Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt, HWV 17), commonly known simply as Giulio Cesare, is an Italian opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym who used an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani, which had been set to music by Antonio Sartorio.
Le 23 juin 1959, Boris Vian meurt après de la projection de J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, film tiré de son roman. Il disparaît la même année que Gérard Philipe, Sydney Bechet, Raymond Chandler et Billie Holiday. Il ne connaîtra pas Mai 68, les premiers pas de l'homme sur la Lune, l'assassinat de Martin Luther King. Pourtant, il aura tout annoncé…
Scénariste, Boris est fou de joie lorsqu'il apprend que de son histoire sortira un film intitulé Les servitudes silencieuses. Pourtant, tout ne se passe pas aussi bien que prévu. …
Scénariste, Boris est fou de joie lorsqu'il apprend que de son histoire sortira un film intitulé Les servitudes silencieuses. Pourtant, tout ne se passe pas aussi bien que prévu. …
Serge Reggiani is a French chanson legend who first rose to fame as a singer in the 1960s after already having established himself as an actor in the cinema decades earlier. Born on May 2, 1922, in Reggio Emilia, Italy, he moved to France with his family at age eight. In the 1940s he established himself as an actor in the French cinema, most notably appearing in the Marcel Carné film Les Portes de la Nuit (1946) in addition to many others. He remained active in the cinema from the 1940s until the end of the century, acting in over 80 films total.
Popular throughout the 1960s and '70s, Marie Laforêt is a French pop singer who garnered fame initially as a film actress during the early to mid-'60s. Born Maïténa Doumenach to parents of Armenian heritage on October 5, 1939, in Soulac-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, France, she made her film debut in 1960 in the René Clément drama Plein Soleil, a big-screen adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Plein Soleil not only launched the acting career of Laforêt; it also made a cinema star of actor Alain Delon. In the wake of her showbiz breakthrough, Laforêt was offered one role after another, notably beginning with Saint Tropez Blues (1961) and La Fille aux Yeux d'Or (1961).