Pierre Léon

Acting

Biography

Pierre Léon was born on November 11, 1959 in Moscow, Russia. He is an actor and director, known for L'idiot (2008), L'adolescent (2001) and Guillaume et les sortilèges (2007).

Filmography Movies

Acting

My Dear Spies

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Two brothers, Pierre and Vladimir, wonder if their Russian grandparents, Lily and Constantin, worked for the Soviet secret services in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Their research begins in Russia. After meetings and conversations, yellowish photos and vodka glasses, a lost world begins to emerge harassing the present.

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My Dear Spies

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Biette

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Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.

Li per li

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Five extraterrestrials like no other are enjoying their last moments on planet Earth. Only one will stay to keep the secrets.

The Kegelstatt Trio

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Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other. The key of E-flat may be the key of true friendship, but it is Mozart that pushes them apart...

Barbara

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An actress will play Barbara, the French singer. The shoot will soon start. The actress works on her character, her voice, the songs, scores, the gestures, knitting, scenes she has to learn, things are going okay, there's progress, development, she is even overwhelmed. The film director also works, through his encounters, through archives, music, he let's himself be submerged, overwhelmed like the actress, by the actress.

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Barbara

Jacques Tournier (jeune)

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La France

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During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.

Les cinéphiles : Le retour de Jean

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Esther and André are a part of a group of young people. They go to the cinema and speak about it often. They love each other from time to time; the group eventually comes undone. Jean is in fact the only true cinema enthusiast. Coming back from the cinema, he watches TV and thinks that, certainly, the cinema is buried well and truly.

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Les cinéphiles : Le retour de Jean

Pierre

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A Safe Place

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Alain lives locked up in a large house with his husband, Raphael. They were about to renovate the place and turn it into a bed and breakfast. A new virus, still unknown, poisoning the air, stops them in their dream. Alain is now obsessed with the idea of protecting Raphael, whose health is fragile. But the latter is suffocating, for him it is the house that is unhealthy, as if haunted.

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A Safe Place

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Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu

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Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles.

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Les cinéphiles 2 : Eric a disparu

Pierre

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Nissim dit Max

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Two sons, Pierre and Vladimir, question their father, Max Léon, about his biography in a domestic environment. What could be a simple family chat expands to the complex dimensions of history, since his life is that of a certain destiny, first involved in the resistance, then as a major activist in the Communist Party. The two archivists widen the circle to listen to the testimonies of their mother, Svettlana, their sister, Michèle, and other witnesses, comrades in utopia: Jacques Rossi, a former Komintern agent deported to the Gulag, and Marina Vlady, who lived in the USSR in the 1930s and was the wife of the protest singer Vladimir Vyssotsky. History is filtered through conversations that do not exclude silence or questioning. – FIDMarseille

Biette

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Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.

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Biette

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À la barbe d'IvanMOVIE

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À la barbe d'Ivan

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Léon uses images from Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible to reflect upon the 2010 beating of young cineaste Joachim Gatti by police and the economically vulnerable members of French society. - Film Society of Lincoln Center

Electra, for Instance

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An homage to Greek tragedy.

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Electra, for Instance

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Electra, for Instance

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An homage to Greek tragedy.

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Electra, for Instance

Screenplay

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Phantom Power

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Created at irregular intervals, Pierre Léon’s small oeuvre oscillates between experimental home movie and theatrical mise-en-scène, found footage and documentary assemblages. PHANTOM POWER is a kind of sum of these rich and lavish efforts, a poetic series of cinematic fragments, an inventory of his cinematic output. What unfolds between russian folk songs and Ingrid Caven’s singing, between micro-dramas and found footage, is the poetic world of this wayward and still unknown artist, whose discovery and recognition is long overdue. - Viennale

The Idiot

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Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?

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Two Rémi, Two

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