André Cayatte (French: [kajat]; 3 February 1909 – 6 February 1989) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility.
André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form corresponding to the English name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It is used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as...
Annie Suzanne Girardot (French: [ani ʒiʁaʁdo]; 25 October 1931 – 28 February 2011) was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that...
The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Barbra Streisand, who also stars. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese is loosely based on the 1958 French film Le Miroir à deux faces written by French...
Charles Spaak (25 May 1903 – 4 March 1975) was a Belgian screenwriter who was noted particularly for his work in the French cinema during the 1930s. He was the son of the dramatist and poet Paul Spaak, the brother of the politician Paul-Henri Spaak,...
Two Are Guilty (French: Le glaive et la balance, lit. 'The Sword and the Scale', Italian: Uno dei tre, lit. 'One of the three') is a 1963 French-Italian crime drama film directed by André Cayatte. It was written by Cayatte, Henri Jeanson and...
Gabrielle Russier was a French literature teacher. She was prosecuted in 1968 for having an affair with her 16-year-old student Christian Rossi, which caused her to die by suicide on September 1 of the same year. Her suicide inspired the 1971 French...
Michel François Pierre Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars...
The Golden Lion (Italian: Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee, as the successor to the earlier Gran Premio Internazionale di Venezia (Grand...
To Die of Love (French: Mourir d'aimer; Italian: Morire d'amore) is a 1971 Franco-Italian film drama directed by André Cayatte. Based on the true story of Gabrielle Russier, it was the third most popular film of 1971 in France.