Alain Cuny
Alain Cuny (12 July 1908 – 16 May 1994) was a French actor.
He was born René Xavier Marie in Saint-Malo, Brittany, and studied medicine for a while before entering the film industry as a costume and set designer. Cuny started acting in the 1930s. Among his most notable films are Les Visiteurs du soir (1942), by Marcel Carné; Les Amants (The Lovers 1958); La dolce vita (1960) and Satyricon (1969), the later two directed by Federico Fellini. During his life, he befriended women such as Hafida Elalama, and many other models and actresses
Later in his career he had a role in the softcore porn film Emmanuelle (1974). Also in 1974 he played Sitting Bull in the absurdist western Don't Touch the White Woman!. One of his last roles was in Camille Claudel (1988) as Louis-Prosper Claudel, father of the film's heroine. Cuny worked in both France and Italy, and died in 1994 in Paris.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 30.14 |
| Birthday | 1908-07-12 |
| Place of Birth | Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France |
| Also Known As |
1990
Film sur Georges Perec
0/0
A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival foot...
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Film sur Georges Perec
1958
The Lovers
6.627/126
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris...
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The Lovers
1988
Camille Claudel
6.8/133
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin driv...
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Camille Claudel
1956
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6.7/104
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other ente...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1991
Sweet War, Farewell
7/9
A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II....
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Sweet War, Farewell
1974
Emmanuelle
6/762
An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.
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Emmanuelle
1969
The Milky Way
7/164
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some trucu...
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The Milky Way
1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
7.1/82
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
1976
Illustrious Corpses
6.8/90
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
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Illustrious Corpses
1942
The Devil's Envoys
6.871/70
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.
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The Devil's Envoys
1943
The Phantom Baron
6.1/10
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol,...
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The Phantom Baron
1998
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
6.3/16
Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
1972
The Master and Margarita
5.3/28
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The Master and Margarita
1985
Detective
5.3/60
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both t...
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Detective
1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
5.6/40
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Pari...
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
1963
Banana Peel
5.7/21
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.
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Banana Peel
1941
Stormy Waters
6.9/56
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
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Stormy Waters
1946
Solita de Cordoue
0/0
Pierre lives with his wife Marie in a small village in the Landes. He dreams of leaving. On the occasion of the passage of a caravan of gypsies, he me...
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Solita de Cordoue
1953
The Lady Without Camelias
6.5/59
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.
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The Lady Without Camelias
1970
Many Wars Ago
7.33/135
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same...
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Many Wars Ago
1968
La forêt noire
10/1
Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Hans Richter, a great German musician. Then dying, he...
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La forêt noire
1963
Corruption
7.6/24
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich M...
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Corruption
1940
My Crimes After Mein Kampf
3/1
The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hyb...
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My Crimes After Mein Kampf
1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
7.4/75
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by d...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1983
Fellini nel cestino
7.5/1
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Fellini nel cestino
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
7/1
Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1976
I prosseneti
4/3
David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several characters. Odile, the daughter of a woman tortured b...
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I prosseneti
1953
Les Crimes de l'amour
6/1
Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provi...
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Les Crimes de l'amour
1970
Ciao, Federico!
6.8/8
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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Ciao, Federico!
1969
Safari 5000
7.3/3
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...
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Safari 5000
1973
Valparaiso, Valparaiso
4.4/5
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend...
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
6/1
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
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Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1983
The Basileus Quartet
1/1
The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years...
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The Basileus Quartet
1988
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
0/0
"What is a location search ? Maybe that's it : hanging in a pub... let their thoughts flow freely." (André S. Labarthe) The camera reinvests the place...
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Van Gogh à Paris, repérages
1991
The Annunciation of Marie
5.5/6
During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so Jacq...
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The Annunciation of Marie
1982
Time Masters
7.4/151
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Ja...
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Time Masters
1951
The Forbidden Christ
6.3/13
Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.
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The Forbidden Christ
1984
Buio nella Valle
0/0
The two-episode television drama tells the story of a family willing to do anything to maintain possession of their assets, even two brutal murders th...
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Buio nella Valle
1969
Fellini Satyricon
6.7/330
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a...
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Fellini Satyricon
1978
The Song of Roland
4.8/5
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The Song of Roland
1941
Madame Sans-Gêne
1/1
Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
1988
Zeno's Conscience
6.2/3
La coscienza di Zeno is a TV adaptation of the 1923 novel by Italo Svevo. It was broadcasted by RAI in 1988.
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Zeno's Conscience
1975
Irene, Irene
0/0
The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more into his search for himself and the confr...
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Irene, Irene
1965
Mission of Fear
0/0
A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.
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Mission of Fear
1972
The Audience
6.7/32
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
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The Audience
1995
Dear Antonioni
0/0
A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.
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Dear Antonioni
1971
The Big Black Sow
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Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all.
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The Big Black Sow
1952
The Solitary Conquerors
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After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to Pascal, a gold digger who owns the land neighboring...
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The Solitary Conquerors
1990
Les chevaliers de la table ronde
0/0
The Quest of the Grail from the birth of Merlin, to the foundation of the Round Table, the coronation of Arthur, the love affairs of Lancelot and Guin...
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Les chevaliers de la table ronde
1973
La rosa rossa
8/1
A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.
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La rosa rossa
1960
La Dolce Vita
8.079/1867
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the sti...
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La Dolce Vita
1973
La divine comédie
0/0
Dante's Divine Comedy in a TV version by Michel Tréguer.
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La divine comédie
1961
Scano Boa
0/0
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Scano Boa
1962
Cross of the Living
5/2
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, t...
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Cross of the Living
2003
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
6.3/25
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he cre...
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
1987
The Distant Land
5/1
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The Distant Land
1987
Lucky Ravi
0/0
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Lucky Ravi
1992
The Return of Casanova
5.5/27
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dar...
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The Return of Casanova
1974
Antigone
0/0
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Antigone
1979
Roberte
4.2/5
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Ca...
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Roberte
1953
Mina de Vanghel
0/0
A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work...
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Mina de Vanghel
1975
E il Casanova di Fellini?
0/0
During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.
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