelouch : veil and miniskirt, caviar and oil, ancestral Islamic art and the Shah of Iran.
Olivia
First Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 6.5
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"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Julie and the other head of the school Cara in its final months.
The Big Flag
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1954
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For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
Any Number Can Win
First Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 7.2
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Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Les Compagnes de la nuit
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5.7
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Three events that seemingly nothing related, namely the murder of a truck driver, the discovery of the corpse of a vitriolic young woman, and the death of another who was crushed, will launch the Inspector Maréchal on the trail of a prostitution network. The girl-mother Olga, a friend of the trucker, confesses her the underwear of the women's exploitation.
L'homme de joie
Assistant Director (1 ep.)
event1950
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A boudoir adventure during which the seductive Madame Jolivet, shocked by the behavior of her husband who appears with an actress, calls on the services of a young man, known as "the man of joy".
The Blue Bicycle
Screenplay (3 ep.)
event2000 star_border 6
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Léa, the daughter of a wealthy Bordeaux family, is spending happy days at the Montillac family estate at the end of the 1930s. Radiant with youth, she charms all the men who meet her on the blue bicycle offered to her by her father. She is in deep love with Laurent, when she tells him, he lets her down. He is in love with Camille, Lea's best friend. The war sounds the death knell of her carelessness. She takes refuge in Paris. There, she finds Laurent, his secret love, who has just married Camille. During a party given him, she meets mysterious François -a friend of Laurent who works for the government. He goes right on and starts to win Lea's heart, but she is not interested. Laurent has to go to the front-line. He asks Lea to stay with Camille in Paris, to look after her and the unborn baby. But the German troops are progressing, and Léa and Camille are forced to leave the capital.
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