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The 64th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will dedicate a retrospective to the French director Jacques Becker, including all of Becker’s feature films, half of which were never commercially released in Spain, and also the 40 minute film Le Comissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié / Pitiless Gendarme shooted with Pierre Prévert and La Vie est à nous, by Jean Renoir, on which he worked as an assistant.

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Casque d'Or and Edward And Caroline

Ali Baba And The 40 Thieves (Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs) (Country: France; Year: 1953; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Cesare Zavattini, Jacques Becker, Marc Maurette, Maurice Griffe, André Tabet; Stars: Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche, Henri Vilbert, Édouard Delmont, Edmond Ardisson, Manuel Gary, Julien Maffre, Leopoldo Francés, Gaston Orbal, Bob Ingarao, Yôko Tani, Fanfan Minucci, José Casa, Abdelhaq Chraibi)

A servant falls for a slave girl in this retelling of the fable.

Antoine and Antoinette (Antoine et Antoinette) (Country: France; Year: 1947; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe, Françoise Giroud; Stars: Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert, Gaston Modot, Made Siamé, Pierre Trabaud, Jacques Meyran, François Joux, Gérard Oury, Charles Camus, Émile Drain, Annette Poivre, Nicolas Amato, Brigitte Auber, Odette Barencey)

Antoine, who works in a printing house, and Antoinette, an employee at Prisunic, buy a winning lottery ticket. When they lose the ticket, their dreams seem to fade away.

Casque d'Or (Country: France; Year: 1952; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Jacques Becker, Jacques Companéez; Stars: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières.)

In turn of the 20th century France, working girl Marie snubs the affections of the local gangsters for Georges Manda, a reformed hoodlum himself, with unpleasant consequences.

Full Review See: Bertrand Tavernier in conversation on Jacques Becker, Claude Sautet, Jean-Pierre Melville, Voyage À Travers Le Cinéma Français

Dernier Atout (Country: France; Year: 1942; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Maurice Aubergé, Louis Chavance, Maurice Aubergé, Pierre Bost; Stars: Mireille Balin, Raymond Rouleau, Pierre Renoir, Noël Roquevert, Catherine Cayret, Gaston Modot, Roger Blin, Jean Didier, Eddy Debray, Pierre Perret, Christian Argentin, René Stern, Henry Darbray, Maxime Fabert, François Joux)

A man is murdered in an imaginary South American city. Two young detectives, Clarence and Montes, investigate.

Edward And Caroline (Édouard et Caroline) (Country: France; Year: 1951; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Annette Wademant, Jacques Becker, Annette Wademant; Stars: Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Elina Labourdette, Jacques François, Betty Stockfeld, Jean Galland, Jean Marsac, William Tubbs, Jean Toulout, Yette Lucas, Jean Riveyre, Hélène Duc, Micheline Rolla, Edmond Ardisson, Grégoire Gromoff)

Trouble brews for a couple from different classes when the husband is asked to perform for the friends of his wife's rich uncle.

Full Review See: Bertrand Tavernier in conversation on Jacques Becker, Claude Sautet, Jean-Pierre Melville, Voyage À Travers Le Cinéma Français

Falbalas and Le Trou

Falbalas (Paris Frills) (Country: France; Year: 1945; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Maurice Aubergé, Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe; Stars: Raymond Rouleau, Micheline Presle, Jean Chevrier, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Françoise Lugagne, Christiane Barry, Rosine Luguet, Yolande Bloin, Eveline Volney, Maria Carld, François Joux, Georges Roullet, Marc Doelnitz, Nicolas Amato)

A fashion designer woos his best friend's fiancee and finds himself in too deep.

Full Review See: Bertrand Tavernier in conversation on Jacques Becker, Claude Sautet, Jean-Pierre Melville, Voyage À Travers Le Cinéma Français

It Happened At The Inn (Goupi Mains Rouges) (Country: France; Year: 1943; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Pierre Véry, Jacques Becker; Stars: Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Arthur Devère, Germaine Kerjean, Maurice Schutz, Marcel Pérès, Albert Rémy, Marcelle Hainia, Louis Seigner, Pierre Labry, Guy Favières, Line Noro, René Génin, Robert Le Vigan)

In a small French village a woman is killed and her money stolen. Several members of her family, the Goupis, are suspected.

Modigliani Of Montparnasse (Les amants de Montparnasse) (Country: France, Italy; Year: 1958; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Michel-Georges Michel, Jacques Becker; Stars: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani, Gérard Séty, Lino Ventura, Anouk Aimée, Lila Kedrova, Arlette Poirier, Pâquerette, Marianne Oswald, Judith Magre, Denise Vernac, Robert Ripa, Jean Lanier, Carole Sands)

The last years of the famous painter.

Pitiless Gendarme (Le commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié) (Country: France; Year: 1935; Director: Jacques Becker, Pierre Prévert; Writer: Jacques Becker, Jean Castanier, Georges Courteline, Georges Lévy, Pierre Prévert; Stars: Antanon, Jacques Becker, Lou Bonin, Etienne Decroux, Marcel Duhamel, Daniel Gilbert, Ginette Leclerc, Fabien Loris, Marcelle Monthil, Palau, Edouard Pignon, Pierre Prévert, Lucien Raimbourg, Louis Seigner, Claude Sterling)

The police superintendent may be good-natured but he has got a lot on his plate with all the witnesses who come to make a statement before him...

Rendezvous In July (Rendez-Vous de Juillet) (Country: France; Year: 1949; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe, Sacha Guitry; Stars: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Auber, Nicole Courcel, Pierre Trabaud, Maurice Ronet, Philippe Mareuil, Henri Belly, Jacques Fabbri, Michel Barbey, Francis Maziére, Robert Lombard, Jean Pommier, María Riquelme, Annie Noël, Claude Luter)

Lucien is a young Parisian boy who dreams of becoming an explorer, but his parents expect him to lead a conventional life. After an argument with his father, Lucien leaves home with his friends - aspiring actors, writers and film directors.

Rue De l'Estrapade (Country: France; Year: 1953; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Jacques Becker, Annette Wademant; Stars: Daniel Gélin, Louis Jourdan, Anne Vernon, Jean Servais, Micheline Dax, Michel Flamme, Jacques Morel, Marcelle Praince, Henri Belly, Pâquerette, Jean Ozenne, Françoise Honorat, Fernand Rauzéna, Claude Larue, Marcel Rouzé)

Although Françoise and Henri have a happy marriage, he is caught having an affair... his wife is furious and moves out finding herself won over by the charms of a musician.

Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Hands Off The Loot) (Country: France, Italy; Year: 1954; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: Albert Simonin, Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe, based on the novel by Albert Simonin; Stars: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli, Marilyn Buferd, Gaby Basset, Paul Barge, Alain Bouvette, Daniel Cauchy, Denise Clair, Angelo Dessy, Lucilla Solivani, Michel Jourdan, Paul Oettly, Jean Riveyre)

After a bullion heist, two gangsters face a test of friendship when one of them is kidnapped.

Full Review See: Bertrand Tavernier in conversation on Jacques Becker, Claude Sautet, Jean-Pierre Melville, Voyage À Travers Le Cinéma Français

Le Trou (The Hole) (Country: France, Italy; Year: 1960; Director: Jacques Becker; Writer: José Giovanni, Jacques Becker, José Giovanni, Jean Aurel, Jacques Becker, José Giovanni; Stars: Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel, Jean-Paul Coquelin, André Bervil, Eddy Rasimi, Raymond Bour, Lucien Camiret, Durieu, Jean Minisini, Marcel Rouzé, Jean Becker, Philippe Dumat)

Four inmates try to tunnel out of a prison.

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La Vie Est À Nous (Country: France; Year: 1936; Director: Jacques Becker, Jacques B. Brunius, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Maurice Lime, Pierre Unik, André Zwoboda, Jean Renoir; Writer: Jacques Becker, Jacques B. Brunius, Jean Renoir, Pierre Unik; Stars: Jean Dasté, Jacques B. Brunius, Simone Guisin, Teddy Michaud, Pierre Unik, Charles Blavette, Gaston Clamamus, Max Dalban, Madeleine Sologne, Émile Drain, Roger Blin, Jean Renoir, Georges Spanelly, Sylvain Itkine, Eddy Debray)

The film, shot at the initiative of the French Communist Party, mixes documentary with fiction. A Board of Directors is preparing a mass layoff...