Humbert Balsan
Biography
Humbert Jean René Balsan (21 August 1954 – 10 February 2005) was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy. He was known for securing financing and distribution for diverse and often challenging films. In February 2005, Balsan was found dead in the offices of his production company, Ognon Pictures, in Paris. He was known to have suffered from depression, and killed himself by hanging. Description above from the Wikipedia article Humbert Balsan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For & Full Filmography19 Titles
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they begin to spend their time daydreaming, both creating their own imaginary world. At the office, she writes the story of an heroine's imaginary life. He collects material to compose an opera which glorifies the conquistadors.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Michel
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
Movie - 1974, 2h 15m • as Gauvain
Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and become friends. However, the king is unaware that Lancelot is having an affair with his queen, Guinevere. Lancelot is torn between his duty to his king and his love for the queen, whilst Mordred is determined to use his infidelity to destroy him.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Jacob
After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Soon, she has become an important member of the pirate gang and has begun acquiring the loyalty of key members. Eventually, she makes her move and challenges the leader, a demi-god, known as "The Daughter of the Sun."
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.
Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Alexian
Jeanne Quester is a psychologist-on-the-airwaves in a radio station. She got a raw deal when she was a child.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Insp. Martin
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Dr. Michel Philippot
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Le Journaliste
A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Impresario's Friend
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as The knight
New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Xavier's disciple
Her mother had advised her to marry to acquire respectability and material comfort, the obedient little girl married a successful Catholic writer a few years later, giving her two beautiful children, a spacious house, a few servants, and glittering social evenings. But in her thirties, Rose can no longer fall asleep at the side of her husband, who is imperturbably indifferent to her charms and neglects her, to develop, with more attentive ears, endless considerations on divine values in this world. So, in the evening, the young woman lets herself be drawn into pleasantly equivocal reveries. And if the day finds her repentant at the feet of her confessor, the night lurks again with its temptations and the virile torso of a handsome groom straight out of "Lady Chatterley's Lover", one of her clandestine reads.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Robert
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as L'éditeur
A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Bertrand Meyrand
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Maître Vicks
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Poker player
The story of a group of students' involvement with a group who oppose the French-Algerian war.
Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as L'homme oiseau
In this heady, phantasmagoric fairy tale, a young girl comes face to face with a friendly dragon and a magnanimous witch. Upon the witch granting the girl’s wish to become a young woman, this surrealist chronicle follows the precocious Camélia on a series of quests in pursuit of love.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Lt. Grange
An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Julien Gracq. Four soldiers await a possible German attack on a fortified house in the forest of the Ardennes.