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Jean-Louis Roy

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Biography

Jean-Louis Roy was born in 1938 in Lugano, Switzerland. He was a writer and director, known for The Unknown Man of Shandigor (1967), Black Out (1970) and Talou (1980). He died on March 29, 2020 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.

Known For

The Salamander
6.8

Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of trying to kill him. They decide to meet her.

The Salamander

1971
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
5.9

Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a mad herd of rival spies are desperate to get their hands on the device, including a sect of bald, turtleneck-wearing assassins.

The Unknown Man of Shandigor

1967
Happy End!
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The imaginary journey of a little man, a little naïve, a little dreamer, who is thrown by chance into the mythology of the cinema, plunges the viewer into a poetic universe where reality and cinematic wonder create a constant equivocation between the wings and the stage.

Happy End!

1964
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Talou, prince of an imaginary African kingdom, is sent to Switzerland to be protected from his father's enemies. But that won't be enough.

Talou

1981
L'indien des Acacias
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L'indien des Acacias

1973
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
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James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.

James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

1962
Black Out
10.0

Out of paranoid fear of a nuclear disaster, an elderly couple isolates themselves from the outside world in their small suburban villa. An apocalyptic retreat told with a touch of humor that occasionally makes you shudder and smile at the same time. Will the couple find a way out of their isolation again? A chef who described the quarantine situation as early as 1970.

Black Out

1970