Le Bossu
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
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Henri de Lagardère is about to leave his land. With the intention of challenging him to a duel, he decides to meet with the Duke of Nevers one last time. However, a plot against the Duke convinces him to change his mind and fight alongside him.
André Hunebelle
André Hunebelle is a French film director, screenwriter, producer, and master glassmaker. He began his career in cinema in 1941. He directed numerous comedies such as Les trois mousquetaires, Monsieur Taxi, and Ma femme est formidable, he left the genre to focus on switching to swashbuckler film such as Cadet Rousselle (1954) and Le bossu (1959). Credited with lifting Louis de Funès out of obscurity by giving him the leading role in Taxi, roulotte et corrida, he directed him several times throughout his career, notably alongside Jean Marais, Mylène Demongeot, and Jacques Dynam in his Fantomas trilogy, released in the mid-1960s.
