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Arthur Cohn (born February 4, 1927 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film producer.
Six of his films have won the Academy Award, and he was awarded the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004. One of the awards was for French film Black and White in Color (1976) as producer. For decades he worked hand in hand with Lilian Birnbaum (Paris) and Pierre Rothschild (Zurich).
His best-known non-documentary film is Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970, directed by Vittorio De Sica). His most recent film as producer is The Yellow Handkerchief (2008). He also produced films by Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and Walter Salles (Central do Brasil, Abril Despedaçado).
Il produit le film documentaire Le Ciel et la Boue (1961) de Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, qui reçoit l'Oscar du meilleur documentaire en 1962. Le documentaire Un jour en septembre de Kevin Macdonald, qu'il a produit, gagne l'Oscar en 2000.
Il coréalise avec Barbara Koppel le documentaire American Dream qui reçoit l'Oscar du meilleur film documentaire en 1991. Il avait déjà été nommé en 1981 pour Der Gelbe Stern, coréalisé avec Bengt von zur Mühlen.
Les plus célèbres films non documentaires qu'il ait produits sont Le Jardin des Finzi-Contini (1970, réalisé par Vittorio De Sica), La Victoire en chantant, Instant de bonheur, Les Orphelins de Huang Shui, et des films de Walter Salles : Central do Brasil (pour lequel il reçoit le British Academy Film Award du meilleur film et Abril Despedaçado).
Son dernier film en tant que producteur est Le Mouchoir jaune (2008).
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Arthur Cohn (born February 4, 1927 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film producer.
Six of his films have won the Academy Award, and he was awarded the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004. One of the awards was for French film Black and White in Color (1976) as producer. For decades he worked hand in hand with Lilian Birnbaum (Paris) and Pierre Rothschild (Zurich).
His best-known non-documentary film is Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970, directed by Vittorio De Sica). His most recent film as producer is The Yellow Handkerchief (2008). He also produced films by Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and Walter Salles (Central do Brasil, Abril Despedaçado).
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Arthur Cohn est un cousin du rabbin Shlomo Carlebach.Il produit le film documentaire Le Ciel et la Boue (1961) de Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, qui reçoit l'Oscar du meilleur documentaire en 1962. Le documentaire Un jour en septembre de Kevin Macdonald, qu'il a produit, gagne l'Oscar en 2000.
Il coréalise avec Barbara Koppel le documentaire American Dream qui reçoit l'Oscar du meilleur film documentaire en 1991. Il avait déjà été nommé en 1981 pour Der Gelbe Stern, coréalisé avec Bengt von zur Mühlen.
Les plus célèbres films non documentaires qu'il ait produits sont Le Jardin des Finzi-Contini (1970, réalisé par Vittorio De Sica), La Victoire en chantant, Instant de bonheur, Les Orphelins de Huang Shui, et des films de Walter Salles : Central do Brasil (pour lequel il reçoit le British Academy Film Award du meilleur film et Abril Despedaçado).
Son dernier film en tant que producteur est Le Mouchoir jaune (2008).
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Red Skies of Montana (1952)
, 1h39Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Disaster films
Actors Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone, Warren Stevens, Charles Bronson
Roles Story
Rating63%
Cliff Mason, a veteran foreman of the Forest Service's smokejumper unit, is called out with a crew on a fire, despite the fact that they have not rested in three days. Accompanied by R. A. "Pop" Miller and four other men, Cliff leaves the smokejumper base at Missoula, Montana to parachute into a nearly inaccessible area of Bugle Peak. Hours later, at base, superintendent Richard "Dick" Dryer becomes worried because Cliff is not answering radio calls. The next day, after the fire crowns, Dick flies by helicopter into the area and is stunned to find only Cliff, in shock and wandering through the devastated region. Cliff is rushed to the hospital, where he gradually recovers, although he cannot remember how he got separated from his men, or why he was the only one to survive.
Producer
The Yellow Handkerchief (2009)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne, Kaori Momoi, Marco St. John
Roles Producer
Rating66%
After being released from prison after six years, ex-convict Brett Hanson becomes lost in a new and unfamiliar world of freedoms and responsibilities. Struggling to reconcile himself with his disastrous past, he embarks on a journey to his home of Southern Louisiana to reunite with the ex-wife he left behind, May (Maria Bello). Along this journey, he meets two teenagers: Martine (Kristen Stewart), a troubled 15-year-old who has just escaped her family, and Gordy (Eddie Redmayne), a geeky outcast desperately seeking acceptance. Martine and Gordy offer to give Brett a lift home, and on the ensuing road trip the three reflect on their own personal misfit status while discovering in themselves and each other the acceptance each so deeply desires. Brett weighs whether to start a new life or rekindle his love with May – he's not sure she'll take him back – while Martine reevaluates her relationships with boys and her family and Gordy struggles with his affection for Martine.
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
, 1h54Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Li Guangyu, David Wenham
Roles Producer
Rating69%
George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is a young British journalist from Hertfordshire in England. In 1938, during the early days of the Japanese occupation of China, he sneaks into Nanjing, China, by pretending to be a Red Cross aid worker. Arriving in Nanjing, Hogg witnesses and photographs the poverty, ruins, and corpses on the streets. He proceeds to write a daily journal about his findings when he is interrupted by the sounds from outside. Upon peering outside the window, Hogg witnesses Japanese soldiers round up Chinese refugees and proceed to massacre the group. He anxiously takes photos of this event by the window. Later at night, Hogg is captured by the Japanese while photographing them committing atrocities. He is about to be executed when Chen Hansheng (Chow Yun-fat), a Chinese communist resistance fighter, saves him. While hiding in the rubble with Hansheng, Hogg witnesses the execution of two of his colleagues by the Japanese. Overwhelmed by shock, he inadvertently reveals their presence. A firefight ensues, and Hogg is wounded. He wakes up to Lee Pearson, (Radha Mitchell), checking on his wounds and discovers he has been brought to a rebel camp. With nowhere to go for now, Hansheng tells Hogg, on Lee's suggestion, to rest at an orphanage housing 56 young boys and only an aged grandmother to take care of them. However, on the night of his arrival, Hogg is called out by one of the boys to a strange location, and he is savagely attacked with sticks by the orphans. Thankfully, Lee arrives just in time and threatens to abandon the boys, leaving them without medical supplies or food. Lee explains to Hogg that she runs the orphanage and drops by from time to time with supplies.
The Chorus (2004)
, 1h36Directed by Christophe Barratier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films
Actors Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Kad Merad, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Jacques Perrin, Marie Bunel
Roles Producer
Rating77%
In 1999, Pierre Morhange, a conductor performing in the United States, is informed that his mother has died before a concert. After the performance, he returns to his home in France for her funeral. An old friend named Pépinot arrives at his door with a diary which belonged to their teacher, Clément Mathieu. They proceed to read it together.
Behind the Sun (2002)
, 1h45Directed by Walter Salles
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rodrigo Santoro, Wagner Moura, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Othon Bastos, Gero Camilo, Caio Junqueira
Roles Producer
Rating75%
The year is 1910; the place, the badlands of Northeast Brazil. Twenty-year-old Tonho is the middle son of an impoverished farm family, the Breves. He is next in line to kill and then die in an ongoing blood feud with a neighboring clan, the Ferreiras. For generations, the two families have quarreled over land. Now they are locked into a series of tit-for-tat assassinations of their sons; an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth. Embedded in this choreography of death is a particular code of ethics: "Blood has the same volume for everyone. You have no right to take more blood than was taken from you." Life is suffused with a sense of futility and stoic despair.
One Day in September (1999)
, 1h31Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Origin Suisse
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Sports films, Films about terrorism, Documentary films about sports, Films about the Olympic Games, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Michael Douglas, Peter Jennings
Roles Producer
Rating77%
1972. Jeux olympiques de Munich. 121 nations, 7 123 athlètes. Pour la première fois, les chaînes de télévision du monde entier sont là pour retransmettre l'évènement.
Central Station (1998)
, 1h53Directed by Walter Salles
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Fernanda Montenegro, Matheus Nachtergaele, Marília Pêra, Othon Bastos, Otávio Augusto, Caio Junqueira
Roles Producer
Rating80%
Dora is a retired schoolteacher who has become embittered. She works at Rio de Janeiro's Central Station, writing letters for illiterate customers, in order to make ends meet. She can be impatient with her customers and sometimes does not mail the letters she writes, putting them in a drawer or even tearing them up. Josué is a poor 9-year-old boy who has never met his father, but hopes to do so. His mother sends letters to his father through Dora, saying that she hopes to reunite with him soon, but when she is killed in a bus accident just outside the train station, the boy is left homeless. Dora takes him in and traffics him to a corrupt couple, but she is made to feel guilty by her neighbor and friend Irene and later steals him back.
Two Bits (1995)
, 1h25Directed by Frank Borzage, Tom Chatterton, James Foley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Al Pacino, Joe Grifasi, Andy Romano, Alec Baldwin, Frank Borzage
Roles Producer
Rating60%
It is a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philadelphia, where 12-year-old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandfather. His grandfather sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. He has promised the quarter to Gennaro so the boy can buy a ticket to a plush new movie theater. But grandpa is not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward. He has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
November Days (1991)
Directed by Marcel Ophuls
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about historical events
Actors Marcel Ophuls
Roles Producer
Rating72%
American Dream (1990)
, 1h40Directed by Barbara Kopple
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Roles Producer
Rating77%
The film is centered on unionized meatpacking workers at Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota between 1985 and 1986. Hormel had cut the hourly wage from $10.69 to $8.25 and cut benefits by 30 percent despite posting a net profit of $30 million. The local union (P-9) opposed the cut, but the national union, the United Food and Commercial Workers, disagreed with their strategy.
Dangerous Moves (1984)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Dembo
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess, Political films
Actors Michel Piccoli, Liv Ullmann, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Roles Producer
Rating65%
Pavius Fromm est un jeune génie des échecs, impétueux et provocateur. Lituanien, il a fui son pays et la mainmise soviétique, et réside en Occident. Pour la finale du championnat du monde d'échecs en Suisse, il doit affronter un compatriote bien plus âgé, Liebskind, qui a, lui, le soutien du régime.
Love on the Ground (1984)
, 2h5Directed by Jacques Rivette
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, László Szabó, Pascal Bonitzer
Roles Producer
Rating68%
A young man in Paris collects group of people to come and witness a comic theatre performance in a small apartment. The performance sees Silvano (Bo) hiding two women Charlotte (Chaplin) and Emily (Birkin) from each other, despite the lived-in appearance and small size of the apartment. In the audience is the play’s author, Clément Roquemaure (Kalfon) who decides to use the same cast for rehearsals of his new play that weekend at his empty mansion. After arriving at the mansion, Charlotte and Emily are afflicted by disturbing visions, as a consequence of the presence of the resident magician, Paul. As the rehearsal progresses, the two actresses continue to have visions, including those of a romantic calamity that took place at the mansion. This is a calamity that the weekend gathering seem on the verge of repeating.
, 1h29Directed by Dieter Hildebrandt
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Films about religion, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Documentary films about World War II
Roles Producer
Rating71%
Adoption (1979)
, 1h35Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jacques Perrin, Geraldine Chaplin, Gérard Lorin
Roles Producer
Rating55%
Étienne, âgé de 17 ans, épileptique et orphelin, se réfugie chez Jacques et Catherine dans leur maison du Rouergue. Le jeune homme s'attache au couple qui décide de l'héberger à Paris où Jacques, peintre, doit présenter une exposition. Étienne, devenu jaloux et violent, rend peu à peu la vie impossible à Jacques et à Catherine qui envisagent alors de le faire interner.
Black and White in Color (1976)
, 1h30Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, La colonisation française, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Maurice Barrier, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Peter Berling
Roles Producer
Rating66%
En Afrique-Équatoriale française, à la frontière du Kamerun allemand, début 1915. Les postes militaires des deux nations cohabitent parfaitement. Le poste allemand, plus petit, vient se ravitailler auprès d'une épicerie du poste français tenue par Paul Rechampot (Jacques Dufilho). Les coloniaux manifestent un certain mépris pour les autochtones. Les missionnaires ne sont intéressés que par propager la foi à tout prix.