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Michel Duchaussoy

Michel Duchaussoy

French actor (1938-2012)
November 29, 1938 (March 13, 2012)

Astérix & Obélix - God Save Britannia

V.O.: Astérix et Obélix - Au service de sa majesté
Fr. 2012. Fantasy comedy by Laurent Tirard with Édouard Baer, Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Gallienne. While delivering a barrel of magic potion to a Breton village threatened by Caesar, Asterix and Obelix take it upon themselves to make a man out of their leader's cowardly nephew.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2012. Crime drama by José Pinheiro with Karl E. Landler, Anne Suarez, Feodor Atkine.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2011. Crime drama by Frédéric Tellier with Nicolas Giraud, Aurélien Wiik, Hippolyte Girardot. Two farmers
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2010. Comedy by Claude D'Anna with Bruno Salomone, Julie Gayet, Christophe Guybet. An ex-convict makes life difficult for the family of a former cellmate who was wrongly convicted of insider trading.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2010. Police comedy by Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier with Catherine Frot, Lambert Wilson, Danièle Lebrun. Sent on a secret mission to her native Scotland, a secretary of the Royal Navy confronts Communist spies who want to steal the plans she is carrying.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 2010. Dramatic comedy by Yann Samuell with Sophie Marceau, Marton Csokas, Michel Duchaussoy. An ambitious businesswoman receives letters from a notary that she wrote to herself when she was seven years old, in which she talked about her dreams for the future.
Runtime: 97 min.

Sarah's Key

V.O.: Elle s'appelait Sarah
Fr. 2010. Drama by Gilles Paquet-Brenner with Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup. A journalist discovers that her husband's grandfather took possession of the family apartment in the wake of the Vel d'Hiv Roundup.
Runtime: 106 min.

Dumas

V.O.: L'Autre Dumas
Fr. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Safy Nebbou with Benoît Poelvoorde, Gérard Depardieu, Mélanie Thierry. In 1848, Auguste Maquet, Alexandre Dumas' ghostwriter, steals the latter's identity to help a young woman he is in love with free her revolutionary father.
Runtime: 105 min.

Persecution

V.O.: Persécution
Fr. 2009. Psychological drama by Patrice Chéreau with Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Hugues Anglade. A young construction worker is chased by a man madly in love with him who refuses to give up the possibility of a requited love.
Runtime: 100 min.

Hidden Diary

V.O.: Mères et filles
Fr. 2009. Psychological drama by Julie Lopes-Curval with Marina Hands, Catherine Deneuve, Marie-Josée Croze. Visiting her parents in her native coastal village, a pregnant engineer seeks to understand why her grandmother abandoned her husband and children in the 1950s.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2008. Dramatic comedy by Virginie Sauveur with Martine Chevallier, Roland Giraud, Michel Duchaussoy. A wife and mother undergoes a radical change in her life after she inherits the plush apartment of an eccentric aunt.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 2007. Comedy by Daniel Cohen with Benoît Poelvoorde, Natacha Lindinger, Michel Duchaussoy. A humble Parisian art restorer who has become the king of a primitive tribe in a parallel universe must save his people from slavery.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2005. Drama by Philippe Laïk with Renaud Cestre, Anne Coesens, Danièle Lebrun. After inheriting a fortune from his old uncle, a young man discovers that his uncle had compromising information about the town's citizens.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2003. Satire by Francis Palluau with Carole Bouquet, Jean Dujardin, Lorant Deutsch. Two escaped prisoners take refuge in the house of a wealthy family whose members turn out to be more twisty and greedy than them.
Fr. 2003. Thriller by René Manzor with Lambert Wilson, Sylvie Testud, Frédéric Diefenthal. A police officer and a psychiatrist struggle to solve the mystery surrounding the identity and motives of a schizophrenic serial killer.
Runtime: 100 min.

Intimate Strangers

V.O.: Confidences trop intimes
Fr. 2003. Sentimental drama by Patrice Leconte with Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy. An unstable woman confides her marital problems to a lonely tax attorney whom she mistakenly takes for her new psychologist.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 2003. Crime drama by Luc Béraud with Julie Debazac, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Natacha Lindinger. A young woman uncovers a scandal involving a biological research laboratory.
Runtime: 190 min.
Fr. 2003. Thriller by Philippe Harel with Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Jacques Vanier, Jean-Louis Loca. A young police commissioner believes she is on the trail of a serial killer who seduces his victims and then drives them to suicide.

The Code

V.O.: La Mentale
Fr. 2002. Thriller by Manuel Boursinhac with Samuel Le Bihan, Samy Naceri, Clotilde Courau. After serving a four-year sentence, a small-time crook who has decided to settle down agrees to participate in one final robbery with his old friends.
Runtime: 116 min.
Fr. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Bernard Rapp with Géraldine Pailhas, Christophe Reymond, Michel Duchaussoy. A wealthy entrepreneur leaves all his money to his young illegitimate daughter, much to the displeasure of her half-brother.
Fr. 2001. Police comedy by Christian Faure with Jean Rochefort, Philippe Caroit, Michel Duchaussoy. A commissioner of the IGS tries to identify the malicious person who wants to sabotage the wedding of a police officer, brother-in-law to his loyal deputy.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2001. Crime drama by Philippe Monnier with Julien Boisselier, Michel Duchaussoy, Marie-Christine Barrault. In a small town in northern France, a police officer tracks down the murderer of a young girl from a good family.
Fr. 2001. History by Costa-Gavras with Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe. An SS officer and a young Jesuit combine their efforts to try to stop the extermination of the Jews only to be met with silence from the Vatican.
Runtime: 132 min.
Fr. 2000. Crime drama by Denys Granier-Deferre with Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Michel Duchaussoy. In Paris, Inspector Maigret leads a delicate investigation in the town house of a rich lawyer, who has received an anonymous letter announcing a murder.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2000. Drama by Denis Dercourt with Isabelle Candelier, Michel Duchaussoy, Hélène Surgère. To save her comatose son, a call girl forces a disillusioned priest to accompany her to a small town where the Virgin is said to have performed a miracle.
Fr. 1999. Drama by Patrick Sébastien with Patrick Sébastien, Samuel Dupuy, Marie Denarnaud. To heal a young woman who was raped by a simpleton, a psychologist wants to reunite her with her attacker.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

V.O.: La Veuve de Saint-Pierre
Fr. 1999. Drama by Patrice Leconte with Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica. In 1850, in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, a man condemned to death became the prot
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1998. Drama by Alain Nahum with Line Renaud, Michel Duchaussoy, Delphine Rich. After returning from a long African exile, a sixty-year-old woman leaves her unfaithful husband and starts over with her five-year-old granddaughter.
Fr. 1998. Drama by Robert Enrico with Charles Berling, Jean-François Stévenin, Béatrice Palme. A divorced father barricades himself in his country house with his children, refusing to give them back to their mother who has custody.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1996. Psychological drama by Emmanuel Finkiel with Marion Ducamp, Marie Matheron, Michel Duchaussoy.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1995. Psychological drama by Claude Goretta with Michel Duchaussoy, Frédérique Meininger, Nathalie Quenard.

The King's Way

V.O.: L'Allée du roi
Fr. 1995. Historic chronicle by Nina Companeez with Dominique Blanc, Didier Sandre, Michel Duchaussoy.
Runtime: 241 min.
Runtime: 104 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1992. Comedy by Charlotte Brändström with Peter Weller, Carey Lowell, Michel Duchaussoy. To test the love of his fianc

A Lesson of Hope

V.O.: Les Cahiers bleus
Fr. 1991. Mores drama by Serge Leroy with Évelyne Bouix, Jean Carmet, Michel Duchaussoy. Newly posted to a small provincial school, a somewhat secretive teacher arouses the suspicion of her colleagues.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1991. Crime drama by Bernard Giraudeau with Michel Duchaussoy, Roger Dumas, Niels Dubost. In a small port town, a police commissioner and a forensic scientist try to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of several old ladies.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1990. Police comedy by Denys de La Patellière with Michel Constantin, Michel Duchaussoy, Pascale Petit. At the request of the government, a retired police inspector returns to duty to rid the country of a dictator who has taken refuge in France after a failed coup.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1989. Police comedy by Denys de La Patellière with Michel Constantin, André Pousse, Pascale Petit. After their friend becomes the victim of an assassination attempt, a retired police inspector and an ex-mobster go down to Grenoble to settle their accounts with the killers.
Runtime: 76 min.

French Revolution: Years of Hope

V.O.: La Révolution française - Les Années lumière
Fr. 1989. History by Robert Enrico with Jean-François Balmer, Klaus Maria Brandauer, François Cluzet. A portrayal of the facts surrounding the French Revolution, from 1789 to the summer of 1792.
Runtime: 170 min.
Fr. 1989. Police comedy by Denys de La Patellière with Michel Constantin, Michel Duchaussoy, André Pousse. A senior police officer is aware that someone has it in for him, so he forces a retired detective to return to duty to solve the case.
Runtime: 87 min.

May Fools

V.O.: Milou en mai
Fr. 1989. Mores comedy by Louis Malle with Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy. Following the death of their grandfather in May 1968, the members of a family reunite in the family estate and organize the succession as best they can.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1989. Drama by Jacques Deray with Béatrice Dalle, Philippe Volter, Geneviève Page. A young actress, unable to bear the austere life of the country lord she has just married, soon announces her intention to leave him.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1988. Police comedy by Denys de La Patellière with Michel Constantin, Pascale Petit, André Pousse. A retired police detective returns to duty to find out who is behind the kidnapping of his ex-boss's daughter.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1987. Crime drama by Jean Delannoy with Michel Duchaussoy, Roger Dumas, Fiona Gelin.
Fr. 1987. Religious drama by Jean Delannoy with Sydney Penny, Jean-Marc Bory, Roland Lesaffre. The story of the Virgin's apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes in 1858.
Runtime: 120 min.
Fr. 1986. Mores drama by Claude Santelli with Marie-Christine Barrault, Laure Marsac, Pierre Vernier. While visiting distant cousins, a Parisian doctor tries to awaken a spark of intelligence in their mentally disabled daughter.
Runtime: 57 min.
Fr. 1986. Crime drama by Alain Corneau with Richard Anconina, Ambre, Michel Duchaussoy.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1984. Biography by Claude de Givray with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Duchaussoy, Pascale Petit. A famous actor with a passion for gambling is hassled by a tax collector.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1983. Adventures by Alain Corneau with Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Sophie Marceau. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the heroic and romantic adventures of a lieutenant assigned to the Sahara to train a battalion of spahis.
Runtime: 185 min.
Fr. 1982. Dramatic comedy by Roger Vadim with Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Christian Vadim, Caroline Cellier. The amorous adventures of some teenagers in Amboise in the early 1950s.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1982. Drama by Jean-Jacques Aublanc with Claude Rich, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Ronet. Thirty-eight years after the event, the mayor of a small town reunites five childhood friends to reveal who turned in their former teacher who resisted to the Nazis.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 1978. Satire by Jean Yanne with Jean Yanne, Mimi Coutelier, Jacques François. A police commissioner is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a star TV host.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1977. Psychological drama by Édouard Molinaro with Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Michel Duchaussoy. The setbacks of an antique dealer at a loss for time and money.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1976. Crime drama by Alain Jessua with Jean Yanne, Alain Delon, Michel Duchaussoy. A mediocre man who made his fortune by chanceuses threats to try and impose his conception of the world by threat.
Runtime: 93 min.

Charlotte

V.O.: La Jeune Fille assassinée
Fr. 1974. Mores drama by Roger Vadim with Roger Vadim, Sirpa Lane, Mathieu Carrière. With the goal of writing a book, a writer investigates the life of a former mistress whose recent murder remains shrouded in mystery.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1974. Thriller by Claude Chabrol with Fabio Testi, Michel Aumont, Michel Duchaussoy. Anarchists kidnap the American ambassador in Paris and hold him in an abandoned farmhouse.
Runtime: 132 min.
Fr. 1974. Dramatic comedy by Paul Vecchiali with Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange, Michel Delahaye. Two aging actresses share an apartment and common memories.
Runtime: 115 min.

The Conspiracy

V.O.: Le Complot
Fr. 1973. Crime drama by René Gainville with Michel Bouquet, Jean Rochefort, Raymond Pellegrin. In 1962, activists try to free a general who has been imprisoned for opposing Algerian independence.
Runtime: 115 min.

Shock Treatment

V.O.: Traitement de choc
Fr. 1972. Drama by Alain Jessua with Annie Girardot, Alain Delon, Robert Hirsch. The director of a clothing store in Paris travels to Brittany to undergo a rejuvenation treatment in a clinic.
Runtime: 90 min.

Man with the Transplanted Brain

V.O.: L'Homme au cerveau greffé
Fr. 1972. Psychological drama by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze with Mathieu Carrière, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Michel Duchaussoy. A surgeon threatened with imminent death has his brain transplanted into the body of a young man.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1970. Sentimental drama by Frédéric Rossif with Michel Duchaussoy, Francine Racette, Suzanne Flon. On vacation in Brittany, a young beautician falls in love with a history teacher but discovers that he is married.
Runtime: 87 min.

Sophie's Ways

V.O.: Les Stances à Sophie
Fr. 1970. Psychological drama by Moshé Mizrahi with Bernadette Lafont, Michel Duchaussoy, Bulle Ogier. Married to a business person, a young woman with a bohemian spirit finds it difficult to adapt to her new bourgeois environment.
Runtime: 90 min.

Them

V.O.: Ils...
Fr. 1970. Fantasy by Jean-Daniel Simon with Michel Duchaussoy, Charles Vanel, Alexandra Stewart. A painter is disoriented by the death of a colleague whom he thought of as his spiritual father.
Runtime: 100 min.

This Man Must Die

V.O.: Que la bête meure
Fr. 1969. Thriller by Claude Chabrol with Michel Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne, Caroline Cellier. A novelist seeks revenge on the driver who killed his young son.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1969. Psychological drama by Henri Glaeser with Nathalie Delon, Michel Duchaussoy, Henri Serre. A professor imagines a gruesome movie premise in which a woman seeks to get rid of the hand of a man she has killed.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1969. Police comedy by Michel Deville with Philippe Avron, Ewa Swann, Bruno Cremer. A sports journalist tries to rescue the adopted daughter of a theatre director from his evil grip.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1967. Crime drama by Édouard Logereau with Danielle Gaubert, Michel Duchaussoy, Julien Guiomar. A young girl uses her trapeze skills to carry out daring robberies.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Killing Game

V.O.: Jeu de massacre
Fr. 1966. Satire by Alain Jessua with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger, Michel Duchaussoy. A young couple, a comic book author, is nearly broken up by the encounter of a rich and idle mythomaniac. A young cartoonist couple is nearly broken up by a rich and idle mythomaniac.
Runtime: 95 min.

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