Known for Directing
Liliane de Kermadec (6 October 1928 – 13 February 2020) was a Polish-French film director and screenwriter, known for Aloïse (1975), La piste du télégraphe (1994) and Sophie et le Capitaine (1978). She directed more than twenty films and documentaries between 1965 and 2016. Kermadec began as a set photographer, working with Agnes Varda on Cléo from 5 to 7, Alain Resnais on Muriel, and Yves Robert on Berbert and the Train. Her first two feature films, Home Sweet Home (1972) and Aloïse (1975), were both screened at Cannes Film Festival.
Born
October 6, 1928
Died
February 13, 2020 (age 91)
Birthplace
Warsaw, Warszawskie [now Mazowieckie], Poland
Filmography
48 films, 1 show


Paris ou l’utopie perdue
2018 · 1h 20m
country: France
A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier.


Le cri des fourmis
2016 · 1h 2m
country: France
In today Uruguay, eight former Tupamaras tell about their youth life in the fight for a better world.


He Film
2011 · 1h 15m
country: Unknown
The Chinese government provides the villages in the mountains of Sichuan (China) with films. The main character of this film is a projectionist who, 37 years ago, used to carry his old projector on foot and bicycle. He would display a small screen across the road or between trees in front of a farm... It's the same today except that he rides a motorcycle, carries a large screen and that the films travel two thousand kilometers from Beijing to Chengdu by satellite, before he picks them up on his motorcycle. Up in the mountains, people bring a stool out on the road and watch. That story takes place in Beijing and the beautiful mountains covered with bamboos above Chengdu


Péripéties et perfections des acteurs de l'Opéra de Pékin
2009 · 1h
country: France
From an early age, the future actors of the Peking opera undergo intensive training to be able to interpret their roles once they become adults. Their ancestral art requires a perfect mastery of their body. In addition to acting, they must learn to sing, dance or even juggle. Later, the best of them will be chosen to join Peking Opera.


Le Murmure Des Ruines
2008 · 1h 33m
country: France
Étoiles et petits pas
Étoiles et petits pas
2008 · 31m
country: Unknown
The Teatro alla Scala (Milano, Italy) backstage and the artists in rehearsal for the New Year ballets and celebrations.
L'histoire naturelle d'Armand David
L'histoire naturelle d'Armand David
2005 · 55m
country: France
The life and work of French naturalist-scientist-priest Père Armand David, living as a missionary in China, who is thought to be the first Westerner ever to lay eyes on a wild panda as he was documenting species of Chinese flora and fauna.


Le Cinéma de grand-père
1995 · 1h 15m
country: France
Remarkable life story of Henri Diamant-Berger, a director and screenwriter whose devotion to cinema led him to collaborate with some of the greatest actors and filmmakers of his time.


The Telegraph Route
1994 · 1h 56m
country: France
This French film chronicles the amazing-but-true story of Lisa Alling who in 1928 successfully walked from New York City to Siberia via the Bering Straight by following telegraph poles. It was shot entirely in the Ukraine. Lisa, a chambermaid, has had enough of American life and wants go home to Siberia. Because she had no money, she decided it was better to walk than stay in the U.S. any longer. An opportunist, she takes whatever food, warmth and even romance that is offered along the way.


Un moment d'inattention
1986 · 1h 33m
country: France
Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fidelity, but Laurent's opinions and appetites are starting to shift with the times.


Mersonne ne m'aime
1982 · 1h 32m
country: France
After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.


Le petit Pommier
1981 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs.
Sophie et le Capitaine
Sophie et le Capitaine
1978
country: France
Unfinished movie after two weeks shooting in May 1978.


Aloïse
1975 · 1h 55m
country: France
Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home
1973 · 1h 23m
country: France
Two boys meet a girl, and the three of them go wandering together; they stop in a house, and there the past mixes with the present. Cannes Film Festival 1973.


Viva Varda!
1970 · 9m
country: Unknown
Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French television in 1970.


La récré
1967 · 8m
country: France
Friendships, games, boredom, first emotions: the playground.


Qui donc a rêvé?
1965 · 23m
country: France
A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.
Le temps d'Emma
Le temps d'Emma
1964 · 12m
country: Unknown
Short about an old lady, the painter Emma Stern, 85, who began devoting herself to art when she was in her seventies. The film won the Lion de Saint-Marc in Venice.