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Jean Dréville

Activities : Actor, Director, Assistant Director, Adaptation/Dialogue Writer, Producer, Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Assistant Operator, Camera Operator, Editor, Narrator
Date of Birth : 20/09/1906
Date of decease : 05/03/1997

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Jean Dréville

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (52 films)

La Nuit des adieux (1965)

Directors : Jean Dréville, Isaac Michalovitch Menaker
Actors : Gilles Segal, Jean Moussy, Natalya Velichko, Jacques Ferrière, Nikolai Tcherkassov...
Associate production company : Lenfilm Video, Cocinor, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC)
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : This film biography of 19th-century French dancer and choreographer Marius Petipa plays out like a tear-jerking melodrama. Petipa signs on with the Russian Ballet and becomes known as the father of modern ballet. Much ado is made...

La Sentinelle endormie (1965)

Director : Jean Dréville
Actors : Noël-Noël, Pascale Audret, Michel Galabru, Raymond Souplex, Francis Blanche...
Associate production company : Le Film d'Art
Genres : Fiction

Lafayette (1961)

Director : Jean Dréville
Actors : Michel Le Royer, Jacques Castelot, Vittorio De Sica , Orson Welles, Renée Saint-Cyr...
Associate production company : Les Films Copernic, Films Cosmos
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : The story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen. Lafayette (Michel Leroyer) is an engaging young landowner who spends his time in taverns drinking and...

Normandie-Niemen (1959)

Directors : Jean Dréville, Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
Actors : Pierre Trabaud, Roland Menard, Giani Esposito, Gérard Darrieu, Georges Rivière...
Associate production company : Franco-London Films
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : A wartime drama about the French pilots who escaped the Nazi occupation of their country to join the Russians in fighting the Germans. The Frenchmen are put together in one squadron after they arrive in Russia, and language...

A Dog, a Mouse, and a Sputnik / Hold Tight for the Satellite (1958)

Director : Jean Dréville
Actors : Noël-Noël, Denise Grey, Darry Cowl, Noël Roquevert, Francis Blanche...
Associate production company : Filmsonor Marceau, Regina
Genres : Fiction
Synopsis : In this French family-oriented comedy, a man with a passion for all animals takes on the Russians to protect a mouse and a dog from being sent up into space, via a satellite. He obtains them after the creatures escape and all the...