Pierre Cardinal (Director)
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Works
La Route
Release Date1963-12-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count15
Vote Count1
Mazarin
The series Mazarin (1978) recounts the rise of Jules Mazarin, first an Italian diplomat and later France’s chief minister after Richelieu. The story shows how he earns the trust of Anne of Austria and becomes the political mentor of the young Louis XIV. Over the course of the episodes, Mazarin faces court intrigues, the hostility of powerful nobles, and the turmoil of the Fronde, which threatens royal authority and forces him into several periods of exile. Despite pamphlets and conspiracies, he manages to restore order and prepare the emergence of the future Sun King. The series thus portrays a skilled statesman, often contested but essential in shaping absolute monarchy.
Release Date1978-12-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Elan blanc
Release Date1961-08-11
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count7
Vote Count1
Madame Bovary
Release Date1974-11-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
La Vie de Marianne
Marianne is a young orphan of mysterious birth, taken in by caring people. She grows up in 18th century French society, going through various adventures, loves and trials.
Release Date1976-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Les Fossés de Vincennes
Release Date1972-01-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Sous le soleil de Satan
1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.
Release Date1971-04-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Viper in the Fist
Jean, nicknamed Brasse-Bouillon, and his brother Ferdinand live with their paternal grandmother, who is responsible for their upbringing. But when their parents returned from Japan, they settled in Belle-Angerie and resumed their role with the children, while their grandmother had to leave for cousins. The boys soon come up against the contempt of their mother, Marthe. Faced with this shrew, whom he nicknamed "Folcoche" (a contraction of "madwoman" and "pig"), Jean decided to join the resistance.
Release Date1971-03-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
Dialogues des Carmélites
The story of a group of nuns executed during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their vows.
Release Date1984-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Bel ami
Release Date1983-05-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Fantaisie d'un jour
Thérèse is the daughter of a modest couple. One day, she wins a voucher for two hundred thousand francs in a department store. Dazzled, the little typist chose a fur cape, much to her parents' disappointment. She has a fiancé, François, whom she now scorns a little. She returns to him, however, after an unfortunate foray into the big wide world, and gets rid of the cumbersome cape forever.
Release Date1955-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Red and the Black
Release Date1961-12-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Heart of the Casbah
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.
Release Date1952-01-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
L’extravagante Théodora
Théodora, Thierry de Villiers' governess, has the leisure of scrambling the cards: She combines the meeting in the same apartment of Thierry, his friend Octave, Brigitte, his wife, and Nicole, Villiers' secretary. Finally, Theodora will be sent back to the asylum from which she had run away.
Release Date1950-04-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count1
Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.
Release Date1975-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3