Sophie Barjac (born March 24, 1957 in Bourges, Cher) is a French actress of stage, screen and television. Although most of her work is in the French language (e.g., Holiday Hotel ), Barjac has occasionally acted in the English language: the Canadian television series Bordertown (1988-1990) and the Belgian-Polish coproduction Alice (1981).
A téléroman is a genre of French-language drama television series in Canada, similar to a soap opera or a Spanish language telenovela. In France, the téléroman genre is known as feuilleton télévisé. Téléromans are one of the most popular television series formats in Québécois culture and are also shown on French television.
La Cérémonie is a 1995 crime drama film by Claude Chabrol, adapted from the 1977 novel A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell. The film echoes the case of Christine and Lea Papin, two French maids who brutally murdered their employer's wife and daughter in 1933, as well as the 1947 play they inspired, The Maids by Jean Genet.
Bordertown is a western drama television series that aired 78 30-minute episodes from 1989 to 1991. It is set during the 1880s in a small town that straddles the United States and Canadian border, and law enforcement duties are shared between a U.S. Marshall and a North-West Mounted Police corporal.
Alice is a 1982 musical-fantasy film co-produced by Belgian and Polish film companies. The film is a modern telling of Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland story and stars French actress Sophie Barjac in the title role. Jean-Pierre Cassel plays the jogger named Rabbit with whom Alice falls in love; Susannah York, Paul Nicholas, Jack Wild, Tracy Hyde, Peter Straker and Dominic Guard all have supporting roles.
Esclanèdes is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.
Barjac is the name of several communes in France:
Barjac is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.
À nous les petites anglaises is a French film directed by Michel Lang, released in 1976.
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise".
Barjac is a commune in the Ariège department, Occitania, southwestern France.
Commissaire Moulin is a French television series created by Paul Andréota and Claude Boissol and starring Yves Rénier as the title character, Commissaire Jean-Paul Moulin. The show started in 1976, was canceled in 1982, resumed in 1989 and finally ended in 2008. The entire series spans seventy 90 minute episodes.
Michel Lang was a French film and television director, best remembered for his comedy films in the late 1970s and 1980s. After 1990, he directed predominantly for French television.
Holiday Hotel is a 1978 French comedy film directed and written by Michel Lang. The film stars Sophie Barjac and Myriam Boyer on a summer holiday in Brittany.
Born in 68 is a 2008 French drama film directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. The film has the sub-title 'Nous nous aimerons jusqu'à la mort'.
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow is a 2010 Sophie Fiennes documentary about the German industrial artist Anselm Kiefer's creation of a 40 hectare work in progress at an abandoned factory complex outside Barjac, France. Kiefer moved to the South of France from Germany in 1993 and began creating his art installation, "La Ribaute" on 35 acres of land belonging to an old silk factory. The film begins with a lengthy silence to show the tunnels and spaces the artist created before showing the artist and his process in creating the installation and a large landscape painting. The film opened at Cannes in 2010 as a special screening.
Counter Investigation is a 2007 French crime film directed by Franck Mancuso that came out in 2007, with Jean Dujardin in the leading role. From a story by Lawrence Block, it is about a policeman whose young daughter is raped and murdered.
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz is a 1982 novel by A. E. Hotchner. It is the story of American painter Philip Weber, who lives at the Hôtel Ritz Paris during the German Occupation, and his friendships with notables such as Hermann Göring and Coco Chanel. The novel was adapted into a 1988 television miniseries starring Perry King.
The 4th constituency of Gard is a French legislative constituency in the Gard département. It consists of the cantons of Alès-2, Alès-3, Pont-Saint-Esprit and the communes of Barjac, Lussan, Saint-Ambroix, Saint-Chaptes and Vézénobres.
Sophie Hecquet, often credited mononymously as Sophie, was a French pop singer, actress, and radio and television presenter.